News from the BBC

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has promised to carry on with his program of social reforms and

eradicate

poverty in Venezuela, if he is voted in for a third-term in Sunday's election. Tens of thousands of people gathered under heavy rain in the Venezuelan capital Caracas for his final rally in a tightly contested presidential election. The main opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is expected to match or exceed those crowds as he speaks in the western city Barquisimeto.

Beekeepers in northeastern France have been left with an unusually multi-colored harvest this year after their bees were found to have been making green and blue honey. The Beekeepers found the insects have been avoiding the pleasant values of Alsace in favor of a sticky

residue

found in waste from discarded sweet containers. The waste had originated at the factory where the chocolate maker Mars makes its sugar-coated sweets M&Ms. Andrew Frey, the President of the local beekeepers' federation, says the color was rather a surprise.

We realized something was up because we had different colours of cells in their honeycombs It started with blue ones, then brown, red, green, we had all kinds of color in our hives. And the colleague who are extracting the honey had multi-colored honeys, blue honey and so on.

The plant responsible for waste says it's now moved the containers indoors. The honey has now been poured away.