The world’s tallest man has said it is high time he found love. The 8ft 1in towering Turk is ready to fall head over heels. But finding the right girl is proving a tall order. Guinness World Records unveiled Sultan Kosen as the tallest human on the planet back in September. At the time he [...]

Second-generation immigrants are going to be given the right to claim Greek citizenship and vote in the country’s elections, the Cabinet decided yesterday. In what will be groundbreaking legislation for Greece, the proposed law would allow some 250,000 children who have been born in the country to migrant parents to call themselves Greek. Under the [...]

How did this all start? First the Greek national broadcaster asked the Maggira sisters to do it again, but they denied. Officially because one of them will soon give birth to her first child, unofficially the comments for the 2009 commentating and general behavior were the worst ever given for the broadcaster. Then they asked [...]

Veteran journalist and media publisher Christos Lambrakis, owner of the Athens-listed Lambrakis Press Group (DOL) and president of private MEGA television station, died on Monday morning at the age of 75 at the Onassis Cardiosurgery Center in Athens. Born in 1934 in Athens, Lambrakis studied in England and Switzerland, served in the Greek Navy, and [...]

Yiannis Moralis, one of the greatest Greek painters of the so-called “Generation of the ’30s” and who had many distinctions both at home and abroad, passed away on Sunday at the age of 93. Moralis was born in the city of Arta, in western Greece, in 1916 and settled permanently in Athens in 1927. At [...]