Gunmen kill women, girls in vicious farmland attack
Gunmen killed six women and two young girls picking vegetables in a field in an area south of Baghdad yesterday in a day that saw at least 18 people killed in attacks across Iraq.
Caribbean briefs
Trinidad has extradited a man to the United States charged in the slaying of a Nevada beauty pageant winner, a spokesman for Trinidad's attorney general said yesterday.
World powers may vote today on North Korea
U.N. Security Council members were expected to vote today on a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear weapons test, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
Army chief says troops should leave Iraq
Britain's army chief said his troops should be withdrawn from Iraq soon as their presence was making security worse, in bluntly worded comments seized upon by opponents of the U.S.-led invasion three years ago.
Banker to the poor win Nobel Peace Prize
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots work to lift millions out of poverty that earned him the nickname 'banker to the poor.'
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