North Carolina

Massive shark teeth washed up on eastern North Carolina beaches after recent storms unearthed them from beneath the ocean. Some of the teeth were about the size of an adult’s hand.

The fossilized teeth found  in North Topsail Beach and in Surf City and it is believed that comes from a giant ancient shark the Megalodon which lived 15 million years ago.

Aziz Sancar, Turkey's 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry, emphasized the necessity of science education at early ages, specifically asking peoples living in the country's east and southeast to send their young girls to school.

The first drug to treat low sexual desire in women won approval from U.S. health regulators on Aug. 18, but with a warning about potentially dangerous low blood pressure and fainting side effects, especially when taken with alcohol. 

The US Supreme Court ruled that the constitution guarantees a right for same-sex couples to marry, a decision that has now made gay marriage legal in all 50 states of the nation.

The court ruled, with a 5-4 vote, that the constitution requires a state to license a marriage between same-sex couples. Each of the dissenting justices wrote a dissent.

President Barack Obama said June 22 that Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious or ethnic group as he marked Islam's holy month of Ramadan.

A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged June 20 in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.

Police captured the white suspect June 18 in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions.

A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others got 30-year terms on April 13 in the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, closing a case that had outraged Iraqis and inflamed anti-U.S. sentiment around the world. 

Serbian model murdered in USA

Serbian citizen Mirjana Puhar, former contestant of "America's Next Top Model" was murdered in Charlotte.

Police arrested 19-year old Emanuel Jesus Rangel, who is the main suspect for murder of three persons, including Mirjana.

Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek has sent an official letter to his U.S. counterpart condemning the murder of three young Muslim students that occurred last week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Çiçek on Feb. 18 sent a letter to John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning the murder of three young Muslim students.