A large explosion has hit just outside the police headquarters in a southern Afghanistan city, killing five police officers.

SUSPECTED Islamic militants killed four people in their sleep in an upsurge of violence that also claimed three other lives in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot four people in their sleep in an upsurge of violence also claimed three other lives in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

TALIBAN fighters ambushed a truck full of government soldiers in the southern province of Zabul, killing several, the provincial governor and a Taliban spokesman said yesterday.

Malaysia’s former police chief was sent to prison today by the Court of Appeals for beating jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim in 1998.