ORDINARY LIFE

Two bombs in busy Baghdad animal markets have killed at least 64 people.
The blasts, at least one of which was detonated by a female suicide bomber, came within 20 minutes of each other.
Friday morning's death toll was the city's highest since violence fell in the wake of a US troop surge in the second half of 2007.
Correspondents say a fragile sense of normality in the capital had followed significant security improvements since the troop surge.
A ceasefire announced in August by the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, as well as the emergence of local Sunni militia armed by the US military that took on al-Qaeda in Iraq, have also contributed to the sense of security.

The first device was detonated by a female suicide bomber at around 1020 local time (0720GMT) in the popular Ghazil animal market, killing at least 46 people and injuring a further 80.
A popular spectacle for Baghdadis, the animal market only opens on Fridays and regularly draws large crowds, despite having been targeted by bombers twice in 2007.
Piled into wheelbarrows
Just 20 minutes after the first explosion, a second bomb tore through another crowded market in the Jadida area of east Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and injuring 30.

Police and medical officials piled the dead and injured into wheelbarrows, cars and the back of pick-up trucks to be transported to five hospitals across the city.
An official at the capital's Kindi hospital said at least 30 bodies had been received.
"We have a disaster here," he said. "There are too many bodies to count."

IN THE NAME OF PEACE

One million dead: the result of four years of war in Iraq. This figure was produced from the research conducted by the British Institute of Opinion Research Business and its counterpart Iraqi office, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies. The study was conducted on the basis of interviews with 2,414 adult Iraqis. Of these, at least 20 percent have lost at least one relative in the hostilities. More specifically, there have been 1,033,000 victims taken from amongst the Iraqi people. These statistics are based upon the period beginning with the invasion of the coalition forces under the command of the United States in March of 2003 until August of 2007. The last census conducted in Iraq in 1997 registered 4,050,000 households. The NGO has come to calculate the victims using this figure as a basis. An initial calculation of the war in Iraq was undertaken by the journal Lancet in 2004: 100, 000 people were said to have been killed. Following from this report, in October 2006 the medical school of John Bloomberg Opkins University States estimated the death toll among civilians to be at 601, 027. This report was to be stamped as "not credible" by President George W. Bush. However, the margin of error in the investigation was 1.7% and the figure in reality is estimated to have been between 946,258 and 1.12 million. The research carried out was based upon the study of 15 of the 18 Iraqi provinces. Among those not included are two of the most troubled areas - Karbala and Anbar - in the northern province of Erbil, where the authorities have refused permission to conduct the investigation. Orb, a non-governmental organisation founded in 1994, conducts research for the public, private and voluntary sectors. The director of the group, Allan Hyde, said that his only goal was to register as accurately as possible the number of deaths among the Iraqi population as a result of the continuing conflict.