BBC News with Sue Montgomery
President Obama has led the United States in a moment's silence to honour the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona. A single bell
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ed for the six people who were killed and for the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded. From Washington, Paul Adams.
The president and his wife Michelle stood heads bowed on the South Lawn of the White House. There were no words, and after a minute they returned inside. A little over a mile away, on the east steps of the Capitol building, hundreds of congressional staffers stood out in the freezing air in their own mark of respect. Speaking later before talks with the visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Obama spoke of the courage displayed by some at the scene of the shooting.
The former Republican majority leader of the US House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, has received a three-year prison term for conspiracy. He was also given a five-year suspended sentence for money laundering. Mr DeLay was convicted in November of
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ling corporate donations to Republican election candidates in Texas in 2002.
The Organisation of American States is reported to have recommended that the governing party candidate in Haiti's disputed presidential election should be dropped from the run-off vote.
Provisional results put Jude Celestin second in the first round to the former first lady. But diplomatic sources say OAS monitors found the opposition candidate Michel Martelly won more votes. James Read reports.