Close to 130 people were killed in Nairobi and in western Kenya overnight during clashes that erupted following President Mwai Kibaki's re-election, police said on Monday.

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting January 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province.

Investigators were combing San Francisco zoo on Wednesday to find out how a 136kg tiger with a record of attacking humans managed to escape from its cage, kill one man and badly maul two others.

President Thabo Mbeki was on Friday accused of double standards after he said he would not interfere with any prosecution for corruption of Jacob Zuma, who defeated the president in the race for the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) this week.