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...See turnwild.com Greek island bliss Long in the shadow of its party-loving neighbour Mykonos, the peaceful, unspoilt island of Tinos is getting some slick new places to stay....
...Long Island....
...“The embassy is verifying reports in Greek media outlets on the detention of the Pegas oil tanker with 19 sailors on board near Euboea island,” the embassy said in a statement....
...Sifnos, in the Cyclades islands....
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home is a small, beautiful rock – it looks almost like alabaster – from one of the beaches in Antiparos, the Greek island I visited last summer....
...Earlier this year Danone acquired Earth Island, which owns VeganEgg under the Follow Your Heart brand....
...My wellbeing guru is my Pilates instructor, Athina, at the Pilates Lab in Athens. I have been a loyal follower of her tutorials for 20 years....
...For thousands of years, from across Mare Nostrum they came to conquer – Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans – and were conquered themselves, founding colonies and erecting temples...
...In the late summer, I found myself staying a few miles away from Lubin out on Long Island....
...On the Greek island of Santorini, for example, Istoria (pictured above) is a chic 12-suite boutique hotel that this summer will keep its chef and all its staff, but only be available to single groups — at...
...Greek and Roman to Arabic and Spanish – is often revisited as stimulus....
...The real risk here, however, is man-made, specifically a bioweapon or lab-mutated virus....
...Rocket Lab says its private launch pad on the picturesque Mahia peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island gives it a commercial advantage to many competitors, who use government-run facilities such as Cape...
...Lykke Groven, a Danish design student, flew to a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos....
...“We didn’t know how to make bombs but we improvised with petrol and chemicals from the pharmaceutical lab.”...
...The EU is close to a breakthrough deal with Ankara that would see all non-Syrian migrants reaching Greek islands returned to Turkey....
...Jewellery designer Diane Kordas was first inspired to create Amulette, a collection of scent phials that launches this month, following a night swim near her home on the Greek island of Mykonos....
...Waste it on Greek bailouts or Syrian refugees. Our tax dollars are used only to build bureaucracy and regulation, which frustrates the advancement of humanity....
...Fraport and its Greek partner, Copelouzos, a construction group, would invest €330m in the first four years to improve services at cramped island airports that have seen scarcely any investment in the past...
...The purpose of chimera research is not to bring “manimals” to life, as Dr Moreau did on the island imagined by HG Wells....
...(Wired) On the rocks Filipinos living on a remote island in the vast South China Seaare watching as China dredges sand nearby to build on reefs and rocks they claim as their own....
...(Guardian) Greek pension struggles The government struggled getting payments to more than 2m pensioners – it claimed a “technical hitch” had delayed earlier disbursement....
...I often stayed in one on the Greek islands in the pre-internet age. Instead of posting their accommodation online, the owners would meet the ferry and entice you to come and have a look....
..., by Saad Hossain, Unnamed Press, RRP$16.00 Unclassifiably wild, weird and wacky, Hossain’s debut novel mixes Islamic mysticism, Greek myth, alchemy and superheroes....
...In a letter to investors earlier this year, he described his Greek bond trades with lyrics from Tupac Shakur: “I’m tryin’ to make a dollar out of 15 cents”....
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