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Flight and hotel search engine Skyscanner has inaugurated an office in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, Capital daily says.

Turkey's ancient city of Hasankeyf and its surroundings has been shortlisted for the Seven Most Endangered program 2016 by Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank InstituteEuropa Nostra, the leading European heritage organization, and the European Investment Bank Institute announced on Dec 10 the 14 monuments and sites shortlisted for "The Seven Most Endangered" program 2016 by an intern

After a tough seven-day journey from Edinburgh, Turkey's first Indian rhino Samir has arrived in the Dar?ca Faruk Yalç?n Zoo and Botanical Park in the northwestern province of Kocaeli's Dar?ca district. 

A female rhino will also be brought over next year for the seven-year-old, 3.5-ton Samir. 

A cooperative project funded by the EU researchers from the Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) of Bielefeld University funded by Edinburgh (UK), Crete (Greece) and Munich (Germany) are working to create the first robotic bartender, called James (Joint Action in Multimodal Embodied Systems).

GQ’s dedication to the offspring of Greece’s former royal family is titled, “The Return of Greece’s Former Playboy Prince Nikolaos”.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to economist Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.

Deaton, 69, was born in Edinburgh but now works at Princeton University in New Jersey and he holds both U.S. and British citizenship.

Prince Edward, 51, has expressed his deepest sympathies for the Turkish people following the deadly terror attacks at a peace rally in the capital Ankara, which killed at least 99 people and wounded more than 200. 

"These [events] are [a] reminder of why we must all stick together," Prince Edward said during his visit to the Tarabya British School in Istanbul on Oct. 15.  

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that Princeton University professor Angus Deaton has won the 2015 Nobel prize in economic sciences.

Deaton, 69, has been awarded the prize for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", the Academy said.

Norwegian Air Shuttle hopes to start selling one-way tickets to Europe for $69 in 2017 by flying from U.S. airports that have low fees, Chief Executive Officer Bjørn Kjos said in an interview.

Britain celebrated Queen Elizabeth II becoming the country's longest-serving monarch on Sept.9 with a flotilla down the River Thames, a gun salute and the peal of Westminster Abbey's bells.