* Prosecutors in the central Russian city of Voronezh opened an inquiry into a street attack on an Iraqi student
* An international conference on Iraq opened in Baghdad despite a mortar shell explosion in the area earlier in the day
* Firefighters put out fire at an oil refinery in the city of Volgograd in European Russia, local rescuers said, adding there were no victims
* A special UN envoy for talks on the Serbian province of Kosovo, Marti Ahtisaari, said he would return his resolution proposals to the UN Security Council following fruitless talks in Vienna
* Firefighters extinguished the blaze in an eight-storey apartment building in southwestern Moscow and evacuated 10 dwellers, rescuers said
* Rescuers saved all the 15 fishermen who went drifting on three ice floes toward the Gulf of Finland in northwestern Russia Saturday morning, a rescue official
* A top official of a municipality in central St. Petersburg and a campaigner for a local law-making candidate was stabbed in the street last night two days before regional elections, police said
* At least 28 people were killed and 36 wounded in a powerful explosion of a car bomb that hit an eastern Shiite district of Baghdad Saturday, the Al-Jazeera television channel said citing police sources
* The Russian crewmember of the International Space Station, Mikhail Tyurin, will be able to vote in the March 11 elections to the Moscow Region legislature, an official in the local administration said
