Tag Archives : Greece

Launched in the month of October  this year, the  sensational Apple iPhone 4S that has not only managed to grab the attention of nearly all tech aficionado, but has also established a record sales figures of 4 million units in three days, is now once in the spotlight. As per an official press releases from Apple Inc., come next week the iPhone 4S [...]

Self-checkouts are not the easiest thing in the grocery-shopping world. Sure, it cuts down on waiting time. But don’t we all know how frustrating it is when the self-checkout machine somehow refuses to identify a given product? Or worse, gets it wrong, even after several tries? Japanese tech giant Toshiba is working on a solution to the problem. [...]

Creative folks need the right kind of environment to open the realm of their imagination into some solid like a canvas or a product. What constitutes the apt environment is highly subjective and differs from person to person. Peaceful surrounding coupled with picturesque glimpses of nature are undisputedly the top choices. A31 architecture built a [...]

Pavlopetri, off the southern coast of the Pelopennese in Greece, dates back to around 3000 BC. Sunk into the Mediterranean Sea, it breaks the antiquity record as the world’s oldest underwater town. The Greek government discovered the submerged town in 1967 but just recently announced that ‘5000-year-old pottery fragments have been recovered from [...]

The dumping of nuclear waste in the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea that surround the Italian Peninsula and its islands has been going on for the past 20 years, little did most people know. The destructive phenomenon is now coming to light, and has been putting the whole world under environmental and health alert. Even the fishing interests in [...]

Wildfires which spread through various islands around Athens in Greece are still not entirely under control. There have been no casualties but there has been huge damage to property. More than 20,000 people are homeless and more are being evacuated. Meanwhile Greece’s government has come under severe criticism both by media and opposition parties. [...]

British tourists in the Greek island of Crete have been arrested for dressing up as nuns. A group of tourists were taken to the court as they misrepresented the costume of the Christian nuns. 17 British tourists came to Crete dresses as nuns, and carried crosses and displayed their thong clad bottoms to the public. The court, however, ruled these tourists [...]

The process of enlargement of the European Union (EU) is in crisis because of the seriousness of the economic recession and the deep differences on the European integration process. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to call a pause in consolidation following the rapid addition of 12 countries. This policy shift has jolted the expectations of [...]