Nato today announced the recent counteroffensive it launched against Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan had achieved two-thirds of its goals.

Rescue workers held little hope today of finding more survivors from a devastating Philippines landslide, saying a farming village was swallowed whole by a wall of mud and boulders that killed up to 1,800 people.

Afghanistan’s first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades convened today, marking a major step toward democracy following the fall of the hard-line Taliban.