Geography

A 63-year-old man who was reported missing while on a hunting expedition on the outskirts of Thessaloniki by his family on Monday was found dead on Wednesday, the police has said.

A large search had been launched for the missing man, including a special K-9 unit.

The 63-year-old's body was found on Wednesday afternoon and appears to have died of natural causes.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) measured 19 temperature records in Bulgaria on Tuesday.

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Merchant Marine Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis and Deputy Infrastructure and Transport Minister Michalis Papadopoulos have signed a decision paving the way for the country’s first hydroplane strip at the Ionian island of Corfu.

Athens University, Greece’s biggest educational institution, may run out of funds to operate next year, its rector, Theodoros Fortsakis, told a press conference on Monday.

Scientific data shows Greenland's continental shelf is connected to a ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, giving Danes a claim to the North Pole and any potential energy resources beneath it, Denmark's foreign minister said.
     

A 24-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Saturday after he lost control of his car in the early hours of the morning and hit and killed a pedestrian.

Police did not give further details about the 54-year-old victim.

Some 3,000 former soldiers marched through the centre of Zagreb, demanding that the government take action after the suicides of numerous 1990s war veterans.

Authorities on Wednesday said two possibly synchronized blasts detonated shortly after 9pm Tuesday near police stations in the towns of Tetovo and Kumanovo in western and northern Macedonia. 

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Any delimitation of the Mediterranean between Egypt and Greece will not be acceptable if it affects Turkey’s national interests, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said.

Davutoğlu’s remarks were published on Dec. 7 in the Greek newspaper To Vima, in an interview given at the end of the third High-Level Cooperation Council meeting between Greece and Turkey in Athens on Dec. 6.

By Margarita Pournara

Archaeology buffs experiencing withdrawal symptoms since the information flow from the Amphipolis excavation in northern Greece slowed to a trickle over the past few weeks can always get a quick fix from the Antikythera Shipwreck mission.

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