BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Nestor Kirchner and first lady Cristina Fernandez are poised to switch jobs in December, with results indicating Argentines elected a female president for the first time and launched their country's most powerful political dynasty since Juan and Evita Peron.

Fernandez is a lawyer and senator who followed her husband as he rose from an obscure governorship to the presidency, drawing comparisons to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up today in a crowd of police recruits northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 27 people — most of them struck by iron balls packed with the explosives, police and hospital officials said.The recruits in Baqouba were waiting to be allowed inside the camp for the day's training when the suicide bomber blew himself up in their midst.

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today that he has prostate cancer and will soon have surgery, but said the disease is not life-threatening and he would continue to perform his duties.