WORLD
* Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi has said he will carry on fighting, in an audio message aired on a loyalist TV channe
* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned four people who took part in mass protests after last year’s disputed presidential election
* Russia has recognized the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry sai
RUSSIA
* Forty two people were hospitalized in and around the Urals city of Chelyabinsk following a bromine leak, the health ministry said
* The authorities are working on an array of incentives to lure back Russian scientists who have gone to work abroad, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said
* A Siberian city court handed a three-year suspended sentence to a lawmaker who shot at a group of schoolchildren who accidentally hit him with a snowball
BUSINESS
* Gazprom lost or illegally spent 28 billion rubles (about $1 billion) in 2009, the Audit Chamber said following a check of the Russian gas giant
* Royal Dutch Shell will invest $800 million in geological exploration and production of shale gas in eastern Ukraine, Energy Minister Yury Boyko said
* Investigators continued searching BP’s Moscow office for a second consecutive day in response to a claim from TNK-BP’s minority shareholders that they suffered a $3 billion loss from the failed Rosneft-BP share swap deal, a Federal Bailiff Service spokesman