1. Analysts and legal experts said it represented a brave new world in Russian business and the end of the Kremlin's tolerance of a powerful elite.
2. Japanese officials have signed the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war.
3. The country will open its wholesale oil products market to foreign investors by the end of this year to meet its World Trade Organization obligations.
4. The Cairo Declaration of 1943 and the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945 defined the terms for the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
5. Many believe it is destined to become its newest iconic landmark, located on the northern end of the China World Trade Center complex.
6. Since the end of the Cold War, the West no longer completely used ideology to classify world countries.
7. Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez was clearly disappointed to see his team's defence of the most famous club competition in the world end so early.
8. Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula extended from 1910 to the end of the Second World War in 1945.
9. Italy has been in years of political instability due to its complex electoral system, with 61 governments in place since the end of World War II.
10. FIFA's executive committee has also voted unanimously to end its policy of rotating the hosting of World Cups through its six continental confederations.