BBC News.This is Mike Cooper.
Many thousands of people have lined the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw to witness the return from Russia of the body of the President Lech Kaczynski following Saturday's air crash. On arrival in Warsaw the coffin draped in the red-and-white Polish flag was carried from the plane by a group of army officers and born along a red carpet past waiting dignitaries. In all, 96 people died in the crash. Brian Hanrahan reports from Warsaw.
Right across Warsaw, there are small banks of candles and photographs - makeshift memorials to the 95 people who died along with the president. Read down the list of the dead, and you will soon see why this disaster has touched so many people personally. It's not just the politicians in the military who died by the dozen, but a whole range of public figures - representatives of the barrister, the Olympic Committee, cultural figures and academics. This was a delegation that represented the nation.
After the first day of voting in Sudan's elections, correspondents say a picture of confusion and disarray is beginning to emerge. The party of the former southern rebels, the SPLM has asked for a four-day extension to the scheduled three days of polling because of reported irregularities. Martin Plaut is in Khartoum.
While the process generally went well in the capital Khartoum, in the rest of the country the very opposite was frequently the case. In several states, from the Red Sea in the north to the far south of the country, voters had little chance of exercising their democratic rights. This country has seen little peace since independence in 1956. To hold an election as complex as this one in a country as underdeveloped as Sudan was always going to be a tall order. The authorities will have to strain every nerve if these problems are to be resolved in the time that remains.