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Mercer released its annual report on the Quality of Living Index. The ranking is one of the most detailed and it conducted to aid multinational companies and employers in order to provide employees some fair benefits when placing them in cities around the globe.

The humanitarian crisis should not be used for the benefit of the nation, opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said, urging to maintain calmness over the escalating diplomatic crisis with the Netherlands and Germany.

"My son got a divorce from his wife and since then their relationship has improved. Once they were spared the responsibilities of marriage, they started to get along better."

What I heard from a relative two days ago made me think of Turkey-EU relations, especially amid the crisis that erupted after Holland banned Turkish politicians from campaigning in the country. 

For more than two decades, the Danish People’s Party ran on an unapologetically anti-immigration, populist platform, pushing Danish politics to the right by rejecting multiculturalism and opposing the transfer of sovereignty to Brussels.

Today, the DPP faces its own challenge from the right.

Significant reductions of over 10 percent were recorded in the incarceration rate in Greece (-18.8 percent), Croatia (-10 percent) and Denmark (-11 percent) between 2014 and 2015, according to the Council of Europe's annual penal statistics (SPACE), published on Tuesday.

Statements by the jailed Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş "go beyond freedom of expression," a court ruled on March 13. 

US director David Boreinstein on Sunday took the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Golden Alexander for best feature over 50 minutes in the international competition for "Dream Empire," in which he exposes the lucrative albeit surreal business of hiring white males to attract property buyers in China's real-estate bubble.

By May 1945 the war in Europe had finally started to wind down. Yet for the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, there was one final mission to complete before they were relieved. Due to increasing tensions between them and the USSR, the Western Allies recognized that they had to take as much German territory as they could before the Soviets arrived.

The number of births in Greece in 2015 was 10.2 percent lower than those in 2001, according to figures published on Wednesday by the European Commission's statistical agency, Eurostat.

The data show that 102,282 children were born in Greece in 2001 but this number fell to 91,847 in 2015. This was the fifth highest relative fall in the European Union during this period.

There are a lot of stereotypes circulating about the Vikings and their habits and traits. A lot of the things said about them are wrong and in many cases overexaggerated or missinterpreted. Here are 10 interesting facts about the Vikings that you probably didn’t know.
1. Vikings didn’t use horned helmets during battle