Rousseff falls short of outright win in Brazil election

Brazil's presidential election will go to a second round after Dilma Rousseff failed to win an outright victory in Sunday's voting.

With 98% of votes counted, President Lula's former cabinet chief has 47% with Jose Serra trailing on 33%.
The two will contest a run-off vote in four weeks' time.
A strong showing by the Green Party candidate, Marina Silva, who polled 19%, may have cost Ms Rousseff a first-round win.
"We can confirm there will be a second round in the presidential elections," Ricardo Lewandowski, the president of the High Electoral Tribunal, told reporters in Brasilia late on Sunday.
Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff is the favoured successor to President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, who has completed two terms, and cannot run for a third.

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Until just a few days ago, a second round had seemed unlikely. But Dilma Rousseff lost support late in the campaign.
The votes of the third-placed candidate will be crucial in deciding the outcome.
Marina Silva of the Green Party, a devout Christian, enjoyed a late surge in support - some of which appears to have come from evangelical Christians who turned away from Dilma Rousseff amid concerns about her stance on abortion.
Addressing supporters, Ms Rousseff said she welcomed the opportunity to explain her policies in more detail.

Analysts say Ms Rousseff ran a careful campaign, benefiting from Mr Lula's widespread popularity and the country's booming economy.

She was a frontrunner for much of the campaign.
Centre-left candidate Jose Serra, the Social Democratic former governor of Sao Paulo state, had seen a boost in his support after corruption allegations surfaced involving a former aide of Ms Rousseff.
Brazil, one of the world's most populous democracies, was also choosing local and national representatives.

Germany marks 20 years as reunified nation

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A fireworks display in Berlin marks the anniversary

Germany has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of its reunification.

Chancellor Angela Merkel led the official celebrations, hosted by the northern city of Bremen and attended by tens of thousands of people.
Capitalist West and communist East Germany merged on 3 October 1990, nearly a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall which divided them.
Sunday is also the day Germany makes the last payment on debt stemming from reparations imposed after World War I.
'Solidarity tax' Mrs Merkel was joined by many leading German and international figures in Bremen to mark one of the 20th Century's historical turning points.

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German President Christian Wulff told the assembled dignitaries: "We remember the momentous day that a people experience only rarely. I bow before everyone who fought for freedom... your courage moved the world."

He called for a "new solidarity" that encompassed Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
"We must not allow the cementing of prejudice and exclusion," he said.
On the eve of the anniversary, US President Barack Obama passed on his congratulations and said Germany was "one of our closest allies and greatest friends".
He said the US honoured "the courage and conviction of the German people that brought down the Berlin Wall, ending decades of painful and artificial separation".
Mrs Merkel, who was brought up in the East, praised former East Germans for fighting for their freedom.
She added: "At the same time, there was a huge wave of solidarity from the people in West Germany. It is thanks to these joint efforts that we have been able to rebuild so quickly and make Germany a country that is respected in the world."

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Angela Merkel on people still leaving Eastern Germany

Since the two countries became one, more than 1.5 million people have migrated west.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin says opinion polls show some unhappiness in the west about the so-called "solidarity tax" on incomes to pay for eastern reconstruction but on both sides of the country the polls indicate a big majority in favour of a united Germany.

However, not everyone welcomed the reunification festivities.

Thousands of police were deployed in Bremen on Saturday as some 1,800 mainly left-wing activists marched through the city in protest. The demonstration passed off peacefully.
Sunday also marks the final day of German reparations for World War I.
A last payment of 70 million euros (£60m) will draw the debt to a close.
In 1919, the victorious allies wanted to ensure Germany would not be capable of war for many years and set reparations at the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes of gold.
But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming the decision was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.