Iran's new top nuclear negotiator will hold his first meeting with the EU's foreign policy chief over Tehran's contentious nuclear programme today in Rome.

TURKEY swiftly condemned a US House panel’s approval of a bill describing the World War I era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, accusing lawmakers of distorting history.

Boats laden with dead bodies and twisted metal sailed into the palm-fringed harbour of Sochi, Russia, today, carrying the remains of some of the 113 people who died when an Armenian airliner smashed into the Black Sea.