TWO million Armenians died in the genocide but the law punishes those who mention it.

Fat is fun! At least, that's the word from Turkey this week. Researchers at Erciyes University in Kayseri have just completed a yearlong study correlating body mass index (BMI) and male sexual performance. Their findings: Men with excess body fat last longer in bed. In fact, heavier men were able to make love for an average of 7.3 minutes, while slender men could count themselves lucky if they ...

Irish band U2 met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a visit to the Bosphorous Bridge, where two parts of Turkey and the two continents of Europe and Asia join. Frontman Bono also presented him with an iPod music player. (Sept 6)

Africa is the poorest continent on earth, despite housing the lion's share of the planet's natural resources as well as vast tracts of underutilised fertile and potentially productive agricultural land. It has one of the lowest population densities in the world, 29 people a square kilometre, and is home to 14% of the globe's population while making up 22% of the world's land mass. As in Asia in...

A time will come during the world championships in Turkey a close game, possibly with a medal at stake when Team USA, from players to coaches, ...

ROBINHO will snub Fenerbahce and Besiktas in the hope of moving to Italy or Spain

According to a study just released by security company AVG, Internet users in Russia and Turkey have the greatest chance of being attacked by viruses, with the average chance of a web surfer falling prey to an attack being at one in 10 and and one in 15, respectively. The security company looked at virus vulnerability in 100+ million PCs in 144 countries during the last week of July of this ye...

First, Jennifer Aniston was under fire for saying that it's OK for women to get pregnant with a "turkey baster." Now, she's said a word that even little kids know not to use.

Team USA has not won a gold medal at the FIBA World Championships since 1994, when Shaquille O'Neal, Reggie Miller and Dominique Wilkins powered Dream Team II to an 8-0 record in Toronto. Ending the 16-year drought will be a tall task. With the 2010 tournament scheduled to begin Aug. 28, here are five questions the U.S. team will have to answer in Turkey.

Shortly after your belly recovers from eating turkey, but before you get to decorate your Christmas tree, you'll be able to feast your eyes on The Tourist, the much anticipated thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. It was just announced that the film will release on December 10th. The decision on release date came [...]

White House denies any ultimatum to Turkey.

And that makes Jennifer Aniston the new Murphy Brown. While promoting that movie about a 40-something chick who begins a love affair with a turkey baster, Jennifer Aniston said that women today don't necessarily need a man around in order to raise a baby. Here's what she said:“Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times h...

Mr. Netanyahu was the first witness to testify to the state-appointed inquiry into the lethal raid at sea on May 31, in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists after boarding their vessel from a helicopter

Netanyahu suggests Turkey seeking conflict ahead of deadly May incident

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the Israeli and Turkish members of the Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May incident involving a flotilla headed for Gaza after departing Turkey.

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke by telephone today as part of their ongoing consultations on our shared global agenda.  The Prime Minister updated the President on his recent visits to India and Turkey.  The leaders discussed Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the Prime Minister noting his recent constructive meeting with Pakistani President Zardari.  The two leaders ...

• Justin Timberlake, stepping out for a late dinner at the opening of Strawberry's Sports Grill, former MLB star Darryl Strawberry's new restaurant in Queens, N.Y. The actor, who took a break from shooting Friends with Benefits, rolled up around 10:30 p.m. and settled into a booth with three others, including best bud Trace Ayala. The singer-actor, sporting a Johnny Cash T-shirt, munched on a t...

A move to Turkey for the young American.

In a speech in the Turkish capital the Prime Minister promised to ‘fight’ to help the mainly Islamic country achieve its 50-year goal of EU membership.

Star Mall Group, a real estate and investment company in Turkey, announced a plan on Monday to open 10 shopping mall projects in China over the next 10 years.

Asma Assad and Emine Erdogan campaign for the bald ibis.

British prime minister David Cameron has revealed a plain-speaking streak during a tour of Turkey and India that raises questions over whether it is down to youthful inexperience or a bold new approach to diplomacy.

A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist video.The court’s decision also applies to the Internet Archive…

You may remember that a couple of months ago everyone was in a tizzy over a couple of young Hollywood actors who had the nerve, yes, the nerve to complain about the overbearing filmmakers they'd worked with--Megan Fox actually compared Michael Bay to Hitler--and the crummy movies they'd starred in. Shia LaBeouf got the worst of it for having the temerity to gently chide Steven Spielber...

Former MI5 chief says Hussein and 9/11 were never linked Ex-MI5 chief said there was no credible link between Saddam Hussein and September 11, and that no such connection was discovered ahead of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director of the MI5 between 2002 and 2007 also said the invasion "substantially" increased the terrorist threat to the UK because...

Tesla Motors (TSLA) this morning announced that it has sold its first Tesla Roadsters in Poland, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and Canada. The company says it has now sold more than 1,200 of the electric sports cars in at least 28 countries. TM this morning is up $1.26, or 6.1%, to [...]

The Middle East's rarest bird now has a chance at surviving, thanks to a gift from Turkey.Once revered by the Egyptian pharaohs, the Northern bald ibis ( Geronticus eremita ) is now critically endangered. Only a few hundred birds remain: 100 breeding pairs in Morocco, another 100 or so semi-wild birds in Turkey and, until recently, four wild birds in Syria. But now the Syrian population--the...

Finds in Turkey could answer key questions about ancient human origins, but palaeoanthropologists there must first bury their disputes. Rex Dalton reports from the field.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey accused Israel on Friday of breaking biblical commandments against killing and said it could cut ties with its one-time ally to a minimum after nine Turkish activists died in a raid on a ship bound for Gaza.

The country’s foreign minister says governments backing tougher UN action against Iran over its nuclear programme could kill Tehran’s deal to export most of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey

Prime minister says Israel should be "punished" for deadly attack on Gaza convoy.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Monday on Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, with the Palestinians and Arab nations demanding condemnation and an independent investigation. The Palestinians and Arabs, backed by a number of council members including Turkey, also called for Israel to lift the bloc...

Israel faced condemnation and questions Monday at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting called by Turkey on the Israeli military's storming of a six-ship flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists headed to Gaza with aid supplies.

Relations between Israel and Turkey have been dragged to a new low, experts say, threatening to derail relations between the two close U.S. allies.

At least nine activists killed and dozens more wounded by Israeli naval commandosIsrael was engulfed by a wave of global condemnation tonight after a botched assault on a flotilla carrying aid and supplies to the Gaza Strip ended in carnage and a diplomatic crisis involving the UN security council.At least nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed as Israeli naval commandos stormed the largest...

Kurdish rebels launched a rocket attack on a military vehicle near a naval base in southern Turkey, killing six soldiers and wounding seven.

The pros' advice couldn't be plainer: Investors need exposure to the regions outside the United States where more and more of the world's economic growth will be found in the years ahead. Yet most Americans stick close to home. Less than a third of the savers in Vanguard's retirement plans invest in international stock funds when they're available, according to a recent study by the mutual fund...

In this terrifying video, a four year old boy playfully climbs up the outside of a mall escalator and falls from a height of about 15 feet. A shopkeeper was passing by and caught him. The kid was apparently visiting the mall with his dad — where the heck was he when this happened? Hero catches escalator fall boy in Turkey [BBC]...

A MAN who was granted Swiss nationality must return his passport as he has a second family in Turkey.

Sixteen people are killed when a coach carrying Russian tourists crashes off a bridge in southern Turkey, officials say.

A bus carrying Russian tourists skidded off a highway in southern Turkey and fell off a bridge Tuesday, killing 16 passengers and injuring 25 others, officials and news reports said.

The Turkish-Brazilian deal leaves Iran enriching uranium and is unlikely to satisfy the WestTWO leaders from two big regional powers, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, took a risk in travelling to Iran and negotiating over the country's contentious nuclear programme. Many said they would fail. Instead the two announced triumph on Monday 17th May, clutching ...

More and more people in Turkey are getting interested in marriages through the internet due to the lack of proper social atmosphere and time.