The United States has returned four Afghans from Guantanamo Bay back to their home country.

Taliban suicide attackers in Afghanistan killed the South African leader of a foreign aid group, his son and daughter and an worker in an assault on the agency’s Kabul offices.

THE head of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who had been trying to negotiate a political end to the war, was killed yesterday, a senior police officer said.

The tidal waves that swept across the Indian Ocean did more than take a heavy toll of lives and property in the Maldives – they confronted the tiny island nation with a threat to its survival.