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 A strenthened Hurricane Wilma barreled toward the US state of Florida as officials urged residents to leave the coastal area or move to shelters. Poland-vote-presidency WARSAW: Staunchly Catholic Conservative Lech Kaczynski was set to become Poland's next president, according to partial results which bucked pre-vote surveys that had consistently put his liberal rival Donald Tusk in the lead. 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 infected with the deadly Asian strain of bird flu. Lebanon-Syria-UN 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-UN-Syria-Lebanon Alabama: 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 Voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure to ban gun sales in Brazil, 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 Two Palestinian gunmen were shot dead by Israeli troops during a confrontation in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Argentina President Nestor Kirchner got a boost in Argentina's mid-term elections, whose Senate candidates included his wife, a former first lady and two ex-presidents. US Harriet Miers nominated by President George W. Bush to fill a vacancy on the US Supreme Court currently lacks the votes for her confirmation by the US Senate, despite an intense White House campaign to sell her candidacy, lawmakers from both parties acknowledged.