Haji Abdul Manan, a candidate for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, was killed by unidentified gunmen in the west of the country on August 28, a government official said.

An al Qaeda-linked militant movement has taken control of a radio station in Somalia's capital, the government announced on August 28.

Taliban insurgents wearing US military uniforms have attacked two coalition bases in eastern Afghanistan, Nato forces say.

Grupo Mexicana suspended operations at its three airlines on August 28 "until further notice," citing the financial problems inherited when the group changed owners a week ago.

Kim Yong-nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has told former US President Jimmy Carter that the country is committed to denuclearising the peninsula and resuming six-way talks, the DPRK’s KCNA news agency reported.

Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province in the past two days, according to new U.N. estimates released on August 27.

The death toll from a August 26 night landslide in northeastern Turkey has increased to 11, the semi-official Anadolu Ajansi news service said on August 27.

Some of the Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed shaft have begun to show signs of depression, officials say.

An Australian expert on August 26 warned the public that A/H1N1 is now on Australia's doorstep.

The UN is reviewing security measures for its aid workers in Pakistan, after a warning of new threats from the Pakistani Taliban.