Zimbabwe Voters in Zimbabwe went to the polls in elections President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party's 25-year grip on power after weeks of campaigning that were free of the bloodshed that marred the last two elections. WorldBank The World Bank was expected to appoint Paul Wolfowitz as its 10th president, but the US deputy defence secretary still has far to go to disarm his army of critics. Asia Rescuers worked through powerful aftershocks to pull earthquake survivors from the rubble on Indonesia's Nias island, as efforts to bring in vital excavation gear hit new snags. Iraq At least one Iraqi was killed and 10 wounded in a suicide car bombing near a Shiite shrine in northern Iraq as the community marked a major religious festival, while a US citizen and three Romanian journalists were taken hostage in the violence-plagued country. US A frenzied legal crusade to save the life of a brain-damaged Florida woman appeared to have come to an end, as the US Supreme Court rejected pleas to prevent Terri Schiavo's imminent death almost two weeks after her feeding tube was removed. US US officials reacted cautiously to a new Syrian promise to withdraw its troops from Lebanon before legislative elections scheduled for May, and kept up strong pressure for an immediate Syrian withdrawal. Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan's post-revolutionary leadership was getting directions on democracy from senior officials from Ukraine and Georgia -- two other ex-Soviet states where revolts also threw off autocratic regimes -- and from the Organistion for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Vatican Pope John Paul II, barely able to make a rasping sound during an appearance at his window overlooking St. Peter's square, is now being fed through a tube in his nose, the Vatican said. China A delegation from Taiwan's Nationalist party, the Kuomintang, has spent its first official visit to Beijing pushing vigorously for more economic and trade cooperation, state media said. Pakistan Pakistani security agencies have arrested six suspected Al-Qaeda-linked foreigners in a swoop on their hideout near the Afghan border.