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Need to know: Twin car bombs targeting two government buildings killed at least 132 people and wounded more than 500 in Baghdad Sunday, in one of the bloodiest days in the Iraqi capital this year.
Want to know: In most respects, it was a typical mob shootout: members of feuding clans facing down their rivals, exchanging gunfire from their cars until three people lay dead and four others wounded. The difference, though, was that the battle involved women only. Women have been among the perpetrators of some of the worst violence in Naples, with the emancipation of women in society mirrored inside the secretive world of the Camorra.
Dull but important: Tunisians cast ballots in elections expected to hand another landslide victory to incumbent leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who warned opponents they would face legal retaliation if they questioned the elections' fairness. And voters in Uruguay faced a stark choice in their presidential election: an ex-rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism or a former center-right president who privatized government services and wants to pull away from alliances with Latin American leftists.
Just because: Vladimir Nabokov was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now, 30 years after his death, his last novel is finally to be published. But should it be? On the eve of his death, fearing it was imperfect, he instructed his wife to destroy the manuscript, sparking a fierce controversy that embroiled family, friends and the literary establishment
Wacky: Montrealers are known for their jaywalking, particularly in comparison to their counterparts in other large North American cities. Despite a campaign started in 2006 by police to curb the jaywalking masses, they stubbornly persist in their irreverence.
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