BAD NEWS LITE

We're bombarded daily with news of horrifying events from near and far. Its my aim here on the Blob to make such reports easier to swallow with your morning coffee and croissant so I'll be trying out a new policy that's called "Bad News Lite". Through the clever juxtaposition of hard fact and soft image I hope to ease you into the awful reality of daily life. Let me know what you think.

Eight killed in suicide bomb attack in Iraq
Baqouba (Iraq), June 12 (AP): A suicide car bomber slammed into a security checkpoint outside Baqouba, killing at least eight people and wounding four others, police said.
The explosion occurred around 8:40 PM yesterday near a checkpoint Iraqi soldiers had put up a day earlier to provide security in the aftermath of a US-led bombing on a safe house being used by al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in the blast.
Among those injured in the attack were seven Iraqi soldiers and one civilian. Three other Iraqi soldiers and a women were injured in the attack