Society

An elderly Greek couple in the northeastern town of Didymoteicho donated more than $100,000 to the local hospital in the most recent philanthropic gesture in the country. Last week it emerged that an 83-year-old Greek woman has offered her life...

WE LEAD, a nonprofit organization founded by Libra Philanthropies in 2023, launched its inaugural 15-week online web development bootcamp aimed at the advancement of women in technology and business in Greece. The free-of-charge bootcamps in collaboration with Code.Hub received over...

A video of school violence has shocked public opinion in Greece and sparked new calls for the tightening of legislation concerning violence between minors. The video from an Athens high school shows a group of female students beating their classmate....

Jerusalem Christians have united in response to a disputed land deal that poses a threat to the longstanding Armenian presence in the Old City. The heads of various Christian Churches issued a joint appeal, expressing concern that the deal,...

The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows. According to the researchers,...

Greece leads Europe in housing costs, November’s Financial Stability Report by the Bank of Greece (BoG) maintains. According to the report, 27 percent of the Greek population is spending more than 40 percent of their disposable income to cover housing...

The story from Greek mythology of Antigone and Polynices is a cautionary tale about the sin of pride and how like so many other personal failings in Greek mythology it causes us to do things that result in our...

There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of. Plateia Amerikis, or America Square, is an iconic square in Athens. The busy square was named in 1927, as the municipal...

Home prices in Athens are surging making the Greek capital one of Europe’s hottest housing markets, Bloomberg reports. Home prices in the Greek capital climbed 12.2 percent in October, nearly triple the gains in Stockholm and bucking declines in cities...

Thursday is International Dance Day and how better to celebrate than by discovering five of the most popular Greek dances! 

Residents of the mountainous village of Antia on the idyllic island of Evia, Greece "speak" a unique whistling language called "Sfyria." The villagers of Antia use different whistled tones corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. By putting each whistled...

Over the years, the use of AI in this domain has broadened, helping in the enhancement of logistics, training, and various facets of peacekeeping operations. The use of artificial intelligence in conflict situations dates back to at least 1996, when...

Athens, the capital of Greece, ranks as one of the top destinations globally for remote workers, a new study has revealed. This study was conducted by WorkMotion, a prominent global human resources platform. Among eighty-five cities worldwide, the Greek capital...

Technology continues to spread its influence in our lives, as evidenced by the new word of the year for 2023, which is "AI." This abbreviation of artificial intelligence was chosen by the Collins Dictionary team, citing its significant rise...

If you're in a crowd in Greece and shout "Mr. Papadopoulos," the most common surname in Greece, chances are that at least one man will turn his head.