BBC News with Michael Powles
Cholera has been confirmed as the deadly disease spreading across central parts of Haiti. It's the first outbreak there for more than a century. One hundred and forty people have died so far. James Read reports.
President Rene Preval said tests had confirmed what everyone feared. The deadly illness spreading through central Haiti is cholera. The outbreak has been blamed on the Artibonite river, which is the main source of water for thousands of people. One aid worker described scenes of chaos in the town of Saint-Marc, with patients laid out in array in a hospital courtyard and people with buckets begging for clean water on the side of the road.
Health experts in the United States say the number of diabetes sufferers there could double in the next 40 years, rising from the present one in ten of the population to one in five or even higher. The majority of cases are what's known as type 2 diabetes generally links to age, poor diet and lack of exercise.
The French Senate has approved by a comfortable majority a hotly contested plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. However, trade unions say they'll continue their opposition to what they regard as an unfair measure. From Paris, here is Christian Fraser.
The vote in the Senate was always a formality, so much so that a large number of the senators had already left for the half-term break and voted on this bill by proxy. But then well before the final vote, the most contentious parts of the bill had already been approved some weeks ago. From here the final draft text will move to committee stage for approval before being presented to both houses for a last and final vote. By the end of next week, Nicolas Sarkozy might well have the reform he so wanted, though it may take slightly longer to ascertain at what cost.