WINTER OLYMPICS
- * Ashleigh McIvor won women"s ski cross, bringing the sixth Olympic gold medal to her country
- * The defending Olympic champions in Nordic Combined, Team Austria, took gold in the team event
- * Swiss alpine skier Carlo Janka took the Olympic gold in men"s giant slalom
- * The Russian team of Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva and Olga Zaitseva took Olympic gold in Vancouver in the women"s biathlon relay
- * Russia"s Ivan Skobrev took the Olympic silver in men"s 10,000 meters speed skating event
WORLD
* China could strengthen its nuclear capability in response to U.S. global missile defense plans, a Russian military expert said
* U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle named four main nuclear-connected threats to international security
* The Russian and U.S. presidents will direct their respective delegations to speed up talks on a new arms control agreement, the Kremlin said