A car bomb exploded in a busy Mosul market today and a mortar barrage struck near the Italian Embassy and an Iraqi National Guard base in Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding at least seven.

A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today causing Iraqi casualties, police and US military said.

TENS of thousands of Sudanese yesterday marched on the UN headquarters in Khartoum in protest at the possibility of Western military intervention to deal with a humanitarian crisis in the western region of Darfur.

ISRAELI troops killed two Palestinians, including a fugitive Islamic militant, in a gun battle at a West Bank firehouse yesterday.