Women in the Congo's rural eastern area.
© Peter Biro / International Rescue Committee
Kinshasa remains tense and largely deserted today after election results were announced Sunday night, sparking two gun battles and indicating that a run-off election would be held in late October. Some analysts believe that a run-off might have been the best possible outcome for the democratically fragile country. Also among other stories in today's news, the U.S. and South African governments are taking special criticism for their failures to effectively combat the AIDS epidemic.

In the features section, travel to Northern Uganda for an early glimpse of what the peace dividend could look like there, plus we get a report on the situation in Sri Lanka from a Catholic bishop in the country. In analysis, bloggers question if the fever for freedom in China can stand up to the country's patriotic fever, and Sir David Attenborough explains why he is convinced that humans are definitely the cause of global warming.

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