Around The World: Iraq

Church bomb kills 2

A bomb killed two men and damaged a historic church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, a day ahead of Christmas Eve services that will be heavily guarded for fear of more attacks on the country's Christian minority. The bomb was hidden under sacks of baking flour in a handcart near the church, police said. Elsewhere, gunmen stormed a checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing four Iraqi police officers.