Iraq's stock exchange on Sunday moved to electronic trading every day of the business week for the first time, in a step towards embracing the modern world of international finance. The move came after months of extended testing of its new electronic systems, initially used for just one day in a shortened three-day trading week. "Yes, today is the ...

A spate of shootings and bombings across Iraq on Monday killed four people and wounded 13 others, police and military officials said. In the deadliest attack, two sons of a mukhtar, or village chief, died when their car struck a roadside bomb in Buhruz, 60 kilometres (38 miles) north of Baghdad in Diyala province. Another son of Mukhtar Abdullah Salman ...