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HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A minibus exploded in a large bus station south of Baghdad on Sunday killing at least four people and wounding six, police said. They said the minibus blew up in the crowded station in the centre of Hilla, part of a cluster of towns in a religiously mixed area south of the capital where insurgents are active. Fearful of civil war, Iraq's leaders have been trying to ease sectarian tensions since the bombing of a Sh'ite shrine in the northern city of Samarra on Wednesday  ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car exploded in a large bus station south of Baghdad on Sunday and dozens were feared killed or wounded, police said. They said the car bomb blew up in the crowded station in Hilla, part of a cluster of towns south of the capital where insurgents are active.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shouting slogans and waving banners, more than 1,000 Muslims in Hong Kong mounted a protest on Sunday to denounce cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad. "Mockery is not humour", "We want peace, don't harass us", read some of the banners the Muslims brandished in Chater Garden, a favourite weekend gathering place for foreign domestic helpers. It was the second peaceful pr ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi capital remained quiet on Sunday, the beginning of the work week, with a traffic ban extended until Monday to reduce the threat of further violence. Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi warned on Saturday of the risk of endless "civil war" as sectarian violence flared again, killing more than 40, and Sunni and Shi'ite leaders pleaded for a halt to four days of bloodshed. As prospects faded of a U.S. troop withdrawal in the near future, President George W. Bush aske ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - More tests are needed to determine if a chunky white powder found in a University of Texas dormitory room is the deadly poison ricin, the FBI said on Saturday. An initial test of the powder, which was found by a student on Thursday night in a roll of coins, indicated the substance was ricin but local officials said subsequent tests were negative. A spokesman for the FBI ...

By Nelson Graves TURIN (Reuters) - The keepers of the flame live in a hole and survive on cold cereal, crackers and baked beans. Federico Fiorini pressed the green button that ignited the Olympic cauldron at the start of the Turin Games. On Sunday he will pull the bright yellow lever to snuff out the flame. He and two colleagues have lived 10 feet (3 metres) underground to make sure the fire st ...

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) -- A judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the murder trial of a woman accused of fatally cutting the arms off her 10-month-old daughter. Jurors deadlocked during the fourth day of deliberations in the case of Dena Schlosser, 37, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. "Any further deliberations would be pointless," the jury said in a note to Judge Chris Oldner after nearly nine hours of discussions Saturday. Police arrested Schlosser in November 2004 aft ...

SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (AP) -- Toxic gas levels inside a northern Mexican coal mine are too high for any of the 65 miners trapped inside by an explosion to have survived, the mining company said Saturday. The government and scientists had acknowledged there was little hope the workers missing since the February 19 explosion would be found alive. But confirmation that none survived didn't come until an analysis of underground air showed it was too poisonous to breath, said Xavier Garcia, p ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans in Congress are crafting a solution under which the controversial deal allowing a state-owned Arab company to run some terminals at six U.S. ports could move forward. The agreement would first have to pass a 45-day investigation focusing on the national security implications of the deal, several sources linked to the talks said. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee is encouraging DP World to ask a government review panel to kick-start the investigati ...