The Greek Finance Ministry says it is has started payment of €6.8 billion to creditors after last week’s €86 billion bailout deal was adopted. Banks in Greece have reopened three weeks after the introduction of capital controls. The payments announced on Monday include money owed to the ECB, the IMF and Greece’s central bank, a Finance Ministry official told Bloomberg, who preferred to stay... 

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has warned that the economic reforms from Greece’s debt holders are doomed to fail. The assessment comes as PM Alexis Tsipras has reshuffled his cabinet in efforts to secure a third bailout package. The EU is preparing to start talks with Athens on a third bailout which could reach €86 billion ($93 billion), but the reform program laid down by Brussels... 

These photographs appear to show a spectacular underwater world. Twelve meters of water covers trees, footpaths, benches and bridges that are only accessible at certain times of the year. During the winter Green Lake in Tragoess, Austria, is normally only one meter deep and visitors can stroll through the park next to the picturesque lagoon. However, at certain times of the year snowmelt from the... 

Grace Wain, 14 not allowed to fly because she is “too white”. A very popular free newspaper in the UK recently ran the headline “Girl is banned from flight because she’s too ginger”. If the headline wasn’t contemptuous enough it’s opening sentence certainly was! It said: “Gingers have it bad enough already without having to worry if they are let on a flight because of the colour... 

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko should be worried, as things are getting hot on the streets of Kiev amid the standoff between the Ukrainian government and the Neo-Nazi radical group Right Sector. The extremist group said Poroshenko won’t be able to flee from the country in the event of a coup, as did his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych in February of 2014, the Voice of America (VOA) reported,... 

The Belorussian government says it will be moving in 20,000 Chinese workers into the city of Smalyavichy. “Currently, there are 136 people. In total, we issued 6663 permits to Chinese workers. According to preliminary estimates, the construction requires about 20 thousand [Chinese] workers.” said Alexei Begun, Head of the Department for Citizenship and Migration, according to KP.by. There are... 

The unprecedented degradation of the Earth’s resources threatens humans’ health gains. The overexploiting of the Earth’s natural resources coupled with climate change can put at stake much of what humans have gained in their health enhancement efforts over the last 150 years, new study says. The results of a study conducted by 15 leading scientists, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal... 

Greek Deputy Finance Minister Nadia Valavani has resigned ahead of the key vote in the Greek parliament on a third bailout agreed between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the country’s creditors. She described the deal as Greek agony. “Alexis, I am ready to serve in any capacity to the end during challenges. However, when our delegation returned with liabilities that are ‘stillborn measures’... 

In present-day international relations there are only two camps one can choose from and belong to – the United States and China; everyone else, including Europe, must accept the current state of affairs and become “docile subjects” of those who have power and authority, columnist Daniel Soulez-Lariviere said in Le Huffington Post. In this day and age, the United States and China dictate the... 

“The EU is not involved in changing the identity of people. Identity is something sacred and it should not be negotiable,” according to European Union ambassador Erwan Fouere. So why is the EU demanding that Macedonia change its name in order to gain membership? Mr. Fouere was responding to the latest European Commission report that removed references to the Macedonian language and used the term... 

A man was arrested for charging his iphone on an Overground train in London. A man has been arrested in London for charging his phone using a socket on a London Overground train. Robin Lee, a 45 year old artist from North London, was handcuffed and arrested for abstracting electricity. Lee was then also arrested for unacceptable behavior after he allegedly became aggressive when showing his objection... 

European creditors have agreed on a deal with Greece, but the existence of the political union in its previous form is out of the question. The EU will split, and the final break is only a matter of time, DWN wrote. Many international observers called the recent EU summit a “humiliation of the Greeks.” The talks which were the longest in the history of the Union diminished all values for which... 

The United States is wrong to consider Russia “enemy number one,” an Italian analyst believes. US military leadership still believes in patterns of the long-gone Cold War which affect the decisions of the White House and America’s strategy towards the country, Il Giornale columnist Gian Micalessin told Sputnik. Washington understands that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the only... 

A 3-D view of the mesh: microtubules (green tubes) of the mitotic spindle are held together by a yellow network, the mesh. (Warwick Medical School). Scientists have accidentally discovered a cell structure which may prove helpful in the understanding of cancer development. A group of researchers from the University of Warwick discovered “the mesh” and recently published their findings on the online... 

The Bulgarian journalists have reckoned how much is an average country citizen poorer than that of a neighbouring Greece. It turned out, that average income of the Greeks have been 3,5 times higher against that of the Bulgarians for some years. In 2013, for example, an average annual income of a Greek resident made up €8,879, that is 17,366 Bulagarian Leva. An average Bulgarian citizen got only...