Main news of December 19

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

*The UN climate conference in Copenhagen has produced little tangible results, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Thousans of people came to pay last respects to the late Yegor Gaidar, one of the leading architects of free market reforms in post-Soviet Russia

* The death toll in the December 5 deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 150 as another woman died in hospital

* Josef Stalin's grandson has brought a legal suit against Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy, seeking 10 million rubles ($326,500) in damages

* Heads of the pension funds of North Ossetia and Ingushetia were killed after their car crashed into a gas pipeline

WORLD

* The climate summit in Copenhagen has agreed and accepted a summary document

* U.S. President Barack Obama said the UN climate change Copenhagen conference is a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough"

* The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed to create a single economic space by January 1, 2012

* Iran is willing to consider a recent Western proposal that it could obtain nuclear fuel from outside sources rather than produce it itself, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said

* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the German mediator in the Gilad Shalit talks has given Israel two to three weeks to approve a prisoner swap deal to free the kidnapped soldier

* Two people were killed in an explosion when a memorial to WWII heroes was demolished in Georgia's second largest city, Kutaisi

* Iran has rejected reports that its forces have taken over an oil well in Iraq

* Some 2,000 passengers were trapped under the English Channel when four trains broke down inside the underwater tunnel

* The Indian Defense Ministry urged the private sector to take advantage of its Offset Policy that will create a 10-billion opportunity in the next five years to manufacturers and service providers

* Afghanistan's first vice-president on Saturday introduced ministerial candidates of newly reelected President Hamid Karzai's government to the country's lower house of parliament for approval.