ANKARA: At least 51 people were killed when a powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale  struck remote villages in eastern Turkey early Monday, a local official said.  Continue Reading

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatised nation still rattled by aftershocks from the earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. Continue Reading

PORT-AU-PRINCE: A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the  presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help. Continue Reading