WORLD.

The article offers world news briefs. Canadian cows will be allowed to cross the border to U.S. abattoirs, possibly as early as this week because a U.S. appeals court in Seattle overturned an injunction by a Montana judge that was keeping the border closed. A Palestinian teenager blew himself up outside a shopping mall in central Israel, killing four Israeli women and injuring over 50 people. In Iraq, a suicide bomber detonated his charge near U.S. soldiers handing out candy and gifts to children in a Baghdad slum. And in Lebanon, a powerful car bomb killed one man and wounded Elias Murr, defence minister in the outgoing administration. U.S. President George W. Bush came under increasing pressure to fire his trusted fixer, Karl Rove, after Rove was reported to have revealed the identity of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame. Philippines President Gloria Arroyo is vowing not to quit despite mass resignations by senior officials and a noisy protest rally by about 30,000 in Manila.