Iraq US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to US troops in the turbulent northern Iraqi city of Mosul, saying they could "go home with honor" once Iraqi forces were able to defeat insurgents. Vatican Looking frail and diminished by his recent health crisis, Pope John Paul II was back inside the Vatican's impenetrable walls, as doubts persist over whether the octogenarian pontiff is fit to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church. North Korea Defiant North Korea faced deepening international isolation after it torpedoed talks to resolve the standoff over its nuclear weapons while vowing to build more atomic bombs. Britain Britain's Prince Charles and bride-to-be Camilla Parker Bowles kept a low profile as they began their two-month engagement ahead of a wedding in Windsor, where businesses are hoping to cash in on the big day. Mideast Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was set to hold key talks with militant leaders in Gaza City later in a bid to secure their agreement to a ceasefire he declared at a peace summit earlier this week. Iraq Thirteen people were killed and 23 wounded when a car bomb exploded in front a Shiite mosque in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, security sources said. Togo West African leaders were expected to confront Togo over its controversial new regime, giving the new leadership a choice between a return to constitutional order or sanctions. Iran EU negotiators were to offer to send a team to survey helping Iran obtain a nuclear light-water research reactor, in what would be the first concrete move towards rewarding Tehran for abandoning uranium enrichment, a diplomat said. Saudi Arabia Turnout during Saudi Arabia's first round of municipal elections was 82 percent in the areas surrounding the capital, an election official said, providing no figures for Riyadh itself. Argentina At least eight people have died during a prison riot in the city of Cordoba as hundreds of inmates held 20 guards and 42 other people hostage and threatened to throw some of them off the roof, officials said. Pakistan At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea, officials said, as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112. Asia A teenager who lived on wild fruits and coconuts for 45 days after tsunamis ravaged the Indian Ocean archipelago of Andamans in December has been rescued, police said.