The United Nations is asking for $164m (€119m) to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which has now claimed 724 lives.

ETHNIC violence in southern Kyrgyzstan has displaced 400,000 people, the UN said yesterday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.

Another survivor has been pulled from the rubble in Haiti two weeks after the island was hit by a devastating earthquake.