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Team Dracula Khan, running in the Mongol Rally - the event known as the world's largest charity rally - on Monday evening arrived in Mongolia and sped up for Ulan Bator, the terminus of the adventure, the team reports on their Facebook page.

London-based Turkish film producer Fuad Kavur has been working on a film project on the founder of the Turkish Republic for the last five years. The lead role in the joint Turkish-Hungarian production, titled “Atatürk,” will be played by young English actor Jack Fox.

Western countries are concentrating their diplomatic effort in Iraq's capital Baghdad, in a push to stop the Sunni insurgents called Islamic State.

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has urged that a "broad unity government" be forged in the country to combat the militants while on a visit to Baghdad, France 24 quoted him as saying.

Wrapping up his campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in London to Greece, Italian professor Salvatore Lo Sicco on Saturday visited the Acropolis Museum, where he met with museum Director Dimitris Patermalis and other officials.

Famous shoe designer Christian Louboutin has launched an exclusive range of shoes that he designed with actress Angelina Jolie for her Maleficent movie promotional tour.

The Black Eagles of Beşiktaş will face a daunting task in their effort to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in five seasons after they were paired with Arsenal in the competition’s playoff round.

By Anna Mazarakis

A couple who met at a political demonstration, a doctor forced to take another job as an escort and a mixed-race couple facing discrimination are just a few of the stories told in a new documentary, “Love in the Time of Crisis,” which attempts to show how the economic meltdown of the past six years has affected love in Greece.

102 days from now, that is, on Nov. 16 2014, 20 people will gather in the Australian city of Brisbane and have the opportunity to take a photo.

By Kiel Porter, Marcus Bensasson and Aaron Kirchfeld

The private-equity units of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG are nearing an agreement to purchase the buyout arm of National Bank of Greece SA, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Iliyana Tsanova has been appointed caretaker Deputy PM for EU Funds Management.

She was born on January 19, 1976 in Sofia.

She holds an MA in Finance from the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) and has completed a postgraduate program in Financial Management at the George Washington University as a USAID fellow and the Georgetown University.