Four Spanish UN peacekeepers were killed today and four others wounded in an explosion targeting UN troops in southern Lebanon.

A helicopter crash in Afghanistan today caused by the two aircraft hitting each other, an Afghan commander has said.

A helicopter belonging to the Nato-led international security force in Afghanistan crashed in the west of the country today, killing 17 Spanish troops. The cause was not immediately clear.

At least 22 Iraqis, eight US troops and one Salvadoran soldier died in one of the worst days of violence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein

Nine people were killed in an outburst of violence in Iraq, including four Christian women driving to jobs at a US military base and two American soldiers killed in a mortar barrage.