Japan US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on North Korea to return "immediately" to talks on its nuclear ambitions and said Pyongyang's ally China had responsibility for restarting negotiations. Japan US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on China to embrace democracy, saying Beijing needed to be more open to benefit fully from its surging economic growth. Lebanon A car bomb rocked a Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital, injuring eight and causing extensive damage a month after the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri sent shockwaves through the country. Ukraine Ukraine has sold nuclear-capable cruise missiles to both China and Iran, the prosecutor-general's office said, but stressed that the deals were illegal and under criminal investigation. US The feeding tube of severely brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo was removed after a day of conflicting legal orders and attempted intervention by Washington legislators in the case. US The United States accused the European Union of blocking negotiations on subsidies to aircraft makers Airbus and Boeing, and threatened to take the matter back to the World Trade Organization, a US spokesman said. US Rival lawyers in Michael Jackson's child sex trial wrangled over whether to admit testimony from two previously unheard cases in which young boys claimed the star molested them. Iraq Shiite and Kurdish leaders said that Iraq's next government could be formed within a week as they courted Sunnis and outgoing prime minister Iyad Allawi to join a coalition. Mideast Israel gave a guarded welcome to an agreement by Palestinian militant groups to extend an informal truce until the year end, but concerns were raised after one Gaza-based militant group vowed to continue attacks.