Poland Under bleak winter skies, world leaders joined Auschwitz survivors in an emotional ceremony marking the liberation 60 years ago of the Nazi death camp, making a plea for the horrors of the Holocaust never to be forgotten. Iraq At least 30 people were killed in Iraq as insurgents intensified attacks on Iraqi and US targets, and election workers backed by troops started distributing ballot boxes for the vote in three days' time. US US President George W. Bush said upcoming Iraq elections offered a "historic opportunity" for the people of Iraq to start building a truly democratic society after decades of living under a brutal dictatorship. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas called on Israel to make a swift response to demands for a mutual ceasefire with armed factions as a top official claimed some 900 Palestinian prisoners would soon be released by Israel. US Condoleezza Rice started her new job as US secretary of state, pledging to press President George W. Bush's drive for worldwide democracy and repair battered ties with Washington's allies. US A suicidal man who later had a change of heart, jumping from his car just before it was struck by a train, has been charged with murder and may face the death penalty in the crash that killed 11 people and injured 183 others, officials said. Sudan About 100 people were killed in an air raid on a town in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region, bringing the death toll to at least 150 in the past two weeks despite a truce, the African Union said. Britain Britain's government was forced into a swift defence of planned new anti-terror laws allowing suspects -- including Britons -- to be held indefinitely under house arrest without trial, measures condemned by one newspaper as "unprecedented in peacetime". Finland Negotiating teams from Indonesia's government and the main rebel movement in Aceh province, where a long-running conflict was overshadowed by last month's devastating tsunami disaster, arrived in Finland for peace talks, officials said. China The funeral of purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang will take place on Saturday, his family and the government told AFP, but his official legacy looks set to remain in limbo.