Eight children died over the past one week due to chilly and unfriendly weather in Afghanistan's Northern Kunduz province, a local official said Tuesday.

The death toll of heavy snow and avalanche in Salang Pass in northern Afghanistan's Parwan province rose to 70, a private TV channel reported Wednesday.

Heavy rain and flooding claimed the lives of at least 16 persons and damaged over 500 houses in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan

A French rescue team on Wednesday pulled a 16-year-old Haitian girl alive from under the rubble in Port-au-Prince, 15 days after the devastating January 12 earthquake, they said.

The Haitian government said Friday that the number of people killed in last week's devastating earthquake has surpassed 110,000.

Eight people were killed in the shooting spree in U.S. state of Virginia on Tuesday, local media reported.

Police in the northern Samangan province of Afghanistan found bodies of two children, a private television channel reported Monday.

The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 87 as hopes dimmed on Sunday that more survivors would be found a day after a gas blast at a colliery in the country's far northeast.

At least six people died when a transport plane crashed Sunday in Russia's far-eastern Yakutia region, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

Four adults and at least four children drowned in the eastern Aegean Tuesday when a small boat carrying 18 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan hit rocks and sank, Greek authorities said.

Afghan Counter-Narcotic Police arrested a suspect drug trafficker with Iran nationality in Afghanistan's western Herat province on Wednesday, a statement of Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

The United States built pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday, signaling that a troop increase could hinge on a successful runoff election and that the Obama administration would be receptive to a power-sharing deal between Karzai and his chief rival. A coalition government ...

Taliban militants amputated a hand and a foot of a man in Herat province west of Afghanistan, police said Thursday.

A drug lab was destroyed and a large quantity of the contraband was discovered during operation launched in Argo district since Friday," the press release said.

"Some 1,000 kg of opium, 300 kg of morphine, 30 kg heroine as well as 200kg of chemical substances were found in the operation in Achin district," the statement said.

The blast took place at about 1:00 am (1700 GMT Monday) at a mine in Pingdingshan city in Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

At least 42 people have been killed, 40 others have gone missing and more than 400 others were wounded after a 7.3 magnitude quake hit West Java of Indonesia on Wednesday, The National Disaster Management Agency said here.

Pushing in three directions, a massive wildfire in hills near Los Angeles doubled in size to 85,000 acres (about 34,425 hectares) overnight, authorities said on Monday.

Firefighters battling the wildfires that charred large swathes of forests and forced thousands to flee homes gained the upper hand by Monday afternoon.

The death toll from an accident at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant rose to 47, with 28 others still missing, Russian news agencies reported Friday.