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Charalambos “Bambos” Xanthos has been crowned the 2009 Littlewoods World Heads-Up Poker Champion and takes home his biggest tournament prize to date of £65,000 ($107,500). The £3,300 buy-in event, which took place at the Victoria Casino, London, lasted three...

Hedge-fund manager Elena Ambrosiadou has emerged as the mystery buyer of the Maltese Falcon, one of the world’s largest private yachts. Greek-born Ambrosiadou, who runs Ikos Asset Management, bought the 289ft yacht from the American venture capitalist Tom Perkins in...

GUISBOROUGH Theatre Club is going Greek in a big way! Members are taking a suitably themed, one act play into two Teesside hotels, performed during courses of a Greek-style meal. The novel idea is by Christa Spencer, the club's publicity officer. Performances...

Greek pop queen Elena Paparizou has been voted to represent Greece as one of 21 nominees from across Europe for the award Best European Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. This follows her being voted as the Best...

From Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November, London is celebrating Greek culture through Greek Film and Video. CosmoCinema, supported by the Hellenic Centre, the Greek Embassy, the Greek National Tourism Organisation (London Office) and other organisations and companies,...

Easyjet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou's guilty conscience is set to be a boon for some Cypriot businesses, as long as they are able to bridge the chasm dividing the island's Greek and Turkish communities. Haji-Ioannou, whose family is from Cyprus, is...

6 months ago, no one had heard of them, but now Stavros Flatley can count Simon Cowell as one of their friends. The Britain's Got Talent finalists were even invited to the music mogul's 50th birthday party. Father and son duo,...

The global success of Logicomix, a new graphic novel from Greece, wouldn't seem so unusual if it weren't for the comic book's unlikely subject matter: logic and mathematics. Mathematics theory hardly sounds like a fitting theme for a comic book,...

The fourth roadshow of Greek-listed enterprises, organised by the Athens Stock Exchange in London, was successfully completed on Friday. During the two-day event, 28 Greek enterprises conducted more than 750 meetings with a total of...

Thanos Papalexis the son of Emmanuel Papalexis founder of Mare Maritime today paid a heavy price for the criminal act he committed in murdering Charalambos Christodoulides in 2000, the innocent caretaker of a warehouse in Hammersmith, with a life...