Russian overdue individual debts on bank loans increased by 100 billion rubles ($3 billion) in the past six months to about 250 billion rubles ($8.5 billion) as of December 2009, a government official said Tuesday.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has handed control over the country"s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Dawn newspaper has said in its online edition.