Haitian voters prepare on Sunday to choose between a popular singer and a former first lady as the quake-ravaged country’s next leader.
US politician refuses to rule out standing in 2012 presidential race during trip to India aimed at boosting foreign policy credentials.
Japan made some progress to avert disaster at a tsunami-damaged power plant, though leaks underlined perils from the worst crisis since Chernobyl.
Western forces hit targets along the Libyan coast on Saturday, using strikes from air and sea to force Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to cease fire.
Pakistan snapped Australia’s unbeaten run and South Africa broke 162-million Bangladeshi hearts by shoving the co-hosts out.
Residents of the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata said government shells and snipers killed nine people on Saturday.
The first shot in a UN-mandated intervention in Libya was fired by a French aircraft and destroyed a military vehicle at about 4.45pm.
Japan is considering whether to halt sales of food products from near a crippled nuclear plant because of contamination by a radioactive element.
A faction of the Congress of the People, aligned to party president Mosiuoa Lekota, said on Saturday it had expelled seven of its senior members.
Thousands of mourners called on Saturday for "revolution" at the funeral of protesters killed by Syrian security forces.