Europe

Greek drag bike racer Filippos Papafilippou has miraculously escaped injury after colliding with his opponent at more than 200 km/h during a race. Greece's racer was competing at a European Drag Bike quarter mile racing event in Bedfordshire, England, when...

Under the shadows of the mythical Caucasus mountains in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, writers and book industry professionals from ten countries will meet at the literary festival "LitTour" that will be held from September 11 to 14. The festival aims to become...

Former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday presented the names of the 27 people he wants to work with in the new European Commission. Juncker, 59, who is also a former Eurogroup president, is set to lead the...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that the Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, has been temporarily moved to Switzerland. The cup will be exhibited at...

The International Insular Film Festival that took place in the French island of Groix, paid tribute to Crete and Nikos Kazantzakis. The festival was essentially dedicated to the Greek islands. It included the presentation of a documentary series about Ikaria, Lesvos,...

European Union leaders on Saturday chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to chair their Council and named Italian Federica Mogherini to run the bloc's foreign relations, as the EU prepared to threaten Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine. EU summit...

A recent survey by Boston Consulting Group showed that the world's wealthy people represent just 0.7% of the global population and control 41% of the global wealth. This week, "Vox" released a map with the richest people in Europe. According to...

Hester Reeve, a lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, is working with local groups to create a series of free activities at a park near Barnsley on Saturday, August 30. His project called YMEDACA aims to transform the Yorkshire...

The differences between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRoM) on the latter's name must be "resolved urgently," participants at an EU-Western Balkans meeting in Berlin agreed on Thursday. The meeting was organized by Germany and sought to...

According to Greece's Foreign Ministry, the Greek Consulate in Mariupol, Ukraine, will urgently be transferred from Mariupol to Dnipropetrovsk, due to the hostilities in the region, after the Consul General's request. "Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos has accepted the proposal of...