BBC News with Sue Montgomery

Taliban militants have carried out a major attack in southern Afghanistan, using

multiple

suicide bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. More than 20 people have been killed. During the assault in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan province, a reporter for the BBC's Pashto service, Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, was shot dead. From Kabul, Bilal Sarwary.

In the chaos that followed, Afghan security forces fought with heavily armed insurgents. Eyewitnesses say Nato helicopter gunships were firing from the air. The gun battle spread to the local market, where some shopkeepers were forced to

barricade

themselves into their shops. Doctors in Tarin Kowt say more than 20 people were killed during the fighting, including 10 children. Amongst the dead was a BBC reporter who had been working nearby. Ahmed Omed Khpulwak had been working for the BBC in Uruzgan since 2008.

Egypt's official news agency has announced that the trial of the deposed President Hosni Mubarak on corruption charges and ordering the killing of protesters will start next week in Cairo. Here's Jon Leyne.

This decision will delight protesters and relatives of those killed in the revolution earlier this year, but they will remain

sceptical

until they see Hosni Mubarak in the dock in a court in Cairo. The health minister has said that the former president is now fit enough to travel from his hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo, and this is where the trial is scheduled to start next Wednesday. A large conference centre is already being prepared. Egyptian state television will be allowed access, most probably for live broadcasting, though that has not yet been confirmed.