Culture
Bye bye coffins and cremation… become an after-life compost of death! (pics + vid)
Two Italian designers, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, have put forth a green alternative to cemeteries, funerals and burials – even cremation. The Capsula Mundi concept uses an egg-shaped burial pod of biodegradable starch plastic as the coffin where the body is placed in a fetal position.
World honors the memory of Holocaust victims
January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations chose to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II.
The anniversary, which is marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945.
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Turkey commemorates Holocaust, vows to fight anti-Semitism
Turkey has voiced resolve in continuing its fight against anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia in a message to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A theatrical play performed in Ancient Greek (vid)
A bilingual theatrical performance of Antigone, Sophocles was presented in Ancient Greek and in Greek sign language by Ecclesiastical Lyceum of the Rizarios School and the Junior and Senior High School of Agia Paraskevi for Speech-and-Hearing Impaired Students, under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO.
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Student stabs man in the eye using her stiletto (pics+vid)
A student who stabbed a man in the eye using a Christian Louboutin stiletto heel has walked free from court.
Shadiya Omar, 22, attacked Justin Lloyd, also 22, as they both waited for a taxi home after a night out in the center of Manchester city.
The world’s most exclusive nightclub… only the chosen few can fit in! (pics)
Berlin’s trendy Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district is home to the world’s smallest disco – ‘Teledisko’. The coin-operated venue created by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is a repurposed phone booth and can only accomodate two people at a time. Only you and your chosen friends can enter the yellow parted place.
An unexpected place to celebrate the Chinese New Year: Greece!
Back in the Nineties, Chinese entrepreneurs first began to establish themselves in Greece, creating settlements in both Athens and Thessaloniki. More and more shops with traditional Chinese lanterns began to appear. Not long after that, the Chinese community began to host its first New Year’s lion dances to celebrate New Year festivities.
New site promotes economic empowerment of women
A website will be launched on Friday to promote advice, practical knowledge and experience about ways to economically empower women.
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Twitter embraces National Hugging Day with social media hugfest
The world wide web embraces Hugging Day on January 21. The annual hugfest was created by Kevin Zaborney from Michigan in 1986 to encourage everyone to hug each other more often. The idea caught on and, Greece, too, joined in the hugs.