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The meteor shower named Perseid, during which up to 100 shooting stars will fall per hour,  takes place on August 12, before dawn, and will be seen from Greece as well. The Perseids begin as tiny specks of dust that...

According to the confidential report of Bundesbank, cited by the German magazine Spiegel, Greece will need another rescue package in 2014. In an internal document of the German Central Bank it said that that the European leaders must start immediately...

Toronto's Taste of the Danforth festival, which runs August 9-11, is set to attempt two Guinness World Records over the weekend, involving Sirtaki dancing and yogourt. This year the festival celebrates its 20th anniversary and the records if achieved will...

Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...

It was a little after 4 in the morning on August 9, when the psalm by the young imam from Xanthi, Greece, was heard from Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, inviting all Muslims living or visiting as tourists the city...

The first feature film of Michalis Konstantatos, Luton, will premiere at the 61st edition of San Sebastian Film Festival, in Spain, which will take place from Sept. 20-28. The plot of the film Luton is the following:  Jimmy is a...

French-German channel ARTE is going to show Greek films and documentaries in a 24-hour special. On Aug. 15, from early in the morning until after midnight, ARTE will travel the German-speaking viewers (Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and other European countries) in...

Krinio Marouda, a student from Lechaina, a town in Elis, West Greece, won the bronze medal at the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which took place for the first time in Greece. This is the second medal...

The German newspaper Die Zeit published an article, entitled “The bill, please!” in which it charged that Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing re-election next month, is deliberately concealing that she will go along with Greece imposing losses on its lenders,...

Greek-American actor, John Stamos, helps people make their wishes come true. Stamos told US Weekly that he will answer a 19-year-old girl’s request, who suffers from a serious disease . He will help Kaitlyn Dobrow make her dream trip to...

France's First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, who is the partner of President Francois Hollande, has left Greece after an extensive vacation but the French media are buzzing about it. Trierweiler, a political journalist, spent her holidays with her three sons from...

Crisis is a Greek word is the name of an initiative that Greek designers have undertaken to illustrate a crushing economic downfall in their country and they're exporting the idea to the Taiwan Design Expo in Taipei this September. Fifty...

Next Spring, "Muppets Most Wanted" will hit theaters on March 21. The follow up to 2011's "The Muppets," features new cast member Tina Fey as Nadya, a very intimidating Russian who gets the Muppets in her grasp. The story finds Kermit,...

The Antipodes Festival, in collaboration with the Food for Thought Greek Australian Women’s Network, presents "A Conversation with Emilios Kyrou,” an event which will take place on September 7 at the Wheeler Centre, at 6 p.m. Emilios Kyrou is the...

Philosophers from around the world gathered at the place where their practice really had its roots - Plato's Academy - in an Athens neighborhood as part of a series of events for the 23d World Philosophy Congress which is...