Iraqi construction workers killed

Peace and prosperity update in British controlled Basra, plus more violence in Baghdad from the BBC:

Seven Iraqi workers with a construction company have been killed in the southern city of Basra, police say. Ten employees were handcuffed and blindfolded and taken to a residential area in the northern part of the city.

They were lined up against a wall to be shot. Seven of them were killed, but three managed to escape.

Separately, six policemen were killed when a large convoy transporting police vehicles was ambushed by gunmen near Baghdad, a police official has said.

Twenty policemen caught up in the attack, which took place late on Thursday, are still missing...

At least four people die in separate bomb attacks on two Sunni mosques in Baquba. The attacks came as worshippers left the mosques after midday Friday prayers.

Two Iraqis are killed and four British servicemen wounded when a British military convoy is attacked by a suicide car bomber in Basra on Friday.

A suicide bomber attacks a police station in the northern city of Mosul, wounding six people, including five policemen...