Fourteen-year-old Aziza Rahimzada is trying to help her impoverished community by offering classes to children.

The migrants taking refuge in Europe have extraordinary stories to tell. One of the most fascinating is the tale of 105 year old Bibihal Uzbeki, who traveled 20 days to reach Croatia from Afghanistan — mostly on foot.

Afghanistan and Pakistan were scrambling Wednesday to rush aid to survivors of this week's magnitude-7.5 earthquake as the region's overall death toll from the quake rose to 385.

The Taliban seize Afghanistan's Darqad district, one of those hit by Monday's earthquake that killed at least 360 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bangladesh went down two positions to 174 in the international ranking of World Bank’s (WB) Ease of Doing Business 2016 report.

Heavy cross-border fire from Afghanistan kill seven Pakistani soldiers at a checkpost in the troubled tribal area of South Waziristan, the army said.

Google re-launches its Person Finder tool to help identify earthquake victims in South Asia.

Rescue efforts are being stepped up to help those affected by the magnitude-7.5 earthquake which hit remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday. More than 360 people are known to have died, most of them in Pakistan, and at least 2,000 were injured.

The Islamic State jihadist group executes three people in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said.

At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school.

Afghanistan leveled the series against Zimbabwe with a three-wicket win in the fourth one-day international at Queens Sports Club, with Mohammad Shahzad’s 80 setting up their pursuit of Zimbabwe's 184 for 8.

Women and children at a migrant camp outside the French port city of Calais are to be given heated tents by the end of the week, officials say.

Slovenia says it has allowed most of the 5,000 people who were stranded in wet and muddy conditions on its border with Croatia in the country.

Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, "Get Up," is the ideal follow-up record to his iconic "Reckless" album of 30 years ago.

President Barack Obama confirms plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in policy.

Five people, including two RAF personnel, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon is to pay compensation for those killed and injured in a US strike on an MSF hospital in northern Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama apologises to the president of aid agency Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) for a bombing that killed at least 22 in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan says an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake.

President Barack Obama says the US has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed 19 people at an MSF-run Afghan hospital.