today. noda is to be japan s sixth krm in five years. convicted lockerbie lopper al megrahi is in a coma and apparently near death. krn can cnn found him at an expensive village. freed from a scottish prison in 2009 after doctors treated him for cancer said he was dying. libyan rebels are advancing and have 14,000 fighters set to liberate moammar gadhafi s hometown of sirte and have given loyalists there a monday deadline to disarm and surrender peaceful lp. the rebels gained control of the city. and 28 people killed when a suicide bomb went off at a sunni mosque in baghdad. a member of parliament was pun of the victims. other attacks elsewhere. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world news today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. welcome to world business today. stop stories this monday august the 29th. now the citizen for japan s revolving door