An ageing jet carrying Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and much of the state elite crashed in thick fog in Russia on Saturday killing all 97 people on board and plunging a nation into grief.

Evo Morales succeeded in amending the Bolivia’s constitution and being re-elected President. And, backed by his parliamentary majority, he was recently able to fill vacant judicial posts, making him the most powerful president in Bolivia’s contemporary history.