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Coca-Cola Co named James Quincey chief operating officer, and said company veteran Ahmet Bozer, who had been seen as a possible successor to Muhtar Kent as CEO, would be leaving.

Quincey, 50, is a 19-year veteran of the company and most recently served as president of Coke's Europe Group. He fills a post vacated by Kent in 2008, effective immediately.

Former US president Jimmy Carter said Aug. 12 that recent liver surgery has shown he has cancer, and that it has spread.

The 39th president, now aged 90, underwent an initially successful operation earlier this month to remove a "small mass."  

Billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump's doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.  

The other 16 Republican candidates fighting for attention and breathing room in a primary field eclipsed by Trump hoped he'd be finished off by latest firestorm to consume his campaign, sparked by provocative comments about women.

Organizers of a Republican event withdrew frontrunner Donald Trump's invitation on August 8 after he suggested that a presidential debate moderator was tough on him because she was menstruating.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of pop legend Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26 aged 22, six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.

Turkish Airlines (THY), the country's flag carrier, will offer direct flights between Istanbul and Atlanta beginning in May 2016.

The new destination will be the airline's second to the southeastern United States following THY's decision to open a route to Miami.

Dozens of abandoned golden retrievers "rescued" from Turkey have arrived in Atlanta, U.S. media has reported, adding that English interpreters were hired to help them in their new life.

One of Russia's oldest symphonic groups, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, is scheduled to perform at the ?? Sanat Cultural Center in Istanbul on May 5. 

World renowned Israeli-American violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman will once again be in Istanbul for a concert on May 28 at Zorlu Center PSM. Perlman previously performed two sold-out concerts in the city in 2013 and 2014. 

An airliner skidded off a runway at New York's La Guardia airport on March 6 and slid to a halt just yards from frigid waters, as a snow storm battered the US coast from Texas to Boston.
      
Heavy snow was falling as Delta flight 1086 from Atlanta careered off the runway, plowed up an embankment and demolished a fence after its late-morning landing in hazardous conditions.