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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Netflix Release Date Set for December 23

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery release date is here. The sequel to writer-director Rian Johnson's Knives Out will release December 23 on Netflix, the world's biggest subscription-based video streaming service announced late Monday. Though you can catch Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc prior to that if you are lucky. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is set to premiere in September at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released in select theatres internationally — not in India — in November…

FLO Take Us On A “Summertime” Trip To Greece In New Video

The past 12 months have put rising R&B trio FLO on almost vertical incline. Their debut single, “Cardboard Box”, was an unfathomably huge success and things have only gotten better for them since. In July, they released their debut EP, The Lead, and now they revisit the 5-tracker to give visuals to their latest single “Summertime”.The track is a calming piece of pop-R&B escapism about putting the world on do not disturb and seeking out some rest and recouperation with your friends. Production comes from Jamal…

Intelligence chief of Greece resigns amid spyware allegations

The head of Greece's intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime minister's office have resigned, amid allegations of the use of surveillance software against a journalist and the head of an opposition party. National Intelligence Service director, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and Grigoris Dimitriadis, general secretary of the prime minister's office, submitted their resignations, the prime minister's office said. Both were accepted. Kontoleon resigned "following incorrect actions found in the procedure of legal…

Greek Government Rocked by Resignations Amid Long-Simmering Surveillance Scandal

Greece's conservative government was rocked Friday by a long-simmering surveillance scandal after its intelligence chief and a close aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis resigned in the space of an hour. Panagiotis Kontoleon offered his resignation due to management "errors" during his time in the role, Mitsotakis' office said in a statement.The announcement that Kontoleon had resigned from his position at the head of national intelligence service EYP came less than an hour after the secretary general of the prime…

Greece Battles Raging Wildfires on Lesbos Island – Residents and Tourists Evacuated

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, which was captured on July 24, shows the active fire front which stretches for more than four km (2.5 miles). Thick billowing smoke is visible in the image blowing in a southwest direction. The burn scars left across the land can be identified as a reddish-brown color and cover an area of around 1700 hectares (4200 acres). Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOAfter a wildfire broke out on the morning of July 23, hundreds of residents…

The cheapest and most expensive cities in Europe to visit this year

It may seem paradoxical, but a trip to Europe may be a way to save money on travel this year.Amid a global scramble to find ways to save money while traveling, hotel rates dropped in many European cities. Average airfares originating from the United States are also down, according to travel specialists.Another boon for Americans? This month, the U.S. dollar hit parity with the euro for the first time in 20 years.To put that into perspective, a three-night stay in a hotel in Paris that charges 250 euros a night would cost…

Khloe Kardashian has fun with daughter True as Tristan holds mystery girls’ hand in Greece

Khloe, on Wednesday, took to Instagram to share a bunch of photos with her four-year-old where the two could be seen having fun in the ocean waters Pic courtesy/Twitter Looks like Khloe Kardashian is having a blast with her daughter True!Khloe, on Wednesday, took to Instagram to share a bunch of photos with her four-year-old where the two could be seen having fun in the ocean waters. Khloe captioned the post, "Me and my best…

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3: One injured in boat crash during filming in Greece

A person has been injured after two speedboats crashed on the set of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.The accident took place on the coast of Thymari beach, south of Athens on Friday (24 June). Reports claim that the speedboats were carrying a total of 16 people, including actors and set technicians.As a result of the collision, one of the speedboats capsized. One person is said to have incurred “light injuries” and was transferred to hospital as a precaution, according to the coast guard.“They are all safe,” a coast guard…

Wildfire Rages Through Athens, Greece, Forcing Evacuations

Photo: Milos Bicanski (Getty Images)Wildfires have been wreaking havoc over the past few weeks, as several fires—like the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico—continue to burn. Greece is currently battling another wildfire that began on Saturday in the area surrounding Athens, and it is only one of the 61 different wildfires that were active in Greece on Saturday,according to Deputy Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Evangelos Tournas, who was quoted in AP News.The official cause of the fire has not been

2,100-Year-Old Skeleton of Greek Woman Found Lying on Bronze ‘Mermaid Bed’

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient burial of a woman lying on a bronze bed near the city of Kozani in northern Greece. It dates to the first century BCE. Depictions of mermaids decorate the posts of the bed. The bed also displays an image of a bird holding a snake in its mouth, a symbol of the ancient Greek god Apollo.  The woman's head was covered with gold laurel leaves that likely were part of a wreath, Areti Chondrogianni-Metoki, director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kozani, told Live Science in an…