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A bombing on a bus in Baghdad kills 16 and wounds 20, one day after 35 police recruits were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a police station in Baghdad.
In the face of such instability, Iraq's Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is promising to shake-up his cabinet.
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