71.   Polls opened across Costa Rica early Sunday for voters to elect the successor to President Miguel Angel Rodriguez, electoral officials reported.

72.   Polls opened Sunday in elections to the regional parliaments of the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, five weeks before general elections due in the whole of Germany.

73.   Rain was spitting in Dublin when the polls opened and around the country predictions were suggesting plenty of wet weather.

74.   State radio reported isolated cases where polls had not opened because ballot papers, equipment or the presiding officers had not arrived.