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. 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. 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. 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. Canada Investigators have found black box flight recorders from the wreckage of the Air France jet which crashed in Toronto and they are in "good" condition, 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. 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. NKorea North Korea was delaying a crunch decision on whether it was ready to abandon its nuclear weapons programs, forcing drawn-out six-nation negotiations on the issue into a 10th day. Germany Police investigating what may be the worst case of infanticide in German postwar history after the discovery of nine dead newborns said no further bodies were found after searches of properties in the east of the country. 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.