US The streets of New Orleans belonged largely to the dead and rotting as US troops secured the flooded city and stepped up the evacuation of beleaguered survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Iraq Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and seven of his former henchmen will go on trial on October 19 over the massacre of Shiite villagers more than two decades ago, a government official said. France Fourteen people, including two children, were killed and more than 30 injured in an apartment block fire in a Paris suburb -- the third fatal fire to hit the French capital in nine days. France President Jacques Chirac spent a second day in hospital after suffering a problem with his eyesight caused by a "vascular incident" -- the 72 year-old leader's first major health problem in 10 years in office. US William Rehnquist, chief justice and a leading conservative voice on the US Supreme Court, died from thyroid cancer, setting the stage for a new political battle for President George W. Bush over the makeup of the judiciary. China-EU-US EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said he hoped to resolve a trade dispute that has left millions of Chinese-made textiles blocked at European ports before an EU-China summit this week. India At least 23 paramilitary soldiers were killed in a powerful landmine blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India, a federal minister said.