Commonwealth update

In India President Bush makes a nuclear deal with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. After elections in the Solomons Honiara's Chinese business district is burned down. Australia holds a successful 18th Commonwealth Games as the New South Wales parliament becomes the first to abolish allegiance to the Queen. Jamaica chooses its first woman prime minister and the UK its first woman Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. New Zealand appoints its first Maori head of the armed forces. Nigeria's Senate votes against a third term for the president. Zambia booms as copper prices soar. And a tortoise that belonged to Robert Clive dies in an Indian Zoo aged about 250. Reprinted by permission of Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Ltd.