Six members of an Iraqi family were killed when gunmen broke into their home in eastern Baghdad, police and health officials said today.

A parked car bomb targeting a police patrol in eastern Baghdad today killed at least eight people and wounded another 17.

A car bomb exploded in an upscale shopping district of Baghdad today, killing at least six Iraqis and setting fire to an apartment building, in a surge of violence that has left at least 127 people dead since a new government was formed last week. A British soldier died in fighting in southern Iraq.

A senior official of Iraq’s Sciences and Technology Ministry and a female employee of the ministry were assassinated today, the Interior Ministry said.