University of Sydney

John McCain

Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, hired for a speaking engagement in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, portrayed China's foreign policy moves as that of a schoolyard tormentor.

Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.

Australian archeologists in Cyprus found a theater dating from the 3rd century BC that had been used for spectacles more than six and a half centuries ago. The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus said that it was the oldest structure of its kind ever unearthed on the Mediterranean island. The structure was used from 300 BC through to 365 BC.

An Australian archaeological team on Cyprus has uncovered a theater dating from 300 B.C., the oldest structure of its kind yet unearthed on the Mediterranean island, the antiquities department said Nov. 6.

They met at the start of 1990 in Sydney, Australia, when she taught economics at the University of Sydney. They wed in Athens in 2001. Australian Financial Review writes that the marriage collapsed due to different ambitions and geography.