AN EXPLOSION ripped through an unlicensed fireworks factory in an industrial section of Istanbul yesterday, killing 20 people and injuring 117, said officials.

An apartment building collapsed in Istanbul today, and rescue teams reached one person trapped alive under the debris, firefighter chief said.

A five-floor apartment building collapsed in Istanbul, Turkey, this morning, killing at least two people and injuring 16 others, the governor said.

IN the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, US soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.