Parliament extends Iraq's state of emergency

Beset by rampant sectarian violence, Iraq’s parliament today voted to extend the country’s state of emergency for 30 more days, and suspected Sunni-Arab insurgents set off bombs in three different areas of the country that killed eight Iraqis and wounded 40.

Meanwhile, US forces investigating the crash of a single-seat Air Force jet in Iraq said that insurgents reached the site before American forces could and the pilot remains missing.