* A passenger jet had to return to the Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg after its guidance system failed during the flight, with the passengers and crewmembers unhurt in the incident, Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport said
* Gunmen have kidnapped a woman of Belarusian origin working for a British company in Nigeria, the foreign ministry of Belarus said
* Two Tajik nationals have been killed in an apparently racially motivated attack in the Russian capital, the Moscow prosecutor's office said
* The riots that erupted in the Estonian capital after the removal of a Soviet-era WWII memorial from central Tallinn will not be repeated and calm is returning to society, Estonia's police chief said
* Russia's national ice hockey team secured a 6-3 win over Switzerland in the qualifying round of the 2007 Ice Hockey World Championship in Moscow, coming out top in Group E
