ISTANBUL - A week ahead of the March 29 local elections, political parties display how important Istanbul is, as five different rallies are held in Turkey’s biggest city in a single day. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks to tens of thousands in Kazlıçeşme district, while Şişli’s Çağlayan Square becomes the ground for rallies by three opposition parties
Born and raised in Atlanta, where I still live, some of my travels have taken me along the Nile to Abu Simbel, on horseback to the temples of Petra and on foot to a monastery atop Patmos in Greece. In 2006 I joined my daughter, then an AP journalist, in Jerusalem. She shared Israel’s vast landscape with me.
LOS ANGELES - The marketing of ’Chinese Democracy’ reflects the changing face of the music industry. The album was streamed on social networking site MySpace ahead of its formal release and one track was released via a video game. In the US, the album is sold at one retail chain