A roundup of today's other stories from around the world:
Islanders fear eruption of huge volcano
MORONI - Lava flowed from a volcano on the Indian Ocean island of Grande Comore yesterday, lighting up the sky and sending scores of residents on to the streets.
Residents of Moroni, the capital of the tiny Comoros islands, said they could see lava at the top of Mount Karthala, one of the world's largest active volcanoes.
Karthala last erupted in April 2005, when thousands of islanders were forced to flee.
- (Reuters)
Peaceful polling day for Colombia
BOGOTA - Colombians voted in the most peaceful election in years yesterday, apparently ready to hand President Alvaro Uribe four more years in office for curbing crime and driving leftist guerrillas from the cities.
Troops patrolled the streets of the capital Bogota, and across the nation of 41 million people who have suffered horrifying bloodshed in the past four decades. No major attacks by Farc guerrillas were reported.
- (Reuters)
HIV fears follow stabbing rampage
BERLIN - The 28 people stabbed on a crowded street by a drunken German teenager are receiving protective treatment for the next four weeks after it emerged that one victim was HIV positive, authorities said yesterday.
A drunken, knife-wielding teenager stabbed randomly at people leaving a ceremony to dedicate Berlin's new central rail station just before midnight on Friday and injured 28 in a 10-minute orgy of violence before he was stopped by security guards.
- (Reuters)
Israeli jets bomb Lebanese border
BEIRUT - Israeli jets and artillery bombarded southern Lebanese border areas yesterday.
Witnesses said areas near Rmeish, Aita, Yaroun and Ghajar, towns along different parts of the Lebanese border with Israel, were hit. The Israeli army said it had fired at Hizbullah positions in southern Lebanon.
- (Reuters)
Tamil landmine kills tourists
COLOMBO - Six local tourists and a guide were killed by a suspected Tamil Tiger landmine while tracking wild elephants in northwest Sri Lanka, officials said yesterday.
A separate group of Sri Lankan tourists in Wilpattu National Park in northwest Sri Lanka heard a large explosion in the park on Saturday and discovered the car in a ditch and the bodies of the seven people strewn across the road.
- (Reuters)
Sharon moved to long-term clinic
JERUSALEM - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a stroke in January, was moved yesterday from a Jerusalem hospital to a long-term care facility near Tel Aviv, where doctors will continue to try to awaken him. Experts cautioned, however, that the chances for Mr Sharon's recovery remain slim.
- (Reuters)