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Panos N. Patatoukas's ascent during his eight-year career in one of the most competitive academic environments in the world has been nothing short of stellar, and now he has received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the prestigious University of California, Berkeley.

With a lolling tongue and a propensity to drool, English Bulldog Zsa Zsa won best in show at World's Ugliest Dog competition in Petaluma, California.

Former US ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis finished first in a tight race to qualify for the November general election to replace Gavin Newsom as California's lieutenant governor.

Kounalakis, a Democrat, won 23.4 percent of the vote, while State Senator Ed Hernandez, also a Democrat, came second with 20.8 percent. She agreed to an email interview with Kathimerini.

There were no buses or trolley buses in the Greek capital on Thursday, as workers walked off the job a day after a nationwide general strike in protest at austerity measures.

The 24-hour bus drivers' strike is affecting the express services to and from Athens International Airport.

Researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum and the non-profit Terra Peninsular were scratching their heads when they found unfamiliar rodents in traps they placed around a field in Baja California. They were intending to study rodent populations in the area — but instead made a rare discovery.

CNN) - Sweet. Elon Musk says he's starting a candy company.

The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted Saturday that he is "super, super serious" about starting his own confections enterprise.
"It's going to be amazing," Musk wrote.

It immediately set tongues wagging, with more than 100,000 likes by Saturday evening and Twitter users basically salivating at the prospect.

California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov. Jerry Brown said on April 18.

Widely regarded as one of the world's foremost events in the photography calendar, The Photography Show 2018, organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers in New York in early April, featured a section on Robert McCabe, renowned for his photographs of Greece, at the pavilion of Paris gallery Sit Down.

California Governor Jerry Brown has rejected the Trump administration’s initial proposals for a National Guard mission along the state’s border with Mexico, a top U.S. official said April 16.

SAN SALVADOR: A Salvadoran journalist reported missing Sunday has been found dead on the side of a road, according to media reports.

According to media reports, the body of Karla Turcios, 33, was found on a highway on the outskirts of Santa Rosa Guachipilin, 100 kilometres northeast of San Salvador.