BBC News with Jerry Smit
The number of people who've died in a cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to more than 250. Health experts believe that 3,000 people have been infected. Laura Trevelyan reports from the town of Saint-Marc, the centre of the cholera outbreak.
The Haitian authorities say that fewer deaths and new cases were reported over the past 24 hours, which suggests the outbreak could be stabilising. However, at St Nicholas hospital in Saint-Marc, the centre of the outbreak, doctors said they were seeing about the same number of new cases today as they did yesterday. Fears remain that the disease could still spread to the crowded camps on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, where those made homeless by January's earthquake are still living.
The Supreme Court in Iraq has ordered the new parliament to reconvene, saying its earlier decision to suspend itself indefinitely was unconstitutional. Since the general election in March, the Iraqi parliament has met only once, when it suspended its session until politicians agreed on the formation of a new government. A BBC correspondent in Baghdad says the court's decision is expected to oblige the parliament to meet again, but it's unlikely to break the political deadlock over top government jobs.
Italian authorities have offered to delay the opening of a new rubbish dump in Terzigno, near the city of Naples, if protests against the dump are halted. But the mayors of several nearby towns where refuse is piling up have rejected the compromise, saying they want the new dump proposal to be shelved altogether. Duncan Kennedy reports.