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Philosophers from around the world gathered at the place where their practice really had its roots - Plato's Academy - in an Athens neighborhood as part of a series of events for the 23d World Philosophy Congress which is...

A series of events that will last for a whole month are scheduled to be held in Brussels by the Cretan Association of Belgium with the participation of the municipality of Heraklion and the local committee of Friends of...

Hollywood must be enchanted by Messenia, located in the southwestern Peloponnese, as according to rumors, the filming of the third film Sex & the City may be shot there, after the filming of the movie Before Midnight, in which...

The book signing tour for Nia Vardalos's "Instant Mom" will resume this fall, with a tour date set in Worcester, Mass. on November 5. The Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated writer and star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" reveals...

According to a recent announcement made by the Canadian Ambassador Robert Peck, on September 16, the first Canada-Greece/Cyprus University Partnership Forum will take place in the city of Athens. According to the announcement, up to eight Canadian universities will be...

Greek Justice responded to the provocative publication of the British newspaper Daily Mirror, which presented the touristic region Malia as “a hellhole of rapes of British women,” based on reported incidents. The development of criminal cases shows that in many...

The revival of the Wine Festival took place with  success in the city of Alexandroupoli, the capital of the Evros regional unit in Thrace. According to first estimations, more than 25,000 people visited the site where the events took...

With the aim of promoting the Greek tourist product, the Hellenic Italian Chamber of Commerce in Greece is organizing a Greek Pavilion at the International Exhibition of Tourism TTG Incontri, which will take place from October 17 to 19...

The final trailer for the upcoming thriller/action/sci-fi "Riddick" starring Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista just hit the world wide web. Releasing in theaters on September 6, the film is the third installment in the series that launched with "Pitch Black" in 2000 and...

A special festival of arts, music, ideas and gastronomy, entitled Olympolis Art Music Project, is taking place during these days at the foot of Mt. Olympus and the International Foundation of the Monument of Alexander the Great, Alexandreio. A hundred...

After hundreds of years of lying still, the theater of Ancient Messini re-opened on Aug. 3, with an opera gala, organized by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2013 and the Municipality of Messini and the Region of Peloponnese, among...

As part of the celebrations of Marseille as European Capital of Culture for the year 2013, the Municipality of Piraeus, which has been its sister city since 1984, participated in the events that were held on July 28-31. There was...

A 47-year-old Greek female singer dressed herself in blackface and pretended to be blind in an impersonation of the American singer Stevie Wonder during an appearance on a reality show called Your Face Sounds Familiar, drawing criticism from some...

Musical concerts at Filopappou Hill and at Elefsina, a tribute to Lorca in the Cyclades and many other events, which will be announced in time, are scheduled for the August full moon on Wednesday, August 21. At least 71 sites...

After successive reports from Brussels and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about the course of Greece’s rescue program, the newspapers Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Financial Times came to publish articles against the program that the Troika...