Sudan Over 100 people have been killed in three days of rioting in the Sudanese capital and a flashpoint southern town, officials said, as deadly violence flared again amid international appeals for calm. Mauritania Troops seized power in the oil-rich northwest African country of Mauritania, overthrowing President Maaouyia Ould Taya while he was abroad and pledging to bring in democracy, in a move which sparked condemnation from US and other leaders. Britain British police filed their first charges against a suspect in relation to the failed July 21 bombings in London as moves to extradite two other men arrested in Italy and Zambia gathered pace. Iraq Fourteen marines were killed in one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since the invasion of Iraq, and an American freelance reporter was gunned down in the relatively calm south. Canada Investigators combing the wreckage of an Air France A340 Airbus jet at Toronto's Pearson International Airport have found the plane's "black boxes," airport officials said. Iran Iran pulled back from an earlier announcement it planned an imminent resumption of ultra-sensitive nuclear activities, amid warnings that such a move would spark an international crisis. North Korea Tough North Korean nuclear arms talks stalled on their ninth day as the parties struggled to finalise agreement on the basic principles for ending a three-year standoff with the Stalinist regime. Mideast Right-wing activists said they had managed to slip into the doomed Gaza Strip settlements as part of a bid to disrupt Israel's pullout from the territory, due to begin in two weeks. Germany-US Adidas-Salomon, the world's second biggest maker of sportswear and equipment, threw down the gauntlet to its arch-enemy and world leader Nike by launching a 3.1-billion-euro (3.8-billion-dollar) bid to take over US rival Reebok. Science South Korean scientists announced they had carried out the first successful cloning of a dog, creating a duplicate of a three-year-old Afghan hound by using the same technique that gave the world Dolly the Sheep.