Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, shows Xi Jinping around Piraeus port near Athens. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/APA landmark visit to Greece by China’s president Xi Jinping has cemented what both countries are calling a “new era” in bilateral ties amid western concern over Beijing’s growing global assertiveness.Athens rolled out the red carpet for Xi as the centre-right government sought to capitalise on Greece’s burgeoning role as China’s

Two trains crashed head-on in eastern Bangladesh early on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 40, officials said.The accident took place when a train heading for the port city of Chittagong collided with a train bound for the capital Dhaka at 3 a.m. (2100 GMT) in Brahmanbaria, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Dhaka.The impact of the collision left a couple of compartments of the trains mangled, and rescue workers continued searching to reach passengers trapped inside, Hayat

SeaLegs Wine Bar owner Alicia Whitney began to develop her first restaurant when her daughter Sahara was still in the womb. Now that her girl is 9, she will sell it to spend more time with her child and to focus on her restaurants and events at the beach.
“When I first started the plan she was six weeks old and now she’s in third grade,” Whitney said. “I can and I will always create, right? But I’m never going to get her back as a child. So it’s important to m

(CNN) — It’s been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down.
On Sunday, undersea explorer Tim Taylor and his team at the Lost 52 Project announced that they had located the long-lost submarine on June 5 about 1,427 feet underwater off Okinawa, Japan.
Last year, researcher Yutaka Iwasaki found that the Navy had originally made an error in transl

SCHENECTADY – Several people scanned the burnished granite monument on the edge of the pond at Steinmetz Park in search of the name of a family with ties to the neighborhood who served their country.After three years, the gleaming Goose Hill Veterans Memorial they were fixated on, some snapping pictures on their cell phone, inside Steinmetz Park was revealed Monday during a ceremony that attracted hundreds of people  and a few politicians on a frigid day.The unveiling of the 400 plus

Ucciso a fucilate sotto casa. Un presunto elemento di spicco di un clan mafioso del Gargano, Pasquale Ricucci, di 45 anni, è stato vittima di un agguato nella frazione Macchia di Monte Sant’Angelo. L’uomo è ritenuto dagli investigatori al vertice del clan Lombardi-Ricucci-La Torre, erede dei Romito, da sempre in lotta con il clan dei “montanari” Li Bergolis-Miucci. Sul posto i carabinieri del Reparto investigatovi di Foggia.
Secondo le prime ricostruzioni, l

When Thomas Philippon moved to Boston from his native France 20 years ago, he was a graduate student on a budget, and he was happy to discover how cheap American telephone use was. In those days of dial-up internet connections, going online involved long local phone calls that could cost more than $10 apiece in France. In the United States, they were virtually free.Philippon eventually got a doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and decided to stay here. He’s

BATON ROUGE – There was an extra level of excitement at LSU Monday. Film crews took over campus. The filming was happening in the quad and outside of the Law School building. The Director of the independent drama called ‘Swing’ said campus is a perfect setting for his vision.“We wanted to give the campus scenery a richness and make it seem like it was a special school, and the quad on the campus definitely fit the bill,” said Michael Mailer.The

Courtesy of The Purple Shirt BrigadeThe arrest of an inflatable purple unicorn on Saturday wasn’t even close to the strangest event to unfold at Bloomington, Indiana’s Community Farmers’ Market this year.The market was once the peaceful home of fresh vegetables and goat cheese. But after the owners of a market stall were outed as supporters of a white supremacist group, the it has become the center of a fierce debate on bigotry and free speech. The controversy has led to new ru

Assorbenti detassati in Germania a partire dal prossimo anno. Lo ha fatto sapere il governo di Berlino: dal primo gennaio 2020 l’Iva passerà dal 19% (quella prevista per le merci di lusso, come sigarette e vino) al 7% (la quota prevista per i prodotti di necessità giornaliera). A influenzare la decisione dell’esecutivo tedesco una petizione online, lanciata dalle attiviste Nanna-Josephine Roloff e Yasemin Kotra e rivolta al Parlamento: in poco tempo ha raggiunto le 200

Bonne nouvelle pour les auditeurs de Radio-Canada : l’ensemble des contenus radio se retrouve désormais sous une même bannière et un même toit. L’application mobile Radio-Canada Ohdio regroupe ICI Musique et ICI Radio-Canada Première, en plus de présenter une dizaine de nouveaux balados animés par de beaux noms de la scène culturelle québécoise, dont Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, François Bellefeuille, Eve Land

(Bloomberg) -- Poland’s prime minister wrote an official letter to Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings requesting that the media streaming company correct facts about the Holocaust in its “The Devil Next Door” documentary series.The European Union member lurched into the international spotlight last year after its nationalist ruling Law & Justice party outlawed the phrase “Polish death camps.” It also criminalized suggesting that the nation was complic