BBC news with Marion Marshall

A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a busy cafe in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, at least 37 people have died and more than 50 are injured. Simon Poncelet reports.

The bomb exploded in a tea shop popular with the young Iraqis in a mainly Shia district of Amil. The BBC's Haddad Salih within Baghdad said it was a particularly cold blooded attack.

The suicide bomber was carrying two bags and he managed to get into that tea shop as young people were drinking tea and blocking...

Distressed relatives have been gathering outside a hospital where the survivors have been treated. The tea shop attack mounts another grim day for Iraq while the level of violence is at its worst for five years. Earlier in the day, suicide bombers attacked police, army and government buildings in the town of Rawa and a home of a senior police officer in Samarra.

The Afghan authority says an army special forces commander in eastern Kunar province has defected to an insurgent group taking his units guns and other equipment with him. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

The Afghan special forces commander in Kunar province Monsif Khan gave leave to all the soldiers during the Eid religious festival and then escape to his team's guns, night-vision goggles, binoculars and a Humvee track. Officials say Mr. Khan is the first special forces commander to switch sides joining the Hezb-e-Islamic organization which carries out attacks on the Afghan government and NATO-led forces. Security forces have launched a manhunt for the missing commander and tribal elders have promised to help.

The widow of former President Tito of Yugoslavia, Jovanka Broz, has died in Belgrade at the age of 88. After marrying President Tito in 1952, she travelled the world as Yugoslavia's glamorous first lady. From Belgrade here's Gade Lonnie.

As a teenager, Jovanka Budisavljevic volunteered for the communist partisans fighting the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, that's where she first called Tito's eye and not just for her skills as a sharpshooter.