Afghan-Pakistan Earthquake

The earthquake which struck northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday was of a magnitude of 7.5. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil in Kabul reports.

The race to lead world football's governing body, Fifa, intensified yesterday with the deadline for declaring candidacies for the position of president. The BBC's Richard Conway has been speaking to one of the candidates, Jordanian prince and the head of the Asian Football Confederation, president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford talks to a family who have been trapped in the transit zone of Moscow airport for the past 45 days.

(Photo: Afghan householders gather on the roof of a house in Faizabad, Badakhshan Province, after the earthquake of 26 October. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)