Twelve US soldiers have been killed in a battle west of Baghdad as fighting with supporters of a firebrand Iraqi cleric continues to spread through the area.
British and US intelligence services foiled a plot to detonate a chemical bomb in Britain by a group thought to be sympathetic to al-Qaeda, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The United States has called for a "fully autonomous and open" Hong Kong after a landmark ruling in Beijing that China should dictate the pace of democratic reforms in the former British territory.
Shite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militiamen have risen up against the US-led coalition, is wanted for the killing of a rival last year and for questioning in another murder case, a legal adviser to the US-led coalition said today.
US President George W. Bush holds a narrow lead over Democrat John Kerry in Florida, which played a decisive role in the 2000 presidential election, a poll out today showed.
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