WORLD
* Iran launched its most powerful warship in a ceremony attended by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
* A senior member of the Party of Regions of Viktor Yanukovych registered a draft resolution in parliament that could cause the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko"s government
* Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will attend the inauguration of Viktor Yanukovych as president of Ukraine, a source in the Moscow Patriarchate said
* Ukraine"s outgoing President Viktor Yushchenko criticized Yulia Tymoshenko"s move to contest the results of the recent presidential runoff as disregard for law and the electorate"s opinion
* The European Union"s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, condemned the military coup in Niger
RUSSIA
* The Moscow City Court sentenced former police chief Maj. Denis Yevsyukov to life in prison for last year"s shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket which left two people dead and seven injured