BBC News with Kathy Clugston
President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, is critically ill in Washington. Mr Holbrooke, who's 69, underwent heart surgery on Saturday after falling ill while at work in the State Department. His family is at his bedside. Here's Peter Cardwell.
In a career alternating between finance and diplomacy, Richard Holbrooke is perhaps best-known as the architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended three years of war in Bosnia. Tapped as a replacement for Warren Christopher as US secretary of state in 1997, Holbrooke lost out to Madeleine Albright and later served as US ambassador to the United Nations. He took up his current post last year.
One of the sons of the disgraced New York financier Bernard Madoff has been found dead on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. Police say Mark Madoff was found hanged at his home in New York in an apparent suicide. Mark Madoff and his brother Andrew had been investigated in relation to his father's huge fraud, but no charges were brought against them.
Two of the three main candidates in the disputed presidential election in Haiti have rejected a proposed recount of votes from the first round a fortnight ago. The recount was proposed following protests by opposition supporters. Here's Vanessa Buschschluter.
The Haitian electoral council had hoped that its offer of holding a recount would bring calm to the streets of Haiti. But both the front-runner Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly, who came third, have dismissed the plan. They have been joined in their rejection of the move by six election monitoring groups, who say a recount would not be enough to end days of street protests by opposition supporters. That leaves the governing party candidate, Jude Celestin, as the only top candidate to support the recount.