Iraq US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iraq's nascent Shiite-dominated government against making any drastic personnel changes to its fledgling security forces upon his surprise arrival in Baghdad. Mideast US President George W. Bush backed Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, while urging the Israeli premier to stop all expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank under the Mideast peace roadmap. Iraq Three suicide car bombers blew themselves up outside a US military base in a volatile area of Iraq near the Syrian border, as a US contractor was kidnapped in the Baghdad area. Lebanon-Israel The Lebanese Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah said its guerrillas flew a pilotless drone over northern Israel, provoking overflights of south Lebanon by Israeli warplanes. US-UN Under fire from Democratic lawmakers, John Bolton, the controversial nominee to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, pledged at his confirmation hearing here to strengthen US relations with the world body. Sudan UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Sudanese officials called on the generosity of donors gathered here to help rebuild Sudan's pacified southern and northern areas but not at the detriment of strife-torn Darfur. Vatican US victims of paedophile priests carried their protest to the Vatican as a controversial cardinal led a special mass for John Paul II, bringing centre stage one of the key problems facing the Catholic Church as it searches for a new pontiff. India-China China and India sign a historic accord setting out "guiding principles" to resolve their decades-old border dispute, a move expected to boost economic cooperation and bilateral ties between the two Asian giants. Bangladesh Rescuers have recovered 23 bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey factory that collapsed in Bangladesh and trapped up to 200 people, officials said. Angola A total of 203 people have died in Angola from the Marburg virus, the worst outbreak ever recorded of the Ebola-like bug, the Angolan health ministry and the World Health Organisation said.