Doctors suspect a French woman who recently returned from Turkey could have contracted bird flu, the Health Ministry reported today.

A passenger train rammed into a truck carrying farm workers in southern Turkey today, killing nine people and injuring at least 18 others, officials said.

US warplanes struck an alleged hide-out where operatives from an al Qaida-linked group had gathered today killing at least 20 people.

A bus carrying pilgrims returning from a religious festival crashed off a road and flipped over in Turkey late yesterday, killing 29 passengers, officials said.