* A train, 15 of whose tanker cars carrying yellow phosphorus overturned in Western Ukraine Monday catching fire and releasing pollution, has crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border, a spokesman for the Ukrainian railways administration said
* Russia's GDP will possibly double against 2002 by years 2012-2014 if it keeps its annual growth rate at 7.2%, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said at the First Pacific Economic Congress in Vladivostok
* Russia sent to Greece two more Mi-8 firefighting helicopters to help the country in combating forest fires, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said
WORLD
* Another group of inspectors from UN's nuclear watchdog, IAEA, arrived in North Korea to observe the second phase of Pyongyang's obligation to wrap up its controversial nuclear program, the Xinhua news agency reported
* A citizen of Ukraine tried to hijack a passenger bus with 30 people onboard in the capital of Italy, Rome, the ASNA news agency reported
