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Mind Blowing: Abandoned Greek Temple 1,000 Years Prior to Alexander? – Ancient City of Girsu remembered

During the holiday period leading up to New Year and Epiphany, Athens metro and tram lines will operate on a modified timetable with reduced services. All rail services will conclude by 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve.

Metro Line 1 (Green line)

The proposed opening hours of stores in Athens for the 2023 Christmas holidays were announced this week by the Trade Association of Athens.

Starting on December 12, the association proposes that stores stay open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays.

Shops will be also open on Sundays, from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., on December 17, 24 and 31.

A new scheme was launched on Monday at the Acropolis site in Athens to avoid overcrowding and to protect the monuments. From this point on, the daily cap on visitors will be 20,000.

Dozens of passengers are waiting at the train station in Burgas due to train delays. There are problems for both departing and arriving compositions. According to passengers, there is a fault in the contact network along the route.

Τhe frequency of Athens' trains will slow down for the summer holiday season starting July 10, according to Metro operator STASY.

Europe's best-selling newspaper, German tabloid "Bild" plans to replace a number of editorial positions with artificial intelligence as part of a €100m cost-cutting program, Britain's "Guardian" reported, citing emails sent to the paper's staff. The group will also reorganize its business with regional newspapers, which will lead to hundreds of redundancies in total.

A Turkish high school student who invented an artificial intelligence system that helps brain surgeons how to operate on patients has gained a full scholarship from Stanford University in the U.S.

Swiss researchers said on Aug. 16 they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer.

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"The calculation took 108 days and nine hours" using a supercomputer, the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences said in a statement.

Construction work to pull down the Rexx Cinema Hall, a famous landmark of the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, has started, the Eastern Orthodox Foundation, which owns the 59-year-old building, has said.

The building was seen surrounded by temporary steel barriers on Dec. 6.