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A research published in the journal eLife lists the tallest people by country. The research revealed that over the past 100 years humans have become taller to their ancestors thanks to better nutrition and health, but the amount of height gain varies from country to country. Authors found that people from central and southern Europe, as well as East Asia, grew taller in the last 100 years.

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Turkish aeroplanes and helicopters illegally entered Greece's airspace 141 times yesterday, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff reported.

The average growth rate in Eurozone countries stood at 1.7% in the first quarter of 2017, according to Eurostat’s initial estimates, while it was calculated at 2% for the EU28 area. This is in contract to the Greek economy, which was the only country that registered a drop in growth for the sam3e period.

The EU plan to distribute 160,000 refugees "among EU partners" by September is "likely to result in less than 40,000 people finding new homes."

EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Tuesday that more than 18,000 migrants have been relocated and that 12,500 people in Greece and some 4,000 in Italy are eligible to go, Beta reported, quoting AP.

Police in Athens launched an investigation Monday into the theft of medical equipment worth half a million euros from the Aghios Savvas Hospital.

According to hospital officials, the robbery occurred between 2.30 and 6 a.m. on Monday at the hospitals' gastroenterology department, and included, among others, the theft of seven endoscopes - instruments used to examine internal organs.

"Abdullah, we seem to have the same agenda," said Condi.

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül was former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's interlocutor. At the time he was serving as the foreign minister of a mid-size power, while she was the foreign minister of a superpower.

Greece and China signed a "three-year action plan" for joint projects over the weekend that will see Greece claim a share of Beijing's 100-billion-euro investment program for the countries on the so-called New Silk Road.

Airline seat occupancy on flights to Greece posted a 0.9 percentage point increase last year according to data processed by the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE).

Planes into Greece were 80 percent full in 2016 against 79.1 percent in 2015, while the number of seats available came to 23 million against 21.65 million in 2015.

Greek economy has paid a heavy price for the delay in the completion of the second review of the country's third bailout and this is reflected in the official data for first-quarter gross domestic product, which contracted 0.5 percent year-on-year according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).

One of the Greek capital's most overlooked historic monuments, Pyrgos Vassilissis, or the Queen's Tower, in the suburb of Ilion, is a beautiful example of Gothic architecture built by Queen Amalia in 1854 after the plot was purchased from two Britons who wanted to develop a model farm.