Iraq At least 10 people were killed when a car bomb ripped through the entrance of an Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad, while a second bomb exploded near a hotel used by foreign workers, killing at least one person. Mideast Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip as the army warned its huge military offensive in the area could last for weeks. Cambodia Cambodia's national assembly ratified a law allowing a UN-backed trial of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders to go ahead, clearing a crucial hurdle for a tribunal whose next challenge is raising funds. US US President George W. Bush's campaign was forced further on the defensive by a report that the White House knew before invading Iraq that key intelligence on the country's alleged nuclear weapons program was questionable. Indonesia Indonesian election officials formally declared ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as victor in the country's first ever presidential poll after a final vote tally was completed. Tunisia Seventeen would-be immigrants drowned and 47 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend. US A privately-owned, manned US spaceship is set to blast off in the final stage of an attempt to clinch a 10-million-dollar prize aimed at launching a new era of space tourism. Nobel The 2004 Nobel Prize season opened with the announcement of the prize for Medicine, the first of the annual series of coveted awards culminating in the prestigious Literature and Peace prizes.