A suspected government chemical attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria has killed dozens of people.

A Lion Air jet carrying more than 100 passengers and crew crashed into the ocean while attempting to land today on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, injuring up to 45 people, officials said.

Rescuers have finished searching damaged and burned-out homes without finding more victims of a military plane crash in Indonesia’s capital that killed 11 people.

A Russian-built airliner is feared to have crashed during a demonstration flight aimed at drumming up sales.

Bolstered by booming oil profits, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been on a military spending spree, raising fears that one of Washington’s fiercest foes in Latin America is threatening the region’s military balance.

Eight French soldiers were killed and 23 others injured today by Ivory Coast government troops bombing a rebel-held town in northern Ivory Coast, a Defence Ministry official said.

Brazil’s new president has proposed delaying a £435m (€671m) military jet fighter contract in order to fund new anti-hunger programmes.

NATALYA ZABOTNAYA takes a huge breath of fresh air as she emerges from a morgue in western Ukraine, where the body supposed to be her son's turned out to be another "poor man".

A LARGE Russian airliner carrying 16 crew home after flight duty crashed in woods shortly after take-off from Moscow's biggest airport yesterday, killing at least 14 people.