A powerful blast caused severe damage to a foreign ministry building in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday, witnesses said.

Some leal Muslims burst into a Tunisian school on Wednesday and assaulted its chief after he barred entry to a teenage girl wearing a face veil, or niqab, teachers said, an incident that underlined rising Islamist-secularist tensions.

Bangladesh’s prime minister has ruled out a new blasphemy law to punish bloggers who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), despite facing growing protests from Islamic groups in the secular country.

Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf’s rocky return to his homeland continues on Monday as the country’s Supreme Court hears an application to have him stand trial for treason.

At least 11 children have reportedly been killed in a NATO airstrike in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

A bomb in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province has killed five Americans – three soldiers and two civilians serving with the Nato-led forces – and an Afghan doctor.

Hundreds of thousands of people have held protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has confirmed that a US foreign service officer has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Suicide bombers disguised as soldiers have stormed an court in western Afghanistan, killing at least 46 people in an attempt to free Taliban fighters standing trial, officials say.

Taliban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could contest the presidential elections, due in 2014, President Hamid Karzai told A German newspaper on Tuesday.