Emotions

With two entirely different worldviews at stake, Americans head to the polls on Tuesday in an atmosphere of anger and complete disdain for the "other side," occasionally amounting to hatred.

The most powerful motivation for a Greek of the new diaspora to return to the country is certainly their roots. Those closer to them. But this does not mean that the state should rely on people's homesickness and sunshine to attract the talent that emigrated over the past few years. 

Poverty makes people up to three times more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety compared to the wealthy, the United Nations has said in a report.

Competitive, consumption-oriented modern life is a threat to mental health, said a study compiled by the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter.

According to the international scientific literature, human happiness does not depend on the level of income, as long as basic human needs such as shelter and food are met. Despite the perception of many that the rich are happier, statistics around the world do not confirm such causation.

The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) is excited to participate in this year’s Children’s Week celebration, supported by the Victorian Department of Education, running from Sunday, October 19 to Sunday, October 27.

Everyone agrees that the current absence of a robust opposition is a shortcoming of the Greek party system, but they often frame this finding as if the government is to blame for not having a viable alternative to it.

If the European Union is to survive it will have to concentrate all its energies to this end. This means that member-states will have to give up a larger part of their sovereignty to reinforce the whole. However, the global and regional earthquakes that demand ever closer union also strengthen forces which preach a return to a nonexistent idealized past of national greatness.

She is pretty, a good student and roll-call keeper of her class. There were those who were envious of her and wanted to harm her - to get "payback.' This is what motivated the teenage girls and boys who attacked the 14-year-old in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada, kicking her furiously. Perhaps the fact that they didn't fully realize their motives is a significant part of the problem.

In what may put some of us to shame, apes instantly recognize family and friends that they haven’t seen in more than two decades, which is the longest ‘social memory’ in a non-human animal ever documented.

Infidelity is one of the most common reasons for breaking up for heterosexual couples, with researchers who studied 160 different cultures around the world finding that this theory holds true across the globe.

However, men and women view each type of infidelity differently.