* Six cadets were killed and 19 injured in a traffic accident in central Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said
* The UN Security Council's resolution on North Korea drafted by the United States is unbiased and balanced, Leonid Slutsky, the first deputy head of the State Duma committee for international affairs, said
* South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, who was appointed Friday the next UN secretary-general, may boost the organization's role in the resolution of global problems, the Russian Foreign Ministry said
* China expects the UN Security Council's decisions on North Korea to boost a peaceful resolution of the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula, Liu Jianchao, an official Foreign Ministry spokesman, said
* Anna Chakvetadze won the title at the $2.34 million Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, defeating compatriot and No.5-seed Nadezhda Petrova in the final
