Iraq Two Iraqis and a US soldier were killed and 27 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack against a military convoy in the northern city of Mosul, medics and the US military said. Iraq-Turkey An Al-Qaeda-linked group posted a video on the Internet showing the beheading of two men it identified as a Turkish contractor and an Iraqi Kurdish translator who "confessed" they worked with US forces in Iraq. Afghanistan A breakthrough agreement in Afghanistan's disputed elections was reached when the main rival to President Hamid Karzai said he would accept the result after an independent inquiry into charges of fraud. Pakistan-China A Pakistani tribal leader linked to Al-Qaeda agreed to negotiate over the fate of two Chinese hostages after allowing a deadline for a threatened execution to pass. Mideast Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved to accelerate his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip by announcing that a parliamentary vote on the controversial project would take place in two weeks. US "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who became a heroic advocate for spinal-cord research after being paralyzed in a riding accident, has died of heart failure. He was 52. Nobel Finn Kydland from Norway and Edward Prescott from the United States won the 2004 Nobel Economics Prize for business cycle research that has helped reform monetary policy in numerous countries. EU-Libya The European Union agreed to lift an 18-year-old arms embargo on Libya, welcoming the country's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction and movement towards "responsible government."