From The BBC News

Insurgents have blown up two trucks in the Iraqi town of Talafar, killing 50 people and injuring 125, police say. One bomb was hidden in a truck that arrived at a market loaded with food supplies, and was detonated by the driver, a police spokesman said.

It was one of the largest attacks in Talafar since US President George Bush used the town to illustrate progress in Iraq, just over a year ago.

Other attacks took the day’s death toll across Iraq to around 80.

They included an ambush which killed Sunni insurgent leader Harith al-Dari.

In other developments:

* Two elderly sisters - said to be nuns at Kirkuk’s Cathedral of the Virgin - are reportedly stabbed to death in their home

* A mortar attack on the Shia enclave of Abu Chir in southern Baghdad leaves four dead, including two children, and 14 others wounded

* Four people die when gunmen open fire on a Sunni funeral cortege in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, Iraqi army officials say.

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