* Police in the German city of Hamburg reported finding traces of radiation in places visited by Dmitry Kovtun, a key witness in the murder case of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko
* President Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to WBC heavyweight champion Maskayev, who was born in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, but became a naturalized American citizen after settling in the United States about 12 years ago
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had installed 3,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges at the pilot nuclear facility at Natanz, moving one step closer to mastering the nuclear fuel cycle
* Cleanup operations were launched to remove an oil spill in the southern Russian province of Stavropol, where an estimated 353 barrels of crude had leaked from a major pipeline, presumably as a result of illegal tapping
