Afghan officials say flash floods have killed at least 35 people in four eastern provinces, while an estimated 50 people are still missing.

Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said.

Two Nato troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.

An American soldier was stabbed to death by an Afghan teenager as he played with a group of local children.

A bomb has killed 10 young girls in the east of Afghanistan, an official said today.

Protests have started breaking out in parts of the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film which prompted violent protests at US embassies in the Middle East earlier this week.

An Afghan policeman has opened fire on Nato soldiers in the fifth such attack in a week, but this time no-one was killed.

Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a Nato-Afghan raid have blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan forces with air support from Nato combed through the country's mountainous north-east today on the third day of a major offensive against militants in a province that serves as an insurgent supply route from Pakistan.

A suicide car bomber struck early today at the gates of Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, killing nine people in an attack insurgents said was revenge for US troops burning Korans.

A large explosion has gone off at the gates of Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan police said.

The commander of Nato and US forces says that all Nato personnel are being recalled from Afghan ministries following an attack at the Interior Ministry in Kabul.

At least seven people have been killed in protests around Afghanistan against the burning of Korans at a US air base.

Thousands staged new demonstrations today over the burning of Korans at a US military base in Afghanistan, evidence that President Barack Obama’s apology has failed to quiet the outrage over the incident.

Nato’s top military commander said today that an investigation into this week’s Koran burnings at a US base in Afghanistan is pushing ahead and urged Afghans to be patient and exercise restraint.

Four Afghan soldiers have been killed after a man in a security forces uniform blew himself up at the entrance to a military base in eastern Afghanistan.

The Nato mission in Afghanistan said today that its troops and local forces detained two suspected Taliban leaders, as a pair of home-made bombs killed a coalition service member and wounded two civilians.

Two suicide bombers wearing police uniforms blew themselves up at an Afghan police headquarters today, killing at least 12 officers in a deadly border region that has long been a refuge for Islamist extremists from around the world.

THE Taliban is negotiating a peace deal with a Pakistani tribe in the northwest, tribal elders said yesterday, that could give militants access to remote strategic areas on the Afghan border.

Taliban militants determined to scuttle Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections showered rockets on cities today as men and women voted in a key test of the government’s ability to fight insurgents and entrenched corruption.

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

Eight militants were killed today in a gun battle after a suicide car bombing at the entrance to an Afghan airport, authorities said.

A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians today and wounded seven others in an attack on an Afghan army patrol at a bridge in the southern province of Helmand.

A suicide bomber today killed a key Afghan tribal leader who played a major role in the failed attempt to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001.

A child was killed and at least a dozen other people were injured in a blast at a wedding celebration in Afghanistan, police said today.

President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah both have roughly 40% of the nationwide vote for president with 10 % of polling stations counted, the Afghan election commission said today as it announced the first official returns.

TOP candidates in the Afghan presidential race yesterday addressed rallies attended by thousands of cheering supporters on the last day of campaigning for key elections overshadowed by Taliban threats.

A double suicide bomb attack killed seven people and wounded 20 in southern Afghanistan today, an official said.

PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai registered as a candidate for Afghanistan’s August presidential election yesterday and selected a powerful warlord and former top political leader as his new vice-presidential running mate.

Two earthquakes shook eastern Afghanistan early today, killing at least 19 people and destroying dozens of homes.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said a new law which critics claimed made it legal for men to rape their wives would be studied and possibly sent back to parliament for review if women’s rights were violated.

At least 20 civilians, two British soldiers and an American serviceman have died in bomb attacks in Afghanistan.

A suicide car bomber in eastern Afghanistan killed 20 civilians and a US soldier today, a US military spokesman said.

A series of operations by US forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said today.

A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a police patrol in southern Afghanistan today, killing at least 18 people, including 13 civilians, said a provincial police chief.

A series of clashes in southern Afghanistan left 43 suspected Taliban militants dead, while a roadside bomb killed two Nato soldiers and wounded three others, officials said today.

US-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition said.

US-led coalition and Afghan troops killed up to 21 suspected Taliban militants in three separate clashes in southern Afghanistan, and a roadside blast killed four Afghan soldiers in the east.

A roadside bomb blast killed three US-led coalition service members in eastern Afghanistan today, the coalition said.

US-led coalition and Afghan forces raided a suspected car bomb cell in eastern Afghanistan early today.

A US-led coalition convoy hit a boy in the capital Kabul and killed him, while Afghan and coalition forces arrested five suspected al-Qaida members today in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan say US troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish any images.

US forces opened fire on civilians in eastern Afghanistan today as they fled a militant ambush involving a suicide car bomb and gunmen, Afghan witnesses said.

A “complex” ambush involving a suicide car bomb and militant gunfire killed 16 Afghan civilians and wounded 25 people during an attack on a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan today, officials said.