Vatican The last wave in a huge tide of pilgrims that engulfed Rome this week filed into the Vatican to pay homage to Pope John Paul II as world leaders arrived for his state funeral. Egypt A French national and US citizen were killed and 18 people wounded when a booby-trapped motorcycle blew up in one of Cairo's main tourist areas, officials and witnesses said. Iraq Iraq's first elected government in half a century finally took shape when a former rebel leader took oath as its first Kurdish president and named a top religious Shiite as his prime minister. India Pakistan-controlled Kashmir: Hopes rose for lasting peace between India and Pakistan as bus passengers defied Islamic militants and crossed Kashmir's military dividing line for the first time in nearly 60 years. US A former Neverland Ranch security guard rocked Michael Jackson's child sex defense, claiming he saw the star kissing, fondling and performing oral sex on a young boy in the 1990s. Angola The World Health Organisation recommended that four countries go on a Marburg alert around Angola, the centre of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like virus which has now claimed 174 lives, a top health official told AFP. Mideast Palestinian militant groups warned they would break a truce with Israel if Jewish extremists attacked the disputed mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims. NKorea North Korea, officially acknowledging an outbreak of bird flu in the country, has asked for international help in combating the problem in the isolated country, a conference on avian influenza heard. Britain Yet another gremlin has gatecrashed the planning for Saturday's wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, this time in the form of an undercover reporter taking a make-believe bomb into one of the venues to expose security flaws.