More than 200 people were wounded in the attacks, officials said.

More than 2,500 Iraqis have died in attacks since April, the UN says - with violence at its highest since 2008.

The spike comes amid heightened Shia-Sunni tensions. Sunnis say they are being marginalised by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's Shia-led government.

The Baghdad bombs, hidden in parked cars, hit markets and car parks in several areas of the city, police say.

The deadliest was said to have hit the eastern Shia district of Sadr City, report say.

A man says he saw vehicles arriving to park shortly before a blast happened in the district of Habibiya, in southern Baghdad.

"We were standing here when a a pick-up truck drove in here and parked there. There were two others cars parking there. Minutes later the car went off," he told the Associated Press news agency.

One bomb also exploded in Mahmudiya to the south of the capital, killing at least two people.

In the city of Kut, south-east of the capital, at least seven people were killed when two car bombs blew up.

There are also reports of a car bomb going off in Basra, the second city.

This could be the bloodiest month in Iraq for years, says BBC Arabic's Haddad Salih in Baghdad, with the number of attacks escalating since the beginning of the month of Ramadan earlier this month.

Although the violence is less deadly than that seen during the heights of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, it is the most widespread since the US military withdrawal in 2011. More than 700 people have been killed in July alone.

Chinese banks rapidly expanded credit in the market after the global financial crisis to boost growth

Local governments in China borrowed heavily after the global financial crisis to try to sustain growth rates.

The last audit, published in 2011, showed they had debt of 10.7tn yuan ($1.7tn; £1.1tn) by the end of 2010.

Debt may threaten China's growth, and there are growing fears that local governments may not be able repay.

"In line with a request of the State Council, the National Audit Office (NAO) will organize auditing agencies across the country to carry out an audit of government debt," the national auditor said in a statement on its website.

The NAO said that it had halted all other projects to conduct the audit, but did not give any other details or a timeline for the audit.

A large part of the local government borrowings were taken up after the global financial crisis as Chinese authorities released a 4tn yuan fiscal stimulus.

According to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, local governments took up 80% of total bank lending in China at the end of 2010.

Some of the borrowings were spent on infrastructure projects, such as road and rail - seen as vital to sustain orderly economic development - but some of it also went into property construction.

There have long been fears that the projects may not be financially viable in the long run.

"A lot of the projects that were invested in will not have the kind of returns that they had initially estimated," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist with Credit Agricole-CIB in Hong Kong.

"That coupled with slowing growth means that the finances of the local governments may not look too good."

'Large and unknown'

At the same time, there have been concerns about the size of total government debt in China, with some arguing that the figures for local government debt have been underestimated.

According to the NAO's last audit, local government debt was around 25% of the China's total gross domestic product (GDP).

But many have said that the levels may be much higher than that.

Mr Kowalczyk said that the concerns about the bad loans in China were serious because "the size of the debt is large and unknown".

However, he added that the audit was a step in the right direction and would be good for the country in the long run as it should help bring out the details on the the size of the problem.

There are also concerns over the way the local government debt has been managed.

Last year, the audit office said that it had uncovered 531bn yuan of irregularities in local government debts.

It said that breaches included "irregular credit guarantees", "irregular collateral" and "fraudulent and underpayment of registered capital".

The Chinese central government has repeatedly stressed the urgent need to guard against financial risks, including the local government debt problem.

In June, Liu Jiayi, auditor general with the NAO, warned at a session of China's top legislature that local governments must improve their debt management in order to handle escalating growth in local debt.

Names were missing from voter lists and some voters found others had used their ballot, reports said.

Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party says it has won by 68 seats to the opposition's 55.

However, Cambodia's opposition appears to have made a strong showing, reducing the ruling party's majority significantly.

"The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) cannot accept the results of the fifth parliamentary election... because the CNRP has found a lot of serious irregularities," the opposition party said in a statement on Monday.

It has called for a committee with members from both parties, the UN and the National Election Committee to "be urgently established" to investigate.

On Sunday, some voters told the BBC they could not find their names on voting lists, and said that indelible ink used to indicate that someone had voted was easily washed off.

"There are too many irregularities with far-reaching implications," opposition leader Sam Rainsy told a news conference.

"We're not seeking to bargain with the government. What we want is to render justice to the Cambodian people so their will is not distorted or reversed as before," he added.

Kol Preap, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, told AFP news agency on Sunday that it was "very difficult to proclaim this a free and fair election".

"I think the level playing field in the process didn't really exist. There has not been equal access to the media and the opposition leader was not allowed to run as a candidate," he said.

The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association also said that there had been voting irregularities but said it was not clear whether they had affected the overall outcome of the polls.

"There were also a lot of people voting on a voter's behalf. But we do not know how much this affected the percentage when it came to the election results," Thun Saray, the association's president, said.

However, Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) said there had not been voting irregularities, AFP reported.

A spokesman for the ruling CPP, Khieu Kanharith, said the party would "follow the NEC's decision".

'Worst performance'

Hun Sen has been in power in Cambodia for nearly three decades, and the CPP had been widely expected to win the election.

However, if the provisional poll numbers are confirmed it would be the CPP's worst performance in 15 years.

The party enjoys considerable support in the countryside - in part due to the economic growth achieved there after the devastation caused by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, which was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century.

However, younger voters were thought more likely to look for a change and back the opposition and its leader Sam Rainsy, who recently returned to Cambodia from self-imposed exile.

In 2010 Mr Rainsy was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison, on a series of charges he says were politically motivated.

But analysts say his return to the country early in July - after a royal pardon was issued at Hun Sen's request - seems to have helped his party's cause.

The coach hit several vehicles before smashing through a barrier and toppling down a steep slope near the town of Avellino, in the Campania region.

At least 10 people were injured, some of them seriously.

The coach was taking about 50 people, including children, back to Naples following a pilgrimage.

The cause of the accident is not yet known. Some reports say the vehicle was travelling at speed.

The head of the local fire brigade division, Alessio Barbarulo, said barriers on bridges would normally prevent such accidents but "evidently it seems the impact was so strong that even the barrier gave way".

A survivor said the driver, who was among the dead, appeared to have lost control of the bus, possibly after a tyre punctured.

Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi said the vehicle had passed its annual inspection in March, and there was no indication of technical problems.

Tests are being carried out on the driver's body as part of the investigation into what caused the accident.

TV footage showed smashed vehicles on the flyover and shrouded bodies lined up by the side of a road.

The Naples-Bari motorway was closed to traffic because of the accident.

The bus dropped 30m (98ft), coming to rest in heavy undergrowth after smashing through the guard-rail.

The final number of victims remains unclear, with local officials saying 38 died while the transport ministry in Rome spoke of 39.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Avellino, Salerno and Nola, Ansa news agency said.

They include the occupants the six cars caught up in the collision. Six of those hurt are children.

Those on board had been visiting visiting the town of Telese Terme, known for its hot springs, and the nearby birthplace of Padre Pio, one of Italy's most popular saints.

On a visit to Greece, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said the accident was "a huge tragedy".

Exactly 10 years ago, another accident on the same stretch of motorway claimed six lives and injured 11 other people.

Protesters moved towards the military intelligence building, the interior minister's home and an airport road.

They are continuing to stage large sit-ins in the capital to call for Mr Morsi's reinstatement.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in Cairo for talks.

She is to meet leaders of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, the head of the Egyptian armed forces, Gen Fattah al-Sisi and interim President Adly Mansour.

In a statement, she said she would push for a "fully inclusive transition process, taking in all political groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood".

At the moment, there is little sign that outside voices are being heard, or that mediation initiatives by local figures are making headway, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Cairo.

Mr Morsi was replaced by the military on 3 July after large demonstrations against his rule.

The Muslim Brotherhood continues to demand his return to office, with a large protest camp outside the eastern Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque and further west near Cairo University.

In the worst violence seen since Mr Morsi was deposed, more than 70 people were killed in clashes with the security forces on Saturday.

The security forces have been accused of using excessive force, but the interior ministry says protesters used firearms.

In a further warning, the National Defence Council, which includes members of the interim government and the military, warned on Sunday of "firm and decisive" action against protesters who go beyond peaceful demonstration.

On Monday, Muslim Brotherhood supporters say they staged three marches.

One targeted the headquarters of military intelligence. Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddaf told the BBC there was no intervention by the military and no confrontation.

He said the march "circled the building for a good 10 to 15 minutes with a lot of chants of 'down with the coup'". However, one report suggests many turned back before reaching the building.

Mr Morsi supporters say they are planning a further large demonstration on Tuesday - they have called a "million-man march".

On Sunday, Egypt's new Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy, urged restraint, telling the BBC that all sides "need to stop inciting violence and using violence".

Mr Fahmy said his government would like to move forward "but that requires cessation of violence and incitement".

Responding to criticism that some members of the army and police had gone too far on Saturday, he said: "If you have people shooting each other on both sides then you're obviously going to have to casualties."

Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has repeatedly warned that the camp outside the mosque would be dispersed "soon".

Thousands of Morsi supporters, some with their families, have made the mosque the focal point of their round-the-clock protest.

Speakers from the pro-Morsi Muslim Brotherhood, whom the protesters support, say they will not back down from their demands.

Mr Morsi has been formally remanded in custody at an undisclosed location, according to a judicial order.

He has been accused of the "premeditated murder of some prisoners, officers and soldiers" when he and several Muslim Brotherhood leaders were freed during a breakout at a Cairo prison in January 2011.

He is alleged to have plotted attacks on jails in the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.

Mr Morsi is also accused of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip and has strong links with the Muslim Brotherhood.