France Europe was reeling and a change of government loomed in France after French voters decisively rejected the EU constitution, a historic turning point which exposed searing divisions in the country and a wider angst over the drive for deeper European unity. Iraq A double suicide attack killed at least 27 people in Iraq, while in an embarrassing turnaround US forces released a moderate Sunni political leader they admitted had been detained "by mistake." Pakistan Six people were burnt alive when a mob protesting a suicide bombing of a mosque torched an outlet of an American fast food chain in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. Iraq Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he was "lightly" wounded but still battling alongside his fighters in Iraq, in a voice message attributed to him posted on the Internet. SAfrica Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to quell the latest outbreak of township rioting in South Africa as the intelligence agency said it was investigating the surge of violence in the shantytowns. Lebanon The son of murdered former premier Rafiq Hariri scored a clean sweep in the Beirut round of Lebanon's elections, the first in three decades held free of the powerful grip of neighbouring Syria. Mideast Palestinian factions warned that a de-facto Middle East truce was in jeopardy after Israel launched an aerial strike against militants, wounding two sisters in the Gaza Strip. Saudi Saudi King Fahd, hospitalised for the past four days, is recovering from pneumonia and must remain under medical observation for another day, a medical source told AFP. Afghanistan Two Afghans were killed and 33 others wounded in violent protests against a local official in the war-shattered country's northeast. US-EU The United States will ask the World Trade Organization to create an arbitration panel to resolve a dispute over European subsidies to aircraft maker Airbus, the US Trade Representative said in a statement. Thailand Natalie Glebova of Canada was crowned Miss Universe 2005 Tuesday at a gala finale in the Thai capital that was broadcast to 170 countries and watched by an estimated one billion people.