Main News of September 2

A roundup of what has happened in the last 24 hours

WORLD

* The death toll at a coalmine in southwest China’s Sichuan province following a gas explosion on Wednesday risen to 43

RUSSIA

* A concluding senior officials’ meeting opened on Sunday the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Russia’s Far East

* Opposition lawmaker Gennady Gudkov has written a letter to 50 deputies from the ruling United Russia party asking them not to vote for his ouster

* From having been stranded in their vacation destinations to being pegged as the world’s worst-dressed tourists, Russian travelers have suffered a particularly dreadful week

* The British government has implemented the so-called “Magnitsky list”, blacklisting for entry some 60 Russian officials linked to the death of whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pretrial detention in 2009, The Sunday Times said

SPORTS

* McLaren’s Jenson Button took his first win since March with a disciplined drive from pole position in a chaotic and entertaining Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday