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News of a parcel bomb going off at the International Monetary Fund's headquarters in Paris swept through the Greek media on Thursday afternoon as it came just a day after a similar device was posted from Greece to the German Finance Ministry.

Reuters reported that one person was "slightly injured" after opening the booby-trapped letter at the IMF's Paris office.

Alternate Finance Minister Tryfonas Alexiadis received an envelope containing a bullet and a threatening note on Monday. The letter arrived through the regular mail to his office, says the finance ministry’s announcement. The note was signed by a group called “Red Faction” and it includes threats against the life of the minister and his family.

A 53-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were arrested in Athens late on Monday on suspicion of illegally possessing the personal details of thousands of people, which they attempted to sell to businesses.

The arrests were made after an e-mail was sent to numerous companies offering them the 150,000 people?s e-mail addresses for an unknown fee.

A “flying cigar” may be the answer to quicker boarding times on airplanes in the future!

That, at least, is the vision of German designer Unur Ipek, who told the Daily Mail that “I thought, ‘how can we increase the flow when boarding a plane and make their less bustle and less queuing’, and the answer is to board in the middle into a wide aisle.”

Laboratory inspections on a white powder found in an envelope that was mailed to the capital?s Evelpidon court complex on Wednesday, prompting a security alert, did not test positive for anthrax or other substances associated with bioterrorism, according to Athanasios Tsakris, a microbiologist at Athens Medical School.