A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital.

The European Union has condemned as an act of terrorism the explosion in the South Ossetian capital that killed seven Russian peacekeepers.

The Foreign Ministry of France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, issued a statement late Friday that denounced continuing violence against both sides in the conflict.

At least 61 people have died in heavy rainfall in Andhra Pradesh in the past five days, according to latest reports.

Three more bodies were taken out from an overflowing rivulet in Guntur district where a lorry was washed away.

Some 60 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels were killed while 28 more were injured in separate clashes in the island's north, defense officials said Monday.

Media Center for National Security (MCNS) said that the rebels were killed Sunday in Vavuniya, Welioya and Jaffna fronts. Some three soldiers were killed while 24 others had also been injured in the clashes, officials added.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday amid U.S. and Iraqi troops who were investigating an earlier attack. Iraqi police said nearly 20 people died, and the U.S. military said they included one American soldier.

It was the day's worst attack among several that occurred across Iraq, including one at a crowded bus depot in Baghdad that left four people dead.