19 die in Baghdad as Iraqis defy violence to vote
Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country's still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 19 people in the capital and sending down a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the day.
About 19 million Iraqis are eligible to vote in the election for who will lead the country as US forces pull out and determine whether Iraq can overcome the jagged sectarian divisions that have defined it since the US-led invasion in 2003. (AP)
