Saudi Arabia will send the Kingdom’s first female astronaut and a male astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) during the second quarter of 2023.  Astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission, Axiom Space’s second

The death toll across Turkey and Syria following Monday’s catastrophic earthquake reached at least 36,217.  The death toll in Turkey has reached 31,643, Turkish Emergency Coordination Center SAKOM said Monday.  The confirmed death toll in Syria is 4,574. That number

Some 46,000 homes have lost power as Cyclone Gabrielle lashes the north of New Zealand. Authorities have issued warnings of heavy rain and winds, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Some areas have declared a state of emergency, as Gabrielle nears the North Island. It

It had been nearly a week since a pair of powerful earthquakes shattered this town in southern Turkey, and families with missing loved ones were out again — as they had been each day before — to follow the painstaking search for survivors. Are you on Telegram? Subscribe to

The US has shot down another unidentified flying object in the fourth military operation of its kind this month. President Joe Biden ordered it to be downed near Lake Huron, close to the Canadian border, on Sunday afternoon. The object could have interfered with commercial air

Officials in Turkey say 113 arrest warrants have been issued in connection with the construction of buildings that collapsed in Monday's earthquake. Turkish police have already taken at least 12 people into custody, including building contractors. Meanwhile, unrest in southern

Turkish justice officials targeted more than 130 people allegedly involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods as rescuers extricated more survivors, including a pregnant woman and two small children, six days after a pair of earthquakes collapsed thousands of buildings. The

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria will "double or more" from its current level of 28,000, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has said. Griffiths arrived on Saturday in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first

Rescuers continued to pull some survivors out of the rubble on Saturday, five days after the tremors of the first earthquake struck Syria and Turkey, but hopes were fading for many more to be found. Monday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake is Turkey’s most devastating since 1939

Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object "violated Canadian airspace" and was shot down over Yukon in north-west Canada. Both Canadian and US aircraft were

The US has eased sanctions on Syria to speed up delivery of aid to the country’s northwest, which has received almost no humanitarian assistance since Monday’s earthquakes. The US Treasury issued a 180-day exemption for “transactions related to earthquake

The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria climbed to more than 25,000 on Saturday, as rescuers worked in freezing weather to find people alive. Officials and medics said 21,848 people had died in Turkey and 3,553 in Syria from Monday's 7.8-magnitude

Moldova's government has collapsed and its pro-EU prime minister has stepped down after 18 months of political and economic turbulence. Europe's poorest country was struggling with "multiple crises", outgoing PM Natalia Gavrilita said on Friday. With the war raging

Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah has been released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison, the French government said but the conditions of her release remain unclear. Adelkhah has been in prison since Iranian authorities arrested her in 2019 during a visit to the country. She

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programmes as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed US airspace. The move is likely to further escalate the diplomatic row between the US and

Turkey's most devastating earthquake since 1939 has raised big questions about whether such a large-scale tragedy could have been avoided and whether President Erdogan's government could have done more to save lives. With elections on the horizon, his future is on the line

The death toll stands at more than 23,700 in Turkey and northwestern Syria as rescue efforts continue. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to more than 20,213 on Friday while more than 3,500 were killed in Syria. United Nations says up to 5.3 million people in Syria may be homeless

A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around 90 hours after the first of Monday's deadly earthquakes. The 10-day-old boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province. Footage showed the child being carefully

Thousands of people have offered to adopt the baby girl who was born under the rubble of a collapsed building in north-west Syria, following Monday's earthquake. When she was rescued, baby Aya - meaning miracle in Arabic - was still connected to her mother by her umbilical cord.

The United States on Thursday announced an initial $85 million package for emergency relief after a devastating earthquake in Turkiye and Syria. The US Agency for International Development that the funding will go to partners on the ground “to deliver urgently needed aid for