At least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted mourners at a funeral in Iraq. Around 15 people were injured in the blast in a funeral tent in northeastern Baghdad.

The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separates President Bush’s illusions from the realities of the war. Victory, as the president sees it, requires a stable liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American. The NIE describes a war that has no chance of producing that …

Egypt’s chief archaeologist displayed on Tuesday the latest discoveries from the Sakkara cemetery south of Cairo and said many more treasures clearly lay hidden beneath the sands.