Ukraine Ukraine prepared for a new presidential vote after the supreme court ordered a fresh round in a bitterly disputed runoff poll that polarized the country and sent Cold War-era shadows on the world stage. Iraq At least three police were killed and 40 wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded at a police station outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, a day after 26 people died in twin attacks in the capital, raising fears that unrest will mar Iraq's January elections. US Donald Rumsfeld is to stay on as US defense secretary, surviving the overhaul of President George W. Bush's cabinet, a senior US official said. Colombia Former drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, who headed the dreaded Cali drug cartel, was en route to the United States after being handed over to US anti-narcotics officials the night before. Philippines President Gloria Arroyo banned all commercial logging as rescuers rushed aid to nearly a million wet and hungry survivors of two deadly storms that are feared to have left more than 1,100 dead. China Recovery operations at a landslide in southwest China which left at least 23 dead and scores missing resumed as nearby coal mines were shut for investigations into their possible role in the disaster. Niger Voters in Niger went to the polls in the second round of a presidential election in which incumbent leader Mamadou Tandja was predicted to defeat Socialist Mahamadou Issoufou to win a second term. India Russia's President Vladimir Putin was heading to the high-tech city of Bangalore on the second day of his Indian trip, after ruffling feathers by rebuffing New Delhi's hopes of a veto on an enlarged UN Security Council. US Police probing child molestation charges against beleaguered US superstar Michael Jackson launched a new search on his famed Neverland Ranch less than two months before his trial.