Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa has signed papers to free his political rival General Sarath Fonseka from prison -- three years after the end of the civil war.
Two veteran politicians contest elections in the Dominican Republic after a presidential campaign dominated by concerns over rising food and fuel costs.
Although the Maldives are known as an unspoilt tourist paradise, the islands struggle with managing their waste, as the BBC discovered on a visit to an 'apocalyptic' floating island waste dump.
