A woman suicide bomber has killed six people at a bus station in Balad Ruz in Diyala province, Iraqi police say. One of the dead was a policeman, a local officer said, and 12 more people were wounded including three policemen.You
If the attacker's identity is confirmed, it would be the eighth female perpetrator of a suicide bombing this year.
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As expected, Pakistan's parliament has selected its first female speaker.*
"Dr. Fehmida Mirza has received 249 votes," incumbent Chaudhry Amir Hussain, a supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, announced the vote total in the 342-seat National Assembly.
Parliament members then pounded their open hands on their desks for 30 seconds to applaud Fehmida Mirza of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
The 51-year-old medical doctor and mother of four children is a third-generation Pakistani politician. Her father twice served in the cabinet; her husband was a member of parliament; and her father-in-law was a Supreme Court justice.