* The British police are linking the attack on Glasgow Airport with the car bombs found in London, the chief constable of the Strathclyde police said
* Russia hopes to win in its bid to host the 2014 Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi and is prepared to organize the event at the highest level, President Putin said
* Robert Zoellick, the World Bank's new president who assumed office July 1, will help normalize the bank's work after a recent row with its former head, said Dmitry Pankin, head of the Russian Finance Ministry's department for international financial relations, government debt and government financial assets
* A new constituent entity, the Kamchatka Territory, officially appeared in Russia's Far East after the merger of the Kamchatka Region and the Koryak Autonomous Area
* One soldier was killed and two others wounded in an attack on federal troops in the troubled Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, a source in the local law-enforcement bodies said
* The remains of a Red Army nurse killed in action in 1944 and buried by a Soviet-era memorial in Tallinn were delivered to Israel for reburial, following an exhumation in early May
