Main news of January 27

A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

* The Russia-NATO Council has approved a 2011 military cooperation working plan, the military alliance said

* The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the 47 CE member states to reject the results of the December 19 presidential election in Belarus, PACE said in a resolution

* The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced it was bringing more charges against former prime minister and current opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko

RUSSIA

* President Dmitry Medvedev has taken issue with the assertion that Russian courts mete out selective justice to businessmen

* Alexander Yakovenko, who had been serving as a deputy foreign minister, has been appointed Russia's new ambassador to Britain, the Kremlin said

* Police have identified the first suspect behind the deadly terrorist attack on Moscow's Domodedovo Airport as a Russian resident of the southern Stavropol region, a police source close to the investigation told the Kommersant daily

BUSINESS

* Russia has canceled its request for an international arrest warrant against fugitive businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a spokesman for Interpol in Russia said

* Russia's largest oil company Rosneft and America's ExxonMobil will develop the Black Sea shelf together, Rosneft said as it also announced plans to set up a joint venture with BP to develop the Arctic shelf

SCIENCE

* Russian researchers are working on an unmanned spacecraft similar to the U.S. Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle, Space Troops chief Oleg Ostapenko said