Iraq petrol shortage

Drivers in Baghdad, the capital of a country with the world's third-largest oil reserves, can now use their cars only on alternate days because of petrol shortages.

Cars with odd-numbered registration plates can drive on one day and those with even numbers the next.

Anyone seen driving on the wrong day faces a 40,000 dinar ($40) fine. Attacks on pipelines and the lack of refineries have resulted in the shortages, officials say.