Occupying troops in Iraq have formally handed over power to the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. But the eyes of the world remain firmly fixed on the embattled Gulf state as ousted leader Saddam Hussein faces his destiny and US-led forces keep watch in Baghdad and beyond.

Battle of wills dominates stormy Saddam trial
Raouf Abdel Rahman - the chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial - has set a new tone for the proceedings, which have so far been marked by tirades from the ousted Iraqi leader and his co-defendants. Ross Colvin reports...
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'Marlboro Man' turns against the war
The image of US Marine Lance-Corporal Blake Miller with a cigarette hanging from his mouth - his grime-covered face showed the exhaustion of battle - had become a symbol of the war in Iraq. Now the 21-year-old is talking about the trauma of what he experienced and the scars he still bears, physical and mental.
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Saddam and defence team boycott trial
Raouf Abdel Rahman said he would go ahead without Saddam Hussein and his four co-accused, after they refused to show up in court along with their defence team, in a protest against the new chief judge that has plunged their trial deeper into chaos.
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  • Saddam's lawyers want new trial judge axed
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  • Bush declares 'state of our union is strong'
  • Police find 14 bodies in Baghdad
  • Saddam will not attend next session - lawyers
  • Foreign troops in Iraq shrinking in numbers
  • 'I led you for 35 years and you order me out'
  • Saddam walks out in protest
  • Saddam trial resumes with new Kurdish judge
  • Al Jazeera airs new video of Western hostages
  • Gunmen kill prominent Iraqi academic
  • State interference 'threatens' Saddam trial
  • Kidnapped Germans make video appeal
  • Iraq detainee release to aid held US reporter
  • One in five Iraqis living in poverty
  • Saddam trial postponed
  • Two German engineers kidnapped in Iraq
  • US army officer docked pay for Iraqi death
  • Saddam blasts 'Iranian meddling'
  • Suicide bomb hits Baghdad's Green Zone
  • 'Eight years in White House enough, thanks'
  • Scores killed after insurgent attacks in Iraq
  • Iraqi poll results released
  • Deadline looms for kidnapped journo in Iraq
  • Saddam judge denies links with Baath party
  • Major clampdown on eve of Iraqi poll results
  • US says women prisoners a threat to security
  • African engineers feared kidnapped in Iraq
  • Top judge replaced in Saddam trial
  • Iraqi election fraud found to be 'minor'
  • Chopper shot down north of Baghdad
  • US releases journalists from Abu Ghraib
  • Saddam trial: judged asked to stay on
  • Saddam's chief judge resigns - source
  • Saddam trial judge plans to quit
  • US helicopter shot down in Iraq - witnesses
  • Shi'as warn against constitution changes
  • Iraqi children venture out to play on holiday


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    • On alert: British troops secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack on a patrol that left two Iraqi women injured in Baghdad, Iraq. Photo: AP