Police have found 60 bodies scattered around the Iraqi capital, the majority dumped in predominantly Sunni Arab areas of Baghdad.

Gunmen have killed at least nine people in separate attacks in northern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in eastern Baghdad killed two people and wounded six today.

Two bombs went off within minutes of each other today in northern Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding 39.

Roadside bombs killed three labourers and a policemen in Iraq today, a day after bombings and shootings left more than 70 people dead in a dramatic surge of bloodshed in the country, police said.

At least 44 people were killed today in Iraq’s spiralling violence, including 20 soldiers whose bus was blasted by a roadside bomb.

Police in Iraq today discovered the bodies of two men, shot in the head and chest, a day after gunmen beheaded four policemen and a lawyer.

International rescue workers today rushed to get medical care, water and shelter to some 650,000 people displaced by Indonesia’s earthquake, aided by the reopening of the airport closest to the disaster zone.

A suicide bomber blew himself up while standing in a line of recruits outside Fallujah’s police headquarters today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 30.

A suicide bomber attacked a police department in Fallujah today, killing five Iraqis.

Bomb blasts, rocket and gunfire killed at least 10 people and injured 23 in the Iraqi capital today, police said.

A Baghdad prison inmate grabbed an assault rifle from a guard and opened fire on other guards and prisoners, killing at least eight people and injuring three, police said.

Roadside bombs exploded near three US convoys in and around Baghdad today, wounding two soldiers.

Insurgents launched a number of attacks across Baghdad today, leaving at least 12 people dead, police said.

Gunmen killed three policemen and a government worker walking to work in Baghdad, officials said today, one day after four suicide car bombings killed 22 people.

A suicide bomber detonated his car near a checkpoint outside the offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari’s Islamic Dawa Party today, killing one guard and injuring at least one more.

Eight American Marines were killed in fighting west of Baghdad today, and a car bomb killed at least seven people in an attack on an Arab television station in the capital.

US warplanes, tanks and artillery units bombed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah today, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, hospital officials and witnesses said.

Leaflets distributed in Baghdad called for a "Day of Resistance" today at the start of a three-day general strike to protest the US occupation of the city a day after fresh anti-American violence left two Iraqis dead.