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Greek Fashion Designer Vassilios Kostetsos (foto) partnered with world renounced celebrity hair designer Rodolfo Valentin for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2010. Chosen for his exceptionally talented view of creating a wonderful world of beauty and fashion, Rodolfo Valentin introduced his...

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Tuesday said President Barack Obama has been fully briefed on Greece's massive public debt problems and expressed "confidence" that the European Union is capable of handling the crisis, AFP reports. Gibbs said the US...

Investigators Sunday were still trying to determine the cause of a rampaging fire that ravaged a row of Queens stores on Saturday, officials said. The four-alarm blaze raged for 3-1/2 hours and consumed 13 Jackson Heights businesses - and still...

The powerful Taminent Regular Democratic Club has chosen a Greek-American woman as its candidate for the 36th District Assembly seat covering Astoria and Long Island City. Aravella Simotas was endorsed by Taminent to run for the 36th AD seat since...

By Antonia Patsidou The Omogeneia of New York has been shaken by the sudden passing of Panayiotis Nikolopoulos, the well-known “Kolokotronis” who on his horse with the traditional costume and head set, was present at the annual Greek Parade on...

Established in 1910, the Annunication Greek Orthodox Cathedral located at 707 E. Lafayette in downtown Detroit, is now beginning its 100th year of celebrations, services and historical family reunions. "Imagine Detroit's landscape in 1910 and our precious Greek immigrants who...

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas met in Washington on Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying afterwards that he had expounded on Greece's positions on major national issues as well as Greece's will to help, through...

Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas is in the US where he met today with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. During his stay in Washington, Mr. Droutsas will also meet with the Chairman...

Rep. Delahunt assumed the chairmanship of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe following the resignation of the subcommittee's former chairman, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-19-FL), from Congress. "We thank Congressman Delahunt for joining the Hellenic Caucus,"...

A watercolour by Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A., which depicts the walled ancient city of Rhodes, was recently sold for $140,500 at an Old Master Drawings auction held at Sotheby’s in New York. Speaking about the painting, Emmeline Hallmark,...