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Turkey ranks in the bottom third of a new international comparison of the efficiency of educational systems in 30 member countries of the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a recent index.

Turkey ranks in the bottom third of a new international comparison of the efficiency of educational systems in 30 member countries of the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a recent index.

The silver cup given to marathon winner Spyros Louis at the first Modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896, has been temporarily moved to Switzerland in order to be exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) said on Thursday.

The cup will remain there for six months before returning to the Acropolis Museum in Athens.

Fifty-five Greenpeace activists from some 20 countries go on trial in France on Sept. 4 for an audacious break-in at the country's oldest nuclear power plant to highlight weaknesses at atomic installations.        

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will on Thursday meet with the head of the OSCE chairmanship task force of the Swiss Foreign Ministry Heidi Grau, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Novak Djokovic is through to his eighth consecutive US Open semi-final after beating Great Britain's Andy Murray 7-6 (7-1), 6-7 (1-7), 6-2, 6-4 in New York early Thursday.

In the semi-final, the current world number one in men's tennis will face Kei Nishikori of Japan, who beat Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet with head of the working group for theOSCE presidency of the Swiss Foreign Ministry Heidi Graub on Thursday, the Serbian Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday.

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov failed to make it to the US Open quarter-finals after losing to France's Gaël Monfils 5:7, 6:7 (6), 5:7.

Bulgaria's star tennis player, seeded 7th, was defeated by the Frenchman, seeded 20th, in a match of 2 hours and 24 minutes, according to reports of the BBC News.

Dimitrov failed to avenge a first round US Open defeat to Monfils in 2011.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Czech Republic's Klara Koukalova lost to the Indo-Zimbabwean pair Sania Mirza/Cara Black 6-3, 6-2 at the US Open early on Tuesday CET

Jankovic was ousted in the singles competition earlier, after losing to Belinda Bencic from Switzerland 7(6)-6, 6-3 in the 4th round on Sunday.

In a recent interview given to Agerpres, writer and journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu says Bucharest is a city that can be loved by strangers because it has its ID picture, its stamp, leaving an imprint of it in people's minds.