BBC
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a busy police recruitment centre in the Kurdish city of Irbil in north Iraq.
The bomber posed as a volunteer to get into the compound and mingled with young men seeking jobs before setting off explosives, Kurdish officials said.
It was the bloodiest single attack in the region since the war, and follows an escalation in violence across Iraq.
It came less than 24 hours after a new but incomplete government was sworn in.
Members of Iraq's police force and police volunteers are frequently targeted by insurgents, who view them as collaborators with US-led forces.
Last year, at least 101 people were killed in twin suicide bombings in Irbil, about 350km (217 miles) north of Baghdad.
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