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Maria Sharapova finally got a win at the WTA Finals Friday but it wasn't enough to stop her crashing out of the tournament and blowing her opportunity to be crowned year-end world number one.
      

The shooting suspect of a Danish writer was released in Turkey more than two months before the reported prisoner swap with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Hürriyet has learned.

A Danish court on Oct. 23 freed 10 men charged with "terror funding" after raising up to 140 million kroner (18.8 million euros, $23.8 million) for PKK militants.

The money was channeled to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), through Roj TV, a Denmark-based Kurdish television channel that had its license revoked last year for "glorifying terrorism."

International travelers coming to Greece were up by 15.6 percent compared to 2013, according to a report released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority, ELSTAT, on Thursday. The report referred to a Frontier Statistical Survey conducted by The Bank of Greece in the January-June 2014 period.

The release of the shooting suspect of a right-wing writer and a critic of Islam in Denmark was not a “choice of execution power, but a ruling of the judiciary,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said in a written statement on Oct. 22.

Records of treasury transactions published by Open Data Albania, a Tirana-based watchdog, show Albania's Ministry of Justice paid 36,000 lek (about 250 euros )to the Albanian Football Federation on October 8 for football tickets.

Denmark says Ankara failed to explain release of suspect wanted in connection with attempted shooting of a right-wing writer

The regions of Sliven and Burgas have the highest percentage of young population, shows data of Eurostat, quoted by Bulgarian-language media.

In the Sliven region the share of people aged below 15 is 17.6% and in Burgas - 15%. The average share of people below 15 in the EU is around 16% of the total population.

BELGRADE - Children's film festival Kids Fest will be held in cinemas in over 30 cities across Serbia from October 13-19.

The 10th Kids Fest will shows 14 premiers, and this year's animated, feature and documentary films are arriving from the U.S., France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Croatia.

ZAGREB - Serbia exploits the least amount of natural resources in the Western Balkans, where the biggest demand on the environment comes from Slovenia, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says in its latest report.