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The President of the General Directorate of Foundations Council Lakis Vingas, of Greek origin, delivered a lecture on Turkey on Sept. 12 to students of the Department of History at Stanford, the prestigious university in California. They had visited Turkey...

Greek Australians have never forgotten their roots, their history or culture and those in Melbourne are organizing a public lecture to celebrate the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki in 1912 from the Ottomans. The lecture will be held...

A Greek scientific team led by Mosef Elisef of the University Hospital of Ioannina published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association which disputed widely-held beliefs that fish products can help prevent heart disease and have...

Nobody is above the law in Greece, except for politicians, the rich, athletes, celebrities, architects, tax evaders, engineers, lawyers, doctors, auto mechanics, fruit and vegetable vendors, street sellers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, hairdressers, organized crime, and everybody else who...

The London-based Hellenic Observatory organized an event on the Greek crisis and its possible resolutions on Sept. 11 at the London School of Economics. Moderated by academic Dimitri Vayanos, along with writer Apostolos Doxiadis, academic Pavlos Eleftheriadis, financial analyst...

Princess Caroline of Monaco loves Greece and visits often, and recently returned to spend some days on Spetsopoula islet close to Spetses, enjoying the sun and the beach. The islet, owned by Stavros Niarchos, is a favorite of hers. Apart...

The Ithacan Philanthropic Society organized a lecture for  Sept. 12 in Melbourne featuring Professor George Paxinos from the University of New South Wales. Professor Paxinos, a respected member of the Society, is acknowledged as one of the world’s renowned...

Cretan lyra virtuoso, singer and songwriter Stelios Bikakis and his eight-member band impressed a Vienna audience and members of the Greek Community in the Austrian capital during a three-hour concert at the internationally acclaimed Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna Concert Hall). The...

Giorgos Karagounis, a former player for the Greek football team Panathinaikos, will play for the British Fulham, as GreekReporter reported earlier this week. The 35-year-old captain of the Greece national team  joins on a free transfer, having been without a...

Famous Greek singer Angela Dimitriou has visited neighboring Turkey several times to perform on stage. Her last concert, thanks to the thousands of Turks who attended the show, proved her popularity once more. On Sept. 9, Angela Dimitriou along with...

The Greek short film Out of Frame (Titloi Telous in Greek) directed by Yorgos Zois was awarded the European Film Awards 2012- EFA prize at the 69th International Venice Film Festival, and now goes to the 2,700 members of...

The Odessa branch of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture has organized various events to honor the renowned Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou, a Greek pioneer who invented the so-called Pap test, a test allowing early detection of cervical cancer. Entitled The Great...

This is probably the oldest paniyiri (traditional Greek festival) in Greece. According to local authorities of Kato Ksechoro village in Filiatra of Thesprotia Prefecture, a paniyiri in honor of Virgin Mary of Labovo has been annually without interruption for...

The list of celebrities spending their summer vacations in Greece this year was long indeed. After John Travolta, Robert DeNiro, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and many others, actress Demi Moore was the next Hollywood star to arrive. Residents of...

The Greek America Foundation is planning a special evening with Oscar award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis in Toronto, starting with a viewing of her starring role in Moonstruck, then a question-and-answer session, a private reception and private dinner for a...