澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-12-09(在线收听

A series of car bombings in Baghdad has killed at least 130 people and injured 450 others. Officials say the attack is a bid to destabilize Iraq after a law was passed, allowing elections to take place in March. Targets of the attack included a courthouse, a university and the Ministry of Finance. So far, there's been no claim of responsibility.

The first decade of this century was the warmest since official recordings began, according to the latest findings presented to the United Nations Summit of Climate Change in Denmark. The World Meteorological Organization and the UK Met Office analysis showed that 2009 will almost certainly be the fifth warmest in 160 years.

Swimming Australia has been hit by fresh claims of sexual abuse. Former champion Queensland swimmer Paul Shearer says he was molested as a teenager by a former high-level swimming coach. He says the abuse occurred over an 18-month period while he was still at school.

And Tiger Woods' mother-in-law is in a stable condition after being taken from his Florida home in an ambulance. Barbro Holmberg was admitted after suffering from stomach pain. She lives in Sweden but had been visiting her daughter Elin, to whom Woods has been married for five years.

That's the news for now. We'll have more later.

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