* A Progress M-61 cargo space ship launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on August 2 is expected to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 10:40 p.m. Moscow time (6:40 p.m. GMT) August 5, Russia's mission control said
* The foot and mouth disease strain found in Surrey is identical to strains used in research laboratories located several miles from where cattle were infected, Britain's department for agriculture (Defra) said
* Iran has no intention to suspend its uranium enrichment program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said
* Two militants were killed in a shootout with local police in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, the republic's interior ministry said
* One person was killed and another injured after a blast hit a fishing vessel in the Russian Far East of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional emergencies department said
* Fifteen people died and another five were injured after a car collided with a passenger minivan in the Aktyubinsk region in northwestern Kazakhstan, the emergencies ministry of the Central Asian republic said
