Lusaka, Zambia  - The decision by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to phase out food aid to refugees in two camps in Zambia will leave about 3,000 people vulnerable to hunger, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday.

UNHCR Representative to Zambia James Lynch said the WFP had informed his office that it would stop providing food to all but the most vulnerable refugees at Zambia's Meheba and Mayukwayukwa camps in 2009.

New Delhi, Nov 4 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has constituted an Apex group under his chairmanship to coordinate the Government’s response to points raised by Industry from time to time.

The members of the Apex Group are the Finance Minister, Industry and Commerce Minister, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission and the Governor, Reserve Bank of India.

The Group will meet regularly to coordinate, decide the Government’s response to the points raised by industry from time to time with regard to the current global financial crisis and its impact on India.

Hamburg  - Former Germany winger Pierre Littbarski was on on Tuesday appointed coach and sports director at Liechtenstein football club Vaduz.

New Delhi, Nov 4 : Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram met the head of the Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) banks in New Delhi on Tuesday to review the liquidity situation in the country.

The meeting came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh''s meeting with captains of Indian industry, who wanted the government to take steps to enhance liquidity.

Chidambaram said liquidity is a snapshot and liquidity is an everyday affair. India''s central bank has been keeping a close watch on liquidity.

Nairobi  - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF Tuesday condemned the recent stoning to death of a 13-year-old Somali girl for adultery in the port town of Kismayo, which was taken over by Islamist insurgents in August.

The girl, Aisha Duhulow, was last week stoned to death for adultery under Islamic law, or sharia. Initial reports said that the girl was in her twenties.

UNICEF said that reports indicated the girl had not committed adultery, but been raped by three men while walking to visit her grandmother in the capital Mogadishu.

Washington/Chicago  - Hundreds of US voters waited patiently in serpentine queues Tuesday to vote in the country's historic election. Many had started lining up before dawn, some braved pouring rain to cast their ballot.

Officials were prepared for an unprecedented turnout as voters delivered their verdict on Democrat Barack Obama, 47, and his Republican rival John McCain, 72, after the longest and most expensive campaign in US history.