A hardline Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility for a major fire at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport today, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported on its website.

Palestinian gunmen briefly took over the Cabinet building in Ramallah today, protesting against the refusal of the new Hamas government to meet their demands for perks and promotions.

Suspected insurgents marked the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq today with roadside bombings that killed at least eight policemen, and authorities reported finding 15 more bullet-riddled bodies, one of them a 13-year-old girl, dumped in the capital and in the Tigris River south of Baghdad.

Hundreds of relatives of passengers on a ferry that sank in the Red Sea attacked the offices of the ship’s owners in Safaga, Egypt, day, throwing furniture into the street and burning the company’s sign. Riot police fired tear gas to restore order.

AT least 43 people were killed and another 89 injured yesterday in three car bomb attacks near a bus station and hospital in Baghdad.

Three car bomb attacks near a bus station and hospital in Baghdad killed at least 43 people and wounded another 89 today, in the deadliest attacks in the capital in weeks. Survivors searched through charred buses and cars for signs of friends and relatives.

Gunmen shot and killed a senior official in Iraq’s Transportation Ministry today, police said.

The Turkish government was under fire today for ignoring warnings about a new express train that derailed in northwestern Turkey killing 36 people and injuring 81 in one of the country’s worst train disasters.

Railways investigators today began a massive inquiry into Turkey’s worst rail disaster.

A new high-speed passenger train derailed today in north-western Turkey, and officials said 36 people were killed.

US authorities have banned Peru’s largest airline, Aero Continente, from flying to the United States because of safety concerns.

CLOSE to the twisted wreckage of their plane , a light rain fell gently upon a picture of the Spanish peacekeepers who died when it crashed into a Turkish mountain yesterday.

Israeli forces raided several villages overnight and arrested 26 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror attacks, the Israeli military said today.

Inexperienced ground controllers may have contributed to a near collision between two jumbo jets carrying almost 700 passengers over Japan.