Vatican Pope John Paul II was rushed to hospital fighting for breath late Tuesday but Vatican sources said he had survived the emergency as doctors and close aides kept an anxious bedside watch. Nepal Nepal's King Gyanendra swore in a new 10-member cabinet heavily dominated by royalists, a day after firing the government and seizing power in a move that sparked international condemnation. US Two weeks into his second term and buoyed by elections in Iraq, President George W. Bush will use his State of the Union speech to seek global support for that war-torn country and lay out a tightly budgeted domestic agenda. Science Scientists at a global warming conference say they see potential triggers for runaway climate change but admit that when and how these notional doomsdays may be unleashed are debatable or quite unknown. Iraq Iraqi leaders strove to persuade Sunni Muslims to return to the political process amid a final ballot count, as Iraqi and US officials rejected an immediate withdrawal of foreign troops after an election deemed successful. Iraq A bomb explosion killed an Iraqi soldier while two civilians were killed by another bomb intended for a US military patrol, security sources said. Mideast Israel put the transfer of security control in parts of the West Bank on hold Tuesday as a new volley of mortar attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza further undermined a fragile truce. Asia Australia's prime minister praised the cooperation of his soldiers and Indonesian troops in tsunami relief, which Jakarta officials said could usher in "new intimacy" between the two sides. Asia The United Nations has confirmed it had offered former US president Bill Clinton the job of UN special envoy for tsunami relief, and that Clinton had accepted. Asia A Sri Lankan court ordered DNA tests be carried out on a baby who survived December's tsunami disaster and on a couple claiming him as their son, sparking uproar in this eastern town.