Turkey’s parliament today approved the first of two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities despite the fierce opposition of the secular establishment.

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying more than 100 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, was hijacked today and landed at Italy’s Brindisi airport, company spokesman Ali Genc said.

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 107 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, Turkey was hijacked today and landed at Italy’s Brindisi airport, company spokesman Ali Genc said.

A Kosovo teenager, now living in Manchester, told a court today how she watched her family lined up against a wall and gunned down.

Five children who survived a Kosovo massacre left their new homes in England to testify today at the war crimes trial of a Serb policeman.