Just Another Tuesday Morning in Baghdad ...

* In northern Iraq, a blast badly damaged a Sunni mosque where the father of Saddam Hussein is buried. The deposed leader's trial resumed in Baghdad with his defense team ending their month-long boycott of the proceedings.

* In the Baghdad violence, a man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up at a gas station in the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood, killing 23 people and injuring 51, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.

* A car bomb targeting a police patrol in the same neighborhood killed nine people and injured 17 — all civilians — said police Lt. Alu Abbas and medic Rahim al-Waedi.

* Another car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in the crowded southeastern Karada neighborhood, killing four people and injuring 16, said al-Mohammedawi.