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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is offering tips on love and lust, counselling sex with a fish and advising one fan who wants to date a younger woman to read Sun Tzu?s ?The Art of War.?

The wife of the man who confessed to the murder that has shook Turkey over the past days has demanded the ?heaviest sentence? for him.

?God damn him. I want him to be given the heaviest sentence,? Neslihan Alt?ndöken told the Do?an News Agency on Feb. 17.

The main suspect in the brutal slaying of 20-year-old woman Özgecan Aslan in southern Turkey was arrested early Feb. 16 with his two accomplices, as Turks showed their mourning and anger by wearing black.

Actress Jamie Brewer, best known for her roles on American Horror Story series, made history last Thursday when she became the first model with Down Syndrome to walk the runway during New York Fashion Week.

The 30-year-old actress modeled as part of Carrie Hammer's "Role Models Not Runway Models" campaign.

Legendary actress Sophia Loren, a symbol of Italy for many generations of cinephiles, recently opened up about her life in hotels and her travels, in an interview with the New York Times.

The Italian-French star, now 80 years old, has travelled all around the world.

A 23-year-old man from Yemen hung himself while in custody in Thessaloniki, it was revealed on Saturday.

Authorities said that the unnamed man used his T-shirt to hang himself in a cell at the northern city?s Aliens Bureau.

Police said that the man appeared to be suffering from mental problems and had been examined by a doctor, who recommended that he be given drugs.

Thanos Dimopoulos, head of the Athens University?s medical department was elected as the university?s new rector last Friday.

Among the new rector?s top priorities is a demand for new academic appointments and the reversal of the previous government?s mobility scheme regarding administrative staff.

Thousands bid farewell on Feb. 14 to Özgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old woman who was murdered during a rape attempt, in a funeral ceremony held in her hometown Mersin.

Although the imam requested women to step back during the ceremony, hundreds of women attended the funeral prayer on the front lines, while they also carried he coffin of Aslan before and after the prayer. 

The burned body of a 20-year-old female student who had been missing for two days was discovered Feb. 13 in a riverbed near Tarsus district of the southern province of Mersin. 

Three suspects have been detained for stabbing Özgecan Aslan to death and later burning her remains.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford was not afraid to pose in underwear, without the 'help' of Photoshop for Marie Claire magazine, as part of a campaign that aims to show that even celebrities have faults, just like regular people.