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BBC - The Austrian capital, Vienna, has beaten Australia's Melbourne to be named the world's most liveable city.

It's the first time a European city has topped the rankings of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) annual survey.

Sofia is ranked 18th among 150 cities in the world with the fastest rise in prices of housing, according to an international report by the consulting company Knight Frank.

Greece aims to resolve a long-standing standoff with Canada's Eldorado Gold Corporation over its development plans in the coming weeks, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.

Raluca Stramaturaru scored Romania's best performance at the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang (South Korea), on February 13, with her 7th place in women's luge.

Twenty nations agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Pyongyang it could trigger a military response if it did not chose negotiations, Reuters reported. 

Turkey’s precautions against the Kurdish forces are not limited to Afrin, and can be expanded to Manbij, east of Euphrates River, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Jan. 17 in a meeting with his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson in Canada's Vancouver. 

Greece's Environment Ministry has appealed a court decision annulling a 1.7-million-euro ($2.06 million) fine it had slapped on mining firm Eldorado Gold. 

In a statement Friday, the ministry said the Athens court ruling did not dispute the findings of an environmental inspection at two of the Canadian company's sites in northern Greece.

Canada on Dec. 20 invited Turkey to a summit of foreign ministers in Vancouver on Jan. 16 to seek progress on the North Korean nuclear crisis.

In front of the British Columbia Provincial Court in downtown Vancouver, a city that regularly holds top positions in the world's best places for life, there is a farm market dedicated to marijuana or "craft cannabis," as traders love to determine, reports profit.bg. 

Greece granted Eldorado Gold Corp two remaining permits on Friday for its Olympias mine, the government's latest attempt to defuse a standoff with the Canadian miner, which has threatened to suspend investment in the country.