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Enjoy an Egg McMuffin with your Morning Coffee today in honor of its inventor, Herb Peterson, who died today at age 89.

>>Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's hotly contested presidential election will be held tomorrow. Opposition leaders have repeatedly stated that 84-year-old President Mugabe, who has held power for 28 years, is again undermining the election. They claim to have already discovered 90,000 suspicious names on voting rolls. Yesterday he handed out 450 cars to doctors at government-run hospitals. Security forces are on high alert amid warnings by the opposition that they will carry out Kenya-style protests if they feel the election is rigged. The Times reports on the millions of Zimbabwean refugees living in South Africa, some of which may decide to return pending the results of tomorrow's election.

>>Tibet - Yesterday monks in Lhasa interrupted a carefully orchestrated press trip by the Chinese government at the Jokhang Temple. The group of 30 to 40 monks wept and shouted at Chinese authorities and spent 15 minutes with reporters rebutting what they said were Chinese lies about the recent unrest. The Chinese government announced that the monks won't be punished.

>>Colombia - Colombia is offering to suspend the sentences of jailed FARC guerillas if FARC, in turn, frees Ingrid Betancourt, along with other hostages. Betancourt, a former senator and presidential candidate who has spent six years in captivity, is feared to be ill, suffering from Hepatitis B and Lesmaniasis.

>>Korea - North Korea test-fired a battery of short-range missiles today in further defiance of the new South Korean president's reprimand on human rights and non-proliferation. The show of force follows the expulsion of 11 South Korean officials from a jointly run factory complex in Kaesong.

>>Iraq - Iraq's government has extended their deadline for Shia militias to lay down their arms by 10 days as the assault by government forces in Basra has begun to stall.

• What's In A Name?
• UN Population Fund joins others to launch campaign in DRC against sexual violence
• Attacks on Aid Workers Threatening Relief Operations in Darfur

Africa

• Tutu wants SA arms deal inquiry
• Kenya in mobile phone share sale
• U.N. body calls on Sudan to tackle rights abuses
• Kenya power-sharing hits deadlock over cabinet

Americas

• TV crew denies passing fatal flu
• Honduras: Cantaloupe Ban Criticized
• Bolivia: Deadline Set for Energy Nationalization
• Canada confident NATO will help its Afghan troops
• Argentine leader warns strikers
• Robert Gates wants list of all US nuclear arms

Asia

• Shi'ite-Sunni clashes intensify in northwest Pakistan
• Tibetan children in Nepal protest
• Sri Lanka probes 'bomber offer'
• 21 Indonesians Die After Drinking Tonic
• Boat Sinks in Philippines; 13 Are Missing
• Japan court rules troops involved in WW2 suicides
• China allows diplomats into Tibet
• E Timor leader criticises troops
• US hails progress in Russia talks
• China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo
• Japanese inflation hits decade high
• Fallout From Tibet Is Test for China's Rulers

Europe

• Dutch relief at Muslim restraint over Koran film
• Belarus: Journalist's Homes Raided
• France flies rebel out of Comoros
• Italy murder fuels 'mafia' fears
• U.S. critical of "brutal" Belarus crackdown
• Sarkozy and Brown list joint plans
• Vatican distances Pope from views of baptized Muslim
• EU peacekeepers raid homes of Karadzic family
• EU warns Italy over cheese scare
• German plans for maglev derailed

Posted by Matthew Cordell at 9:10 AM

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