Carbon dioxide pollution rises 3%

The overwhelming majority of the world’s increase is from China; the United States and Germany are the only countries that reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gas.

Taliban forces attack a coalition airfield sparking a two-hour battle that claims the lives of nine insurgents, three Afghan security guards and at least four civilians.

At least seven people are feared dead after part of a highway tunnel collapses, trapping them in their vehicles and starting a fire that fills the tunnel with smoke.