A Greek Orthodox nun in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India has become a symbol of the eternal fight against poverty, illiteracy, child trafficking, and prostitution in the city.
Sister Nectaria Paridisi, by most accounts the only Greek individual left in Kolkata,...
George Stravelakis, sometimes called "Halkias," was an enslaved Greek man from the island of Chios who rose to become the Prime Minister of Tunisia in the 1860s.
By Antonis Chaldeos
Stravelakis was born in 1817 on the island of Chios. During the...
Snakes have captivated the human imagination for centuries, symbolizing everything from danger to divine power.
Some ancient cultures—primarily of the East—celebrated snakes as beings of goodness and luck. The Chinese, for example, saw them as emblems of renewal, healing and...
China’s military dispatched air, navy, and missile units surrounded Taiwan on Monday, launching joint live-fire drills that Beijing described as a "stern warning" against separatist forces and "external interference."
The large-scale exercises, which involve the deployment of warships and fighter...
Few people know today that the first president of the unified Republic of Argentina was of Greek descent. Bartolome Mitre Martinez was born on June 26, 1821 in Buenos Aires to a Greek family whose last name was originally...
The nations of Greece and Costa Rica, which share the same year of independence in 1821, have another unexpected link: the Latin American country is home to three towns with Greek names.
Grecia, which means "Greece" in Spanish, at the...
The untimely death of Alexander the Great on June 10, 323 B.C. in Babylon has long been a topic of hot debate by historians.
The leading theories as to what killed the 33-year-old warrior—infection, alcoholism, or murder—still don't explain the...
China opened the world’s tallest bridge on Sunday, which spans 625 meters (2,051 feet) above the Beipan River in Guizhou province and sets new records for engineering in mountainous terrain.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge stretches 2,890 meters (9,482 feet)...
Brazil's Amazon has lost forest area cover equivalent to the size of Spain over the past four decades, raising concerns among scientists regarding the region nearing an irreversible tipping point.
Monitoring data released Monday by MapBiomas revealed that between 1985...
