Poppy

Red poppy flowers were seen growing in the middle of a wheat field in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province. (AA Photo)

Researchers at the University of York and the British Museum have discovered traces of opiates preserved inside a vessel from Cyprus dating back to the Late Bronze Age.

Police seized a total of 3,700 opium poppy plants in the region of Viotia in central Greece Tuesday and arrested four foreign nationals - three Indians, aged 36, 47 and 58, and a 28-year-old Pakistani.

Authorities are also looking for a 64-year-old Greek man.

Three of those arrested did not have residence permits.

Dilemma, a duo comprising multitalented musicians Sotiris Tragas and Poppy Dalachani, will be performing works inspired by the 1990s music scene as well as selections from their fifth and latest album at the Numismatic Museum on Thursday, May 4.

The show starts at 9 p.m. and admission is free, with a one-drink minimum purchase requirement.

Afghanistan's opium production has risen sharply this year in comparison to last, according to an executive summary of the country's official opium survey released Sunday.

Opium production in the war-ravaged nation is up by 43 per cent, to 4,800 metric tons this year, according to a press release from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

This year’s 2016 Annual Met Gala hair was put on display since many celebrities walked the red carpet in futuristic and magnetic looks.

Whether it was metallic braiding, peroxide cuts, gravity defying up-do’s, reflective head-pieces or chrome finger waves, celebrities did not hesitate to make an entrance with their hair, as The Sun mentions.

The British artist, Poppy Jackson, sat naked on the top of a London rooftop for four hours as a piece of performance art.

The performance is titled ‘Site’ and ‘investigates questions relating to temporality, the body in site, representation and gender through consideration of the use of the body in performance as an activist practice’, as it is mentioned at the artist’s website.

Lady Mary Charteris is a British model, musician and DJ ho has collaborated with the cream of the crop as far as fashion is concerned… but who is no stranger to notoriety. The Scottish royal with the Greek-sounding name is attributed as being to blame for the break-up in Kate Moss’s marriage.

The end of April is the time for poppies to pop up in fields. Throughout May, and well into the month of June, fields of green wheat stalks celebrate the spring, dotted red with poppies. The poppy is also the symbol of martyrdom. Ancient Greek and Roman tombs were ornamented with pods of opium poppies representing the final eternal sleep, death.