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World leaders and Holocaust survivors are gathering in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp.

Insurgents staged attacks against polling stations and political party offices on Wednesday, as they pressed a bloody campaign to undermine Iraq (news - web sites)'s weekend elections.

Some of the aid agencies operating in Asia after the tsunami disaster lack the skills needed, charity Oxfam says.

President Bush is getting ready to ask Congress for an additional $80 billion for conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as budget analysts prepare new estimates of the federal deficits that would have loomed even without the wars.

Iraqi security forces systematically abuse prisoners, a US-based human rights group reports.

A large explosion has rocked the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, six days before elections are due to take place.

Tory plans to cut immigration to the UK are not racist and will make the asylum system fairer for genuine refugees, Michael Howard has said.

Two-thirds of the population in Eritrea will require food assistance this year, say UN food agencies.

At least 26 people have been killed in four car bombings in Baghdad, the US military has said.

Iraq is to close all its land borders for three days around the 30 January elections in an attempt to enhance security, election officials have said.