Category: World
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
Property acquisition for foreigners
One of the biggest debates in Turkey is if foreigners should be allowed to buy property in Turkey or not and whether there should be a limitation on those interested in purchasing property here. Indeed, many foreigners have purchased property in Turkey in recent years by using special purpose companies or trusted Turkish friends. The [...]
Inspector investigates property scams
TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector: Taking a closer look at global real estate each month. This month, TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector investigates property scams. Scams have evolved in recent years thanks to the internet. As tourists are tricked into renting houses that aren’t on the market and unfinished resorts fail to deliver on fraudulent promises, how can you [...]
Prostate cancer is usually slow growing
Prostate cancer is a cancerous growth which forms in the reproductive gland of the male called the prostate. It is possible for the cancer cells to spread to the lymph nodes and into bones. This type of cancer can cause pain whilst urinating and may cause erectile dysfunction. Prostate cancer is usually slow growing, but [...]
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]