IRAQI Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr`s Mehdi Army militia have ordered shops to close in some Baghdad neighbourhoods in what they say is the start of a "civil disobedience campaign"
ONE Egyptian was killed and two wounded when a US military ship about to cross the Suez Canal opened fire on barges of hawkers that approached their boat today, a security source said
FOUR US soldiers were blown up in Baghdad, pushing the US military death toll in Iraq to 4000 just days into the sixth year of a war that President George W. Bush says the United States is on track to win
BRITAIN will next month begin airlifting 2000 Iraqis out of Iraq as part of a plan to help nationals who worked for the British military to settle in the UK, The Guardian reports
Australian woman Heidi Murphy was stabbed to death during a violent robbery in Bali / Lukman S Bintoro
