'At least 31 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts across Iraq.
About 27 people died in multiple attacks in the north of the country, while at least four people were killed in blasts in Baghdad.
In the bloodiest attacks, 12 people died when a bomb on a lorry exploded at a police station in Mosul. A suicide car bomb killed another 12 in Kirkuk.
US military spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell said there was a 22% rise in attacks in the capital during Ramadan.'
