Israel-Egypt At least 28 people were killed and scores injured when car bombs exploded at resorts packed with Israeli holidaymakers on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert in attacks Israel blamed on Al-Qaeda. Norway Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, whose campaign to save Africa's forests began with nine trees in her yard nearly three decades ago, won the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to take the award. Iraq Ken Bigley, a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad last month, has been killed, Sky News television reported, quoting British government sources. Iraq US planes targeted a suspected militant hideout in Iraq's rebel city of Fallujah where medics said a wedding party was hit and 12 people were killed. US George W. Bush faces a crucial test for his re-election bid, reeling from new criticism of his Iraq policy as he takes on a resurgent Democratic rival John Kerry in their second televised debate. France-Indonesia- French police were investigating a possible terrorist connection after 10 people were slightly injured in a pre-dawn bomb blast outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris. Iran-Japan 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. 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 on Saturday. Australia Conservative Prime Minister John Howard was narrowly favored to win a fourth term in office in Saturday's Australian elections, despite public unease over his decision to join the US-led war in Iraq.