At least 71 people have been killed in four suicide bombings in Iraq.
In the worst attack, at least 33 people died and 80 were injured when a car bomber blew up his vehicle in former President Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 175km north of Baghdad.
Separately in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, a man walked into an army recruiting centre and detonated an explosive belt, killing at least 32 people and wounding 34.
Six more people died in two bombings in the capital, Baghdad.
In one attack, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near his target of a police station in the southern suburb of Dora, killing at least three civilians.
Two policemen and a civilian were killed in another suicide car bomb attack on a police patrol in the city's Mansour district.
Separately, security forces carried out a controlled explosion to destroy a bomb planted near the oil ministry in central Baghdad.
Earlier, officials had said a mortar had exploded close to the building.
And two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad.
Five gunmen driving an Opel opened fire on an Iraqi army convoy, killing two soldiers. The gunmen then jumped from their car and escaped on foot.
Insurgents have killed almost 400 people since Iraq's new government was formed two weeks ago.
