Zoe

Hollywood is gearing up for the 95th Academy Awards, where "Everything Everywhere All at Once" comes in the lead nominee.

The Oscars will be held on March 12, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set to begin at 8 p.m. EST and be broadcast live on ABC.

In June 1985, a small family cheese factory just outside Trikala, on the road to Pyli, took its first steps, with just five employees. Stergios Sarantis, his wife Zoe, their two sons, Takis and Michalis and a worker, who worked even on Easter day so as not to lose the milk of the day.

This was the whole workforce of the TYRAS (Cheese-making firm Brothers Sarantis).

Europe's poorest state, Moldova has some 41,800 abandoned children, according to official data, many of them the unwitting victims of an exodus of Moldovans looking for work abroad. Most are left with relatives, but a small minority is abandoned altogether.

The chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Marcel Ciolacu, declared on Friday that he ordered for the party a Dacia electric vehicle and will try to acquire one such vehicle for each of the party's branches. "I decided that there is a green Friday and together with mayor Baluta, today, I came with Zoe (an electric car, ed. n.), I borrowed Zoe.

The U.S. State Department said on Dec. 23 it has stopped sending explosive-detecting dogs to Jordan and Egypt over concerns of deaths of deployed dogs from causes like heat stroke and poisoning.

The number of dead from a fire which ripped through a Greek coastal town reached at least 81 on Wednesday as frantic relatives tried to track down people missing from the inferno and officials began the grim task of identifying bodies.

The luxurious private mansion of Romania's late communist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, opens to the public on Saturday, for the first time in its history.

The 80-room residence, called the "Spring Palace" and located in Bucharest's fanciest neighbourhood, includes a cinema, a swimming pool and an impressive dressing room. It also has also adjoining grounds of 14,000 square metres.

By Katerina Kapernarakou