Two separate banana shipments from South America were discovered to be hiding tons of cocaine in Europe. Banana shipments from Panama and Ecuador were found to have some cocaine hidden inside.
After nine-month surveillance, the anti-narcotics teams in Turkey's capital Ankara revealed the drug pipeline between the drug cartels in Colombia and Turkey, authorities said.
An Ecuadorian drug mule traveling from Spain back to Ecuador died after cocaine capsules hidden in his stomach burst during a stopover in Istanbul, Turkey.
From 2008-2012, Spain was the best team in the world. Then 2014 happened and the team was not only knocked off its throne, but utterly humiliated.
La Furia Roja will look to regain its dignity and perhaps its crown in the Euro 2016 as it tries to make history and win the tournament for a third straight time.
But Group D poses a very real struggle for Spain as it is one of the toughest groups of the tournament.
Spain will see threats from the Czech Republic, Turkey and Croatia.
A suicide bomber suspected to be from Syria set off a blast in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district Tuesday, officials said, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15 others.
The ISIS terror organization planned a New Year's Eve attack on the Turkish capital of Ankara, Turkish government officials revealed after they arrested two militants belonging to the group on Dec. 30.
Having lost two of their first three qualifier matches, the Netherlands finally came through with a huge 6-0 win over Latvia but ended up losing Daley Blind to a knee injury. Meanwhile, Italy and Croatia ended up unbeaten after playing to 1-1 tie while Israel stays undefeated at the top of Group B with a win over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
This week in social media, Facebook added a Shazam-like feature that can automatically tag music, TV or movies in status updates, just by listening in to your life. Speaking of listening in, Facebook also changed some of its privacy settings for the better with a reminder for users what privacy level their status updates are set to. Also, Twitter's having a bad week on Wall Street (again) while both it and rival Instagram are meeting resistance abroad.