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Preliminary results showing that Vangelis Giakoumakis committed suicide by slashing his wrist were boosted this week, after tests showed that DNA on a knife found next to his body contained only his genetic material.

Innovation and adapting to the digital world is the key for the growth of the Turkish economy in the coming years, Do?an Holding Chair Begümhan Do?an Faralyal? said on March 13 at the Uluda? Economy Summit. 

A rare cloud formation in western Turkey has gone viral on social media, dubbed "a portal to heaven."

A cloud over the Söke district of the Ayd?n province initially appeared as a ring on the evening of March 10. As the sun began to set, the circumference of the ring grew larger and the lower rim of the cloud approached the horizon. 

Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft powered only by sunlight, has landed in India on Tuesday after covering about 1,500 kilometres during a 15-hour flight from Oman.

The Swiss-built  single-seat airctaft that weighs only 2,300 kilogrammes, landed in Ahmedabad where it will make a four-day stopover before flying off to Varanasi, in northeastern India. 

Solar Impulse 2 took off from Oman March 10 bound for India, on the second leg of its epic bid to become the first plane to fly around the world powered solely by the sun.
      
The aircraft took off from Muscat at 6.35 am (0235 GMT) for what is expected to be a 16-hour, 1,465 kilometre (910 mile) journey over the Arabian Sea to Ahmedabad in India.
      

The first official round the world flight of the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 was launched as the plane took off from the Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Monday morning.

The first attempt to fly around the world in a plane using only solar power launched on March 9 in Abu Dhabi in a landmark journey aimed at promoting green energy that will test its pilots' endurance to the limits.
      

By Roula Salourou

Greece?s poor demographic performance is evolving into a major threat for the country?s social security system, as a recent study conducted by the National Actuarial Authority and submitted to the European Commission has shown that the Greek population will shrink dramatically from 11.045 million last year (according to Eurostat) to 8.5 million in 2060.

The annual congress of the Forum for European Journalism Students (FEJS) will be held in Athens, Greece from 16 to 21 April. The topic has been titled Stereotypes, Media Exclusion & Far-right Rhetoric in European Media.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said Wednesday that Serbia would in a month and a half from now adopt its first strategy for investigation of financial crime, which will introduce a series of measures to improve and strengthen the implementation of financial investigations.