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The 13th edition of the festCo Romanian Comedy Festival started on Saturday night with a short show on superstitions on an outdoor scene in front of the Comedy Theatre of Bucharest, featuring actors Toni Grecu, Dorina Chiriac and Alexandru Bogdan.

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An US federal jury sentenced on Friday Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers, to death.

The ruling constitutes the first instance in the post-9/11 era in which federal prosecutors win a death penalty in a terrorism case, the CNN reports.

Four Greek universities have made it onto a global list of the world?s top 200 institutions.

According to the latest data from global ranking body QS, the National Technical University of Athens (photo) is in joint 29th place in the category of Civil and Structural Engineering with the Indiana-based Purdue University.

It was Benjamin Franklin who (sort of) came up with the idea of daylight saving time (DST) in a whimsical anonymous essay to the Journal of Paris in 1784. He calculated the amount of wax and tallow that could be saved if Parisians woke before sunset instead of at noon. He did not suggest adjusting clocks, but he did have ?ingenious?

A Bulgarian student has been admitted to 18 top US universities, with 8 of them are Ivy League institutions - among the most prestigious schools in the world.

Stefan Stoykov made the news across the ocean with his remarkable accomplishment in a story published by INDYStar.

Apple chief Tim Cook slammed what he called a wave of "dangerous" laws in several US states that he said promote discrimination and erode equality, in an editorial published March 29.
      

 Senator blocked annual Independence Day resolution over Kammenos comment

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos heads to New York this weekend for Greek Independence Day celebrations after finding himself at the center of a controversy that led to the US Congress failing to pass a resolution commemorating the start of Greece?s revolt against Ottoman rulers for the first time in 30 years.

Thousands of officers paid homage Dec. 27 at the New York funeral of one of their own, in an emotional show of solidarity from a group that has felt targeted by recent protests over police violence.
      

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s penchant for controversy has no bounds. He is now on record arguing that it is unnatural to consider men and women as equals. He provides hackneyed arguments about the “weaker sex” to prove his point, and maintains that Islam prescribes motherhood for women.

Staunchly pro-government media outlets in Turkey are racing with each other to prove that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was right in his recent claim that the Americas were discovered by Muslim sailors long before Christopher Columbus.