...to shape their next government after Saturday’s closely-fought general election left no party with an outright majority. With most votes counted, neither the Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard nor her conservative Liberal National Coalition opponent, Tony Abbott, is expected to be able to declare an outright victory. Nick Bryant in Sydney.

An election that’s being compared to a national soap opera has not yet produced its concluding installment because the likelihood there was a hung parliament with a handful of independents of one Green MP holding the balance of power. Election night itself was full of twists. Exit polls suggested the Labor government might scrape home. The opposition started winning marginal seats after marginal seats.

As floodwaters continue to inundate much of Pakistan, tens of thousands more people are being moved to safety. The southern province of Sindh is now described as the worst-affected area with up to four million displaced people. Jill McGivering is there in the town of Sukkur.

Families are visible everywhere—on riverbanks, open ground and along the roadside. About a tenth of the homeless have been placed in relief camps; the rest are trying to survive alone without shelter or any assurance of food. Aid is being provided, but it’s limited, and there’s enormous demand. Inside some camps, the distribution of aid is tightly controlled, supervised by armed police. Organizers are wary because fighting has broken out in recent days when desperate people mobbed aid trucks.The International Monetary Fund says the floods will present a massive economic challenge to the government and people of Pakistan. It’s announced that talks with Pakistani officials will start on Monday.