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Istanbul has been named one of the four anchor megacities of Europe along with London, Paris and Moscow in terms of its economic and real estate capacity and power, according to research by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). 

Geneva remained on high alert Dec. 11 as police carried out further searches in the western Swiss city for several suspected jihadists believed to have links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), officials said.

Daniel Marker-Moore’s time-sliced photos carry the charm of time lapse photography to show the shift from day to night across the world’s most iconic cities. The photographs focus on a point in the day – sunrise or sunset – with the most dramatic change in light. Taking dozens of images to show the subtle changes of the sun, he joins these together with interesting results.

The Field Museum in Chicago is hosting the exhibition “The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.” The exhibition kicked off on November 24 and includes over 500 exhibits, masterpieces of the Ancient Greek sculpture, paintings and jewellery gathered from 22 Greek museums.

A white Chicago policeman was charged with murdering a black teenager on Nov. 24, hours before authorities released a graphic video showing the youth walking away from officers as he is shot 16 times. 

Fake boobs, bondage and a strap on penis really does leave the realm of acceptable behavior for her Chicago show attended by young people who see the 22-year-old star as a role model!

A U.S.-born Turkish basketball player has been found dead in New York, according to media reports.

The New York Daily News reported that police found the body of Ali Karadeniz, born Michael Wright, in his SUV under a pile of garbage bags in Brooklyn on Nov. 12.

The National History Museum of the Lesbos Petrified Forest’s critically acclaimed exhibition, titled “Aegean: Creation of an Archipelago”, is to be inaugurated at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum on November 23, where it will remain until August 31, 2016.

Former first lady Margaret Papandreou presented her autobiography,  “Love and Power” (Patakis Publications) at Ianos bookstore at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

The panel of speakers included:

* Former deputy secretary-general of the UN, Sotiris Moussouris

The Field Museum in Chicago, USA, announced that it will open “The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” in November.