Iraq Twenty-five people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a truck full of explosives outside a police station in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, but the US military put the death toll at 40. Egypt Egypt suffered a new bomb scare a day after multiple bombings killed 88 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, adding to global terror fears after the London attacks. Britain British police admitted a Brazilian electrician they shot dead in a London Underground train had nothing to do with the terror bombings, but said they will stick to a policy of shooting suspected suicide bombers in the head. Nigeria Fifty-six people were killed and six others seriously injured near the northern Nigerian city of Kano when the bus in which they were travelling plunged into a river, road safety officials and witnesses said. India A major earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck India's Nicobar Islands, the US Geological Survey said. Mideast Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened a harsh military response to Palestinian violence during and after Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip following the murder of two Jerusalem grandparents. NKorea The United States' chief negotiator in talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear weapons programme arrived in Beijing, expressing hope for "some real progress." Bulgaria Bulgaria's Socialist party formed a minority coalition government after winning June elections, but analysts say it faces a struggle to survive and lead Bulgaria into the European Union in 2007. China The death toll from an unidentified disease has risen to 17 with 41 other people affected in southwest China's Sichuan province, state media said.