An influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated should a pandemic break out. Read more…

A bomb hit a motorcade carrying Iraq's first lady through Baghdad, while a roadside explosion killed four Marines in the deadliest attack in western Anbar province in months. A woman journalist was also killed in a botched kidnapping. Read more…

A top Iraqi official said there was no "conclusive" evidence that Shiite extremists have been directly supplied with some Iranian arms as alleged by the United States. Read more…