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Greek manufacturing activity shrank for the fourth month in a row in May as a big drop in new orders was accompanied by job losses and a fall in production, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Bulgarian music copyright management organization Musicautor has collected the highest annual revenue in its history, BGN 7.5 M (EUR 3.8), in 2015.

The figure is 49% higher than the revenue collected in the previous year, the non-profit association of composers, lyricists and music publishers said in a statement published on its website.

At least six people were killed when a magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit Taiwan Saturday morning, according to Chinese CTI News TV citing statements of Taiwanese Disaster Response Center.

Photojournalists welcomed on Tuesday the Serbian parliament's decision to reject the draft interpretation of the law on copyright and related rights.

The draft said that copyright protection cannot extend to "routinely produced photographs appearing and taken over in electronic form, regardless of whether it is the author's original creation."

Representatives of several associations of photographers called on MPs Monday not to pass the draft interpretation of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights.

It considers electronic photographs to be “the result of mechanical actions, of routine, physical actions” that should not covered by copyright protection.

The Hellenic Statistical Authority announces data on the use of new technologies by households and their members, for the year 2015.The data derive form the sample Survey on the Use of Ιnformation and Communication Technologies by households, conducted for 2015.

If I lived in a ?normal? country, I would have devoted this column to Angus Deaton, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Oct. 12. But I don?t, and so I need to cover the ?normally boring? Medium-Term Economic Program (MTEP), which was published in the Official Gazette on Oct. 11, instead.

Turkey held its election this June. Halfway through August, the country still has no government. Just before the election on June 7, 2015, I dubbed it as the outset of The Great Normalization in Turkey. That was published on June 6, 2015, mind you. There I noted a caveat, kind of a ?personality? problem that may hamper the transition process. Let me reiterate.

Recently in Turkey electronic means of marketing have been regulated harshly. However, the demand for sending texts by companies is not broken. One by one, companies are breaking the legislation or finding loop holes to exploit. 

The Turkish craze over SMS marketing can seem absurd. After all, the world of marketing is transforming very fast and big data is at the core of it all. 

Tahera Ahmad, aged 31, was denied an unopened can of diet coke aboard her United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington just after an unopened can was handed to another passenger. Ahmad, director of interfaith engagement and associate chaplain at Northwestern University,  was told that the refusal to hand her a coke was so that she wouldn’t “use it as a weapon.”