Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has dominated politics for over a decade, present himself as the man leading Turkey’s transformation into a modern country with a European standard of living and infrastructure. Last year he inaugurated the Marmaray tunnel, which for the first time connects Istanbul’s two sides — where Europe and Asia meet — with a metro link deep underground beneath the waters of the Bosphorus.
Biologists say they have devised a new weapon against malaria by genetically engineering mosquitoes to produce mostly male offspring, with the hope […]
The US space agency’s New Horizon’s spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an […]
Videographic illustrating the flag of the United Kingdom in the wake of the British referendum to leave the European Union.
Videographic illustrating the route of the daunting Route du Rhum yacht race. The skippers set off on Sunday.
