AFPEntertainment Live 8, the biggest and most ambitious series of rock concerts ever staged, swung into full action with a concert in London, the centrepiece of a worldwide music relay aimed at pressuring the industrialised world to end African poverty. G8 More than 200,000 people marched through the streets of Edinburgh calling for resolute action on African poverty at next week's Group of Eight summit in nearby Gleneagles. Afghanistan US warplanes bombed militants in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said as the search continued for a special forces team that disappeared five days ago during a rescue attempt in which a US helicopter was shot down. Iraq A suicide bomber killed at least 11 in a crowd of Iraqi security force recruits in Baghdad, as a US commander promised to investigate the alleged shooting by marines of a cousin of Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations. India At least 123 people have died and about 25 million have been affected by heavy rains and flooding in the western Indian state of Gujarat this week, a state official said. Turkey A bomb attack against a train in the mainly Kurdish region of eastern Turkey killed six people, swiftly followed by a second attack on another train bringing help, officials and news reports said. Iran Iran's president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad played no role in the 1979 seizure of hostages at the US embassy in Tehran, close aides insisted, dismissing allegations of his involvement as a "propaganda war". US US Republicans and Democrats geared up for a major political battle over a successor to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has announced her retirement. Space NASA aims to be the first to crash an object into a comet as it zooms past Earth, in the hope of unlocking the mysteries of our solar system's origins. US The US Senate has moved to revive a controversial weapons research program aimed at enabling the US military to conduct precision nuclear strikes against hardened underground facilities, including those suspected of storing weapons of mass destruction. Russia An Islamic group claimed responsibility, in a statement on a separatist Chechen website,for the bomb blast that killed 10 special forces in Russia's Dagestan republic, and threatened to launch attacks in Moscow. Burundi The United Nations predicts that nothing will mar Monday's key parliamentary elections in Burundi but the shadow of the country's last active rebel group still hangs over the polls.