Europe
Culture
Greek Narrator Brings Folk Tales to Life in Stockholm
Anna Izountouemoi is a 25-year-old Greek psychologist who was born and raised in Athens by a Ugandan mother and a Nigerian father. She currently lives in the Swedish capital of Stockholm and has begun narrating fairy tales in the...
Europe
Hippocrates Bust Displayed at Montpellier University, France
About 200 years ago Napoleon Bonaparte had donated to Montpellier in France, a bust of Hippocrates as a token of respect to the work of the great father of medical science. A few days ago another bust of Hippocrates...
Africa
Scientists Develop New Bait to Kill Mosquitoes, Fight Malaria
A new type of bait using beet juice instead of blood lures the mosquitoes that carry malaria, killing them off quickly, scientists announced recently.
Malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases kills more than 700,000 people all over the globe every year...
Europe
Seem: A Greek Selfie Chat Mobile Phone App
Greek startup company Merminx released a new mobile app for iPhone and Android. “Seem” is a chatting application with a very unique feature. In contrast to other communication applications such as Facebook Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and WhatsApp, each message...
Europe
Veteran Swedish diplomat and Greek professor Sture Linner dies at 92
Veteran Swedish diplomat and author Sture Linner, a close aide to the late UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, has died at the age of 92.
Linner was a prolific writer and contributed regularly to the cultural section of Stockholm daily...