The argument raging in Turkey over its secular or religious future is being highlighted by the trial of suspected members of a shadowy right-wing group said to be trying to de-stabilise the state.
Eighty-six people, including former soldiers, politicians and lawyers, are being accused of belonging to Ergenekon, an ultra-nationalist group, whose aim is said to include fomenting unrest to force a military coup.
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Female spiders who eat would-be suitors produce more babies, and those babies are stronger and bigger, than spiders who stick to more mundane fare, researchers reported on Tuesday.
And the merciless mother spiders waited until they had mated with another -- ensuring they would hatch spiderlings -- before consuming their new beaux, the researchers found.
They said their study is the first "natural" experiment to prove correct the old folklore about spiders, and said it also shows why such behavior might be beneficial.
"Now we know that, at least in one species, sexual cannibalism benefiting females occurs in nature," Dr. Jordi Moya-Larano of the Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas in Spain, who led the study, said in a statement.
The Mediterranean tarantulas in the study did not eat their mates, but instead ate males before courtship -- and usually after the females had already mated with another male, the researchers found.
Some other studies have suggested that males may sacrifice themselves for the sake of their offspring, but this study showed that, at least in this species of spider, the males are purely unlucky victims and only the babies benefit.
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Guantanamo inmate charges dropped Exercise area in US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay The US insists the detainees are enemy combatants US authorities have dropped war crimes charges against five inmates held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. The men were named as Noor Uthman Muhammed, Binyam Mohamed, Sufyiam Barhoumi, Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi and Jabran Said Bin al-Qahtani.
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The US has confirmed the Cuba facility will not be closed before President George W Bush leaves office in January. "The president and his administration are working to get to a position where Guantanamo could be closed - and have been for some time," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, confirming earlier media reports. The military has informed us that they plan to charge him [Binyam Mohamed] again within a month Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer 'Farce' claim over detainee
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But critics say it is a legal black hole in which suspects have been abused and face either military tribunals or open-ended imprisonment. On Tuesday, the lawyer of Binyam Mohamed accused the US government of "farce" after all terror charges were dropped against his client. Mr Mohamed, 30, is the last UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay. "The military has informed us that they plan to charge him again within a month", after the US presidential election, said the lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith.
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