Geography

Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura inaugurated the 2nd Mediterranean yacht Show at historic coastal Nafplion, the first capital of modern Greece.

Police have found more than 50 bodies, including those of six foreigners, in Nepal's popular Langtang trekking region following last weekend's devastating earthquake, a senior local official said May 3.

Another 100 foreign tourists are still feared to be missing in Langtang in the wake of the 7.8-magnitude-quake that struck on April 25 and claimed more than 7,000 lives.

The destructive earthquake which hit Nepal on the 25th of April raised the city of Kathmandu, while it seems to have shortened the Himalaya peaks, including Mt. Everest, by 2.5 centimeters, according to preliminary satellite imagery data!

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Nepal declared a three-day national mourning for the more than 5000 victims of the disastrous earthquake, which hit the country on Saturday.

Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said that the government was doing all it could, but was overwhelmed by the scale of the natural disaster, the BBC reports.

BELGRADE - Over 233,000 skiers visited Serbia during the ski season, which is 40 percent more compared to the previous season, says Dejan Ljevnaic, CEO of the Ski Resorts of Serbia public enterprise.

After the initial refusal of the Bulgarian Environmental Ministry to recognize the existence of ''sand dunes'', Minister Ivelina Vasileva stated Monday that in fact that was the case.

At least 3200 are known to have died just two days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, according to officials.

Numbers of injured have reached 6500, while the number of those affected by the disaster is yet to be specified, with at least a million children being among them, the Bulgarian National Television reports citing UNICEF data.

Nepal has been turned into a veritable endless cemetery. The monster-quake which reached 7.9 on the Richter scale now brings up the estimate of dead to 1,900.

Residents of the Centar district of Skopje, Macedonia, will vote "Yes" or "No" on Sunday to plans to radically reshape one of the city's best-known landmarks.

The single question in the referendum - the first local one in Macedonia's history - is: "Do you support the preservation of the authentic look of GTC [the City Trade Centre]?"