Thailand vowed its main airport will be open by the end of the week after thousands of sit-in protestors succeeded in forcing the country’s prime minister from office today.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the main party in the ruling coalition and banned the prime minister and 36 party executives from politics for five years.

Thailand’s ousted leader Samak Sundaravej today accepted the endorsement of the country’s ruling party to return as prime minister.

Thailand’s prime minister was forced to resign today along with his Cabinet after the Constitutional Court ruled that he had broken a conflict-of-interest law by hosting TV cooking shows while in office.

An Indian cabinet minister has resigned in protest at the government’s failure to act against recent Hindu-Muslim violence that has claimed 900 lives in the western state of Gujarat.