India At least four powerful explosions struck crowded markets in the Indian capital, leaving at least five dead and scores injured, police said. US The White House faced a damaging loss of credibility after the criminal indictment and resignation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's right-hand man, for lying to investigators in a CIA leak probe. Iran Iran sought to cool international outrage over its president's comment that Israel should be "wiped off the map", insisting the Islamic republic had no intention of attacking the Jewish state. India At least 60 people died and more than 100 were injured when a passenger train derailed and toppled into swirling floodwaters in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the railways ministry said. Mideast Israel pressed on with aerial operations over the northern Gaza Strip as air force planes carried out two attacks aimed at halting Palestinian militant activity, security sources said, as the Palestinian authority called on the US to press Israel for an immediate ceasefire. South Asia Pakistani and Indian diplomats met to discuss opening the disputed border in quake-hit Kashmir amid UN warnings time is running out for thousands of survivors stranded in the bitter Himalayan cold. China Chinese President Hu Jintao spent a second day in North Korea Saturday, gently pushing the country's dictator, Kim Jong-Il, to stay at the nuclear negotiating table and engage in bolder economic reforms. US Tropical Storm Beta, the record 23rd storm of the busiest Atlantic hurricane season in history, was upgraded to a hurricane as it lashed the Colombian Caribbean resort island of Providencia. Health The World Health Organization requested more information on the death of a 12-year-old girl in an area hit by bird flu as complaints of sluggish business emerged from big-city poultry markets. Afghanistan Fresh violence killed 21 people in insurgency-hit Afghanistan including 14 suspected militants and three men shot dead during Ramadan prayers, officials said. Germany The new super-jumbo Airbus, the A380, landed in Frankfurt on its first trip to a major airport, as part of a series of tests the airliner must undergo before it enters commercial operation.