[02:49.69]Series car bomb attacks during the morning of rush hour in several Iraqi cities has killed more than 55 people and injured over 270.
[02:58.73]World news from the BBC
[03:02.30]The French government has published detailed lists with ministers' personal assets online in order to try to restore confidence in the socialist administration after series financial scandals.
[03:11.36]Analysts say most of them did not appear to be especially wealthy, although some ministers have assets worth more than $7m, mostly in the form of their homes.
[03:19.57]Police in Senegal have arrested Karim Wade, the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade,
[03:24.76]on suspicion of illegally amassing around $1.4bn during his father's 12 years in office.
[03:29.92]Karim Wade acted as the right-hand man to his father during the presidency.
[03:33.52]Thomas Fessy reports.
[03:34.51]Karim Wade presented detailed documents of his assets to a Senegalese special court tasked with investigating cases of corruption.
[03:43.20]He'd been given one month to prove that he legally acquired over $1bn while his father was in power.
[03:50.01]CW was nicknamed the minister of the sky and the earth, as he held the infrastructure, urban planning,
[03:56.60]air transportation and international cooperation government portfolios at the same time.
[04:01.72]He was then in charge of 1/3 of the state expenditure.