Bombings:Dozens Killed In Baghdad.

A series of bombings across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has left more than 50 people dead and scores injured.

At least eight separate attacks took place across the city within one hour on Saturday evening, targeting mainly Shia neighbourhoods.

Earlier in the day, militants stormed a university campus in the western city of Anbar, briefly taking dozens of students hostage.

Among the neighbourhoods attacked on Saturday were western Baiyaa district, where reports of the death toll varied. Reuters said 23 were killed, many of them young people playing billiards. The Associated Press put the number killed there at nine.

In the early hours of Saturday, militants believe to be from the al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamist State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) stormed a university campus in Ramadi, in western Anbar province.

They held students hostage in their dormitories for several hours before retreating under fire.

BBC