DHULUIYA - A suicide bomber killed at least five people inside a mosque in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, also wounding 15 people, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in a crowded market wounded eight people, including a policeman, in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. NEAR MOSUL - A Kurdish Peshmerga leader escaped death when a bomb in a parked car exploded near his convoy in the small town of Zummar, northwest of Mosul, police said No casualties were reported. NEAR MOSUL - Also in Zummar, a suicide car bomber attacked a security checkpoint run by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Police sources in Mosul said one of the Kurdish soldiers opened fire at the car and it detonated before reaching its target. KIRKUK - Gunmen in a car kidnapped a judge while he was heading to his office in southwestern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police brigadier general Sarhat Qader said. MOSUL - A suicide car bomber on Tuesday attacked a military checkpoint and seriously wounded two soldiers in eastern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb on Tuesday killed a policeman and wounded three others when it struck their patrol in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad, police said.. Not much about football bugs me, but players' egos really get on my nerves!First, this summer we had Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo mouthing off about wanting a move to Real Madrid. Now we have Emmanuel Adebayor deciding if Arsenal is a big enough club for him?I can't believe it!Ronaldo was the English Player-of the-Year and one of the best overall players over the last few years. His ego is, as we know, uncontrollable but at least he lives up to it on the field. At least in some peoples eyes.Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor was given a chance by Arsene Wenger after 20 goals in 100 games for AS Monaco. Hardly a dead certainty for a big move but a big move he got!How does he repay Arsene Wenger? His head swells to twice its size and he thinks after one good season he is Thierry Henry!What scares me more is, did Arsenal really turn down a £25 million bid for him?I've read posts from Arsenal fans all over theInternet admitting what I've always believed. He is well and truly over-rated and the Gunners should be £25 million richer and laughing.I believe there is only one reason Arsenal don't want to sell him.They are embarrassed to lose two (Flamini and Adebayor) one-season wonders with inflated egos in one summer.

Arsenal are determined not to be seen as a club that has to sell big players or is not big enough to keep star names.A club who can't keep their star players will not attract star players!Simple as that!. NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - TCF Financial Corp (TCB.N),a Minnesota lender, said it repaid a $361.2 million capitalinfusion that it took from the U.S. government's bank bailoutprogram, becoming the largest recipient to repay its funds. Stocks  |  Regulatory News  |  Bonds The Wayzata-based lender, which has $16.7 billion of assetsand 449 branches in eight U.S. states, is the eighth company toreturn money to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, better knownas TARP, according to U.S Treasury Department data. More than 500 companies have taken funds from the $700billion program, the data show. Most of the aid requiresrecipients to pay an initial 5 percent annual dividend to thegovernment.

Regulators, banks and investors once viewed participationin the program as a positive, figuring that it would helphealthy banks lend more and perhaps buy struggling rivals. But participation is now often viewed as an albatross,subjecting recipients to restrictions on such things asexecutive pay and dividends. Investors now consider some banks that hold onto their aidas being too weak to return it. Large banks such as GoldmanSachs Group Inc (GS.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) havesaid they want to repay their aid soon. TCF Chief Executive William Cooper this week said holdingTARP money put the bank at a "competitive disadvantage." He said repaying the aid and eliminating the associateddividend payments will boost earnings by more than 14 cents pershare annually.

TCF has offices in Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois,Indiana, Michigan, South Dakota and Wisconsin Its shares fell19 cents to $14.43 in late afternoon trading. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel, editing by Gerald E.McCormick) Stocks Regulatory News Bonds. Reuters has stopped distributing the full text of Moody's Investors Servicepress releases on ratings actions, effective April 1, 2009. The text of thisMoody's Investor Service rating is available at Bonds Bonds. Most everybody has had a dog or pet die The crying, the memories, the funeral (or flushing).