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Romania's former king, Michael I, passed away on Tuesday aged 96 at his residence in Versoix, near Geneva in Switzerland, following a battle with cancer, the royal family announced.

Michael, 94, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the last surviving head of state from World War II, retired from public life in spring 2016.

Romania's royal household has been hit by scandal after the disinherited grandson of ex-monarch Michael I, 96 and now reportedly fading away, allegedly tried to force his way into his grandfather's Swiss home.

Apollon Patras is the second team to go down from the Basket League after Doxa Lefkadas, while Aris snatched the fourth spot of the regular season right at the end, on Thursday.

Ex-Prince Nikolaos of Greece launched five new Soundwall artworks at Christie’s in London. Six months in the making, the “prince” got a little help from United States Soundwall company that featured his images onto a floating aluminium plate with a raspberry Pi 2 computer hidden behind. Each work emits a specially curated playlist enhancing the viewing experience.

Romanian royalists are mystified by the decision of their 94-year-old ex-king this week to suddenly cut out his popular grandson, Prince Nicholas, from the line of succession.

The heir to the British throne on Tuesday launched the Romanian branch of his "Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation", aiming to support agriculture, responsible enterprise and to better protect the patrimony and the environment in the Balkan country.

Princess Theodora, aged 32, the youngest daughter of the former king of Greece, Constantine, is known in the U.S., not as an obscure princess but a budding actress. She has appeared on the Bold and the Beautiful as well as Janna King's Boners and Other Mistakes at the Renegade Theater in Los Angeles. In credits, her name appears as Theodora Greece.

The royal family is not only an essential page of our country's history, but a symbol of the values I think highly of: respect for the people, the power to go over injustice and hardships, large-heartedness and seemliness, president Klaus Iohannis said, after attending on Wednesday, and accompanied by his wife, Carmen Iohannis the dinner offered by the Royal House at the Peles Castle.

The grandson of Romania's former King, Prince Nicolae, plans to cross the whole of his grandfather's former domain by bike in order to raise funds for charity.

The Prince will be two-wheeling it from Sighetu Marmatiei in the north of Transylvania to the Black Sea port of Constanta in the southeast, covering over 1,000 km only in 11 days, between April 23 and May 3.

Australian journalist Peter Greste will keep fighting to free his colleagues still jailed in Egypt, his family said Monday, after he was released following more than 400 days in prison on charges of backing the Muslim Brotherhood.