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Greece optimist throws in towel
By Simon Kennedy
Erik Nielsen likes to spend Sunday mornings ruminating over the world economy at a cafe near his west London home.
Finding his favored Caffe Nero too crowded on Mother's Day, the chief global economist of UniCredit Bank AG beat a retreat to his own study. From there, he also changed direction on Greece.
Cinderella's real origins from Ancient Greece
Most people associate "Cinderella" with Disney but the tale actually originated in Ancient Greece. The first recorded Cinderella-like figure is told in a story from the 6th century BC when Greek courtesan Rhodopis had one of her slippers stolen by an eagle who flew it all the way across the Mediterranean into the lap of an Egyptian king.
Greece must implement structural reforms, says Lagarde
Greece needs to implement structural reforms, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Monday, adding that she felt strongly for taxpayers of the debt-strapped eurozone member state.
Lagarde made the comment at a question-and-answer session with students in New Delhi after earlier giving a speech.
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Student's death in Ioannina ruled a suicide
A coroner ruled on Monday that the cause of death of missing student Vangelis Giakoumakis was suicide. The coronary report pointed to a single wound on the student?s right wrist carried out with a knife.
Authorities believe that the 20-year-old, who was enrolled at the Dairy School in Ioannina, northern Greece, committed suicide on February 6 the day he was reported missing.
Thessaloniki Jews remember the Nazi train of shame (photos)
A crowd of 2,000 people gathered at Freedom Square, Thessaloniki, to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of 56,000 Greek Sephardic Jews. They solemnly marched from the square to the city's old railway station where the first of 18 trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex on March 15, 1943.