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Personal trainer Zachary Lee and his groomsmen dressed as Spartans in Singapore on the morning of their wedding day. The gladiators went to bride's home to take part in a tradition known as gatecrashing. During the 30-minute gatecrash the...

Greece is the second most expensive country in the European Union in dairy products and eggs, while other basic food items are above the average EU prices. Eurostat, the European Union statistical authority, released the 2015 figures on Wednesday, and data...

The Holy and Great Synod, the Panorthodox Council of all Orthodox Churches, will commence on Friday in Crete showing that there is a chasm between the Churches of Greece and Russia. The Extraordinary Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided...

A new process for registering asylum seekers was launched in Greece on June 8. The new pre-registration process is aimed at speeding up the process by which families can be reunified and requests for relocation for those migrants who wish to move...

The outward-looking policy of the Acropolis Museum which has been its main focus since its opening seven years ago, has led to a steady increase in visitors, museum president Dimitris Pandermalis said on Wednesday, during a press conference to...

A group of anarchists set two buses on fire in central Athens a little after midnight on Wednesday and then went to hiding in the National Technical University of Athens building. The hooded perpetrators started from nearby Exarcheia Square and...

On Wednesday in Egypt a committee said that the vessel, John Lethbridge, which was contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search for the missing plane debris and flight data recorders "had identified several main locations of the wreckage," according to the...

According to a recent study by Harvard University that complied diets and medical histories of 200,000 health professionals in the U.S. over a period of 20 years, the Mediterranean diet has been proven by scientists to significantly protect us against type 2 diabetes. The...

Noise blares from a beachside bar as you fight your way to the seaside through a wall of seabeds and other obstacles. Tables are parked as close as possible to the waves. Meanwhile, you note that the other side...

A report by the Panhellenic Center of Environmental Studies (PCES) found that just 96 of the 153 most popular beaches of Attica and other surrounding regions were suitable for swimming, whereas studies on the quality of water found that...