Britain Prayers were said at churches across Britain for the dead and the grieving of the London bombings, as the grisly search for bodies and evidence carried on deep underground. Britain Police arrested three people at London's Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorism laws but said no link had been established with the Underground and bus bombings. Britain Tens of thousands of people swarmed to the gates of Buckingham Palace to mark the 60th anniversary of World War II, just three days after Londoners suffered the deadliest terror attack in British history. US The United States and China said that North Korea's surprise decision to return to nuclear talks was "only the first step" and that progress must be made in the negotiations scheduled for late July. Iraq At least 27 people, mostly young men seeking to join the Iraqi army, were killed in a spate of suicide bombings as the United States and Britain considered a drastic troop reduction in the country. EU Luxembourg approved the EU constitution in a belated show of support that probably comes too late to save the moribund treaty at the centre of the European Union's political turmoil. US Deadly Hurricane Dennis thundered toward the US Gulf coast, looking set to slam ashore in the very area devastated by a similar storm last year, and causing massive evacuations. Mideast Around a quarter of the Palestinian population of Jerusalem face being cut off from the rest of the holy city after Israel's cabinet approved a new route for its controversial West Bank barrier. Philippines The Philippines' influential Roman Catholic bishops said they would not support calls for President Gloria Arroyo to resign over a political scandal, giving the embattled leader a reprieve. Afghanistan At least 12 Afghan soldiers were killed and two wounded in southeastern Paktia province after their vehicle ran over a land mine, the provincial deputy police chief said. Sudan Sudanese hoped a new era of peace beckoned for their war-ravaged country a day after a new power-sharing constitution came into force and former southern rebel leader John Garang took oath as the new vice president. Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev was poised for a landslide victory as polls closed in the election to replace the ex-Soviet Central Asian country's ousted president Askar Akayev.