In Iraq at least 40 people have died after a suicide bomber attacked a U.S. and Iraqi military base near the cities of Mosul and Tal Afar. U.S. officials said the bomb exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at the base and that no Americans were killed. The attack comes just days after President Bush cited Tal Afar as an example of a successful city in Iraq. He described it as a “free city that gives reason for hope for a free Iraq.”