Argentina, in a stinging repudiation of outgoing leftist President Cristina Kirchner, elected a pro-market government president to take the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy. Conservative president-elect Mauricio Macri, fresh from Sunday's run-off election...

A young girl’s body was among those washed up on Turkey’s western coast on Sunday in a chilling reminder of the death of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. In an echo of the boat disaster that shocked the world in September, drowned refugees’ corpses were carried to the coastline near the...

Syrian refugees in Turkey have been joining the search for meteorite fragments in the eastern province of Bingol. In Saricicek, a village 5 km (3 miles) east of the provincial capital Bingol, showers of extra-terrestrial rocks have fallen on their land since early September. After hearing...

Russia has killed 403 civilians, among them 97 children, during its air strikes in Syria, according to figures from a monitoring group. The Russian president Vladimir Putin has stepped up his country's air campaign in Syria in recent weeks, targeting anti-government rebels as well Islamist...