Main news of December 26

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Moscow's Domodedovo airport ground to a halt on Sunday after a power cut delayed flights leaving hundreds of passengers stranded

* Moscow's largest airport's power supply has been restored, officials said on Sunday, after a major power failure left over 8,000 passengers stranded

* Several hundred Russians staged a Moscow for Everyone rally on Pushkin Square in an bid to bring nationwide attention to race hate violence

* The wife of jailed ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky says she has no hope that her husband will be acquitted in the second trial against him

WORLD

* Ukrainian prosecutors confirmed on Sunday they have charged former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko with abuse of office while investigating the poisoning of former president Viktor Yushchenko, a spokeswoman said

* The founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has signed $1.5 million contracts with publishers to pen his autobiography, the Sunday Times said

* New Kyrgyz prime minister Almazbek Atambayev will visit Russia on December 26-27

* The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for Saturday's suicide bombing in the country's northwest tribal area, which killed at least 43 people and injured 90 others

DEFENSE

* The Russian Ground Forces' Air Defense Force will become part of a united aerospace defense system