Wal-Mart closes a store in Jonquière , Quebec in response to what a company spokesman says are unreasonable demands from Union negotiators. The union was close to winning the first ever labor contract from the world's largest Retailer . (MLive/AP)
--- Iraq i officials announce they must recount around 300 ballot boxes due to various discrepancies, delaying the final results.
--- In Salman Pak south of Baghdad , Guerrillas attack a police station killing at least eight Iraqi policemen and wounding more than 60.
--- Three people are killed when a car bomb is detonated in Baghdad.
--- Also in the capital, the bodies of 20 truck drivers are found and guerrillas ambush a convoy of Kurd ish party officials, killing one and wounding four.
--- In Basra , guerrillas kill an Iraqi journalist working for the U.S. -funded Al-Hurra TV station and his 3-year-old son as they leave their home.
--- A roadside bomb in Samarra leaves four policemen dead. (BBC)(ABC)
announces that it has developed Nuclear Weapon s for its self-defense, and suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program. (Reuters)
Rumaisa Rahman , an India n baby who is believed to be the smallest baby in history to survive complications related to being of a relatively small size during birth, goes home six months after she was born in a hospital in Chicago . She was born weighing 8.6 ounces (244 grams). (Calcutta Telegraph)(Khalsa News)(Reuters)
