The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.  Fifty percent of the wetlands, 90% of the northwestern old-growth forests, and 99% of the tall-grass prairie have been destroyed in the last 200 years.
16 Jul 2016 00:21 GMT Turkey attempted coup. A coup attempt by an army faction in Turkey has been put down, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, after thousands of people heeded a call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and took to the streets.
Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: ÙØ­ÙØ¯ Ø«Ø§ÙÙâ, Meá¸¥med-i sÄnÄ«; Modern Turkish: II. Mehmet Turkish pronunciation:; 30 March 1432 â 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet), was an Ottoman sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.