A CAR bomb exploded yesterday near the Ministry of Education in a busy Baghdad commercial area, killing at least eight people and wounding 29 others, officials said.

At least eight people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the Ministry of Education in a busy commercial area of northern Baghdad today.

Kidnappers have released two Iraqi guards abducted along with an American and Nepalese from their Baghdad compound.

Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in Baghdad today and seized an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards after a gunbattle in which two people were killed.

THE compiler of weights will hardly have slept soundly last night, after Hedgehunter made a mockery of the handicap in yesterday’s Thyestes ’Chase at Gowran Park.