WORLD
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that Moscow and Madrid would continue mutually beneficial cooperation in 2010
* U.S. President Barack Obama has urged intelligence services to improve the processing and integration of analytical information on possible terror attacks
* A Georgian Airways plane landed at Moscow"s Domodedovo airport, the first direct flight between Russia and Georgia since the August 2008 war over South Ossetia
* The president of Iran said the unity and solidarity of the Muslim nations was key to their security and urged greater vigilance to foil enemy conspiracies, Press TV reported
* Tehran has notified Baku that it has unilaterally lifted visa requirements for Azerbaijani nationals, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said
* Some 50 flights were affected, trains were canceled and vehicles butted into one another as fog covered much of north India, national media reported