In Brief

* NUCLEAR – World powers struggled to agree a common approach to Iran’s nuclear ambitions as US President George W. Bush vowed to pursue diplomacy to resolve the crisis.

* JUSTICE – Australia’s lone Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks could be transferred home to serve out any sentence handed down by a US military commission under a new agreement, senior ministers said. * AID – Red Cross workers have begun distributing aid to 20 000 people displaced by fighting between government troops and rebels in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid agency said.* TRANSPLANT – Lawyers for a woman from Nigeria whose visa to stay in Britain has expired went to court to win her an urgent heart transplant on the free-care-for-all National Health Service (NHS).* SLAMMED – French President Jacques Chirac slammed allegations surrounding a dirty tricks investigation and gave his support to embattled Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.* PULLOUT – Israel put the Palestinians on notice to become negotiating partners by the end of the year or else the government will move ahead with a plan to fix the borders on its own terms.* UNREST – The Palestinian Hamas-led government and president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah faction outlawed the carrying of arms by militants, issuing a joint statement announcing the unprecedented measure.- Nampa-AFP* AID – Red Cross workers have begun distributing aid to 20 000 people displaced by fighting between government troops and rebels in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid agency said.* TRANSPLANT – Lawyers for a woman from Nigeria whose visa to stay in Britain has expired went to court to win her an urgent heart transplant on the free-care-for-all National Health Service (NHS). * SLAMMED – French President Jacques Chirac slammed allegations surrounding a dirty tricks investigation and gave his support to embattled Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.* PULLOUT – Israel put the Palestinians on notice to become negotiating partners by the end of the year or else the government will move ahead with a plan to fix the borders on its own terms.* UNREST – The Palestinian Hamas-led government and president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah faction outlawed the carrying of arms by militants, issuing a joint statement announcing the unprecedented measure.- Nampa-AFP