A lorry carrying Stork margarine overturned on the A531 in Staffordshire, UK, when Britain and its allies were fighting Hitler’s Germany in the Second World War.

Police and protesters have clashed in Istanbul after hundreds tried to breach barricades and reach the city’s main square to mark May Day in defiance of a government ban.

OH TO be in Africa where the great herds of wildebeest are crossing the Serengeti and the Masai Mara on their annual migration.

Barack Obama wrapped up his first foreign trip as US president with a request of the world: Look past his nation’s stereotypes and flaws.

A top Russian diplomat in Georgia says Russia has shut its embassy and suspended operations of its consulate in the former Soviet republic.

Bulgaria, Greece and Russia signed an agreement today for the construction of a long-awaited oil pipeline that will funnel Russian oil directly to south-eastern Europe – bypassing Turkey’s busy Bosporus strait.

Politics – and not religion – is at the heart of the growing rift between the West and the Muslim world, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday after scholars, politicians and religious leaders convened in Turkey to discuss ways to improve the increasingly violent relations between the societies.

TWO OF Europe’s greatest bird-watching spectacles are getting under way: raptors cranes and storks are converging on Gibraltar and the Bosporus strait before crossing the sea for Africa, where they will spend the winter.

Officials inaugurated the first section of a 1,100-mile, US-backed pipeline today that will bring Caspian Sea oil to Western markets, a project seen as an economic and political boon for the troubled Caucasus region.

Prince Charles read a sombre psalm as some 20,000 people prayed and sang hymns at dawn today in Canakkale, Turkey, to mark the 90th anniversary of the devastating First World War Gallipoli campaign.

Hundreds of protesters hurled fire-bombs and stones at police today as they tried to reach the conference centre where Nato leaders were meeting in Istanbul.

About 20,000 demonstrators, some chanting “USA get out of the Middle East!” gathered today in a square in Istanbul to protest over the visit of US President George W Bush and an upcoming Nato summit.

Turkish officials today quickly denied a television report that a suspected terrorist and three others were injured in a bomb explosion, saying instead that a Turkish tourist had been killed in a gas explosion in southern Turkey.

A suspected terrorist and three others were injured today when a bomb went off prematurely in the hands of the bomber at a small hotel in southern Turkey, private CNN-Turk television reported.

Fearful that Saddam Hussein’s overthrow may lead to chaos in the region, Iraq’s neighbours met in Turkey today to discuss ways to avert a conflict and urge Baghdad to cooperate more with arms inspectors.

A half-built aircraft carrier being hauled to China to become a floating casino was left adrift in high gales early today after it broke lose from its tugboats, authorities said.

Waving weapons, but not neglecting to serve food and drinks, pro-Chechen gunmen held 120 people hostage for 12 hours in an Istanbul luxury hotel.

Gunmen, led by a veteran hostage taker, surrendered in a luxury Istanbul hotel today after holding at least 30 guests and staff overnight.