UN UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and US President George W. Bush call for action to counter poverty and terrorism at a summit of more than 170 world leaders to plot the future of the embattled United Nations. UNITED NATIONS French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin "strongly" called for Iran to keep its nuclear non-proliferation promises or face action before the UN Security Council. Iraq Nearly 130 people, mostly civilians, are killed in a devastating series of suicide car bombings in the Iraqi capital, the deadliest day of attacks in Baghdad since the US-led war. US A rescue team saved a man from his flood-stricken New Orleans home 16 days after Hurricane Katrina, officials said Wednesday, but the death toll from the disaster kept mounting. Nigeria More than 20,000 Nigerians marched through their bustling economic capital Lagos in a noisy but trouble-free protest against rising fuel prices and President Olusegun Obasanjo's increasingly unpopular economic policies. Germany With four days to election day, German opposition leader Angela Merkel struggled to snuff out a threat to her authority within her conservative alliance and to get her creaking campaign back on track against a resurgent Gerhard Schroeder. Afghanistan Taliban militants shot dead seven Afghan civilians after finding a registration document for the weekend's milestone elections in their car, a provincial governor said. Indonesia Indonesia handed down its second death sentence in as many days on an Islamic militant convicted of terrorism in last year's suicide bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta. NKorea The United States ruled out building light water reactors for North Korea as the Stalinist state's demand for the right to peaceful atomic energy took centre stage at nuclear disarmament talks. Indonesia Aceh separatists gathered up their weapons and Indonesian police packed their bags on the eve of a rebel disarmament process and government troop withdrawal designed to end 29 years of war in the province.