Section: Protothema (Greece)
Brompton Road tube station – Once abandoned now sold for $68 million to a billionaire from Ukraine (PHOTOS)
Standing on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, Brompton Road is neatly located between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations. The tube station began its operation some 111 years ago on 15 December 1906. It was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR). It was designed by Leslie Green, an English...
The most expensive countries to live in, mapped
MoveHub, a company dedicated to helping people move abroad, has calculated how expensive it is to live in countries across the world. The assessment – which places countries on an index – was based on daily living costs, such as groceries, transport, basic utilities and restaurants. Happily, you won’t spot the UK in the top 10 most...
Woman jogs naked in freezing temperatures to stay young! (photos)
This brave swimmer certainly has a brrracing workout each weekend – she skinny dips in one of the coldest rivers in Europe – which regularly plummets to temperatures of -9C. Inna Vladimirskaya, 32, strips off on the banks of the Dnieper river, in Kiev, Ukraine, every Sunday morning, and takes a swim – after jogging naked along the snowy banks of...
Ukraine seizes Russian Gazprom assests
The Ukrainian authorities have started the seizure of assets belonging to the Russian gas giant Gazprom citing its alleged non-compliance with the decision of the Stockholm arbitration court. …read more Source:...
Christmas gift-bringers of Europe (MAP)
Santa Claus is relentlessly trying to enter our European households (mostly through our mailboxes rather than chimneys), but Father Christmas, Baby Jesus, Grandfather Frost, and other traditional gift-bringers have managed to fend him off so far (well, sort of). Each country (or region) has its own traditional Christmas gift-bringer. Some of them...
How wars are now won and lost on social media
Late at night on July 28, 2014, 16-year-old Farah Baker should have been asleep. Instead, the Gaza resident was cowering in fear as flares exploded around her, while sharing her terror in a flurry of tweets. “Flares in the sky all the time,” she tweeted, along with a photo showing a streak of light. “I AM CRYING AND CAN’T STAND BOMBS SOUND!...
An eye-opening look at sexual consent ages around Europe! (MAP)
The age of consent, while it has no concrete legal definition, is widely understood to mean the lowest age at which a person is legally competent to give consent to sexual activity with another person. However, the exact definition varies from country to country, and there are other factors that can may make an otherwise illegal sexual act...
EU to increase resources to counter what it perceives as Russian propaganda
Following developments in Eastern Europe and Catalonia, EU foreign affairs ministers pledged more resources to fight against foreign interference in Europe, in particular coming from Russian actors. “I asked the ministers to support my request to increase the human and financial resources” to fight against disinformation and propaganda coming...
Worried about Russia’s march on grain markets? It could be worse!
Russian grain is flowing around the world in a way not seen since the last years of the Tsarist empire a century ago but the country’s export expansion looks set to hit a wall because of a lack of infrastructure. While Russia has increased its capacity to export grain ninefold over the last 15 years even that impressive increase will not be...
NATO: Turkey will face consequences if it buys S-400 missiles
A leading NATO official has said that Turkey will face “consequences” if it purchases a Russian air-defense system. “The principal of sovereignty obviously exists in acquisition of defense equipment, but the same way that nations are sovereign in making their decision, they are also sovereign in facing the consequences of that decision,” said...
