Greece is in a "Great Depression" similar to the American one in the 1930s, the country's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Sunday. Samaras was speaking days before a team of Greece's international lenders arrive in Athens to push for further cuts needed for the debt-laden country to qualify for
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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton caused quite a stir on the capital’s busy Ledra Street, when he visited the checkpoint and then sat to eat at a restaurant nearby, before heading off for a stroll up the pedestrianised street crowded with shoppers, according to the Mail on Sunday. By the time the former president had
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The future is bright for all those who choose productive cooperation over conflict, former US President Bill Clinton said in Cyprus on Saturday, addressing an audience of more than 600 people at the European University in Nicosia, a member of the Laureate International network of which he is the Honorary Chancellor. Clinton noted in his
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The Warner Bros. studio is rethinking its plans for the film "Gangster Squad" in light of a scene featuring a movie-theater shooting, but beyond that Hollywood executives expect little fall-out from the mass killing at a Batman screening on Friday in Aurora, Colorado. Officials at Time Warner Inc-owned Warner Bros. are expected to meet on
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– Tourists arriving in record numbers to Thailand – Growing influx raises safety and environmental issues – Government vows to tackle "mafias" in tourist areas Two Canadian sisters die mysteriously in their rented bungalow on an idyllic Thai island, believed poisoned. Less than a week later, a 60-year-old Australian woman is stabbed to death in a
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Apple Inc faces an unusual phenomenon when reporting earnings this time around: low expectations. Few are expecting the world's most valuable technology company — which surpasses Wall Street expectations with near regularity — to deliver a bumper quarter once more on Tuesday. The main reason: consumers holding out for the new iPhone. Apple may still
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Asian shares slid and the euro hovered near multi-year lows hit earlier on Monday, as Spain sparked concerns about its ability to stave off a sovereign bailout after two indebted regions sought financial assistance from the central government. Fears the euro zone's fourth largest economy will be forced to follow Greece, Portugal and Ireland –
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The man accused of killing a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater makes his first appearance in court on Monday. Police say James Eagan Holmes, 24, was dressed in body armor and toting three guns when he opened fire at a packed midnight screening of the new Batman movie early Friday. Fifty-eight people were
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Cyprus President Demetris Christofias chaired a meeting with the Ministers of Finance, Trade and Labour, as well as the Central Bank Governor and some of his close advisors to review the situation of the economy prior to Monday’s second visit of a group of Troika auditors from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and
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The Cyprus capital Nicosia and the south western coastal town of Paphos have submitted their proposals for the second phase of the European capital of culture in 2017. Nicosia’s Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis and his team arrived Thursday at the Ministry of Culture in buses bearing the official slogan “Get in the Zone” after a symbolic
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