A court has convicted a former Miss Turkey of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through social media postings and handed her a 14-month suspended sentence.

The 1993 death of then-Turkish president Turgut Ozal was "suspicious" and should be probed, according to a report by the country's presidential palace.

Dr Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99.

A man carrying a gun hidden inside a loaf of bread was arrested today as he approached a bus that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was boarding, and a prosecutor said the suspect may have intended to shoot the premier.