Businesses in the Haitian capital reopened Monday after days of riots sparked by rising food and fuel prices. Haiti's president has announced a series of emergency aid measures in the wake of the crisis, which led to the ouster of his prime minister.

The top Chinese diplomat in Los Angeles briefed local media on the truth of recent violent incidents in Lhasa and urged Western media to provide "objective" and "fair" coverage of the recent riots in the region.

Leading Chinese experts on Tibet on Wednesday condemned the March 14 Lhasa violence and voiced their support for the government's efforts to restore law and order.

Serbia's top security body, the National Security Council, has opened a meeting focusing on the handling of last week's attacks on the U.S. embassy and other embassies in Belgrade.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, visiting police officers injured in riots, has vowed to take a tough line against protesters after a sharp drop in the nightly violence.

Authorities detained four people Monday accused of taking part in riots triggered by the accidental shooting of a soccer fan by a police officer in Italy.

A 17 year old Nigerian pupil who was gang-raped 7 months ago is still in a hospital in Southwestern Nigeria.

Estonia is to set up a Red Army monument in a military cemetery in time for the anniversary of the end of World War Two after its removal from the center of the capital sparked riots, the Reuters news agency reported on Sunday quoting Estonian officials.

Panic-stricken Nigerians are fleeing the Northern state of Kano as government forces try to crush a rebellion by the Islamic militants who killed the district police officer with his wife and 11 other policemen at a police post last Tuesday.

Over 46 people were killed on Saturday April 14, in one of the bloodiest elections in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and it's largest oil producer. Seven police men were killed as militants attacked and razed three police stateions in the Niger Delta and at least 40 civilians were killed in bloody political clashes in several states across Nigeria.