BBC News with Nick Kelly

President Obama has announced his support for India's bid for a permanent place on the United Nations Security Council. He was addressing the Indian parliament.

"The just and sustainable international order that America seeks includes a United Nations that is efficient, effective, credible and legitimate. That is why I can say today in the years ahead, I look forward to a reformed United Nations Security Council that includes India as a permanent member."

The proposal has been strongly criticised by Pakistan which said India's conduct towards its neighbours and its actions concerning the disputed region of Kashmir discredited the bid. Correspondents say the US gesture of support will delight India which has been lobbying for a permanent seat for years.

Doctors in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince say an outbreak of cholera has reached the city although there has been no official confirmation. The Haitian government says more than 540 people have died of cholera, and around 8,000 people have been treated in hospital. This report from our correspondent in Haiti, Laura Trevelyan.

Cholera may not officially have arrived in Port-au-Prince, but we've been told by one leading specialist medical agency that clinically the disease is here. That agency has seen 30 to 50 suspected cases in their hospitals in the city. And in a crowded slum of Cite Soleil, a doctor working there has told the BBC she, too, is seeing patients with all the symptoms of cholera. Cholera is transmitted by infected faeces and contaminated water. In the slums and in the earthquake survivor camps of Port-au-Prince, people live in crowded insanitary conditions where the disease can spread quickly.