A soldier was killed in Afghanistan when an explosion struck a patrol of Nato-led troops, the alliance said in a statement.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives next to Afghan soldiers in an eastern market today, killing one soldier and wounding three, an official said.

The official death toll in the Asian tsunami disaster today climbed past 150,000 as Indonesian authorities increased their tally by nearly 3,000 while adding tens of thousands to their count of the number left homeless from the disaster.