By Erica Goode New York Times News Service BAGHDAD -- A man walked up to a group of American soldiers on foot patrol in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad on Monday and blew up the explosives-filled vest he was wearing, killing four of the soldiers and wounding three others and an Iraqi interpreter who accompanied them.

By Associated Press BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber apparently targeting a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni sheiks penetrated layers of security and blew himself up in a hotel lobby on Monday, killing four tribal leaders and at least eight others, police reported.

A suicide bomber who penetrated layers of security blew himself up in the busy lobby of a leading Baghdad hotel on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a U.S.-allied tribal sheik, police reported.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb planted in a mini van detonated Sunday outside a hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16, police and witnesses said. The bomb detonated shortly before noon outside the Palestine Hotel near a pedestrian entry point to the facility.

By Chris Tomlinson Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Suicide bombers killed 74 worshippers at two Shiite mosques near the Iranian border Friday, while a pair of car bombs targeting a Baghdad hotel housing Western journalists killed eight Iraqis.