US-NKorea US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to China, South Korea and Japan, the State Department said amid growing US anxiety over stalled multilateral talks to end the North Korean nuclear crisis. India Six gunmen were killed after storming a holy compound in India claimed by both Hindus and Muslims, prompting a nationwide security alert to prevent an outbreak of religious violence. G8 Britain lowered expectations for a summit of rich nations aimed at fighting poverty in Africa and combating global warming but activists kept up the heat on the eve of the gathering. Iraq Bahrain's top diplomat in Iraq was wounded in an ambush and the Pakistani ambassador narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, as insurgents targeted Muslim envoys in an apparent new tactic. Oly-2012 The 2012 Olympic Games race entered its final hours in Singapore with Paris the first of the five candidate cities to make their closing presentations ahead of the evening vote. Afghanistan-US US forces were searching for the last of four commandos who vanished in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, while two of the soldiers were found dead and another was saved, the US military said. G8 The United States is ready to admit at the Group of Eight summit this week that humans play a role in global warming, a top White House official said. US-France-Iran The European Union will never accept a resumption of any nuclear arms activity by Iran, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said after talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. AfricanUnion African Union heads of state and government at a summit unanimously adopted a "common position" on asking rich G8 nations to wipe out the debt of all African countries, an AU official said. US-Spain The largest Al-Qaeda trial to take place in Europe so far drew to a close as a Madrid court gave the 24 accused a final opportunity to defend themselves on charges of links to the organisation, an opportunity most seized to protest their innocence. Internet A German teenager confessed on the first day of his trial to creating the Internet Sasser worm that waylaid millions of computers around the globe last year, a court official said.