A mother of nine and her boyfriend have been found guilty of causing the death of her baby son, who suffered 28 fractures during his short life.

A five-month-old baby died after suffering a "catastrophic" injury at the hands of his mother or her boyfriend, a jury has been told.

Three Iraqis were killed when a truck bomb exploded soon after a US patrol passed by as two UN security experts arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to study the possible return of international staff.

A truck exploded today behind a US military police patrol in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, killing two Iraqis and injuring 40 other people, including seven American soldiers who received slight wounds from flying glass, the US military said.