New elections in the Ukraine:

Ukraine's Supreme Court overturned the results of the country's disputed presidential election today and ordered that a new runoff vote between the two main challengers take place by Dec. 26. The court discredited not only the official results that had declared Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich the winner of the presidency, but also the government of the outgoing president, Leonid D. Kuchma, saying the conduct of the campaign and the counting of the ballots had been marred by "systemic and massive violations." The court's ruling, announced moments before 6 p.m. here, was a striking and decisive victory for Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition leader who has asserted that Mr. Kuchma's government denied him his rightful victory in the Nov. 21 vote.