Time was running out for survivors buried in the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, as search efforts near the crucial 72-hour mark, a rescue response expert said yesterday.

A photograph of a father holding the hand of his teenage daughter who died trapped under the rubble of a flattened building in the Turkish region of Kahramanmaras conveys the scale of the suffering provoked by Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its aftershocks.

Rescuers were still pulling survivors yesterday from the rubble of the earthquake that killed over 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria, even as rescue chances dwindled and victims clamoured for help.

A 46-member rescue team left Dhaka last night for Turkey to join the search and rescue operation in the aftermath of Monday’s earthquake.

One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said yesterday.

One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said Wednesday.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Monday briefed nearly 150 foreign diplomats across 40 embassies, while in Beijing the US embassy gathered foreign diplomats on Monday and Tuesday to present US findings about the balloon.

US President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night, seeking to overcome pessimism in the country and concerns about his own leadership.

Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled frigid cold yesterday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 7,200 people.

Bangladesh is sending a joint support team led by the Armed Forces Division to Turkey to conduct search and rescue operations in the aftermath of Monday’s horrific earthquake.

Ukraine yesterday said the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian troops, as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east bringing tens of thousands of freshly mobilised troops to the battlefield.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the Israeli army saying he had fired on soldiers.

Russia today said its relations with India are under some "stress" due to the current tectonic geo-political shifts in view of the "arrogant" approach of the US-led West on the Ukraine conflict including its sanction regime against Moscow that caused disruptions in financial and logistics mechanisms.

Nurses and ambulances staff yesterday stepped up their demands for better pay to combat the UK’s cost of living crisis with their biggest round of health service strikes.

Tulin Akkaya had just started to gather her thoughts after being woken by the biggest earthquake to strike Turkey in nearly a century when a second massive jolt sent her scrambling for safety on the street.

Tremors from the powerful earthquake that rocked Turkey and neighbouring Syria yesterday were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said.

Some of the world’s most deadly earthquakes in the past two decades are listed below, after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria yesterday and killed hundreds of people.

Wailing children, flattened buildings and hospitals full of bodies - a devastating earthquake yesterday looked painfully familiar for Syrian families and rescuers worn down by nearly 12 years of bombardment and displacement.

A Dutch researcher accurately predicted yesterday’s Turkey-Syria earthquake, three days before it happened.

Israel said its forces killed five alleged Palestinian gunmen in a raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, after a days-long search for suspects in a shooting near Jericho.