Iran's Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi has said that 18 people were killed and 108 others wounded in overnight strikes by the United States against the country, according to a statement published on the website of the Iranian president's office. (Pics/AFP)

A massive fire broke out around 7 am on the third floor of the mother and child ward at the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad's largest public hospital. (Pics/AFP)