A three-year-old girl remains in a critical condition after a suspected arson attack that killed her mother and four siblings.

A doctor who lost his wife and four children in a suspected arson attack on their home "fought hard" to save them, British police said.

US troops killed five suspected Taliban fighters and detained five more, including two commanders, after an ambush on their patrol in southern Afghanistan.

A Pakistani woman gang-raped by four men on the orders of a traditional village jury said she was satisfied with the six death sentences handed down for the crime yesterday.