Street furniture

The official election campaign for the snap parliamentary elections started on Friday. It will continue until 24:00 hrs on March 24 after which all campaigning will be banned until the end of the election day on March 26.
There are 20 parties and coalitions which registered candidates lists. According to preliminary information, there are 4,732 candidates for parliamentary deputies.

A group of around 40 vandals barged onto four buses parked at a depot in Zografou, eastern Athens, on Wednesday morning.

The attackers forced the drivers off the vehicles and proceeded to remove a total of 14 new and seven old ticket machines with electronic screwdrivers.

The flow of traffic on different sections of Olympias Street in central Piraeus is being diverted due to construction work for the local tramline.

The round-the-clock disruption will continue until January 2, 2017, according to local authorities, who are advising drivers to follow road signs in place for the duration of the construction work.

A Turkish journalist has begun a research project in which he collects and analyzes different kinds of waste thrown into dumpsters in various parts of Istanbul and İzmir in a bid to ultimately create Turkey's first waste map.  

Unbelievable footage from a school in Crete has been released. On the sidewalk in front of their school, students are sitting on benches, holding their books.

Sir Elton John is a name you would come across among the world's most popular and most important music stars. In his concert at EXPO 2016 Antalya (we missed it, by the way), he said: 

A ‘masturbation booth’ called GuyFi mysteriously popped up in New York City this January. Erected by Hot Octopuss on 28th Street and 5th Avenue in New York, the premise behind the booth is for men to head there and go to relieve themselves. Inside, the men can find a chair and a laptop as well as lots of tissues. Best yet, the booth is completely free of charge.

A total of 12 people have been killed after a public bus rammed into a bus stop in the Dikimevi neighborhood of Ankara, according to initial reports.

The public bus rammed into people waiting at the bus stop near the central Dikimevi metro station when the unidentified driver lost control of the wheel. 

The number of deadly crashes has risen by as much as 90 percent over the past 10 years in Turkey, parallel to a percentage increase in the number of all crashes, including fatal ones, over the same period, statistical data from the Turkish Statistical Institute shows.

People roaming through garbage bins are threatened by a BGN 1,000 fine.

''There are two categories of homeless people - one is those seeking for food and the rest might have already become millionaires,'' said Todor Burgudzhiev, CEO of Ekopak Bulgaria.