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Greece is ranked 11th in the preferences of American travelers as a tourist destination, according to online platform “TripHobo”. The data was collected based on the choices of 700,000 users and revealed that American holidaymakers picked Greece as one of their most popular choices over the last six months. Canada took first spot, followed by Mexico, Italy and Britain.

Thirty years ago most of Southeast Asia was run by thuggish dictatorships. Then the Philippines showed the rest of the world how to get rid of dictators without violence, and its non-violent example was watched and copied around the world. But now the thugs are coming back to where it all started.

Vinny Ohh is a 22-year-old makeup artist who has dropped over $50,000 on 110-plus procedures to help transform himself into the “genderless alien” he believes he is.

A report by Equality Now revealed some shocking findings regarding rape laws in different countries across the world. In Greece, Serbia, Thailand and Russia sexual offenders may be legally exempt from punishment under certain conditions, for example of the victim is deemed too young to consent.

Greece is in the worst place among European nations included in Bloomberg’s annual Misery Index, while it ranked 4th overall in the 2017 projected index. According to the index, which factors in unemployment data and inflation, Venezuela, South Africa and Argentina are worse off than Greece, while Turkey and Spain came in immediately after Greece in the rankings.

We have probably all come across a situation when the coffee we ordered at a cafe made us say “this tastes like sh**t”, right? Well, that phrase actually contains some truth in it, and the information to follow could be a little unsettling for all those coffee lovers out there. Because the world’s most expensive coffee, which is priced at $70 per serving, is made from elephant poo!

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing €10 million (around $10.5 million) in financing to a Turkish producer of transportation vehicles, the EBRD said on Feb. 22.

Istanbul has been ranked 15th among the cities with the most traffic in the world and 10th among the countries most congested, according to a new report by transportation analytics firm INRIX. 

Greece was the 6th most popular tourism destination in Russian travel platform Yandex in January 2017. Greece had a 4.9% of the total reach share, with Thailand (12.2%), Turkey (6.2%), India-Goa (6%), Vietnam (5.7%), Egypt (5.2%) occupying the top 5 spots.

European travel and tourism company TUI said it aims to start offering holidays to customers from countries such as China, India, Spain and Italy as it seeks new ways to keep its hotels full.