2016
Economy
Official Data Shows Greece Still in Recession in 2016
Greece's economy performed worse than the country's official creditors were expecting as it decreased by 0.2 percent last year, according to official data from the Greek statistics service (ELSTAT).
ELSTAT released its second estimate of the full-year 2016 gross domestic...
Greece
Famous Greeks Who Passed Away in 2016
For Greeks, leap years are considered to be years of bad luck. And indeed, 2016 was not a good year for Greece and the whole world. Terrorist attacks, over one million refugees, an ongoing bloody war in Syria, dangerous...
Hollywood
GoFundMe Page Set Up to Protect Betty White
After the recent slew of celebrity deaths in 2016, including Prince, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, and Debbie Reynolds, a Greek-American South Carolina man has set up a GoFundMe page to, as he puts it, protect Betty White...
Australia
Cypriot Tennis Player Baghdatis Withdraws from Rio Due to Injury
On Friday the Cypriot tennis player Marcos Baghdatis announced that he will not be competing at the Rio Olympics, as he is suffering for an ongoing injury.
In a statement on Facebook, the 31-year-old 2006 Australian Open Finalist said that he...