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The European No Elevators Day is marked today and all citizens, institutions and organizations, supporting the active lifestyle take part in it, BNR reported.

A physically impaired man who climbed up the stairs on his hands to vote in the referendum due to an elevator malfunction at a school used as a polling station has said he will file complaints against the school administration. 

A physically impaired man has climbed up the stairs on his hands to vote in the referendum due to an elevator malfunction at a polling station in the Eyüp district of Istanbul. The man, whose name was not disclosed, said those who were responsible for failing to provide the service "should be ashamed."

The symbol of the French capital will be renovated in an attempt to boost the city’s candidacy for the 2024 Olympic Games.

The final decision is due on September 2017 while Paris is also candidate for the World Expo 2025 along with Manchester and Osaka.

Eleven students have been wounded after an elevator fell in a dormitory in the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı. 

The elevator in the female students' dormitory of Çankırı Karatekin University fell from the seventh floor, Anadolu Agency reported. 

One third of all elevators in Turkey are not safe, according to a new report prepared by the Science, Industry and Technology Ministry.

Over the course of 2015 the ministry inspected a total 3,064 elevators around the country and found that 1,012 were not fit for service. 

All 17 miners were freed early Jan. 7 from an underground salt mine in upstate New York, 10 hours after becoming trapped in a malfunctioning elevator, officials said.

Passersby have saved a tourist?s car from falling backwards into the Bosphorus in central Istanbul by sitting on the front of the car until the arrival of a lifting crane.
The tourists, who were visiting a museum in the Be?ikta? district on the European side of Istanbul, had parked their rental car near the Bosphorus but forgot to secure the handbrake before exiting the vehicle.

The Saudi king's visit to his family's French Riviera mansion is over after weeks of controversy surrounding the closure of a public beach during his stay, the top state official in the area said on Aug. 3.

Sub-prefect Philippe Castanet said that the small, isolated beach was reopened after the Aug. 2 departure of King Salman following an eight-day stay.

Each millionaire may have an apartment facing a city or a beautiful landscape, but someone must be a billionaire or just plain eccentric to want to have an apartment with space for his… Ferrari to look at the view.