At least three Iraqi police officers have been killed and 16 others abducted in an attack on a police convoy in northern Iraq.
It is understood a convoy of minibuses, bringing about 50 officers back to Tikrit from a training course in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, had been ambushed.
Earlier 25 people were killed and 58 wounded in one of three car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attack took place near a police checkpoint in a mixed Shia and Sunni area in the east of the capital known as the New Baghdad district.
An Interior Ministry official said most of the dead were civilians.
And two people were killed and ten wounded in a separate car bomb attack near a bus station in the centre of the city. A third similar attack near a Sunni mosque in the city caused no casualties.
Hussein in court admission
Deposed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, has said in court that he ordered the trial of Shia suspects implicated in an assassination attempt against him.
The dramatic admission of responsibility came as Mr Hussein acknowledged confiscating their lands and ordering destruction of orchards as a reprisal for the attempt on his life in the town of Dujail.
The prosecution is attempting to build up documentary evidence against Mr Hussein and his seven co-accused in their trial for the killing of 148 Shias in Dujail in 1982.
The trial has now been adjourned until 12 March.
