Dave Farrell, bass player for the rock band Linkin Park, visited Haiti this week and met with local officials in an effort to coordinate aid from the band's charity organization, Music for Relief.

Music for Relief was founded by the band's members after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck South Asia in 2004 to aid survivors of natural disasters.

Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt, who was last night taken to hospital after a heart attack, has been detained by prosecutors in the country ahead of a corruption probe. Egyptian officials allege Mubarak was involved in corruption and killings while he was in office.

A World Food Programme humanitarian vessel carrying life-saving food, medical supplies, doctors and other relief items reached Misrata port Friday, 8 April, 2011, opening up a new humanitarian lifeline to civilians trapped in the Libyan conflict.

The vessel was carrying more than 600 metric tons of WFP food including wheat flour, vegetable oil and high energy biscuits, enough to feed more than 40,000 people for a month. It also delivered medical supplies on behalf of UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

Thirteen people are dead and hundreds are injured after the bombing of a Minsk Metro station in Minsk, Belarus on Monday evening, 11 April 2011.

Witnesses reported that the explosion happened just after a train entered the Oktyabrskaya station at about 1555 UTC (GMT).