US President George W. Bush is expected to appoint his national security advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has resigned his post along with several other members of the Bush cabinet, senior officials said. The US Defense Department is investigating the shooting of an apparently wounded and unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a US marine in a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, NBC news said. Iraq US and Iraqi forces backed by aircraft descended on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to secure police stations and restore order as insurgents in Fallujah fought US-led troops to the death. Mideast The militant Palestinian group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it is opposed to Mahmud Abbas being elected president of the Palestinian Authority to replace Yasser Arafat and would instead back jailed West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti. Spain The first trial of a suspect implicated in the Madrid train bombings was to open with a teenage youth in the dock facing up to eight years in detention for allegedly handling the explosives used in the attacks which left 191 people dead. France Europe's first mission to the Moon, the unmanned exploratory probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space Agency announced. Ivory Coast The UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Ivory Coast after a unanimous vote in a bid to quell a new wave of unrest that has convulsed the west African state and sent thousands of Ivorians and foreigners fleeing. Iran Iran's powerful hardliners lined up to condemn an agreement by the clerical leadership to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands and as part of a deal with Britain, France and Germany. Japan China has apologised to Japan for the intrusion of a nuclear submarine in its waters and said the incident would not further sour the Asian powers' relations, Japanese officials said. France African music star Papa Wemba was found guilty of running an illegal immigration racket by a French court, but walks free to the cheers of his supporters earning a 30-month sentence most of which was suspended with the rest being time already served.