Rescue helicopters and boats waited for dawn on Monday to resume their search for victims of Hurricane Rita in flooded Louisiana communities as the bill from the natural disaster mounted, although the death toll remained low. Many people were still missing in small towns along the west Louisiana coast that bore the brunt of the storm.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a conservative and a stalwart anti-communist, was poised to become Poland’s Prime Minister on Sunday night, leading a right-wing coalition. Kaczynski’s Law and Justice party came from behind in a general election to take first place with about 28% of the vote, according to Polish television exit polls.

The United States military told an al-Jazeera cameraman being held at Guantánamo Bay that he would be released as long as he agreed to spy on journalists at the Arabic news channel, according to documents seen by The Guardian. The journalist has been in the prison without charge for three-and-a-half years after being accused by the US of being a terrorist, allegations he denies.