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Dubai International Airport remained the world's busiest for international passengers in 2015 as traffic grew 10.7 percent, boosted by the addition of new airlines and routes, the airport's operator said on Feb. 1. 

Annual traffic rose to 78 million passengers from 70.5 million in 2014. In the month of December alone, traffic climbed 8.5 percent to 7.05 million people. 

The Serbian government will donate to children of Syria EUR 500,000 through UNICEF at a high-level donor conference that will be held in London on February 4.

The government announced this in a statement.

Turkish Airlines Chairman ?lker Ayc? has said the company was looking forward to the opening of its "new house," the third airport in Istanbul, which will have a capacity of 90 million passengers in the first phase. 

Istanbul took ninth place, and Antalya was ranked 11th in Euromonitor's "Top 100 City Destinations" list, a report which monitors the number of international tourist arrivals has said.

Artvin, a Black Sea destination in Turkey's northeast, was placed at number 100 in the list, which was released Jan. 29.

The physical manifestation of Turkish Nobel Laureate author Orhan Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence," which was published in 2008, has opened at Somerset House's Courtyard Rooms in London. 

Iran is the world's most prolific executioner of offenders convicted while juveniles, Amnesty International said on Jan. 26, accusing the Islamic republic of using torture and ill-treatment to extract confessions from minors.  

Germany proposes creating up to 500,000 short-term jobs to help Syrian refugees survive in overburdened Middle Eastern host countries, the minister for economic cooperation said during a visit to Jordan on Jan. 26.

Germany will raise the idea at next week's annual Syria aid conference in London, Gerd Mueller told The Associated Press.

An airplane conducting a flight between London and Beirut performed an emergency landing at Sofia airport on Tuesday evening due to an aggressive drunk passenger on board.

Under the influence of alcohol, the passenger started to behave aggressively with crew members and other passengers and according to some reports embroiled in a fight with another passenger.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 25 stressed that "more work" was needed to strike a deal on reforms to the European Union ahead of London's in/out referendum.

The two leaders spoke by telephone, also discussing Europe's migrant crisis, according to a statement from Cameron's Downing Street office.

Police intervened at six high schools in Paris on Tuesday after receiving bomb threats by telephone.

According to Le Figaro newspaper, Henri IV, Louis Le Grand, Condorcet, Fénelon et Montaigne have been evacuated and specialists are already investigating the area.