* Previously-frozen North Korean funds from a Macao bank were transferred to a Russian bank and Moscow hopes it will help to settle the North Korean nuclear issue, Mikhail Kamynin, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said
* Leaders of the European Union reached an agreement on the draft of a new EU Constitution after breaking a deadlock in talks with Poland
* The Atlantis space shuttle successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on Friday at 7.49 p.m. GMT
* Russia will commission three road-mobile Topol-M ICBMs this year, Nikolai Solovtsov, the Strategic Missile Forces commander, said
* Russia currently has 19 active-duty surface ships and submarines at sea, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin said
* A journalist from Jordan was hospitalized after he was attacked and beaten up by unknown suspects in Moscow downtown
