Overnight Links for December 21st

A team of medical professionals from Kentucky took a missions trip to Haiti to help meet the health needs there. From the North Platte Telegraph writer Malena Ward talked to the people who took the trip.

Al Jazeera has a series of special programs on the upcoming independence referendum vote for Southern Sudan. The "Crossroads Sudan" program concentrates on the challenge of development for the new country.

The cholera death toll continues to rise in Haiti. The AFP story that we found at Google News says that the number of people dead has now surpassed 2500.