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  • Greek youth unemployment close to 75pc in some areas

    Greek youth unemployment is close to hitting 75pc in some parts of the country, official data showed on Wednesday, highlighting a huge disparity between Europe’s northern and southern ...

  • A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum

    Rendering homage to the prominent artist of the Greek Diaspora Constantine Manos, the Benaki Museum presents an exhibition / tribute to his renowned photographic series, A Greek Portfolio. With his exquisite images Manos invites us to travel with him to remote villages and islands of Greece in the 1960′s, where in a landscape of simple farm life and tranquility, poor yet proud people ...

  • Free Physical Exercise by MCH Training

    This was the innovative idea of the MCH Training people when they started working on the ELA KI ESU (Come with us) project that takes place every Sunday in Athens. The project ELA KI ESU aims to offer free, outdoor workout accessible to everyone, in order to give people a chance not only to exercise and take care of their body and health, but also to share their feelings, passions and to have ...

  • N.J. Diner Manager In Murder Plot Bailed

    Georgios Spyropoulos (L) appearing in court with his lawyer after being arrested on charges of plotting the murder of his uncle. He denied the charges against him. The manager of the Tick Tock Diner charged last month with plotting to kill his wife's uncle -- a co-owner of the landmark Clifton, N.J. restaurant -- walked out of the Passaic County Jail after posting $600,000 bail May 21. ...

  • ‘Kill bankers not yourselves’ says Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn

    03/10/2012 15:34 CET A member of the Greek parliament from the far right party Golden Dawn has urged desperate people in the country to "kill those who are responsible for their problems" rather than commit suicide. He defines "those who are responsible" as bankers. Ilias Panagiotaros made the comments during an interview for ...


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Downhill Racer [DVD]

Downhill Racer [DVD]

Downhill Racer could have only been made by a major studio in the 1960s, a period of significant recession in which European cinema was taking the world by storm, audiences were dominated by younger and more educated moviegoers, and the studios were finding themselves perpetu ... ...

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  • Russia to become next Greece’ with slowing economic growth - Renaissance Capital

    Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...

  • Pete The Plumber Skyllas Loses All To Gambling

    Pete Skyllas on the World Poker Tour, where he had better luck than gambling in a New York City operation the FBI said was massive and included threats of violence. NEW YORK - In a scene right out of the TV mob show The Sopranos, one of the victims of a large-scale gambling operation broken by the FBI in New York City was a Greek-America who had to turn over his plumbing business because he ...

  • Make your own Greek yogurt

    It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C.There are a lot of reasons that yogurt has been beloved since the time of the woolly mammoth. First of all, it tastes great.Then, of course, there are the health benefits of eating yogurt. Yogurt contains enzymes that help with absorbing nutrients. It also contains healthy bacteria linked ...

  • Greek Suicides Highest In 50 Years

    (Photo/Andy Dabilis) A man reads notes pinned to the so-called Martyr's Tree in Syntagma Square in central Athens where retired pensioner Dimitris Christoulas, shot himself in the head in April, 2012 to protest austerity measures he said pushed him to take his life. ATHENS - With social unrest calming, and as the government moves toward seeking foreign investors to help the economy ...

  • Luxury Greek Holiday from Cosmos for Prize-Winning Blogger

    Tour operator Cosmos has announced the winner of its latest competition, giving one lucky blogger a luxury holiday in Crete for two. The ability of bloggers to start conversations and drive opinion on holiday destinations has never been more relevant, and the travel industry is naturally very receptive to the concept of crowd-sourcing and sharing information. So ...

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