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BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded in central Baghdad just 100 yards from the Iranian embassy, killing at least one person and wounding four others Sunday morning, according to a Baghdad police official.

Police warned parents to closely watch their children Saturday as authorities searched for the kidnapper of a 13-year-old boy.

The seaside highway, one of the Senegalese president`s bold building initiatives, winds past the scruffy shop where a 62-year-old tailor and his two sons eke out a living sewing scraps of cloth into curtains. It`s a beautiful highway - no doubt about it, says Barry Mamadou.

DO IT NOW Now that the days are starting get longer, you should see your houseplants start to put on new growth. Help them along with by wiping dust from their leaves with a damp cloth or giving them a quick rinse in the shower. If you stopped fertilizing regularly during the winter, now`s the time to resume a weekly weak feeding (at half the strength recommended on the fertilizer label). COMING ...

From Catholic to non-Catholic to Catholic again to man of the cloth.

The seaside highway, one of the Senegalese president`s bold building initiatives, winds past the scruffy shop where a 62-year-old tailor and his two sons eke out a living sewing scraps of cloth into curtains. It`s a beautiful highway _ no doubt about it, says Barry Mamadou. "But I can`t eat the road," he says, explaining why, having twice voted for President Abdoulaye Wade, he is now siding with ...

Cloth diapers are making a comeback in Marshfield.

DAKAR, Senegal, Feb. 24 -- The seaside highway, one of the Senegalese president`s bold building initiatives, winds past the scruffy shop where Barry Mamadou, a 62-year-old tailor, and his two sons eke out a living sewing scraps of cloth into curtains.

W hen Amy Powell was being treated for cancer, she found some relief in her newfound skill of quilting.