AFP - After years on the run from Shiite and Sunni militias and morality police, Iraqi musicians are slowly returning to the streets of Baghdad, looking to fill the silence left by the fading civil war.
AP - Babylon is the most famous of Iraq's more than 12,000 archaeological sites. The ancient capital developed into one of the world's first urban societies more than 4,000 years ago. But it went into decline after Persia captured it 2,500 years ago.
AFP - The Iraqi cabinet will vote on a controversial military pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country on either Saturday or Sunday, Iraq's finance minister said.
AFP - At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 60 wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, an interior ministry official told AFP.
AFP - Iraqi and US forces have arrested the "number one butcher" responsible for beheadings in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a defence ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
AP - A 26-year-old U.S. Army sergeant will be court-martialed on charges of murder in the deaths of four Iraqi prisoners who were bound, blindfolded and shot before being dumped into a Baghdad canal.
Bloomberg - Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he
regrets the display of the ``Mission Accomplished'' sign as
backdrop for a speech he gave about a month after the March 2003
U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The Christian Science Monitor - Dulaim is an Iraqi village transformed. Where masked gunmen from Al Qaeda in Iraq once imposed their will with killings and even stole irrigation pumps, today numerous Iraqi Army, police, and local Sunni militia checkpoints attest to new levels of security.
AFP - A car-bomb attack on a main thoroughfare in central Baghdad killed four people on Wednesday, including two police officers who had been patrolling the area, Iraqi police said.