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Britain's Pearson has sold the Financial Times newspaper to the Japanese media group Nikkei for some USD 1.3 B in cash, the two companies said on Thursday.

The latest underwater excavation effort this summer on the “Mentor” shipwreck, off the southwestern Aegean island of Kythira investigate whether other antiquities besides the Parthenon Marbles were carried by the vessel when it sank.

This year’s excavations lasted from June 26 to July 12, with efforts focusing on the western boundary of the salvaged shipwreck, towards the bow.

Tour operator Balkan Holidays has announced that it will add a new route from Scotland's Glasgow to Bulgaria's Varna in the summer of next year.

Turkish Airlines is considering starting flights with its low-cost unit AnadoluJet to Germany, France and Britain, although no decision has yet been taken, the carrier's chief executive told a German paper.

Scientists of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, lead by Tracey Chapman, found that male fruit flies selectively alter the chemical make-up of their seminal fluid. This means that their semen can alter both the bodies and soemtimes even the behavior of females. “It came as a real surprise,” says Chapman.

A ?United Cyprus Federation? has been on the agenda of resumed negotiations with the Greek side of the divided island, Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc? has said.

One of the world?s oldest luxury hotels, the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul, will host the ?Black Week Turkey? event on Oct. 22-24 in honor of Agatha Christie?s 125th birthday with the attendance of the famous author?s grandson and a number of leading crime fiction authors. 

Eight projects of six EU Member States will be the first to receive funding under the so-called Juncker Plan.

British low-cost airline easyJet forecast annual profit growth of up to 14 percent, helped by higher demand for beach holidays which calmed fears it had raised over its outlook.

Fragments of what could be the oldest version of the Quran in existence have been found by researchers from the University of Birmingham after they lay unrecognized in a library for a 100 years. Scientists say that the fragments, written on sheep or goat skin are at least 1,370 years old.