Society

Blue Monday is a term Sky Travel coined in 2005. One used to describe the third—and sometimes second or fourth—Monday of January. It is supposedly the most depressing day of the year, despite the longer, brighter days of Winter...

More than 120 elderly staying at the Athens Nursing Home, one of the largest old people's nursing home in Greece, had the opportunity to take a long tour around Athens recently to witness firsthand the festive decorations of the Greek...

A video circulating on social media platforms zeros in on kids imitating gangsters and pretending to be drug traffickers for a cartel at the side of a highway in the state of Sinaloa in western Mexico. The activities of...

Vandals desecrated earlier in the week a Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, a Greek city whose population once had a Jewish plurality. A photo appearing Thursday on the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece website showed a red swastika daubed...

Many people in Greece have roots from Asia Minor, and their refugee ancestors brought with them many unique Christmas traditions and customs. The festive season of Christmas and the New Year is an opportunity for many people, especially for the...

The 16-year-old Roma who was shot by Greek police last Monday in Thessaloniki sparking nationwide protests died on Tuesday morning, the hospital announced. Kostas Fragoulis was hospitalized at the Hippocrates Hospital of Thessaloniki and remained in critical condition with a...

A Greek policeman was shot in the head on Tuesday during riots in the Roma district of Menidi west of Athens. He was rushed to the hospital where surgeons removed shrapnel under the eye. He was discharged on Wednesday. He...

Indonesia's Parliament has passed a law banning extramarital sex. Any individual who has sex outside of marriage in Indonesia could now face a sentence of up to one year in jail. The new legal code, which includes over six hundred...

Violent scuffles broke out in Thessaloniki, Greece on Monday after a Roma teenager was shot by police and left in critical condition. The sixteen-year-old was shot in the head in the early hours of Monday morning after driving a truck...

The Iranian government will reportedly do away with its morality police, according to Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri of Iran. Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of a twenty-two-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the...

The world’s wealthiest female billionaires are quite diverse. Some were born into wealthy families, while others produced their own fortunes. The "Forbes List of Billionaires" and the "Bloomberg Billionaire Index" each provide regular insights into who the five hundred most...

Merriam Webster Dictionary has made it official. Gaslighting is their 2022 word of the year. The choice is understandable, given its frequent use in the news as well as on social media. The expression actually first came into use in 1944,...

  Russia’s House of Parliament has voted for further restrictions and fines on members of the LGBTQ society in the country. One of the authors of the law was Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Rodin. He supports this, he says, in order to...

In an attempt to suppress violent protests at the world’s largest iPhone factory in China, Foxconn offered to pay newly recruited workers $1,400 (10,000 yuan) to leave the premises. Foxconn, the apple supplier, made the offer on Wednesday night after...

A campaign against human trafficking launched in Greece on November 25th, which the UN has declared as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. International non-governmental organization A21 joined forces with distinguished screenwriter and director Konstantinos Mousoulis...