Comment: Window of hope for Turkey and Syria is closing
OPINION: Save the Children NZ CEO pleads for support in quake-struck region.
OPINION: Save the Children NZ CEO pleads for support in quake-struck region.
World Vision programme director gives insight into gargantuan unfolding crisis.
Gunmen entered the facility and beat up the director, apparently for firing an employee.
New Zealand has so far contributed $4.5 million in aid to the disaster.
Thousand left homeless after the earthquake line up in the streets for food.
Turkish justice officials are targeting contractors involved in shoddy construction.
Turkish officials detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people.
Rescue crews pull more survivors, including entire families, from toppled buildings.
New York Times: Thousands struggle to make sense of cataclysm that has upended lives.
Grim toll has surpassed 2011 Fukushima quake and tsunami that killed more than 18,400.
More bodies were pulled from the rubble of collapsed homes in the stricken zone.
New York Times: With thousands dead and many homeless, survivors plead for more aid.
Denise McCabe and her Turkish husband are helping after major quake.
Race on as “statistically today is the day when we’re going to stop finding people".
Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night in Turkey and Syria.
New York Times: A six-floor building was reduced to rubble. And yet, there was hope.
Rescuers raced against time early this morning to pull survivors from the rubble.
Millions of people affected; state of emergency declared in 10 provinces.
Engineers, soldiers, paramedics, search dogs & handlers on way as world pitches in.
Countries around the world dispatched teams to assist in the rescue efforts.
More than 5600 buildings were destroyed in Turkey alone.
About 3400 killed but number expected to rise.
Thousands have been killed after the powerful quake took Syria and Turkey unaware.
FT: Turkey is at the centre of one of the world’s most seismically active regions.
Are Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion serious?
Islamic State group leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in battle.
Weapons can fire tear gas, stun grenades, sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters.
Hungary is facing a fresh wave of asylum seekers as outages force people from their homes.
Interrogations and executions were organised brutality under strict control.
The airstrikes were said to be in response to an attack targeting US forces.