Malaysia's king has sworn in Najib Abdul Razak as the country's sixth prime minister, a day after Abdullah Ahmad Badawi resigned to take responsibility for the ruling party's worst election showing in four decades.Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, the country's constitutional monarch who accepted Abdullah's resignation on Thursday, swore Najib in on Friday at the palace in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.Najib, the son of a former prime minister, swore to "fulfil the obligations of this post with honesty" and "pour my full loyalty into Malaysia and preserve, protect and defend the constitution".He faces a myriad of challenges, including an economy badly hit by the global downturn and racial divisions in the country.
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