Plane crash

MOSCOW, Russia: A cargo plane crashed as it prepared to land in the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals region of Russia on Monday, killing all nine people aboard, a spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry said.

U.N. conclusion

TBILISI, Georgia: The United Nations concluded in a report Monday that a Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane last month. Russia’s defense ministry rejected the findings, with spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky saying: “We deny this report. Our planes did not violate anyone’s airspace and therefore could not have fired a shot.”

Roadside bombings

KABUL, Afghanistan: A roadside bomb hit a bus yesterday in western Afghanistan, killing eight civilians, while another roadside bomb south of the capital left four Afghan police dead, officials said.