BANGLADESH-VOTE-HASINA

Bangladesh's former prime minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wajed looks on during in a press conference in Dhaka on December 31, 2008. Bangladesh's former premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed won the country's first election since 2001 in a landslide Tuesday, but her bitter rival rejected the result saying the polls had been "stage-managed". Khaleda Zia's rejection of the outcome early Wednesday threatened to throw the impoverished South Asian nation into fresh political uncertainty after two years of rule by an army-backed caretaker government. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN