Greece

In ancient Greece, an enthusiastic mouse named Pattie (voiced by Kaycie Chase) dreams of adventures and glory to match those of her hero, Jason. In his youth, Jason brought peace and prosperity home to his town along with the Golden Fleece. But now Jason is old, the gods are fractious and the fate of the community rests on Pattie, a stagestruck cat and a tone-deaf amputee seagull. The decent quality of the animation of this English-language French production is rather let down by some shockingly poor voice performances…

Canadian Tammy Cecco wasn't a fan of cruising."The thought of being on a ship with thousands of other people and not being able to get off," she said, "was something that I wanted to avoid."That didn't change when Cecco, a travel magazine publisher, boarded a surprise cruise booked by her husband to renew their vows in front of family and friends."When I got on … I thought 'Oh my god, what am I doing here?'" she said. "I'm not the type of person who likes to be herded at all."She said she imagined "a little tiny cabin and…

The excavations undertaken in the autumn of 2022 revealed parts of the foundations of a structure that was 9.4 meters wide and had carefully positioned walls with a thickness of 0.8 meters. Credit: Dr. Birgitta Eder / Athens Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains…

Last Updated: November 09, 2022, 17:53 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: GreenCell Express)For the last 14 years, workers have been bearing the burden of a deep crisis that affected the income and the lives of everyonePublic transport largely ground to a halt in the Greek capital Wednesday and state-run services remained shuttered as workers walked off the job in a 24-hour general strike to protest rising prices. The strike left ferries to and from Greek islands tied up in port, and left Athens without a subway,…

Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP (Getty Images)After continually deflecting accusations that it surveilled droves of politicians and journalists using invasive phone-tapping software, Greece’s government has decided to ban sales of spyware within the country’s borders altogether. But the government also wants everybody to know that this is in no way an admission of guilt and that it definitely didn’t do anything wrong, thank you very much.“We won’t allow any shadow to remain on issues that poison Greek society,” a government…

via Lionsgate It’s something of a trope for murder mysteries to involve a vacation to exotic regions, but for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, that choice has more to do with paying homage to all the movies that came before it rather than imitating them in an attempt to, as they say, “play it safe.” The story of the Knives Out sequel involves a billionaire by the name of Miles Bron who invites his friends on a getaway trip to his private island in Greece. But when someone turns up dead, the…

Greece was powered entirely by renewables for the first time ever last week, according to the country’s independent power transmission operator (IPTO). On Monday, IPTO said that renewables accounted for 100% of power generation in Greece for at least five hours, reaching a record high of 3,106 megawatt hours at 0800 GMT: For the first time in the history of the Greek electricity system, the demand was covered 100% from renewable energy sources. With the interconnections implemented by IPTO on land and sea, new…

A professor has rediscovered a miracle plant previously used by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans. The plant, which was expected to have gone extinct over two thousand years ago was known as silphion (or silphium) by the ancient Greeks. The professor discovered what he believes to be a botanical survivor, which could open new doors to medicines we haven’t seen in two millennia. Historians believe that the ancient Greeks used this miracle plant by crushing, roasting, sautéing, and even boiling it to…

Glass Onion teaser trailer is here. On Thursday, Netflix unveiled the first trailer for the Knives Out sequel — its full mouthful of a title is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — which sends Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc to Greece, where a tech billionaire (Edward Norton) has assembled “his nearest and dearest for a getaway on his private Greek island.” That includes the likes of Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. The release of the Glass…

Greece has ratified a complex deal for the return, over coming decades, of 161 striking ancient Greek artifacts from a U.S. billionaire's collection after Athens conceded it had no evidence they'd been illegally excavated and exported. The mostly marble works date…