Two days of talks between six world powers and Iran to ease tensions over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive ended on Saturday, a Western official said without elaborating.

Iran's nuclear talks with world powers were set to enter a final day on Saturday in Istanbul but Western sources described the negotiations as being "inconclusive" so far.

Six world powers began fresh talks with Iran on Friday in a bid to resolve tensions over its controversial nuclear drive, but the United States warned against building up hopes of a breakthrough.

The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan were to meet here under Turkish auspices Friday for talks aimed at bringing the troubled neighbours closer.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul was to host the meeting between his counterparts, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, at an Ottoman palace on the banks of the Bosphorus.

A hotel in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus has threatened Jennifer Lopez with a $40 million lawsuit after she cancelled a concert there for “political” reasons, press reports said on Sunday.

A roadside bomb ripped through a bus carrying military personnel and their families in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul on Tuesday, killing four people, after the Army stepped up operations against K

A Turkish newspaper reported on Wednesday that Turkey would halt military cooperation with Israel and would not send back an envoy, withdrawn after an Israeli commando operation to stop an aid convoy

As it prepares to receive home minister P. Chidambaram later this month, Pakistan on Wednesday said it wanted to know from him as to what India wants to be done on terrorism front so that relations could normalise.

Iran will reject talks on its nuclear programme if slapped with new sanctions, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday as the UN Security Council geared up for fresh talks on a fourth sanctions

Pakistan’s military operations in tribal areas have forced some important Taliban leaders to flee outside of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Meh-mood Qureshi said on Monday.