A Nato airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed a dozen militants including a senior leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, the international military coalition has revealed.

Eight people have been killed by a bomb which ripped through a busy restaurant in north-western Pakistan.

A suicide bombing has killed five people in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, according to a police official.

A rickshaw suicide bomber killed three people in the Pakistan city of Peshawar today, the latest in a string of strikes across the country that has left hundreds dead.

A roadside bomb blew up a vehicle, killing five people, including a regional government official, in troubled north-western Pakistan today, a security official said.