The Afghanistan National Olympic Committee has conducted race competitions, featuring120 athletes, in Kabul.

Russian says its cargo ship has sunk in the Mediterranean sea following an explosion in its engine room.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced Champions Trophy fixtures, which will take place from February 19 to March 9 in Pakistan and the UAE.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a one-year program to support rural people in northern Balkh and central Uruzgan provinces with financial support from Japan.

At least 12 people were killed and five others were injured as a blast ripped through an explosives factory in northwestern Balikesir province of Turkey, media reports said on Tuesday.

A number of fuel suppliers in northern Balkh province complain about a sluggish firewood and coal market and say they have lost most of their customers.

A woman in Herat has established a carpet-weaving workshop, providing jobs to 30 poor women in the western province.

Twenty two water-management projects worth over 39 million afghanis and benefitting eight districts have been opened in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Mine and Petroleum has signed an agreement worth 145 million afghanis with a private company to build a cement production factory in central Logar province.

Investigative work on the Kaj Samad water dam in western Farah province has commenced and its construction is estimated to cost two billion afghanis, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) announced in a statement on Tuesday.

In a small forge in the heart of western Herat city, the capital of western Herat province, 49-year-old Ahmad Shah is striving to keep the blacksmithing industry alive.

A man has lost his life and 14 others have been injured as a result of a traffic accident in central Bamyan province, an official said on Tuesday.