In Brief

* RACE – Liberia will face a second round presidential vote on November 8, choosing between a political veteran and a national hero in its first post-war election, the National Electoral Commission said.

From 95 per cent of 3 070 polling stations reported, football star George Weah led with 28,8 per cent of the vote. * ATTACKED – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them “international terrorists” bent on world domination like Adolf Hitler.Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.* QUAKE – Aid finally started reaching some of Pakistan’s thousands of cold and hungry earthquake survivors as helicopters, trucks and donkeys raced to reach Himalayan villages cut off for nine days.* SHRINE – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made another controversial visit to a Tokyo war shrine, infuriating Asian neighbours which see it as a symbol of Japan’s past military aggression.* CABINET – Germany’s incoming chancellor Angela Merkel named the conservative ministers in her cabinet, completing the line-up of a power-sharing government tasked with injecting life into an ailing economy.- Nampa-AFP -Reuters* ATTACKED – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them “international terrorists” bent on world domination like Adolf Hitler.Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere. * QUAKE – Aid finally started reaching some of Pakistan’s thousands of cold and hungry earthquake survivors as helicopters, trucks and donkeys raced to reach Himalayan villages cut off for nine days.* SHRINE – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made another controversial visit to a Tokyo war shrine, infuriating Asian neighbours which see it as a symbol of Japan’s past military aggression.* CABINET – Germany’s incoming chancellor Angela Merkel named the conservative ministers in her cabinet, completing the line-up of a power-sharing government tasked with injecting life into an ailing economy. – Nampa-AFP -Reuters