Dawn Brancheau is the third person killed by the orca named Tilikum. She lost her life during an incident at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday. Since then, there have been calls for the killer whale to be euthanized, which SeaWorld is flatly rejecting, and for it to be let loose into the wild. Animal [...]
UK backs Turkey’s aspiration to join EU and will do is utmost to implement its objective, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated at the reception dedicated to the 3rd anniversary of “Turkey’s friends from Workers’ Party” lobby establishment.
Brown thanked Turks living in UK for the contribution to British society development.
According to him, in the course [...]
Meanwhile, NATO said in a statement that its forces uncovered 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making material while clearing a compound in Marjah. Some 300 meters (985 feet) of detonation cord wrapped in plastic was also found, along with a weapons cache in northern Nad Ali district
The UK ticket-holder who this weekend won £56million Britain’s biggest ever lottery prize has come forward to collect their prize. The identity of the winner and the area where the ticket was bought remain unknown, but a National Lottery spokesman said a claim for Friday’s EuroMillions jackpot was made yesterday.
The possibility that the ticket was [...]
Washington supports Ankara in its effort to tackle Kurdish PKK , but military action is not the only solution available, the U.S. defense secretary said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with Turkish officials in Ankara during the weekend, saying he would propose a supporting role for the military effort against supporters with the Kurdistan [...]
The Grammy Awards 2010 were held tonight and we have a complete list of winners below! Beyonce was the top winner of this year’s Grammy’s with six wins, followed by Taylor Swift with 4 wins…including Album of the Year. Here’s the Grammy 2010 nominees with winners in bold, including photos of your favorite stars on [...]
A court on Corfu yesterday heard how two British children died in their hotel room from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning during a family holiday, as the trial of 11 people, including two former employees of the Thomas Cook tour operator, went on trial on the Ionian island yesterday.
The 11 defendants, including the manager of the [...]
HUNDREDS of travelling Britons are being caught out by strict foreign laws against trafficking drugs, the Government warned yesterday. More than 1,000 are in jails overseas, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.
Spain has the most, 207, followed by the US with 141 and Thailand and France, which both hold 79. Minister Chris Bryant said travellers [...]
Holidaymakers could be in line for big bargains next year as travel companies embark upon a price war to make the most of returning customers.The Co-operative Travel reports that bookings across the top 20 destinations for next summer have seen a 26% increase in the last three months as the market begins to recover.
Leading the [...]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy only promised to enforce bilateral relations with Turkey, but still refused to support the Islamic country to win the European Union membership, the presidential palace Elysee said Friday.
Sarkozy and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul held a discussion during lunch in Elysee after attending the inauguration of a Turkish culture exhibition in [...]
A British family caught in a terrorist bombing while on holiday in 2005 win a landmark compensation case and are awarded more than £1m by the Turkish government. Helen Bennett, from Spennymoor, who was 21, was one of five people killed in the attack on a tourists’ mini-bus in the resort of Kusadasi on 16 [...]
All Sultan Kosen wants is a woman to look up to – but finding love is a tall order when you are 8ft 1in. The 27-year-old farmer from Turkey said he’s never had a girlfriend. But he hopes his luck will change after being named the world’s tallest man by the Guinness Book of Records [...]
Britons who travel abroad are often labelled as badly behaved and the reputation of travelling Brits was dealt another blow this week when a teenager from Cumbria exposed himself on a drunken night out. Thomas Strong, 19, not only decided to pull his shorts down in the popular holiday resort of Marmaris but he went [...]
BBC – Ten people have been arrested during a demonstration outside a mosque in north-west London where an anti-Islamic protest was planned. At least 1,000 people gathered outside Harrow Central Mosque as activists from Stop Islamification of Europe planned to demonstrate outside the mosque. Unite Against Fascism were also present to “defend the mosque”, they [...]
A Turkish university will for the first time teach the Kurdish language, which was banned throughout the country until 1991, Turkish officials say. Postgraduate studies in Kurdish will begin at Artuklu University, in the southeastern province of Mardin. The language will be offered alongside Farsi, Arabic and Syriac, at a new “Living Languages in Turkey” [...]
