News archive of November 2017

Be there when Christmas lights are switched on in Ljubljana! Following a short festive ceremony and an address by the Mayor of Ljubljana, all the city's festive lights will be turned on simultaneously.

The display is conceived as a visual intertwining of the stories of Slovenian collectors and of Slovenian Africans, which provide insight into the background and nature of the ties between Africa and Slovenia, whose origin dates back to the times of the former Yugoslavia.

An Irish art historian, who has been living in southern Turkey since 1990, has dedicated himself to finding Turkish Islamic artifacts that have been smuggled abroad and report them to the relevant institutions

Greece's Supreme Court has annulled a same-sex marriage conducted in 2008 on Tilos by the mayor of the tiny Aegean island.

Judges Thursday upheld a previous order by a Rhodes prosecutor calling such nuptials illegal.

After casting doubt on the authenticity of the documents Defense Minister Panos Kammenos submitted to Parliament on Monday that supposedly prove Vassilis Papadopoulos was authorized by Saudi Arabia to broker a deal for Greece to sell it arms and missiles, New Democracy on Thursday accused the Independent Greeks leader of breaking the law and deception.

In Greece, the country of three bailouts and "social dividends," electricity costs the same as it does in Sweden, where the per capita gross domestic product is two-and-a-half times higher, as Greek power bills increased this year due to tax hikes the government imposed on power consumption.

After months of delays, the first receipt lottery was conducted on Thursday, with the lucky 1,000 taxpayers set to collect 1,000 euros each in cash next week. The measure is intended to encourage the use of electronic transactions to boost state revenues and contain tax evasion.

So, you want to start a retail business? Perhaps you've cottoned on to the success of online sellers and want to start your own e-commerce site, or maybe you've always dreamt of owning your own store? Whatever your reasons, the dream of starting a retail business can soon become a reality, but it is a tough market to crack.

The Big Bang is a widely accepted explanation for the origins of the universe; however, Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves has come up with a new "cyclical" theory, which challenges this prevailing concept.

In a major step toward creating artificial life, U.S. researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial DNA and is capable of creating entirely new, synthetic proteins, Reuters reports.

The work, published in the journal Nature, brings scientists closer to the development of designer proteins made to order in a laboratory.