December 24, 2005	Saturday	Ziqa’ad 21, 1426

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Attack on army post kills 10 Iraqi troops: 10 worshippers die in suicide bombing BAGHDAD, Dec 23: Guerillas stormed an Iraqi army post on Friday, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 20. While US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a pre-Christmas visit to a Marine base...		42 killed in China blast BEIJING, Dec 23: Rescuers were searching for survivors on Friday after a gas explosion killed 42 people and injured 11 in a highway tunnel being built in southwestern China, officials said....
Fog disrupts air, rail travel in India NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Dense fog disrupted air and rail travel across northern India on Friday, with no flights taking off or landing at Delhi’s international airport until late morning....		Osama’s niece in US magazine NEW YORK, Dec 23: A niece of Osama bin Laden has posed in nothing but high heels and ostrich feathers for photographs published in a US men’s magazine....
NY trains, buses resume service NEW YORK, Dec 23: Buses and subway trains which carry some seven million city commuters to work and back daily started functioning on Friday as transit workers called off a three-day...		Dutchman jailed for selling chemicals to Iraq THE HAGUE, Dec 23: A court jailed a Dutch businessman for 15 years on Friday after finding him guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq used to carry out gas attacks, but acquitted him of genocide charges....
Thousands without water after China spill BEIJING, Dec 23: China was on Friday pouring chemicals into a river to neutralize an industrial spill of the toxic chemical cadmium that was threatening the water supplies of several southern cities....		Deal for saving Bulgarian nurses SOFIA, Dec 23: Bulgaria and Libya have agreed to set up a fund for families of Libyan children with HIV as part of efforts to spare the lives of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for infecting youngsters with the virus....
UN hit by a bolt from the right UNITED NATIONS: After four months, US Ambassador to the UN John R. Bolton is still shovelling hard. Most of his fellow diplomats agree that the blunt-spoken envoy is indeed unconventional....		Hitting limits of aggressive tactics WASHINGTON: The frenzied action on Capitol Hill this week captured in miniature the strengths and limitations of the often-combative political strategy that has guided President Bush and congressional Republicans....
Singapore party gears up for early elections SINGAPORE: When Singa-poreans hear politicians talk about lifts stopping at every floor, they know an election may be just around the corner. Over the past months, four of the 14 constituencies...		Transforming arms into tools in Mozambique MAPUTO: Pistols, rifles, machineguns and mines that spread terror across Mozambique during years of civil war have been transformed from agents of death and destruction into art, winning hearts at home and abroad....
Merchant’s death ended an era LOS ANGELES: It seems fitting that new movie The White Countess tells of the end of an era and a friendship because it also marks the final collaboration of filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant....		‘Mass grave’ of extinct birds found PORT LOUIS, Dec 23: Scientists on Friday announced the discovery of huge cache of dodo bones from an apparent ‘mass grave’ of the extinct creatures on the Indian Ocean island of...