A SPREADING cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts at the weekend hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

China urged its citizens to be “calm” and “rational” as nationalistic protests against French supermarket Carrefour spread today to more cities across the country.

Three shoppers died and at least 31 others were injured in a stampede when the doors opened at the start of a sale at a Carrefour supermarket in south-western China today, state media reported.

HUNDREDS of smashed ballot boxes and bags apparently used to carry vote count sheets were scattered across a rubbish dump yesterday, more than a week after Haiti’s disputed presidential elections.