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.
Valide Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: ÙØ§ÙØ¯Ù Ø³ÙØ·Ø§Ù â, literally mother sultan) was the title held by the empress mother of a ruling Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.