Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says leaders of the country's political parties have agreed to form a national unity government - but that the details are yet to be worked out.
He made the comments after meeting Saturday in Baghdad with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw - who also urged Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders to form a broad-based unity government.
In another development, police say a suicide car bomber attacked a passing police patrol in southeast Baghdad, wounding at least nine people.
Meanwhile, police say an American journalist has been kidnapped and her translator killed in Baghdad.
Authorities say the journalist - who was not identified - was en route to a meeting with a Sunni Arab leader Saturday, when gunmen stopped her car in west Baghdad.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP, and Reuters.