INSURGENTS exploded a roadside bomb in central Baghdad’s well-known pet market today, killing eight people and wounding 33, security sources and a medic said.

BAGHDAD - The new Democrat speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Friday, as bombers killed 15 people in the capital’s famous pet market.

Los Angeles Times - In bags, boxes and carts, poor young men brought the pigeons, parakeets, dogs, cats, tropical fish, scorpions, monkeys and snakes to sell to families shopping for pets. In pickup trucks, they brought top-grade roosters, goats and sheep they raised in