Main news of October 14

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveled to Lebanon's Israeli border and pledged that Iran would always support Arabs in their confrontation with Israel

* All 33 Chilean miners, trapped more than 600 meters underground for over two months after a rock collapse have been freed, BBC reported

RUSSIA

* Russia has signed an agreement with Formula One to stage a Grand Prix in the country between 2014 and 2020, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* The second All-Russian census officially kicked off in the country's Far East regions of Primorye and Kamchatka

* The prosecution said it had proven without doubt the guilt of former Yukos oil major CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev on new charges of stealing 350 million tons of oil

* Firefighters have extinguished a fire that broke out in central Moscow early , an emergencies services spokesman said

* Three police officers were killed and one was injured in a clash with militants in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the republic's interior ministry

BUSINESS

* Boeing, the world's top aerospace company, expects Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) airlines to buy about 960 new planes for $90 billion in the next 20 years to upgrade the fleet of narrow-bodied planes, the company said

* Russia's gas giant Gazprom slammed European Union initiatives to reform its gas industry saying that they pose a risk of underinvestment in Europe's infrastructure and cause Gazprom problems in operational activities and threaten its property rights

* U.S. company Exxon Neftegas, the operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project, has suggested that the Russian government double the project's capital and operating costs to $47.9 billion and $52.2 billion respectively