http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4140000/newsid_4147200/4147265.stm
The governer of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Ali al-Haidri, has been shot and killed in an ambush in the city.
He is perhaps the most important person to be killed in Iraq since May 2004, when the head of the Governing Council was killed by a suicide bomb.