Britain The arrested fugitives from the botched July 21 London bomb attacks faced an intense grilling as police were congratulated for seizing all four suspects in a massive international manhunt. Iraq Iraqi insurgents struck a favoured target when a suicide bomber joined queues outside an Iraqi army recruiting centre in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 25 people. NKorea The United States and North Korea resumed talks seeking a solution to Pyongyang's atomic ambitions as Washington said it wanted all nuclear programs, including those for civilian use, abandoned. US Casting a wary eye on a series of terrorist attacks in Britain, the US Senate voted to make permanent most of a controversial law that vastly expands the government's search and surveillance powers. US US President George W. Bush welcomed passage of a mammoth energy bill by the US Senate, saying it would reduce US dependence on foreign sources of energy. Sudan Widespread rape is continuing in Sudan's strife torn region of Darfur, where authorities appear to be "unable or unwilling" to halt sexual violence by the military and police, a UN report said India Deaths from India's record monsoon climbed to near 900 as rescuers unearthed more bodies from landslides and villagers stampeded after hearing rumours of a tsunami. US A US astronomer said he had discovered a 10th planet in the outer reaches of the solar system that could force scientists to redraw the astronomical map. Burundi Burundi's former main rebel group, the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), won an absolute majority of seats in the country's Senate in indirect elections, the UN mission said.