NKorea North Korea promised to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for pledges of aid and security, the first major breakthrough in more than two years of deadlock over the high-stakes crisis. Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his conservative challenger Angela Merkel locked horns in a power struggle to rule Germany after a cliffhanger general election left Europe's biggest economy in political limbo. Afghanistan Early estimates showed a turnout of just over 50 percent in Afghanistan's first parliamentary polls in more than three decades, below that of last year's presidential vote, the election chief said. Iran Europe's three biggest powers distributed a draft resolution at the UN atomic watchdog calling for Iran to be reported to the UN Security Council this week over nuclear fuel work that could be weapons-related, diplomats told AFP. US The United States will send four astronauts to the moon in 2018 in a return to its pioneering manned mission into space, NASA administrator Michael Griffin announced. Iraq Two suicide car bombers struck checkpoints south of Baghdad on a road used by thousands of Iraqi Shiite pilgrims making their way by foot to the holy city of Karbala. Iraq Iraqi police have detained two British soldiers believed to be working undercover in the southern port city of Basra following a shooting incident, British military and Iraqi security officials said. US Families returned to a New Orleans district at the start of a controversial bid to swiftly repopulate the city as relief crews raced to restore power lines, water supplies and sewerage wrecked by Hurricane Katrina. OPEC OPEC ministers meeting here were set to increase the supply of crude oil as required by a market still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, president Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah said. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon admitted he risks being ousted from the helm of his right-wing Likud party as polls showed faction power-brokers favour a leadership contest as early as November.