Egypt Devastating car bomb explosions killed at least 26 people, many of them Israelis, when they ripped through a major hotel and two beach resorts packed with Israeli tourists on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert. Nobel Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first African woman ever to be awarded the prestigious prize. Iraq US warplanes again bombed the rebel-held city of Fallujah, killing at least 10 people, medics said, just hours after rockets slammed into a Baghdad hotel used by foreign journalists and contractors. US President George W. Bush declared that he would attack Iraq all over again, shrugging off an official US report that Baghdad had lacked the unconventional weapons at the heart of his case for war. Iraq The former US governor of Iraq gave a public endorsement of President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq as he distanced himself from Democratic critics amid a heated election campaign. France A small bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris injuring 10 people, officials said. UN The UN nuclear watchdog is making "good progress" in its verification work in Iran but cannot yet say whether Tehran has diverted sensitive technology to weapons production, the agency chief said in Japan. Iran About 60 people were injured when an earthquake hit the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan near the border with Turkmenistan, state radio reported. Afghanistan Three years after the terror attacks on the United States changed the course of Afghanistan's history, rocket raids on Kabul and other cities set the stage for landmark elections. Australia Conservative Prime Minister John Howard was narrowly favored to win a fourth term in office in Saturday's Australian elections. Colombia Colombia's right-wing paramilitary armies will demobilize 3,000 irregulars by year's end as part of a government peace deal, their leader announced. US The US House of Representatives repealed a controversial tax break for US corporations in a bid to end hefty European Union trade sanctions after the World Trade Organization ruled agains the practice.