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Like the previous year, a bell-ringing ceremony was held at Turkey's main stock exchange Borsa Istanbul on March 8 in cooperation with U.N. Global Compact, U.N.

The !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The festival launches today and will come to Ankara and ?zmir on March 3 and 6 The !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival will take place from Feb. 18-28 in Istanbul, and on March 3 and 6 in Ankara and ?zmir.

Rob Spence, a Toronto-based filmmaker, has replaced an eyeball with a camera-eye. The eyeball he has replaced was a fake one he had since he had a freak shooting accident at the age of nine. Considering his fake eye useless as it did not allow him to see, the one-eyed filmmaker put a camera of his own invention in the socket.

Turbulence on an Air Canada  flight from China injured multiple passengers on Dec. 30, forcing it to land in Calgary, Alberta, the airline said.

Twenty-one passengers were transferred to hospitals from the airport - eight with non-life-threatening injuries and 13 sent for observation, it said in a statement. 

Christmas is just around the corner and decorations have already begun with most cities around the world competing on which one has the most impressive and unique Christmas tree.

See some of the most outstanding trees around the globe:

Warsaw, Poland

Geneva remained on high alert Dec. 11 as police carried out further searches in the western Swiss city for several suspected jihadists believed to have links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials said.

In last week's list of movie reviews, The Guardian included the Bulgarian-Greek drama "Urok" ("The Lesson"), which has just been released in cinemas in the United Kingdom.

The movie, which is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, tells the story of Nadezhda (played by Margita Gosheva), a schoolteacher who wants to teach a thief in her class a lesson.

Leading Bulgarian PR expert Maxim Behar has said he is dedicating his Gold Stevie Award in the 2015 Chairman of the Year category to all of his colleagues and partners with whom he has worked in his M3 Communications Group, and particularly those with whom he works now.

In April, John Booker was arrested for allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing at a military base in Kansas on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).   

Bulgaria won't extradite the dual U.S./Canadian citizen Leonard Homeniuk to Kyrgyzstan, a Bulgarian court has decided.

The District Court in the Danube city of Vidin on Wednesday denied a request of the Kyrgyz authorities to extradite the retired geologist on charges of corruption, citing the lack of an extradition treaty between Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan.