Five people were killed and 15 others injured on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar city, the capital of southern Afghan province of Kandahar.

The IMF joined Germany on July 13 in pushing for private sector investors to help cut Greece's debt mountain as the euro zone sought to break an impasse on how and when to grant the country urgent aid.

Three near-simultaneous explosions have shaken India's commercial capital Mumbai (Bombay) on July 13, police say.

Two blasts went off on July 13 as the governor of Helmand province was headed to Kandahar to take part in the funeral for President Hamid Karzai's half-brother.

China has secured its first top-level post at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in recognition of its growing power in the global economy.

Two blasts went off on Wednesday as the governor of Helmand province was headed to Kandahar to take part in the funeral for President Hamid Karzai's half-brother.

A Philippines rebel group has denied kidnapping two Americans and a Filipino from a holiday resort on Tuesday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" attacks by demonstrators on the US and French embassies in Damascus.

Thousands of Nigerians are fleeing the north-eastern city of Maiduguri following a spate of recent attacks, which have killed at least 40 people.

Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive on July 11 after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades.