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* Russian student Ksenia Sukhinova was crowned as new Miss World at the 58^th international beauty pageant in Johannesburg

* Russia will carry on delivering fuel to North Korea as part of a six-nation denuclearization deal and urges other nations to meet their energy aid commitments, the Foreign Ministry said

* NATO forces in Afghanistan have killed four passengers on a bus that failed to stop when driving toward their patrol, the ISAF press service said

* The death toll in an apartment block explosion in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, has risen to three people, the country's Interior Ministry said

* Russia will continue to gradually expand the ruble's exchange rate corridor in the interests of society and business, the deputy head of the Central Bank, Alexei Ulyukayev, said

* A number of Russian politicians and public figures, including former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and former dputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, came together at a congress to officially found a new opposition movement called Solidarity

* Several hundred people dressed in white held a peaceful rally in central Athens to commemorate the teenager killed by police a week ago, Greek television reported

* Police in Moscow arrested eight members of a left-wing youth movement for holding an illegal protest near the Greek Embassy over the December 6 shooting by police of a 15-year-old Greek boy, a police spokesman said

* Emergency workers have recovered a fifth body from a collapsed building near a pedestrian street in central Moscow popular with tourists, an official said

* Russia and Switzerland signed an agreement on the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi representing Russia's diplomatic interests in Georgia, which broke off ties after August's conflict