Europe

A huge group prayer in front of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, was held to commemorate the 562nd anniversary of the conquest, according to organizers. A number of groups from Istanbul and across Turkey gathered in front of Hagia Sophia at 4 a.m. on Sunday...

Finding traces of life outside Earth will take a long time, stated noted astrophysicist and planetologist and researcher Athena Coustenis to ANA-MPBA at the Paris-Meudon Astrological Observatory. However, Coustenis did not exclude important discoveries in the future on the satellites...

A 40% decrease was recorded in the sale of Russian vacation packages to Greece for this summer, according to a recent interfax.ru article. Furthermore, high decrease was also recorded in vacation trips to Italy and France. In particular, European countries have...

By Katharine Jones, Coventry University The European Commission has announced that it will embark on an unprecedented mandatory emergency “relocation” of 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean refugees. The Commission proposes that women, men and children who arrive in Greece and Italy who...

A special two-euro coin designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos of the Bank of Greece (BoG) was picked by 30% of 100,000 voters in an online European Commission competition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the European flag...

The British Museum in London has organized a live-streaming presentation of its hit exhibition “Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art,” set to air on Thursday, May 28, at 6:30 pm (local time). The 30-minute live broadcast, sponsored by Julius...

Hundreds of people demanded that the historic Istanbul Hagia Sophia museum be converted into a mosque during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 24. People gathered outside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia with some carrying signs that read: “Hagia Sophia needs...

The Russian singer who participated in this year’s 60th Eurovision Song Contest spent the first years of her life in Greece. Polina Gagarina’s “A Million Voices” was one of the competition’s big favorites and was eventually voted as the...

European Union countries are locked in an increasingly bitter battle over proposals to set quotas for accepting asylum seekers and other migrants fleeing Africa and the Middle East. What has become of European solidarity in handling the Mediterranean migrant...

Xanthoula Dakovanou is a Greek singer and doctor who has managed to combine her two passions -medicine and music- through her studies. She lives in Paris, France, and tries to cure people in various European communities, but also across the world...