Iraq The Egyptian ambassador designate to Iraq was kidnapped while walking alone on a Baghdad street in the first abduction of a head of mission since the spate of foreign hostage-takings began. Afghanistan An elite US soldier was rescued in eastern Afghanistan almost a week after he went missing in rugged mountains when an American helicopter was shot down and his special forces unit disappeared, reports said. Saudi Al-Qaeda's suspected frontman in Saudi Arabia was killed in a shootout with security forces in the capital only five days after authorities put him at the top of a new list of wanted militants. US A US space projectile collided head-on with a comet hurtling through the solar system as part of an experiment to study its core. Greece Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will travel to Turkey, officials said, in the first official visit in 46 years as ties between the former arch-foes continue to warm. Vatican Pope Benedict XVI called on G8 leaders to adopt concrete measures to eradicate poverty and aid real development in Africa at their summit meeting this week in Scotland. France Now that the music has stopped after Live 8, the largest music rally in history, the question is whether it will have the desired effect of focusing aid on poverty in Africa and eventually eliminating it. Albania Albanians voted in legislative elections seen as a crucial test for the former communist state's fledgling democracy and its European future, with the vote passing off calmly despite fears that extremists will reject the result. India Relief teams rushed food, water, medicines and other essentials to hundreds of thousands of people marooned by floods that have killed 132 in India's western Gujarat state. Burundi Burundians went to the polls in the second of a series of elections, with former Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) rebels tipped to win the first parliamentary poll since 1993 after sweeping last month's local elections. Japan Police said they have arrested a US serviceman in Okinawa for allegedly fondling a 10-year-old girl, triggering fresh outrage on the island which hosts more than half of all US forces in Japan.