Up to 12 civilians - 10 children and two women - are reported to have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan.
A further six women are believed to have been injured in the incident in Shigal district, Kunar province.
Villagers and officials told the BBC that a roof of a house collapsed during an air strike, causing the casualties.
Nato confirmed that "fire support" was used in Shigal but said it did not have any reports of civilian deaths.
A soldier from the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
The soldier was serving in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province when he was injured in an attack by insurgents on Monday.
In a statement the MoD said he had been flown to hospital for treatment "where, sadly, he succumbed to his wounds".
His next of kin have been informed if his death.
Task Force Helmand spokesman Major Matt Allen said: "His death comes as a great loss to all serving in Task Force Helmand. Our thoughts and prayers are extended to his family and friends at this difficult time."
The death takes to 441 the number of UK service personnel who have lost their lives since operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001.
He is the third to die so far in 2013 and the first for more than two months.
The last to die was Kingsman David Shaw on 16 January.
A British man and his 12-year-old son have been found dead in the French Alps after apparently falling while hiking near Mont Blanc.
The 48-year-old man and his son had come to Chamonix in the French Alps for a weekend hiking.
They took a mountain trail well- known to summer walkers, but is regarded as extremely dangerous in the winter months.
It is understood the boy plummeted several hundred metres down a cliff.
The father called the emergency services for help, but was unable to give his precise location, our Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports.
Mountain rescue teams found both bodies on Saturday.
It appeared that the father had also fallen to his death, trying to find his son.
Six teenagers died when their SUV crashed and rolled over on Warren, Ohio, street Sunday morning, CBS affiliate WKBN reports.
The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a road, hit a guardrail and overturned just south of the city of Warren, about 60 miles east of Cleveland near the Pennsylvania state line, Lt. Anne Ralston said. Investigators say it came to rest in the swamp and sank with five of the victims trapped inside. A sixth who was thrown from the SUV during the crash was found under it when the vehicle was taken out of the water.
Ralston didn't know where the teens were headed. She didn't have any information to release on possible causes of or factors in the crash, but the highway patrol planned a news conference for Sunday night. Earlier, police said the car appeared to be overcrowded and no one was wearing seatbelts.
Two survivors were able to escape the crash and went to a nearby residence to call 911.
The teenagers who died are: Alexis Cayson, 19; Andrique Bennett, 14; Kirklan M. Behner, 15; Daylan Ray, 15; Brandon A. Murray, 17; and Ramone M. White, 15.
Brian K. Henry, 18, and Asher C. Lewis, 15, were being treated at the St. Joseph Health Center and Trumbell Memorial. All the teens are from Warren.
Ashia Cayson said she learned of her sister's death Sunday morning, when she had just been think of her.
"She was loving. She was silly, and she was a clown," Ashia said, according to WKBN. "She like to make everybody laugh even when we were sad. I just want everybody to know that if you are going through something, pick up the phone and call your siblings, your family and tell them you love them. You never know what can happen. Tomorrow is not promised to anybody."
A vehicle bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, killed at least 42 people and wounded at least 145 others on Sunday, March 3, police said. 
Pakistani rescuers work at the blast site.
Rescuers roll an injured blast victim out on a stretcher.
A rescuer carries an injured man through the rubble.
A stretcher is pushed through the site.
Pakistani rescue workers and citizens go through the debris.
Firefighters try to extinguish the blaze.
Pakistani rescuers gather in front of the flames.Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- No group has stepped forward so far to claim responsibility for a massive car bombing in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi that killed at least 42 people over the weekend in what appeared to be the latest attack on the Shiite minority in the country.
The blast Sunday tore into nearby buildings, wounding about 145 people, and authorities warned that the death toll could rise as rescue workers continued to search for bodies amid the rubble.
Caused by a vehicle loaded with about 150 kilograms (330 lbs) of explosives set to a timer, the explosion took place in Abbas Town, an area of Karachi where many Shiite Muslims live, police said.
In recent months, a number of large-scale bomb attacks have targeted Shiites, who are overwhelmingly outnumbered by Sunni Muslims in Pakistan.
A huge bombing last month in a Shiite neighborhood in the city of Quetta killed about 90 people and fueled outrage about authorities' failure to stem the attacks, many of which were claimed by the Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Pakistani security forces responded by carrying out raids in the area in which four militants were killed and others arrested. But Sunday's attack in Karachi suggested they hadn't done enough to dissuade further attacks.
Amnesty International says it has documented 92 separate attacks on Shiites across Pakistan since January 2012 that have resulted in the deaths of more than 500 people. It has criticized what it says is the lack of prosecutions of those responsible for the violence.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and President Asif Ali Zardari both condemned the bombing Sunday.
Although many of the recent attacks against Shiites in Pakistan have focused on the Hazara ethnic group in Quetta, sectarian violence has struck Karachi previously.
In February 2010, for instance, at least 18 people died in blasts that took place near a bus full of Shiite religious observers and in front of a hospital in the city.
And in late 2009, a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite procession moving through Karachi killed at least 40 people.
CNN's Nasir Habib reported from Islamabad and Jethro Mullen wrote from Hong Kong
A senior al-Qaeda militant has been killed in northern Mali, Chadian President Idriss Deby has said.
He said the country's forces killed Abdelhamid Abou Zeid during clashes in the remote region.
Algerian security services are said to have taken DNA samples from two of Abou Zeid's relatives to compare with the body which is reportedly his.
He is said to be second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is fighting foreign forces in Mali.
"Chadian forces killed two jihadi leaders, including Abou Zeid," President Deby said on Friday.
He was speaking after funerals of Chadian soldiers killed in the fighting in Mali.
Separately, reports in Algerian media said that the authorities were comparing DNA from Abu Zeid' relatives to confirm the militant's death.
Algeria-born Abu Zeid - believed to be in his 40s - was last seen in public in Mali's cities of Timbuktu and Gao seized by Islamist groups last year.
Malian troops - together with French and African forces - have since recaptured most of the rebel-held territory.
"Kenny Clutch" may have rapped about the gangster life, but Ken Cherry didn't live it, his friends and family said.
"Right now my heart is breaking," Pat Sims, aunt of Cherry, who rapped under the name Kenny Clutch, told the Oakland Tribune. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid."
Cherry, 27, was an aspiring rapper from Oakland who lived in Las Vegas, according to his Facebook. He was killed early Thursday when bullets fired from a black Range Rover peppered his Maserati, authorities said.
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"I can tell you this ... the world has lost a good man," Sims said. "I'm not saying he didn't have his faults, but he was very kind, especially to older people. Whatever happened in Vegas, I don't know about, but he was a very kind soul."
His attorney, Vicki Greco, told the newspaper Cherry "was into gangsta rap, but that's not who he was."
"In my interaction with him, I can tell you that by the way he looked and what he put out there on his videos, he fit a certain stereotype," Greco said. "But I also can tell you that away from that, he was anything but that kind of stereotype. He was honest. He was loyal. He was very dependable. Sometimes, he'd drop by my office just to say hello. He was a nice, nice kid."
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Authorities said Cherry and the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., a time when the casino marquees shine bright but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, occupants of the Range Rover opened fire on Cherry's Maserati, police said.
The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a Yellow Cab, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details.
Cherry died later at a hospital.
No arrests have been made.
“This is something you never want to go through,” Cherry's father, Kenneth Cherry Sr., told KNTV. “This is the hardest thing in my life right now because you never want your children to leave before you leave.”
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Minutes after 20-year-old Ali Syed allegedly shot and killed a woman at his home in Ladera Ranch, he told his first carjacking victim: "I don't want to hurt you."
Authorities said he approached a man pumping gas in Tustin and told him: "I just killed someone. Give me your keys. This is my last day."
Despite Syed's statement that he meant no harm, law enforcement officials said the community college student went on to kill two more people in a violent and random killing spree before he turned the gun on himself.
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At a Tuesday afternoon news conference, authorities outlined his early-morning rampage that stretched from his family's Ladera Ranch home to Tustin to Orange.
Deputies were first called to the Red Leaf Lane home about 4:45 a.m. after his parents reported a shooting, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. Responding deputies found a woman dead inside who had been shot multiple times.
The relationship between the woman and Syed was not yet known, Amormino said, although she was not related to the suspect. The woman has not yet been identified.
Family members, including children, were at the home at the time of the shooting, Amormino said, but no other injuries were reported.
Syed then fled the area and headed toward Tustin, where Amormino said "multiple incidents" occurred.The first of those, authorities said, occurred near Red Hill Avenue and the 5 Freeway about 5:10 a.m., when Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan said Syed pulled into a Denny's parking lot, where a man in an older-model Cadillac was waiting for his son to carpool to work.
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Syed shouted at the man to get out of the car and pointed a shotgun at him, Jordan said. The man fled in his car and Syed opened fire, striking the man in the back of the head through a back window. The man escaped and was later hospitalized, but his condition was not known Tuesday afternoon.
Syed then went to a Mobil station across the street, where another man was pumping gas, Jordan said.
"When they made eye contact, Syed started running toward the victim," he said. "I don't want to hurt you."
Syed stole the Dodge pickup, and headed north on the 5 Freeway to the 55 Freeway, Jordan said. There, he stopped the car on the shoulder and began firing at motorists. Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said Syed may have realized that the pickup was low on fuel and was trying to steal a second vehicle.
During that freeway gunfire, at least three vehicles were hit. Two drivers suffered damage to their cars, the third sustained injuries to his mouth or hand, though officials stressed it could have been from debris from the car and not necessarily bullets. That man, a Tustin resident, didn’t have a cellphone, but drove home and called police.
Syed got back in the Dodge pickup and continued driving on the 55 Freeway, exiting at Edinger Avenue in Santa Ana, where authorities said he rammed another pickup and crashed onto a center divider, got out and headed toward a BMW stopped at a stop sign.
"He orders him out of the vehicle, walks him to the side of the curb and executes our victim,” Bertagna said.
Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas identified the man as Melvin Lee Edwards, 69, of Laguna Hills, who was on his way to work when he was killed.
Edwards, 69, was the chairman of Rubicon Gear in Tustin, located not far from where he was shot. The family-run business manufactures high-precision gears and shafts, and was founded by Edwards' father.
Edwards graduated from USC and is a former U.S. Army combat infantry officer who served in Vietnam, according to Rubicon Gear's website.
From there, Syed drove to the Micro Center computer store in Tustin, where he came across a white utility truck with a man inside. "There was another confrontation," Jordan said, and that man was shot and killed.
That victim was identified by police as Jeremy Lewis, 26, of Fullerton. Co-workers said Lewis, a plumber, was one of 70 to 80 people finishing work on the Fairfield Inn and a neighboring Marriott Residence Inn.
Project superintendent Craig Heising called Lewis "a good guy" with a "good heart."
"He showed up every day, on time, ready to do his share of work. When I saw police pull the yellow tarp over him ... I was just overwhelmed by the senselessness of it," Heising said. "It's a classic case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Other workers saw what was happening and went to the parking lot, trying to figure out what was going on, police said. Syed told another plumber to run, Jordan said.
"He took off running and he too was shot," Jordan said.
The condition of that man, who was wounded in the arm, was not known Tuesday afternoon. Syed took the utility truck and continued north on the 55 Freeway.
At this point, Jordan said, "many calls were coming in" and California Highway Patrol officers were preparing to stop the stolen vehicle. Syed exited the freeway at Katella Avenue and headed toward Wanda Road.
As he approached that intersection, Syed immediately got out of the still-moving vehicle, Jordan said.
“Mr. Syed exited his vehicle while it was still in motion,” he said. “Almost instantly, he took the shotgun, put it to his head and killed himself.”
Jordan said there “wasn’t really a confrontation” at the end. “It happened so quickly," he said.
Authorities were still trying to determine a motive, but said Syed had no apparent connection to the people he shot in Tustin and Santa Ana. Amormino said Syed had no criminal record or job, but was taking a course at Saddleback College.
Officials aren't sure where Syed got the shotgun they recovered. It came from the Ladera Ranch home, Amormino said, but it was not clear who it was registered to.
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