Indonesia At least 162 people were killed after a huge earthquake rocked Indonesia, unleashing tidal waves and flash floods across Asia that swamped coastal areas and displaced thousands. Ukraine Ukraine elects a new president Sunday, repeating a previous vote marred by large-scale fraud and a dark poisoning episode that triggered mass street protests and exposed festering divisions within the former Soviet republic itself and between the West and Russia. Iraq At least 13 Iraqis were killed in a string of Christmas Day shootings and bombings, as US President George W. Bush thanked American soldiers for their sacrifice and for protecting America. US The European-made space probe Huygens headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, the only celestial body of the Solar System with an atmosphere resembling that of Earth, after successfully separating from the US spacecraft Cassini. Mideast The contest to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian president kicked off in earnest as frontrunner Mahmud Abbas issued an uncompromising list of demands to end the conflict with Israel. India Former Indian prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who died of a heart attack, was cremated with state honours in southern India. Iraq-Turkey Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said his government was doing its utmost to find a prominent Turkish businessman who is believed to have been kidnapped by unidentified militants in neighbouring Iraq. ISS A Russian cargo vessel bearing Christmas gifts and vital supplies of food and fuel docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Interfax quoted the Mission Control Centre as saying. Honduras A member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang has confessed to involvement in a bloody attack on a city bus in northern Honduras this week that left 28 people dead and 21 injured, police said Saturday. Nepal Nepal's government invoked anti-hoarding and price control laws to stem rises in food and fuel prices as a Maoist blockade of the capital entered a third day, state-run radio announced. Vatican In a Christmas shadowed by violence and the threat of conflict around the world, Pope John Paul II expressed great apprehension Saturday over the situation in Iraq but optimism at the outlook in the Middle East.