Vatican Pope John Paul II spent a second night in hospital, breathing through a hole in his neck, as Catholics around the world prayed for his recovery from acute respiratory problems, while medical experts feared the worst. Mideast Three Israelis were killed and 50 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up while queuing outside a nightclub in Israel's main commercial city of Tel Aviv, police said. Iraq Three US soldiers and 13 Iraqis were killed as three British soldiers were jailed in Germany for abusing Iraqi civilians and a US general ruled out setting a date for US troops to hand control to Iraqi forces. Japan Japan's space program was preparing anxiously to try to send a domestically produced H-2A rocket into space for the first time since a launch in 2003 ended in a spectacular failure. Togo Togo's army-installed president Faure Gnassingbe stepped down ahead of elections set for mid-April, bowing to an onslaught of international pressure led by his African counterparts. US The judge in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial handed the defence an early victory, ruling that the litigation history of his accuser's family could be entered as evidence. DRCongo Nine Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers were killed and as many as 11 wounded when their patrols were ambushed in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN mission in the country said. NKorea North Korea is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and is prepared to resume six-party talks, China's foreign minister said as South Korea's president called for calm amid heightened nuclear tensions. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accepted an unprecedented invitation from Tunisian President Zine El Abidin Ben Ali to visit the north African country amid a renewed Israeli diplomatic push in the Arab world.