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The 51st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival will be held between Oct 10 and 18 with a particular focus on films from Spain, the guest country Turkey’s premier film festival will be back for its second half-century in just three months’ time, as the 51st Golden Orange Film Festival brings together stars and top-level cinema in Antalya between Oct. 10 and 18.

Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as they slept when an Israeli tank shell hit their home, burying 11-year-old Ahmed, 14-year-old Walaa and 16-year-old Mohammed under debris in their beds.

Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as they slept when an Israeli tank shell hit their home, burying 11-year-old Ahmed, 14-year-old Walaa and 16-year-old Mohammed under debris in their beds.

Veteran Broadway actress and singer Elaine Stritch, who enthralled theatre audiences for 70 years with her brassy voice and quick-fire comedy delivery, has died. She was 89.
      
Her death at home in Birmingham, Michigan was confirmed to US media by a close friend. Before moving to Michigan last year, she had lived for years at New York's luxury Carlyle Hotel.
      

By Maria Petrakis

When Anastasia Sakellariou moved back to Greece in 2009 to get married, giving up international trips and pay checks that came with being a banker at Credit Suisse Group AG, Europe’s debt crisis had barely begun.

Travel + Leisure magazine, a New York-based monthly publication with an estimated 4.8 million reader worldwide, has voted the southern Aegean island of Santorini as the World's Best Island for 2014.

More than 40 years after a New York man last saw his high school class ring, the love token his wife had until their wedding night popped up on a Greek island.

How it got to Naxos after it disappeared with his bride's purse at their wedding reception is a mystery. But earlier this month, the ring arrived by mail on Staten Island.

Today's video features Chrysovalantis Stamelos, a filmmaker and former producer for MTV Networks who founded, with his partner Paras Chaudhari, the independent New York-based film production company Crescent Street. In 2010 he directed "Hello Anatolia!", a documentary tracing his family's roots in Turkey.

Israel widened its air assault against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on July 12, hitting a mosque, Hamas-affiliated charities and an Islamic home for the disabled, as Palestinians said the death toll from the five-day offensive rose to 135.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Thursday, on the anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, that Tesla's achievements constitute a legacy that Serbia should preserve with pride and unselfishly share with the entire mankind.