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The Turkish history book Mir’ât-i-kâinât, which is a compilation of a number of books and was prepared by Muhammad bin Ahmad Efendi, who is also known with the sobriquet...

February 13, 2013 marked the first time in 600 years a Pope has resigned and stepped down, giving for reasons his age and weakening health issues. The highest office...

It is nearly four years since Google's Street View arrived in the UK, and now it is getting a major revamp. The Street View cars have been roaming Britain,...

Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting an art project less ordinary next month when famous landscape artist Andrew Rogers opens a labyrinth on the site’s terrace. The...

The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has prompted eulogies from around the world, but few of the messages have been as eccentric as the second-coming predicted by Iran's...

Officially Russia prides itself on being a diverse, multicultural country.  So it seemed appropriate when 18-year-old Elmira Abdrazakova -- the daughter of a Russian mother and a Tatar father...

Sergio Pininfarina, the former chairman of the Italian design firm that bore his name, died in July 2012 at age 85. He has been honoured at the 2013 Geneva...

Antalya hosted fewer numbers of tourists this January and February, according to data from the Mediterranean Touristic Hotels and Investors Association (AKTOB). The number of foreign tourists visiting the...

İzmir is set to host puppet shows performed by worldrenowned puppeteers from around the world during the İzmir International Puppetry Days festival, which begins tonight and continues until April...

Crowds of grieving Venezuelans sobbed and threw flowers as his coffin made its way through the streets of Caracas Wednesday. A somber Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's hand-picked successor,...