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* Egypt"s plans to build an underground steel wall on the border with the Gaza Strip will "strangle" the impoverished enclave, a spokesman for Gaza"s Interior Ministry said

* Tel Aviv has officially apologized to Ankara for publicly humiliating Turkey"s ambassador in front of local television stations, Turkish news agencies reported

* Former premier and opposition party leader Viktor Yanukovych is leading the presidential race in Ukraine, a Russian pollster said

* A court in Kiev found Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against Ukrainians during the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine, the country"s National Security Service said

* Hundreds of people are believed to have died after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti

* Pope Benedict XVI held an audience with the woman who knocked him down at St. Peter"s Basilica during the Christmas Eve service and forgave her for her actions

* Ukrainian opposition Party of Regions leader and presidential

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