Main News of May 9

WORLD

* Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stopped the hunger strike which she had announced in protest against the cruel treatment in prison

* A member of Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch, suspected of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet, was an intelligence agent of Saudi Arabia, The New York Times said citing unnamed U.S. and foreign officials

RUSSIA

* Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet-100 airplane on a demonstration flight near Jakarta went missing

* President Vladimir Putin told a Red Square military parade to mark the 67th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany that the colossal sacrifices made by the Soviet Union in World War Two gave Russia the unquestionable right to advance its position on global security

* Mexican President Felipe Calderon has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit in Los Cabos, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said

SPORTS

* The Russian national team retained 11th place in the latest FIFA world rankings