Some 38 people have been killed after a strong earthquake hit Turkey this morning.

A military plane crashed in north-western Turkey today, and authorities dispatched a firefighter plane to find the wreckage.

SCHOOLCHILDREN cheered as the first total eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness yesterday, a solar show sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia.

A moderate earthquake shook north-western Turkey today, the Istanbul-based Kandilli seismology institute said. There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties.

A moderate earthquake shook Turkey’s third-largest city of Izmir today, a seismology centre said, the latest in a series of tremors in the Aegean sea that have sent terrified residents out in the streets in panic.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 shook a city in western Turkey today, sending residents into the streets in panic. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Thirteen passengers burned to death when flames engulfed a bus in north-western Turkey, reports said today.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 shook south-eastern Turkey today, injuring at least 54 people and demolishing homes.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7, shook south-eastern Turkey today, injuring at least nine people.

A moderate earthquake shook the area near Turkey’s border with Iran today, seismologists said.

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.

A moderate earthquake today shook the area near Turkey’s border with Iran, seismologists said.

A moderate earthquake shook Turkey’s capital and caused panic in a nearby town early today. There were no reports of any damage or injuries.

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Turkey’s Aegean coast today, sending residents into the streets in panic and toppling the minaret of a mosque.

Twenty-five workers are believed to be trapped after a fire broke out inside a tunnel at a copper mine in north-western Turkey. Five other injured miners were rescued.

A passenger train in north-west Turkey ignored a stop signal and rammed an oncoming train, killing six people and injuring 85 others yesterday in the nation’s third deadly rail accident in as many weeks.

Two trains collided head on in north-western Turkey today, injuring many passengers, the state news agency reported.

A moderate earthquake shook eastern Turkey today.

A new high-speed passenger train derailed today in north-western Turkey, and officials said 36 people were killed.

A moderate earthquake in eastern Turkey destroyed houses, killing 18 people and injuring 21 more today.

Officials in Turkey have called off the search for survivors of yesterday’s earthquake, which damaged hundreds of buildings and killed at least 45 people in a rural area in the centre of the county.