Main News of October 10

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Turkish fighter jets forced a Syrian passenger jet to land at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday, Turkey's NTV television reported.

*The United States has secretly set up a special military force in Jordan to help the country cope with an influx of refugees from Syria, prepare in case Syria loses control of its chemical weapons and be ready for the possibility that the conflict there could spill over Syria’s borders, The New York Times reported.

*British soprano and crossover singer Sarah Brightman confirmed on Wednesday that she will travel to the International Space Station as a space tourist.

 

RUSSIA

*A Moscow court freed Pussy Riot member Ekaterina Samutsevich at an appeal hearing but ruled that two other women in the anti-Putin punk group must serve out their two-year sentences

*The US proposals on extending a decades-old bilateral program aimed at dismantling weapons of mass destruction are out of synch with Moscow’s concept of cooperation in that area, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

 

BUSINESS

* RuNet, the Russian segment of the World Wide Web, will see its market volume expand by 30 percent in 2012 to 720 billion rubles ($23 billion), according to a recent survey.

* Russia intends to make Belarus pay compensation for a $1 billion revenue loss caused by Minsk exporting duty-free gasoline and other oil products under the guide of solvents, Izvestia daily reported.

 

SCIENCE

*The privately-owned reusable Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying more than 1,000 lbs (some 450 kg) of supplies docked on Wednesday with the International Space Station, NASA's website said.