Vatican Pope John Paul II is "fully conscious," lucid and "extremely serene," the Vatican said after the pontiff suffered a severe heart attack and was given last rites. Vatican The Vatican called on Roman Catholics to "intensify their prayers" for Pope John Paul II, who was close to death after suffering a heart attack. ICoast The British embassy in Ivory Coast suspended its activities and advised all British citizens to leave the west African country "immediately" because of growing unrest. Warcrimes A Bosnian Serb, Ljubomir Borovcanin, charged in connection with the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, left Belgrade to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal. UN The UN Security Council voted to approve war crimes trials over Sudan's Darfur region at the International Criminal Court, ending weeks of deadlock over US opposition to the tribunal. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's opposition made a strong showing in early results from elections that President Robert Mugabe said his ruling ZANU-PF party would win by a landslide following a day of voting that was free of the bloodshed from past polls. NKorea Hopes for a speedy resumption of six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons drive faded after Pyongyang declared itself a nuclear power on a par with Washington and said its new goal was regional disarmament. Asia A United Nations official said the latest estimates from a massive earthquake which struck northwestern Indonesia earlier this week put the death toll as high as 1,300. Iraq Car bombs killed at least 11 Iraqis near Shiite shrines as the community marked a major religious festival, while Sunni leaders feuded over a role in the political process they largely boycotted. Mideast Israeli rabbis and right-wing groups urged soldiers to desert in a fresh attempt to thwart the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and closing of all Jewish settlements in the territory. Iraq US intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" in their pre-war assessments of Iraq's weapons programs and still know dangerously little about current nuclear and biological threats, a US presidential commission said.