A number of natural gas fields have been discovered along Israel’s Mediterranean coastline over the past few years. Among them is the Leviathan energy field, which appears likely to hold enough gas to meet Israel’s needs for the next 60 years, at the current demand projections.
In June, scientists discovered up to 453 billion cubic meters [...]

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An agreement of cultural exchange between Greek and Chinese authors and publishing houses will be signed during the 17th Beijing International Book Fair, promoting further cooperation in the field of literature and culture, said a press release of the Press & Communication Office of the Embassy of Greece in Beijing.
According to the agreement, two children books will [...]

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The wine world continues to focus on China as the largest growing wine market and on August 4, Greek varietals took root in the Gansu province of China with German varietals to follow.
According to influential wine source Decanter.com, Kir-Yianni (a Greek winery) and Mogao (China’s government-owned and publicly traded winery) have just planted the first [...]

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At the 21st International Marathon which will be held in the city of Omsk in Siberia, the sacred “flame of the Marathon” will be borne, as it was announced by the Russian Minister of Youth, Physical Education and Sports, Sergei Selpakov. This year’s international Marathon in Siberia is dedicated to the anniversary of the Marathon [...]

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According to the Associated Press, United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister supports the Greek Cyprus-Greece proposal to use the east Mediterranean island as a staging post to transport humanitarian aid earmarked for blockaded Gaza.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said Wednesday that the initiative has a “very strong humanitarian base” and would boost the Palestinian Authority’s [...]

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A team of Peruvian archaeologists from the National Institute of Culture have unearthed three newly found ceremonial offerings in an area known as “cemetery”, in Machu Picchu, consisting of three conical jugs. These ceremonial offerings are from Incan times.
INC archaeologist Ruben Maqque said to El Comercio that the findings include three ceramics or miniature aryballos with [...]

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The Moscow children’s and youth choir “Youth” performed at the European Square at the International Exhibition Expo-2010 in Shanghai on Friday.
The children began their performance with Russian songs popular in China such as “Podmoskovnye Vechera” and “Kalinka”. Crowds gathered to hear the young singers perform without any musical backup despite the 40 Celsius degree heat [...]

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Greek Prime Minsiter George Papandreou held talks here on Wednesday afternoon with Israeli President Shimon Peres who expressed his support to the Greek government’s handlings regarding the state of the economy.
“I wish Greece’s exit from this crisis and never return to the point where you found yourselves,” Peres told Papandreou.
“I wish you the end of [...]

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Greek icons of the post-Byzantine period have been brought to Moscow. The exposition under the title Synaxis has been opened in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
It represents more than 130 works of the Greek and Russian icon-painting schools. St. George holding his own cut-off head in his hands is not a triumpher, but a martyr. [...]

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The Primate of the Orthodox Church in Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros, expressed the request of the Greek Community in Egypt and especially Hellenes in Alexandria for the continuation of the connecting flight Athens-Alexandria in a telephone discussion he had with Andreas Vgenopoulos.
Olympic airways have announced that the aforementioned scheduled services will be discontinued from the [...]

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