A fire at a multi-story garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, has killed at least eight people and injured scores more, according to local reports.

A bomb blast killed three Nato troops in western Afghanistan today, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the east and south.

Assailants, some wearing suicide vests, attacked the Justice Ministry and another government building in the Afghan capital Kabul today, causing multiple deaths and forcing people to flee from building windows, officials and witnesses said.