US Space Shuttle Discovery roared safely back to Earth in California in a dramatic finale to the first shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster in 2003. Iran Britain, France and Germany circulated a draft resolution ahead of a key meeting of the UN atomic watchdog urging Iran to stop nuclear fuel work, but diplomats said the tactic was running into opposition from non-aligned and other states. Iran UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that he hoped the conflict over Iran's resumption of nuclear fuel activities would not lead to a "permanent rupture" of talks on the issue. Mideast Mahmud Abbas called on the Palestinian people to show the world they deserved their independence by ensuring that this month's Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip takes place free of violence. Mideast-Palestinian Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said legislative elections that had initially been slated for last month would take place in January 2006. Iraq Three Iraqis and a US soldier were killed and 52 others wounded, including two US soldiers, when a suicide car bomber blew himself up in central Baghdad, US and Iraqi officials said. Britain The fourth key suspect in the July 21 attempted bombings in London underwent questioning in Italy, while a notorious firebrand Islamist cleric vowed to return to Britain -- if the government lets him -- from an unexpected trip to Lebanon. China The number of miners trapped and feared dead after an illegal coal mine was flooded in southern China rose to 123, as rescue teams continued to pump water from the shaft in the faint hope they will be found alive. Nepal Maoists killed 40 Nepalese soldiers captured after an all-night battle in the country's northwest, the army said, bringing the known death toll to 66 after the rebels said 26 of their fighters were killed.