Poland Poland elected the conservative, staunchly Catholic Lech Kaczynski president, bucking pre-vote surveys which had consistently put his liberal rival Donald Tusk in the lead, exit polls showed. Nigeria Nigerian rescuers struggled to gather and identify hundreds of severed body parts scattered amid smoking debris at the site of an airliner crash which rescuers said killed all 117 people on board. US Reinvigorated after a deadly strike on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Hurricane Wilma roared toward Florida where storm-weary US authorities ordered mass evacuations. Quake 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. Health The European Union's executive faced increasing pressure to ban all wild bird imports after a parrot that died while in British quarantine was confirmed to have been infected with the deadly Asian strain of bird flu. Lebanon Syria's highest political body, the National Progressive Front, rejected a UN report implicating Damascus in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri as a distortion of the truth. US US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "confident" the international community would respond to Syria's apparent involvement in the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Brazil Brazilians voted in a referendum on whether gun sales should be banned in the country, which has one of the world's highest murder rates. Iraq A key witness dying of cancer gave testimony to the Iraqi court handling murder and torture charges against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Mideast A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli troops during a confrontation in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, Palestinian medical and security sources said. US A standoff between the New York Times and one of its star reporters has cast new doubts about US reporting before the Iraq invasion and alleged White House efforts to shape pre-war intelligence. 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.