Health Chinese authorities stepped up efforts to combat bird flu in Beijing as Britain called for a European Union ban on imports of wild birds after discovering that a South American parrot died from avian influenza while in quarantine. Lebanon-Syria-UN Lebanese authorities arrested a Sunni Muslim who, according to a UN report, telephoned President Emile Lahoud minutes before the murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri, officials said. Nigeria More than half the 117 passengers and crew on board a crashed Nigerian airliner survived the disaster, a spokesman for the government of the state where the plane came down told AFP. US Six people were listed as killed and two as missing after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico's famous Yucatan resorts. Pakistan New aftershocks rattled quake-hit northern Pakistan as aid trickled into the mountainous region and relief agencies struggled to reach cut-off survivors before winter. Afghanistan An earthquake shook eastern Afghanistan near the border of quake-hit Pakistan, with initial reports saying at least five people were killed and six hurt, the defence ministry said. Iraq A car bomb rocked central Baghdad, killing four people, including at least two policemen, and wounding 13 others, security sources said. Poland Poles voted in the second round of an election to choose a new president from two former comrades-in-arms in the Solidarity movement, Donald Tusk, a liberal, and his conservative rival, Lech Kaczynski. Vatican Tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square to witness Pope Benedict XVI creating the first five saints of his pontificate -- two Polish-born Ukrainians, two Italians and a Chilean. Nigeria Spanish pathologists performed an autopsy on the body of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's wife Stella, who died earlier in the day in the southern resort of Marbella, the Spanish foreign ministry said. Argentina Thousands of Argentines began voting in legislative elections that could bolster President Nestor Kirchner's power base ahead of the country's 2007 presidential vote. Brazil Brazilians headed for the polls to decide whether gun sales in this crime-riven country should be banned, but opinion polls indicated the proposed ban was likely to be shot down.