Pakistan A huge earthquake measuring at least 7.6 on the Richter Scale shook northern Pakistan and India, causing substantial damage and warnings of many casualties. Indonesia Indonesian police came close to arresting one of Asia's most wanted terror suspects, a police source said, as the hunt for the Bali bombing masterminds intensified. Health President George W. Bush pressed giant pharmaceutical firms to speed up production of a bird flu vaccine, as senior officials from 80 countries met to discuss how to head off a pandemic of the disease which could kill millions of people. US New Yorkers travelled to and from work under a terrorist cloud as Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his decision to put the city on alert after a threat that federal officials found "non-credible." Iraq Iraqi authorities began handing out millions of copies of a draft constitution in the run-up to next week's hotly contested referendum on the post Saddam Hussein charter. Mideast Top officials met to thrash out the details of a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, the first since Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. Mexico Devastating Tropical Storm Stan has killed at least 276 people in Central America and Mexico after lashing the region for days with relentless rain, authorities said. US A corporate lawyer, who was involved in controversial 2002 White House debates on narrowing the definition of torture, on Friday suddenly withdrew his bid to become the second-ranking official at the Justice Department in what amounted to a new political setback for President George W. Bush. Uganda Uganda confirmed the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) supremo Joseph Kony and his deputy are among five commanders of the notorious rebel group the UN permanent war crimes court is seeking. Spain A leading aid group decried the apparent abandoning of some 500 immigrants in the Moroccan desert after trying to reach Spanish soil as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan demanded joint action to defuse a "highly charged" issue. Health An outbreak of avian flu represents the biggest natural pandemic threat facing the United States and a disaster for which the country is least prepared, senior public health officials warned.