US Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik abruptly withdrew his name from consideration to head the massive Homeland Security Department, citing personal reasons. Italy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi escaped a potentially devastating jail sentence when a Milan court cleared him of corruption charges after a four-year trial, a verdict which he hailed as "better late than never". Iraq A US soldier was to be sentenced for shooting to death a severely wounded Iraqi civilian, while the US army pressed its sole supplier of armored Humvees to up production amid a growing domestic controversy over armor for troops. Pakistan A bomb planted by suspected nationalists killed 10 people and injured at least 21 when it exploded near a military truck in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said. Ukraine Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was poisoned ahead of last month's elections, was to undergo new tests over the weekend in a Vienna clinic where he was admitted to look into a mystery illness that disfigured him, the head of the clinic said. Taiwan Millions of Taiwanese people began voting to elect a new parliament under tight security, with the pro-independence coalition led by President Chen Shui-bian expected to make gains.