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In the FIDE rating list the grandmaster continues to be confidently in the lead with 2861 points.
The previous record was dated 1999, when Kasparov scored a 2851 score.
In second place in the ranking is Russian Vladimir Kramnik, with Levon Aronian of Armenia closing out the top three.
Voice of Russia, TASS
The FBI confirmed that a special agent was conducting “official duties” when he shot and killed a man whom FBI interviewed in recent weeks about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Red tape led to the lack of adequate infrastructure which significantly increased Oklahoma tornado death toll.
US President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater congressional oversight on the use of drones.
Syrian opposition activists have voiced their doubt at the prospects of holding a global peace conference on Syria, citing the alleged unwillingness of Syrian President Bashar Assad to negotiate with anti-regime forces.
"It is a meeting of Syria's enemies, or friends of Israel," the Syrian ambassador to Jordan, Bahjat Suleiman, said in a rare news conference hours before the "Friends of Syria" group meets in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks.
Head of Syrian opposition coalition Georges Sabra called the international community to stop Iran and Lebanese "Hezbollah" invasion in the Quseir.
At five times the speed of sound, high-tech weapons could be in the skies by the middle of the next decade. One such hypersonic vehicle Air Force's X-51A Waverider has already completed its final test flight.
Unknown gunmen shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde is due to appear before magistrates in France investigating her role in a large payout to a businessman and politician following a dispute, a court spokesman said.
Ballerina Olga Smirnova, a rising star of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, has won a prestigious Benois de la Danse ballet award. She is the only woman in the company of six Benois de la Danse-2013 awardees, the other five being two male dancers and three male choreographers. The awards ceremony preceded the opening of the Benois de la Danse festival in Moscow.
The world's largest ever installation featuring 48 portraits of Russian women is on display as part of the “Face and Soul” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Moscow.
Analysts are racking their brains about the intrigue behind an international defense conference slated to begin in Moscow on Thursday. Entitled “Military and Political Aspects of European Security”, the meeting will bring together defense chiefs from the CIS, CSTO and NATO member states for two days of debates which, according to some experts, may have to do with the planned Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2013 and NATO’s Steadfast Jazz army drills in Eastern Europe.
The Islamic Development Bank has temporarily suspended Syria’s membership, IDB President Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al Madani announced Wednesday.
Russia's joining the World Trade Organization should teach it how to manage production costs, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
The capuchin monkey named Mally, which was seized from Canadian pop-star Justin Bieber by customs officials in Munich in March, officially became property of Germany. Bieber has six weeks to to contest the decision.
The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will go on trial from July 9 for manslaughter over the January 2012 disaster in which 32 people lost their lives, an Italian judge ruled on Wednesday.
In just two years UK police collected DNA samples of more than 120.000 children in just two years, at least a thousand of whom were 10 year-olds. The sampled youngsters have not committed any crime, but now that their DNA is UK police’s database their genetic data will be stored for years.
Turkey locks down border with Syria
