Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.

Iran on Sunday launched a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles capable of evading radar, state TV reported.

The world's bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing - now $2.2 billion - and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent.

World weather agencies have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to improve climate change science, officials said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged environment ministers to reject efforts by skeptics to derail a global climate deal.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive worries his government could face collapse as political opponents capitalize on its inability to respond strongly to the January 12 earthquake.