Lifestyle

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.

A policeman who was among the first on the scene of Diego Maradona's death four years ago, told a court he saw no "medical items" in the room where the football legend was receiving post-operative care at home.

After an unexpected nine-month stay in space, a pair of NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth on Tuesday.