Tag: Turkey

It was a meeting of the two most famous British people on the planet: Queen Elizabeth II turned to her tuxedo-wearing guest and said, “Good evening, Mr. Bond.” The pairing ...

The latest installment in the Ertegün Jazz Series drew a wide audience from Washington’s arts circles for an Oct. 2 concert at the Turkish embassy’s historical residence in Washington. The ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of an ancient Mayan warrior queen packed with jade jewels and other artifacts that shed light on the long-vanished civilization, experts said on ...

Classic presidential foreign policy campaign gaffes. As much as we may love them on one level, presidential campaigns are awful enterprises. Candidates from both parties subject themselves to a seemingly ...

Russia has blocked a draft statement by the UN Security Council condemning Syria over a deadly mortar attack which killed five in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday. The draft, circulated to ...

A mission to photograph all 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK has come to an end. The Public Catalogue Foundation has spent a decade photographing artworks in ...

Natural England has issued the second licence allowing farmers to shoot badgers under measures designed to control bovine TB. The cull could start in weeks in West Somerset, a hotspot ...

Social media company Facebook Inc reported on Thursday it reached the 1 billion user mark last month, while Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said it would keep pursuing growth through mobile ...

President Barack Obama's backers scrambled to keep his edge in the presidential race on Thursday after rival Mitt Romney's aggressive debate performance put his campaign on a more positive footing ...

GCHQ director Iain Lobban, has said there were "enduring lessons" to be drawn from the work of Alan Turing. In a rare public speech the intelligence agency chief said there ...