The Turkish government has long been accused of at best turning a blind eye to the rise of IS - and at worst, actively backing the jihadists against the Assad regime. It has always denied the allegation. But last week came the suicide bombing in Suruc, southern Turkey, in which 32 died and which Turkey blamed on a militant trained by IS. And then a firefight in which IS forces shot at Turkish bord

A team from Japan have won the child-sized humanoid football final at the RoboCup World Championships in China. The Brains Kids, from the Chiba Institute of Technology, beat rivals ZJUDancer, from China's Zhejian University, 1-0.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the sanctions regime was never successful, but that it had affected people's lives World powers have reached a deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of international economic sanctions. US President Barack Obama said that with the deal, "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off" for Iran. And President Hassan Rouhani

Donald Tusk: "After 17 hours of negotiations we have reached agreement" Eurozone leaders have agreed to offer Greece a third bailout, after marathon talks in Brussels. Amid one of the worst crises in the EU's history, the head of the European Commission said the risk of Greece leaving the eurozone had been averted. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that after a "tough battle", Greece had se

Protesters in Ankara were hit with pepper spray after pushing a police barricade Turkish police have fired pepper spray at pro-Uighur demonstrators outside the Chinese embassy in Ankara. It comes after protesters attacked the Thai consulate in Istanbul following the deportation from Thailand of about 100 Uighurs to China. Rights groups have criticised such deportations, saying Uighurs face persecu

The US Army is to reduce the size of its force by 40,000 soldiers over the next two years, according to US media. The cost-cutting exercise will also see an additional 17,000 civilian employees cut from the army. The plan, which could be officially announced later this week, would see the US troop level drop to about 450,000 soldiers by the end of 2017. The US army had about 570,000 troops at the

Many of the wounded were taken across the border into the Turkish town of Suruc Islamic State (IS) militants have killed more than 120 civilians since launching a fresh attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, activists say. IS "fired at everything that moved" after entering on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A separate IS attack on the north-eastern city of Hassakeh has

A CCTV camera from the Turkish side of the border captures the car bomb blast in Kobane Islamic State fighters have attacked the Syrian city of Kobane, months after being driven out in a symbolic battle that made international headlines. They detonated car bombs and launched an assault. Kurdish media say at least 50 civilians have been killed, including 20 in a nearby village. IS has recently suff

China is minting new millionaires faster than any other country in the world Asia has overtaken Europe as the world's second-richest region, according to an annual report, external by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, held $47 trillion (£30tn) in private wealth last year as the number of new millionaires rose in China and India. North America is the world's rich

Most residents of Tokyo's pulsing Shinjuku ward, home to the busiest railway station in the world, are of the homo sapiens variety. Shinjuku has a population density of about 17,000 people , externalper square kilometre but undeterred by this it has granted citizenship to a new resident, who only goes by one name - Godzilla. Name: Godzilla Address: Shinjuku-ku, Kabuki-cho, 1-19-1 Date of birth: Ap

Ahmed Maher was the first BBC journalist to travel to Anbar province for five months Iraq's government has called for volunteers to fight against Islamic State and help retake the city of Ramadi. A cabinet statement , externalsaid a voluntary recruitment drive was necessary to fill shortages in squads in the west of Anbar province. Thousands have fled Ramadi since its capture by IS on Sunday. Mean

David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with the Tories having defied polls and won the general election. The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales and are forecast by the BBC to secure 331 seats in the Commons, giving them a slender majority. Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would stand down on Friday, saying his party must "rebuild" with a new leader. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has

Forensic scientists say they have found the tomb of Spain's much-loved giant of literature, Miguel de Cervantes, nearly 400 years after his death. They believe they have found the bones of Cervantes, his wife and others recorded as buried with him in Madrid's Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians. Separating and identifying his badly damaged bones from the other fragments will be difficult, researc

Footage shows Turkish forces travelling back across the border after the evacuation, as Selin Gerit reports Hundreds of Turkish forces in armoured vehicles have entered war-torn northern Syria to evacuate troops guarding a historic tomb, demolishing it and moving the remains to a different site. The remains of Suleyman Shah, who died in the 13th Century, were moved to a site in Syria closer to the