Transport

A biscuit that survived the sinking of the Titanic was sold for £15,000 ($22,968) to a collector in Greece at auction in UK by Henry Aldridge & Son.

Turkey ranked 16th in global automobile production, according to a report from the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) released on Oct. 26.

Turkey manufactured 667,592 cars in the half-year period, an increase of 18.4 percent from 2014.

Global vehicle production rose 0.5 percent in the first six months of 2015, compared to the previous year.

Toyota remained the top automaker in global vehicle sales after the first nine months of this year, selling nearly 7.5 million vehicles, outpacing rivals General Motors and Volkswagen.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s global sales for the first three quarters totaled 7.498 million vehicles, down 1.5 percent from the same period the previous year, according to numbers released on Oct. 26.

The World Health Organization’s figures:

The Confederation of the Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) will join an initiative of the UK's Communication Workers Union to provide humanitarian aid to refugees in Turkey ahead of the coming winther.

US electric carmaker Tesla Motors sold more than 3,000 cars in China, the world's biggest auto market, in the first nine months of this year, it said Oct. 23.

Swedish aviation and defense giant Saab has said China's National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which has signed a deal with Turkey to help produce the country's first "national car," does not represent the Saab brand, but only owns the company's car production plant. 

More than 13,000 people have downloaded the taxi application Uber after it started operating in Zagreb on Thursday - but not everyone is won over.

Turkey?s tractor manufacturer, TÜMOSAN, has said it will focus on defense technologies and rail systems in addition to its main business activities, during a press meeting on Oct. 22. 

The company will start the development of an indigenous tank engine by 2016 and plans to start production by 2020. 

Turkey?s ?national car? agreement worth 40 million euros with China?s NEVS has enabled the company to recover from its financial difficulties, the firm has said.