Main news of September 21

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iranian relations with the United States will remain tense until Washington revises its attitude towards Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said

* Moldova's Constitutional Court ruled that a failure to elect a president in two subsequent elections provides sufficient grounds for the dissolution of parliament

* The Ukrainian authorities should conduct a thorough investigation into the disappearance of journalist Vasyl Klymentyev, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president said

* Just days before the end of the freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to extend the moratorium to allow further peace talks with the Palestinians

RUSSIA

* Russia's 2010 grain resources will reach 90 million tons, 13 million more than the required domestic volume, Russian Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik said

* Embattled Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov is in for the chop, but the Kremlin wants him to go without a row, senior officials said

BUSINESS

* Russia is unlikely to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the projected date of January 1, 2011, though the country will make all possible efforts to fulfill this goal, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp. plans to establish a second plant in Russia, the President of Toyota Motors Russia Takeshi Isogaya said

RELIGION

* The head of the Russian Orthodox Church visited Russia's easternmost monastery on the Pacific island of Sakhalin