The bodies of the last two missing miners inside a coal mine in western Turkey have been located, raising the death toll to 301.

A new fire and increased gas levels inside a coal mine in western Turkey are hampering search efforts for those missing underground, officials said.

Women wailed uncontrollably, men knelt sobbing and others just stared in disbelief outside a coal mine in western Turkey as rescue workers removed a steady stream of bodies from an underground explosion and fire that killed at least 238 workers.

An explosion and a fire killed at least 151 workers at a coal mine in western Turkey and hundreds more remained trapped underground.

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An explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey has killed at least five people and trapped hundreds of workers underground.

Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end tomorrow, some New Agers are convinced that humanity’s demise is imminent. Or at least that it’s a good excuse for a party.

Dozens of people have drowned after a fishing boat carrying migrants that smugglers had promised refuge in Europe sank after hitting rocks off the coast of western Turkey.

At least 20 illegal immigrants have drowned after a fishing boat carrying about 100 people promised refuge in Europe by smugglers sank after hitting rocks off the coast of western Turkey.

A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday was attempting the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

Reversing one of the most contested court decisions in Greek history, the Supreme Court posthumously acquitted six top politicians and soldiers executed nearly 90 years ago for a crushing military defeat that indelibly marked modern Greece.

A methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey, killing at least six miners and trapping 13 others.

Turkish authorities said a truck packed with illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Burma overturned in western Turkey, killing 18 people and injuring 23.

A bird flu outbreak that killed four children in Turkey this month seems to have stabilised after authorities destroyed 1.5 million fowl to contain the virus, and no human cases have been reported since January 18.

A second strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 shook a port city in western Turkey today, only hours after a magnitude 5.7-quake sent terrified residents running from their homes.

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.

Turkish authorities said today they had finished culling birds in a quarantined area where preliminary tests detected bird flu and urged people not to panic, saying that the disease had been contained, media reported.

Turkish authorities have ordered poultry farmers in a quarantined area in western Turkey to hand over birds for culling or face fines and possible jail sentences as Turkey tried to contain an outbreak of suspected bird flu.

TURKISH authorities yesterday ordered farmers in a quarantined village in the west of the country to hand over their turkeys and chickens for culling or face fines in a bid to contain an outbreak of suspected bird flu.

Turkish authorities have detained and questioned a teenager who read a poem by Nazim Hikmet, whose works were once banned in the country, at a school poetry reading, reports said today.

A methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey today, bringing down a mining shaft and killing at least five miners, authorities said.

A methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey today, bringing down a mining shaft and trapping about 20 miners.

THE 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia was the world’s fifth most powerful since 1900 and the strongest since a 9.2 quake slammed Alaska 40 years ago, US earthquake experts said.

Hundreds of inmates took five guards hostage during a prison riot early today in western Turkey, but released two of the guards as they negotiated with authorities to end the stand-off.

Rescue workers today dug out five more bodies from the wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Turkey – raising the death toll to 51.

As hopes dimmed of finding more survivors in the debris of a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey, rescue workers pulled out two more bodies today, raising the death toll to 40.

Rescuers today pulled out the bodies of the last of 83 schoolchildren killed when a dormitory collapsed in an earthquake in eastern Turkey, and officials called off the search for any more survivors.

Today's powerful earthquake in Turkey killed up to 150 people and injured 390 others.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell will fabricate evidence against Saddam Hussein’s regime this week when he appears before the UN Security Council, officials in Baghdad charged today.

The Turkish military on Sunday began moving troops in western Turkey to its border with Iraq, strengthened its security force along the rugged border area ahead of a possible US war against Iraq.

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous area in eastern Turkey today, damaging several buildings and injuring at least five people.

The gunmen who held 120 people hostage in a luxury Istanbul hotel appeared in court today while officials decided whether to hold them in custody before their trial.

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