8 People Injured in New York Explosion

Eight people were injured by an explosion, in Chinatown, New York.

Three of the injured are in serious condition.

According to authorities a fire started in the basement and reached a stockpile of bug bombs.

This resulted in an explosion that damaged the first three of the five stories, including a partial collapse of the first floor.

Investigators are trying to determine how the fire started.

44 Killed in Iraq Violence

Forty-four people were killed in a series of attacks in Iraq, on Thursday.

The attacks began when gunmen attacked two different oil field check points, killing eleven guards near Haditha.

A car bomb went off at a funeral in Muqdadiya, and as people rushed to help the wounded a suicide bomber blew his vest up. Eleven people were killed there.

Four people were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.

Three separate roadside bombs in Tikrit, killed three police officers.

In Mosul, three different car bombs left four police dead.

Attacks in Anbar killed seven police.

Outside of Kirkuk gunmen attacked a checkpoint, killing three Sahwa, while inside Kirkuk a roadside bomb killed another member of the militia.