Main news of March 7

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

*Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will ratify a maritime border demarcation treaty with Norway within a month, Russian Foreign Monister, Sergei Lavrov said

*Sponsors have been found to provide three hospitals with new medical equipment after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in a fundraising event, Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said

*The Russian government is aware that a Moscow nightclub has held an event entitled "Putin Party. I want the Prime Minister," but is against the club's use of Putin's name, the prime minister's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said

*A rockslide in Russia's south has killed one woman alpine hiker and seriously injured two others, a spokesman for the regional Emergencies Ministry said

*Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store will meet in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad to discuss the implementation of a visa facilitation agreement

*One person died and three were injured as six cars collided on the highway linking Russia's two largest cities

WORLD

*The Foreign Ministers of the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, RIA Novosti correspondent reported

*A military intervention in Libya is not a remedy against crisis, Libyans should solve their problems themselves, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

*Cuban Television will broadcast on Monday evening a documentary about "the U.S. subversive plans" against Cuba, local media said

* The world's most expensive painting by Pablo Picasso went on the first public display in London's Tate Modern gallery, Tate said in an statement

* Freedom will triumph in turbulent Libya if the state authorities start negotiations with people, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said

*The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the U.S. segment of the International Space Station (ISS), a statement on NASA's website said

*U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has kicked off his European tour beginning with Finland before heading to Russia and Moldova later in the week, White House spokesman Tony Blinken said

*China hopes to boost cooperation with Russia in addressing international problems

* Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, the leader of Estonia's ruling Reform Party that won Sunday's parliamentary election in the Baltic state, said he would like to keep the center-right coalition with the IRL party

*Estonia's ruling Reform Party, led by Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, has won the Baltic country's parliamentary election gaining 28.6% of the vote