Main news of October 5

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss energy and military cooperation at talks with Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday, a presidential aide said

* The Iranian nuclear plant Bushehr will start generating power by late December as scheduled, despite the West's "psychological warfare," Iran's Foreign Ministry said

* Al-Qaeda has included Russia's volatile North Caucasus region in its plans to create an Islamic caliphate, or united Muslim state, the secretary of the Russian Security Council said

* The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially informed the Russian Consulate General on the detainment of six more Russians involved in a large-scale banking fraud case, a Russian vice consul said.

RUSSIA

* Russia's commercial reserves of natural uranium have doubled and production has increased 13% since the start of 2010, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said

* Former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov has been appointed a dean of the International University in Moscow, the university said

* Moscow's ex-mayor Yury Luzhkov signed a quarter of his decrees in secrecy, including those dealing with construction tenders, Finance Minster Alexei Kudrin said

* Moscow's acting mayor Vladimir Resin has fired the prefect of the capital's northern district, Oleg Mitvol, the City Hall said

* Moscow ranked 25th on the 2010 Global City Index ranking, six points down from 2008

ARCTIC DIARY

* Russia will submit a well substantiated claim to oil- and gas-rich Arctic territories at the UN in 2013, famous polar explorer Artur Chilingarov said

BUSINESS

* Russia plans to keep export duties on energy and many other commodities when it joins the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country's chief WTO negotiator Maxim Medvedkov said

* The amount of mortgages issued in Russia in the first seven months of 2010 more than doubled year-on-year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at an investment forum

SCIENCE

* Two Russian-born scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced