Cholera surges in Haiti's Central Plateau

An old man with sunken cheeks is so dehydrated he must be carried down the dirt lane to a clinic where the air is thick with the odor of bleach.Minutes later, a worried father enters, carrying a two-year-old girl in a frilly white dress, her eyes sunken and unfocused. Australia on Sunday said carbon pollution would be taxed at Aus$23 ($24.74) per tonne, saying the move designed to fight climate change was a fundamental economic reform. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's family investment company was ordered on Saturday to immediately pay euro560 ($797) million - a devastating sum and a significant blow to the Italian leader - to a rival media group over corruption in the acquisition of the Mondadori publishing company. Egypt's Prime Minister has ordered the sacking of all police officers accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, as part of a series of measures aimed at placating demonstrators. One of Latin America's most admired folk singers, Facundo Cabral, was killed on Saturday when three carloads of gunmen ambushed the vehicle in which he was riding, prompting expressions of anguish from across the region.Authorities said the performer's concert promoter was apparently the target. Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said on Saturday. Al Qaeda's defeat is "within reach," U.S.Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief.He said eliminating as few as 10 of the group's top figures could cripple its ability to strike the West. Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World signed off with a simple front page message "THANK YOU & GOODBYE" leaving the media establishment here reeling from the expanding phone-hacking scandal that brought down the muckraking newspaper after 168 years. Japan tsunami: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hit Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday, prompting a brief tsunami warning for the area still recovering from a devastating quake and killer wave four months ago. The death toll from the pa*senger plane crash in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 74, the Red Cross said, after the discovery of 28 more bodies in the wreckage. Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city on Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days. A U.S.Army veteran who lost his legs while deployed in Iraq was thrown from a 200-foot-tall roller coaster at an upstate theme park on Friday and was killed. Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today.And 1970s America loved her for it.According to Mrs.Ford, her young adult children probably had smoked marijuana - and if she were their age, she'd try it, too.She told "60 Minutes" she wouldn't be surprised to learn that her youngest, 18-year-old Susan, was in a sexual relationship (an embarra*sed Susan issued a denial). Police fired tear gas and detained hundreds of activists as more than 20,000 demonstrators ma*sed on Saturday across Malaysia's main city demanding electoral reforms in the country's biggest political rally in years. Pakistani prosecutors today submitted documentary evidence provided by India, including confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, in the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in Mumbai attacks. Consumer prices rose 6.4 per cent over a year ago, a sharp jump from May's 5.5 per cent rate, data showed Saturday.It was driven by a 14.4 per cent rise in politic
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