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Using and sharing posts on social media during school time without the knowledge of a teacher has been banned in high schools across Turkey.

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.”

French lawmakers are set to approve a new law May 5 granting the state sweeping powers to spy on its citizens despite criticism from rights groups that the bill is vague and intrusive.

On April 29, the CEO of Index Group, Erol Bilecik, talked about his life and company at an event hosted by Patronlar Okulu. 

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office has finalized the draft of an indictment arguing it has found ?concrete evidence? that sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen were trying to form a ?cemaat state? parallel to the state of the Republic of Turkey. It has also charged seven people for leaking information and documents to criminal organizations.

Controversial Bild tabloid's no-holes-barred media coverage of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps last month has generated a social media backlash in Germany, with a Twitter hashtag ? #bildboykott - widely circulating this week.

Did you know that a firm handshake would be off putting in the UK, or that a lighter one could be criticized in Brasil?

Business Insider, with the help of information from BBC and Mental floss created and published recently a helpful guide for handshake etiquette around the world.

Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has revoked sections of communications legislation allowing for the storage of telecommunications metadata and the access to them by Interior Ministry officials and other security personnel.

Turkish women started a social media campaign on Feb. 15 to help end violence against women by sharing their own sexual harassment stories under the hashtag #sendeanlat (you tell your story too), after a 20-year-old woman was brutally killed in southern Turkey.

The British Council, in cooperation with Snook, Google and the Future Library are organizing the first Culture Shift in Athens, between the 6th and 8th of March, 2015. The event will take place in the Ilioupolis Public Library.