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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defence ministry sources. The Sunday Telegraph said the planned pull-out followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq was now a large obstacle to securing peac ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called for strikes on the West similar to attacks in recent years on New York, Washington, Madrid and London, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Saturday. The speaker on a the tape, who sounded like Zawahri also urged Muslims to boycott Denmark, Norway, France and Germany over cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Mohamm ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A mortar round killed seven people and wounded 15 others at a busy market in a southeastern Baghdad suburb early Saturday, said an emergency police official, one day after a daytime curfew brought relative peace. The overnight curfew had ended at 6 a.m. local time. Five other people were killed in bombings and shootings outside Baghdad, adding to the more than 500 lives lost in the wave of sectarian violence since the February 22 bombing of the Shiite Al-Askariya Mosque  ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Defense Department inspector general has directed the Army to open a criminal investigation into the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman, CNN learned on Saturday. In May of 2004 the Army said that Tillman, 27, was "probably" killed by gunfire from his own unit during a ground convoy assault on April 22. The incident occurred not far from Khowst, Afghanistan, near the eastern border with Pakistan, the Army said. An investigation found that fellow soldiers ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said offences against Prophet Mohammad were part of a "crusader" campaign led by the United States, according to a Web audio tape posted on Saturday. "An example of the hatred of the crusaders led By America ... are the repeated offences against the personality of the Prophet Mohammad, may peace be upon him," said the speaker who sounded like Zawahri. The authenticity of the tape could not be verified but it was posted on a main Web s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested another suspect on Saturday in connection with last week's 53 million pound raid on a Securitas depot in Tonbridge. They said they arrested the 28-year-old in the Bexley area of the county. "The man is currently at a police station in Kent where he is being questioned by officers investigating the robbery," police said in a statement. Earlier, they said they had released on bail a 43-year-old man arrested during a search of industrial premises in the Welling ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police on Saturday released a man they had been holding in connection with last week's 53 million pound raid on a Securitas depot in Tonbridge. "A man aged 43, arrested on Thursday in southeast London ... has been released on police bail," they said in a statement. The man, who has not been named, was arrested during a search of industrial premises in the Welling area of Londo ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - After all the security concerns surrounding President George W. Bush's visit to Pakistan on Saturday, he was first hit by a bouncer then fooled by a googly. It all happened when Bush tried his hand at cricket. Bush, an avid baseball fan, batted and bowled several times on a practice cricket pitch set up in the grounds of the U.S. embassy in the capital of cricket-mad Pakistan. Students from the Islamabad College for Boys and the private school Schola Nova, who included g ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Goals from Didier Drogba and Joe Cole gave Premier League leaders Chelsea a 2-1 victory over West Bromwich Albion in a bad-tempered Hawthorns clash on Saturday. Drogba struck just after the break and Cole wrapped up the points for the champions with a close-range effort 10 minutes after replacing Damien Duff. Nwankwo Kanu struck a late consolation for West Brom. Chelsea, who had Arjen Robben sent off after 62 minutes for a wild lunge, extended their lead to 18 points before  ...

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- If you want to crash the glitziest party of all, the Oscars, here's a tip from a professional: Show up at the theater, dressed as a chef carrying a live lobster, looking really concerned. So says Alex Mamlet, one of America's self-professed top party crashers, who turned his exploits into an award-winning short film "Kid Protocol." "A never-fail technique is showing up in a chef outfit with a food item, looking really concerned. Security will ...