Cairo  - As the morning light broke on Monday over minarets crowding the 1,500-year-old Cairo neighbourhood where a bomb had killed a French tourist and wounded 21 others the night before, Egyptians tried to make sense of the attack.

Many asked themselves who could have been responsible.

"We cannot really point a finger and say an Iranian or a Jew did it, maybe it is someone from Gaza who wants to tell people, 'wake up,' because these bombings are frequent in places like Gaza and Iraq," said Rifaat al-Sheikh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday.

Oslo  - Norwegian defence forces said Monday they would take part in a search for the plane of famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who went missing in
1928.

Amundsen (1872-1928) became a national hero in Norway after leading an expedition to the geographic South Pole in 1911, beating Britain's Robert F Scott in an epic race.

The Norwegian joined in a search for Italian airship Italia piloted and designed by Umberto Nobile that was reported missing in May 1928 after flying over the North Pole.

Islamabad  - Pakistani security officials claimed on Monday to have killed 10 militants in the country's restless tribal district along the Afghan border.

Helicopter gunships and artillery shells targeted a militants' location in the Khyber area, which serves as a vital route for supplies for NATO troops deployed in landlocked Afghanistan, said an official from Frontier Corps, the paramilitary troops fighting the Taliban.

"Our forces destroyed their communication system, 15 vehicles and killed 10 of their men," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Jerusalem - Outgoing Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert suspended a top defence ministry official from negotiating with Egyptian mediators on a truce with militants in the Gaza Strip and the return of an Israeli soldier held captive in the salient for two-and-a-half years.

Israel Radio quoted unnamed "high-ranking figures in the Prime Minister's Office" as saying Monday that the talks with Egypt would now be conducted by Olmert's office, and Amos Gilad would no longer be the envoy.

Stockholm  - Last ditch efforts were underway Monday to transfer the upcoming Davis Cup tie between Sweden and Israel from the southern city Malmo to Stockholm.

Chances were regarded as slim that this could take place. Malmo city council's board for leisure, recreation and sport activities voted last Wednesday that the March 6-8 tie would be played without any paying spectators, citing security concerns.

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