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1. He writes his name with one n instead of two because of a conflict with a teacher in primary school. He liked seeing it with one n, she kept insisting two. Once she marked down an exam from 10/10 to 8/10 for this reason. When 13, he found a book by Yianis Kordatos who also prefered the one n spelling and that was the end of it?

2. In 1983, he lived in London and had hair?

BELGRADE - A selection of films by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Wim Wenders, will start screening at the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The program is opening with "Palermo Shooting", premiered in 2008, and a total of 11 releases by the celebrated German director will be screened until February 21.

His hectic schedule of meetings and visits to Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt and Berlin may have kept the prolific social media-using Greek FinMin off the TL for a few days, however, on Wednesday afternoon Yanis Varoufakis squeezed in a tweet.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on the FBI to withdraw its representative from a February event in Texas sponsored by a controversial group.

Scores of same-sex Florida couples tied the knot early Jan. 6 after the state's ban on gay marriage ended.

Overjoyed couples filed into courthouses and exchanged vows just after midnight, as Florida became the 36th of America's 50 states to allow gay marriage.

Former U.S. president George H. W. Bush, 90, has been admitted to a Texas hospital suffering shortness of breath, a family spokesman said Dec. 23.

"President Bush was taken by ambulance to the Houston Methodist Hospital as a precaution after experiencing a shortness of breath earlier this evening," his spokesman Jim McGrath said.        

BELGRADE - An eight-member delegation of the United States Congress' House of Representatives has arrived on a three-day visit to Serbia, where it will meet with government and parliamentary officials.

The delegation is headed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Virginia) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (New York).

Time magazine on Dec. 10 named as its "Person of the Year 2014" the medics treating the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,300 people, paying tribute to their courage and mercy.
      

The reserve estimate for the Aphrodite natural gas field off the coast of Cyprus has been raised by 12 percent, and most of the gas is likely to be exported, Israeli firms involved in the project said.

The new estimate given for the natural gas field is 4.54 trillion cubic feet (tcf).

Iraqi Kurdistan plans to increase the capacity of its oil pipeline via Turkey to 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) following upgrade work, industry sources and officials said on Oct. 27.

It will raise the flow to 400,000 bpd by year-end, from a current 280,000 bpd, adding further pressure to falling world oil prices already hit by rising supply.