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Rescue teams are on a race against time in Turkey, as efforts to find people trapped under rubble continued throughout the night, after the earthquake that hit Turkey's eastern Van region on Sunday killed more than 200 people.

The 29-second earthquake which struck Turkey has killed at least 138 people. The country continues to reel in hundreds of aftershocks, received in less than ten hours, one of which was at 6.0 magnitude strong enough to create more damages.

The defunct German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) re-entered the Earth's atmosphere either late Saturday or early Sunday, depending on one's location.

Adolf Hilter, the German Führer, claimed to have been blinded by a British mustard gas attack during WW I. However, new research now suggests that the dictator's loss of sight was likely caused by a mental disorder known as "hysterical madness".

Christopher Moran, a senior figure in the City of London and Conservative supporter has said: “Britain must support the Euro” to improve the ailing economic climate.

France and Germany, the two countries leading the Eurozone financial crisis, have failed to reach a deal on some key parts of the Eurozone rescue plan due to be announced at a summit this weekend.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as uncertainty continued to hover over the eurozone debt crisis.

Author and activist Naomi Wolf has released a statement alleging that her arrest was a direct attempt by New York police to silence her after she attempted to inform protesters outside a New York awards banquet of their rights.

Greece is on the verge of a total meltdown with the country struggling to come to terms with 48 hour general strike.

England rose one place to seventh in this month's FIFA rankings, after they secured automatic qualification for next summer's European Championships.

The latest "honey trap" accusation comes in the form of 26-year-old Russian Ekaterina "Katia" Zatulivete, who is accused of spying on the UK whilst maintaining a four-year affair with the 65-year-old Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock.

A handwritten letter from former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, addressed to an unknown drummer, is all set to be auctioned off in London. The letter, it is believed, was an invitation to the drummer for an audition, ahead of a spot in the band.

Official testing of McLaren's new hypercar - set to become the successor to the legendary McLaren F1 in 2014 - has begun, according to Autocar.

In 2007, Indian-born Booker Prize-winning author, Salman Rushdie, established a new high for Asian Muslims living in the UK, when he was honored with a knighthood. More recently, Abdul Arain, a Non Resident Indian and Cambridge-based grocery-store owner, shot to fame when he was nominated in the Cambridge University Chancellor elections. Though he lost, there continues to a lot of hype about the commoner with an MBA from Cambridge.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as gloomy signs continued to appear in the global economy.

The Australian courts have ruled in Apple's favour temporarily banning sales of Samsung's latest Galaxy tablet, marking a significant victory for Apple in the two company's ongoing global patent war.

DNA from the bacteria that was responsible for the Black Death have been pulled from the teeth of four plague victims buried in east London.

With Apple's iOS 5 operating system's release just hours away, news has broken that the company's highly anticipated iPhone 4S has broken the three million pre-order sales mark in its opening week.

Returning last Friday, 07 November from a family wedding in Canada, I grabbed The Independent and read that News Corp had set up an 'Alert-line' for staff to whistleblow on suspicious colleagues. News Corp's Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Eugenia C Gavenchak stressed that all employees are under an obligation to report any of their workmates that they suspect of violating a presumably beefed up ethics code, following on from the recent phone-hacking scandal which led to the closur...

Media regulator Ofcom have pushed back the date of the 4G next generation broadband auction to sell FM licences to a new wave of radio stations.

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The Palestinian Authority has won a first diplomatic victory after the country gained initial approval of a bid for full membership in UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a move deemed "inexplicable" by the United States.

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With Russia and China vetoing a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria following the deadly and brutal crackdown on protests, cracks within the UN Scecurity Council are becoming more apparent.

Human skulls taken from Namibia by Germany during the colonial period have finally been returned after more than 100 years, but now historians and activists demand that Germany pay reparations for the slaughter of more than 60,000 people.

Apple announced the new iPhone 4S, which features twice as much processing power as the iPhone 4, an eight megapixel camera with full HD video recording and 'Siri', a revolutionary voice-controlled personal assistant.

Forza 4 has today staked its claim as the must-have racing game, with a new trailer featuring Jeremy Clarkson addressing all petrolheads, describing them as an endangered species.