Another day in the War. Death goes on.

A female suicide bomber walked through a crowd of 200 police recruits in the town of Muqdadiyah in the province of Diyala and detonated explosives strapped to her body under an abaya, killing at least 16 people.

Muqdadiyah, which once had an evenly split Sunni/Shiite population is now mostly Sunni as the Shiites have fled. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has taken over the town, and the recent suicide bombing was an attack on police recruits who were to work with the American occupying forces.

Meanwhile, in Sunni dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi army forces were engaged in fierce fighting with gunmen. Four Iraqi's and three insurgents were killed and 16, including one child, were wounded in the crossfire.

On Monday four U.S. soldiers were killed. Three soldiers’ lives were claimed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Another soldier was killed in combat in Anbar province.

Also on Monday, the 4th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of two Shiite holy cities, demanding that U.S. forces leave their country.

The rally was ordered up by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who issued a statement calling on his militia to intensify efforts to drive out American forces and for the police and army to join the fight against "your archenemy."

And in other news, Anna Nicole Smith’s former husband, Larry Birkhead was identified as the biological father of Dannielyn Hope Marshall Stern. DNA evidence used showed that Dannielynn’s DNA were a 99.9% match with Birkhead’s.

Among other memorable things uttered, Birkhead is quoted as saying “I told you so”.

Newsy News For 27 February

Well it looks like Britney Spears, in a Malibu Rehab facility after a breakdown in her marriage to Kevin Federline, is on suicide watch. Her manager, Larry Rudolf, denied it, though in saying this:

“She is in rehab, and it is very disappointing that various media outlets are running these false stories about her, as Britney tries to get better”.

Then Anna Nichole Smith’s mother is appealing a Florida court’s decision to let her daughter’s attorney bury Anna Nichole in the Bahamas next to her son. Anna’s mother Virgie Arthur, is claiming in the appeal that the Florida judge

“had no authority under Florida law to grant custody of Smith's body to the girl's advocate, and that she is the ‘legally recognized person’ to take her daughter's remains”.

And then there is the custody battle between Howard K. Stern, Anna’s boyfriend at the time of her death, and two other guys for Anna's baby, 5-month old Dannielynn.

Fox News says that Britney’s problems all stem from post-partum depression and we also hear that, according to one of her ex-husbands, she may well end up like Anna Nichole.

And then American Idol singer, Antonella Barba apparently posed nude and semi-nude in photographs that have made their way to the internet. Producers of the American Idol TV show told Barba that they are “reviewing the most recent, and most explicit, photos”. Barba doesn't believe her position on the show has been jeopardized by the pictures.

And oh yes, eighteen children playing in a park in Ramadi, Iraq were blown up by a car bomb today. This is on top of 6 police officers killed by a truck bomb in Mosul, five people killed by a roadside bomb in central Baghdad, five more southeast of Baghdad, and three US soldiers killed by an IED along a road southwest of Baghdad. Thirty seven in all. Tack onto that the 23 that died in a suicide bomb attack at the gates of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, a bomb meant for Dick Cheney to at least hear, and you have an even sixty deaths in our two war zones.

Just thought you’d like to know.