South African flanker Pierre Spies will have to wait until Tuesday to find out if he can go to the World Cup.

At least 100 people were killed in an earthquake that shook a wide area of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, the United Nations said today.

Thousands of Afghans from the same ethnic group as the now-defunct Taliban regime are fleeing parts of northern Afghanistan, according to the United Nations

British forces have gone to the rescue after an avalanche buried 20 cars near a tunnel leading through some of Afghanistan's highest mountains.