Britain British officials were seeking to discover if the mastermind behind the July 7 suicide blasts has been arrested in Zambia, as police in London quizzed one of the men suspected of attempting to launch a repeat attack a fortnight later. NIreland Northern Ireland was waking up to the prospect of a lasting end to more than 30 years of violence after the IRA formally pledged to lay down its weapons and substitute the ballot box for the bullet. Britain Almost all the 6,000 residents of Gonzaga turned out to pay their respects to a young Brazilian emigrant killed by British police in error during a hunt for terrorists, whose burial was to take place Friday in his hometown. India Deaths from India's record monsoon climbed to near 900 as rescuers unearthed more bodies from landslides and residents of a Mumbai shantytown stampeded on rumours of storm-created tsunamis, police said. US The Discovery crew began moving 15 tons of equipment to the International Space Station and conducting a closer survey of any damage sustained by the shuttle's thermal shield during liftoff. NKorea The United States and North Korea met for a fourth time in talks Washington said had so far been useful and revealed some common ground, but not enough to produce any significant breakthrough. Vietnam Two people have died of the deadly H5N1 bird flu in southern Vietnam, a health official in Ho Chi Minh City said, the first reported deaths from the virus in about a month in the country. China China's Health Minister Gao Qiang insisted a mysterious outbreak of a pig-borne disease was "under control" despite a rising death toll and case-load, but the World Health Organisation disagreed. Kyrgyzstan More than 400 people who fled a violent government crackdown in Uzbekistan last May were airlifted by the United Nations out of neighboring Kyrgyzstan where they had sought refuge, but the fate of 15 wanted by Tashkent remained in limbo, officials said. Uganda Ugandan voters overwhelmingly endorsed sweeping democratic reform in a referendum to restore multi-party politics but in near-record low numbers, according to preliminary results seen by AFP. Bosnia-Hercegovina Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's wife's surprise appeal on Thursday seems genuine and could lead to Karadzic's surrender, an official of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights said.