Main News of July 23

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Prince William and his wife Kate carried their newborn child outside a London hospital, offering the world a much-anticipated first glimpse of the royal baby boy

* British police charged a Ukrainian with the terror-related murder of a Birmingham grandfather, local media quoted the police as saying

* A couple from Virginia pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the abuse of a young boy they adopted from Russia

* Rebel forces seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad hope to receive arms from the United States as early as next month after two key US congressional committees approved the weapons shipments, according to media reports

* NASA said that it has appointed an investigative board to look into last week’s spacewalk that was aborted when water leaked into the helmet and spacesuit of an Italian astronaut outside the International Space Station (ISS)

* An Uzbek border guard was killed and another seriously injured in an exchange of fire across the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally approved a bill setting higher transportation tax rates on luxury cars, according to a document posted on the government’s legal information website

* Over 2,500 servicemen and 350 weapons systems are involved in snap combat readiness drills for Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), a Defense Ministry spokesman said

* The first thirteen businessmen have been set free in Russia as part of an economic amnesty for white-collar criminals that came into effect earlier this month, business ombudsmen Boris Titov said

* Moscow was ranked the world’s second most expensive city for expatriates in this year’s Mercer Human Resource Consulting survey

* Two-time Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva announced that she would retire after the world championships in Moscow next month