US US President George W. Bush was to call for a fresh start to US-Europe relations after a "passing disagreement" over Iraq, as he began a five-day trip to improve strained transatlantic ties. Mideast Five hundred Palestinian prisoners were being bussed back to the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israel began a release programme aimed at helping revive the Middle East peace process. Iraq Islamic militants have freed two Indonesian journalists taken hostage last week in a notoriously dangerous part of Iraq, Sunni Muslim authorities said. EU Spain became the first European Union country to agree to the new European constitution in a referendum with a resounding yes vote that Spanish and European officials hoped would show the way for other countries with polls to come. Indonesia Some 146 people are believed to have died under hundreds of tonnes of garbage and earth on Indonesia's main island when heavy seasonal rain unleashed a massive landslide, police said. SriLanka Three people were killed and at least 30 injured in a blast at a courthouse in southern Sri Lanka, police said, as former US presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton toured the region. Bangladesh The number of people confirmed dead after a ferry sank near the Bangladesh capital Dhaka rose to 117 as the search for bodies was called off, officials said. Portugal Portugal's opposition Socialists won their first outright majority in parliament since the country returned to democracy in 1974 in a snap election as voters swung left for a new government and looked for answers to rising unemployment. UN The UN's top refugees official, Dutch ex-prime minister Ruud Lubbers, has resigned amid sexual harassment allegations, a UN spokesman confirmed. Australia One of Australia's main airport terminals was shut down and hundreds of staff and passengers evacuated after a mystery illness struck down more than 50 people, officials said. US Legendary US author and sharp-witted icon of the 1960s counter-culture, Hunter S. Thompson, died after apparently shooting himself in the head, police and his family said.