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
Help yourself ... Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the campaign trail before the federal election / File
