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Brendan Burke, associate professor and department chair of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, will deliver a lecture at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (DIKEMES) titled "Bronze Age and Archaic Boeotia: New Research at Ancient Eleon" on Tuesday, February 14.

Hot Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio passed her holidays on the beach with her children and friends. The hot MILF shared the photos with her social media fans. The Victoria Secret model has a perfect figure and flaunted it during the holidays enjoying the sea and sun in Brazil.

The large Greek community in Australia has established itself as one of the most active and productive in the country’s multicultural society. With a presence in all walks of life, second and third generation Greeks occupy positions of influence in politics, business and arts. The latest example of an Australian of Greek background excelling in public life, is Demetra Clisaris.

A court has ruled a two-year suspended sentence for Georgi Iliev, the pizza shop owner found guilty of the death of Yuliyan Georgiev, whose father heads Bulgaria's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency.

The Sofia City Court has found that Iliev failed to give way to Georgiev on April 02, 2014, as the latter was riding a motorcycle.

According to TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Award, the Acropolis Museum was voted the 9th best in the world and the 5th best in Europe. Here are the two lists:

Best in world:
1. Metropolitan Arts Museum, New York

2. Chicago Arts Institute, Chicago, Illinois

The Netherland Post office released a set of stamps featuring former Victoria’s Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes. The stamps are likely the sexiest stamps in the world. “So honored to be asked for this project – very proud of my own set of stamps for Post NL! Thank you Anton Corbijn for the amazing pictures,” the model said about her stamp series on sale that started on Monday.

The third World Duchenne Awareness Day is set to take place Wednesday and is being marked at the offices of Greece's Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA Hellas) at Victoria Square, downtown Athens.

The event, organized by parent and patient associations, aims to spread awareness about this rare genetic disorder which is characterized by progressive muscular weakness.

Britain celebrated the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II on April 21 with tributes to a popular monarch who has steered it through the decline of empire and a wave of scandals to the Internet age.

"A Strangeness in My Mind" by Turkey's Nobel laureate writer Orhan Pamuk is among the six books shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for literature announced on April 14. The longlist for the prize included books from 155 writers from 12 countries in nine different languages.

Following two auctions of Islamic and Indian art in April and October 2015, Bonhams auction house will organize another auction of Islamic and Indian art in London on April 19, featuring exceptional items in several categories. The 315-lot sale includes pieces of outstanding quality in glassware and ceramics, calligraphy and miniature painting, sculpture, bronze, carpets and textiles.