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BELGRADE - Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljevic said Tuesday he could not speak of any solutions for Tanjug for now, but noted the news agency was relying on market revenue and operating independently.

NIS - "Between borders...", an exhibition of Tanjug News Agency photographs and video footage documenting the migrants' passage across Serbia, opened at the Officers' Home in Nis Wednesday.

Seven million people above the age of 15 are illiterate in Turkey, according to statistics released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to mark the 50th International Literacy Day on Sept. 8. The number corresponds to nearly one seventh of Turkey's population, which is nearly 79 million.

The Brdo-Brijuni Process leaders stressed in Sarajevo the need for trust-building, understanding, reconciliation in the region, support for EU integration.

The participants also urged "refraining from rhetoric and moves that could stir tensions in the region," Tanjug reported.

Tanjug has continued to work despite being deleted from the national media registry and having no permit to operate after being officially shut down following a failed privatisation effort, raising suspicions about who is now behind it.

If you thought long-form journalism would die from the shift to mobile news, think again.

A Pew Research Center study released Thursday found consumers spend more time on their phones with long-form news articles than with shorter ones, and that the elusive notion of "engagement" increases with word count.

An Australian man long rumored to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, a claim that would end one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world.

Lawmakers have reversed a ban on beach camping out of specially designated place which was voted earlier this spring, but sparked protests.

The latest amendments are prepared to match public expectation that a set of rules and regulations should be introduced with regard to beach camping.

'In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies' by David Rieff (Yale University Press, $25, 145 pages)

A new app developed by a group of researchers at the University of Minnesota helps you learn about the world along the path of your flight, hike, or road trip with GPS tracking. Offline geologic maps and interactive points of interest reveal the locations of fossils and georeferenced Wikipedia articles visible from your airplane window seat, vehicle, or hiking trail vista.