Physical geography

Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal's Everest region on March 12, allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest and most inaccessible places on earth, home to the world's highest mountain.
      

Cavo Tagoo, a luxury 5 star hotel near Chora, the main town of Mykonos Island in Greece, boasts one of the word's coolest plunge pools, according to Travel + Leisure magazine.

As far as hotel perks go, plunge pools are the epitome of luxury, as they allow you to enjoy the cool water and the awe-inspiring view by yourself or with the company of your choice.

Finland to donate hydrological measuring equipment

BELGRADE -- The Finnish government will help the Serbian hydrological services recover from flood-caused damage with a donation of hydrological equipment worth EUR 100,000

BELGRADE - The Finnish government will help the Serbian hydrological services recover from flood-caused damage with a donation of hydrological equipment worth EUR 100,000, said the participants of Friday's initial meeting on a project for rehabilitation and modernisation of hydrological and meteorological observation systems and data exchange procedures in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov was killed in a gun attack in Istanbul late on March 5, days after he warned Turkish authorities of a possible assassination.

Kuvatov, the leader of Group 24, an opposition movement in Tajikistan, was reportedly walking on the street in the Fatih district after having dinner at his friend's house when an unknown assailant shot him in the head.

Mauritius is a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, a few nautical miles east of Madagascar. It is a well-known tropical paradise which attracts many an adventurous holiday-maker.

"Cold weather over, but there may still be some snow"

BELGRADE -- The winter and spells of "significantly cold weather" are behinds us, but some snowfall can still be expected, a meteorologist has said.

Nineteen-year-old Asl? Alk?? returned home Feb. 20 after becoming the first Turkish woman to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.
 
Alk??, a member of Ku?adas? Mountaineering and Nature Sports Association in the western Turkish province of Ayd?n, took six days to accomplish the mission, which ended on Feb. 18.
      

Nepalese officials said on Feb. 18 they are changing the route that climbers take up Mount Everest after an avalanche killed 16 guides last year, the deadliest accident in the mountain's history.

BELGRADE - Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alena Kupchyna has visited the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to discuss with its officials ways to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries.