A collapsing roof killed 65 people during a wedding celebration in northern Afghanistan, police said today.

At least two people have been killed in the first hours of polling in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, officials said.

Heavy rain has sent flood water tearing through villages in north-east Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and destroying hundreds of homes, police said today.

Five UN workers were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan today in the same northern province where four German soldiers were killed.

At least 50 people died in gun battles between the Taliban and another Islamist faction in north-eastern Afghanistan today.

More Taliban leaders have been captured in Pakistan following the arrest of the group’s deputy leader.

Two Taliban “shadow governors” from northern Afghanistan have been arrested by Pakistani authorities.

Two US service members and four Afghan policemen were killed today in separate explosions in eastern Afghanistan, an area rife with violence, officials said.

A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores more today, an Afghan governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

A suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, seriously wounding three civilians, while a roadside bomb killed a policeman in the east, officials said.

Fifty-nine schoolchildren were confirmed dead today and 96 others were injured in the suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai declared three days of national mourning today, a day after a suicide bomb killed at least 41 people.

More than 60 people were feared dead in a huge suicide bomb blast targeting government officials in Afghanistan today.

Afghan police rescued a German aid worker who was snatched while dining with her husband at a restaurant in the capital Kabul, and arrested four suspected kidnappers in the sting operation today, officials said.

Two German journalists working for the country’s national broadcaster and travelling on their own through northern Afghanistan were killed by gunmen today, the first foreign journalists murdered in the country since late 2001, officials said.

US-led coalition troops kiled seven suspected Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan as Australia announced today that six of its special forces soldiers were wounded in the same area earlier this month.

Authorities in northern Afghanistan raided shops selling mouse poison after four people died, having apparently mistaken it for a type of cold medicine, a health official said today.

An anti-Taliban warlord defended himself against government accusations and seething villagers today, a day after his cache of ammunition and explosives blew away a chunk of their hamlet in a remote Afghan valley.

Afghans buried their dead and surveyed the wreckage of their houses in the remote northern village of Bashgah today – a day after a devastating explosion in the home of an anti-Taliban warlord killed about 26 people.

AN ARMS cache hidden by an Afghan warlord exploded in a bunker beneath his home yesterday, killing 28 people and devastating surrounding buildings, officials said.

A warlord’s secret weapons cache exploded in a remote Afghan village today, flattening nearby houses and a mosque and killing at least 28 people in what appeared to be the deadliest accident of its kind since the fall of the Taliban.

An arms dump exploded in northern Afghanistan today, killing 28 people and injuring more than 70, officials said.

Northern Alliance forces say they are poised to seize two provinces where the Taliban still have some control in northern Afghanistan.