Greece
Europe
Editor of Focus Proclaim Innocent Regarding ‘Obscene’ Aphrodite Milos
The three-member magistrate's court judged the editor of German magazine “Focus” innocent, relating to charges of offending a symbol of state, that concerned the known cover of the magazine in February 2010 with Aphrodite Milos in… an obscene gesture.
The...
Europe
Breaking: Angela Merkel Signs $300 Billion War Reparation Check to Greece
The members of the German Bundestag were shocked as Angela Merkel changed completely her stance on Greece and announced that Germany will pay in installments to debt-ridden country close to 300 billion euros for war reparations.
Greece
Greeks Are Having Less Sex as a Result of Economic Crisis
Austerity-hit Greeks are having less sex as a result of their country’s economic crisis.
Urologists in Athens surveyed six hundred men and women on their bedtime behaviours and found a link between belt-tightening and sex drive.
“Financial problems and sexual activity...
Economy
Greece Should Look to Internet for Recovery, Says Study
The Greek government should take a leaf out of South Korea's book and invest in better networks and getting more people online, a study which measures how the Web raises GDP levels said on Friday.
While many European countries make...
Greece
Abbot Ephrem Out on Bail But Confined to Greece
The embattled abbot of a monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, was released yesterday on a €300,000 bail after spending around three months behind bars.
Ephrem, 55, chief monk of the Vatopedi monastery, had been remanded in connection with embezzlement, money laundering...
Greece
"Expulsion and Exchange of Populations (Turkey – Greece: 1922-1924)" Exhibition in Benaki Museum
Director and exhibition curator Maria Iliou and historian Alexander Kitroeff present to the audience images that were forgotten in dusty archives, as well as a new vantage point from which to view the Expulsion and Exchange of Population (Turkey...
Greece
"Christ in Greece Today" Exhibition by Makis Varlamis at the Museum of Byzantine Culture
The Greek painter, sculptor, architect and pedagogue Makis Varlamis, from Veria, whose talent has been internationally acknowledged, has been creating beautiful works of art during the past 50 years in Austria, 'his small Greece', as he calls it. He...
Europe
Greek Cinema: “Despair is not an Option”
Greece’s legendary monastic complex Meteora – which means ‘suspended rocks’ or ‘in the heavens above’ – is the setting for the new German-Greek co-production also titled Meteora.
It is about a young monk and nun who find their growing illicit...
Greece
Forbes Magazine Ranks Greece Among Most Scenic Places In The World
Forbes Magazine has published an article, titled "The Best of Greece-But Should You Go?" that features Greece and its beauties.
This is what they had to say about Greece:
"Riots in Athens, emergency bailouts, austerity measures, threats of default. Clearly, the...
Hollywood
Oscar Unrelated: Famous German TV Hosts on the Greek Crisis from the Red Carpet
Steven Gätjen and Annemarie Warnkross, two of the most famous German TV-hosts tell us the German side of the Greek Crisis and how Greeks are portrayed in Germany