Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a resounding re-election victory Wednesday, beating back a challenge from his former army chief, who rejected the official results and said he feared arrest as troops surrounded his hotel.
Elderly survivors of Auschwitz, bundled tightly against the cold and snow, gathered Wednesday at the site of the former death camp to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
Helicopters are ferrying out hundreds of tourists stranded for two days near Peru's Machu Picchu after rains triggered mudslides and floods that blocked a railway and killed five.