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NASA: Activity spied on Europa

NASA had announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured ‘surprising evidence of activity’ on Europa – which made many think that aliens might have been found.
The agency has looked to calm speculation on social media and elsewhere that a press conference on Monday will put a light on the discovery of life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.

Bosnia Struggles to Tighten Gambling Regulations

Bosnia has no an effective gambling law, despite having the highest registered number of betting shops per resident in Europe.

"We aren't satisfied by the current regulation," Nermana Mehic-Basara, a neuropsychiatrist and director the Public Institute for Addiction Diseases in Sarajevo, told BIRN on Thursday.

Two Turks going global

Turkish people who live within Turkey are focused on potential problems between the president and the prime minister, which dominates the news. 

However, the focus of Turks outside of Turkey is on what they do best - and two of them are doing particularly well. 

I am proud to say that both come from my alumni, Robert College, and one is my former classmate, Güvenç Özel.

Columbia Space Shuttle lands 30 years ago on April 14

Thirty years ago to the day, the first Space Shuttle mission landed in California. On April 14, 1981, the rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden Flight Research Center), in southern California, to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.

NASA responds to Turkish claims of superiority, says it is not involved in weather forecasts

NASA has responded to remarks by Turkish Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu, who raised eyebrows by claiming that Turkey's technology on meteorological weather forecasts is more advanced than that of the space agency. 

‘Who is NASA’, exclaims Turkey Minister over drought data

Turkish Minister for Forest and Water Affairs Veysel Eroglu vehemently disputed the scientific capacity of NASA officials during a parliamentary discussion in Turkey’s national assembly on the effects of drought in the eastern Mediterranean. Eroglu said the studies and scientific surveys done by Turkey were of much higher quality and reliability than those of NASA.

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