Asif Ali Zardari's two main competitors concede race minutes after it is announced he has won the clear majority of votes in Pakistan's Parliament and the four provincial assemblies. (Thanassis Stavrakis - AP)
Iraq will expand its no-cost return program to Jordan this month, dispatching planes and buses to bring back more than 500 refugees there, Iraq's envoy in Amman says.
Nearly eight months after post-election violence, observers say members of the political elite have returned to their backroom machinations at the expense of a country still divided by the crisis.