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Greek Police (ELAS) was on high alert on Thursday after four more suspicious envelopes turned up in Corfu, Volos, Crete and the polytechnical school campus in the district of Zografou, in Athens.

All parcels were addressed to local universities and appeared to have been sent from India.

The Smile of the Child (Hamogelo tou Paidiou) charity has issued its annual call for donations in school supplies ahead of the start of the new academic year.

Officials at the main post office in Faliro, southern Athens, intercepted an envelope containing three bullets addressed to the general secretary of public revenue, Giorgos Pitsilis, authorities said on Tuesday.

The envelope, which did not carry the sender's name or address, was discovered at 2.30 p.m. at the sorting office.

The Greek Pentagon is on alert after a suspicious envelope was sent to the building of the Greek National Defence. The envelope was deemed suspicious during the X-ray screening procedure at the Pentagon main gates. A specialised team from the Greek police was called in after a military handled the envelope following the screening.

You would never guess that you can do all these things with just one binder clip.

Among other things, this video, created by Japanese lifehacker Venlee, demonstrates how the binder clip can be used to make a stand for your mobile phone, organize your cables and bind them together, making your everyday life easier. And it won’t cost much.

It sounded like a very tall story. But a Croatian company, which produces office supplies such as pens and pencils, says it is serious about plans to buy its own pet giraffe in order to draw visitors to the company site, and boost its public profile.

Although it was perceived as a practical joke at first, the director of company, Tihomir Lalic, maintains that the idea has legs.

Greece’s Parliament plans to cut down on the number of photocopies it hands out in a bid to reduce the amount of A4 sheets of paper it uses by 3 million each year.