Sunshine sector loses sheen

Resurrection of sunken city

Well-built roads lined with two-story houses, gardens and clothes drying in streets. Pavlopetri epitomises the modern suburban way of life. But it is a Bronze Age port, submerged for millennia off the southeast coast of Greece.

Uncovering debt

One might not expect every butcher in rural Greece to recognise Costas Lapavitsas.

‘We rule out films by corporates’

Why a health film festival? I thought it would be a good idea to have the festival in Greece because Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was born there. Coincidentally, I found support from the mayor of the island where Hippocrates was born. The directors who have participated in the first two editions of the festival agree that a film festival that showcases medical work from all perspectives is a good idea. We do know about films that focus on good medical practices, on human well-being, on preventing illness and on social issues. But we do not know much about films that deal with scientific aspects of medicines, surgery for example. We have tried to fulfil that need. We showed 90 films in the first edition and 120 in the second. Interviewee:  Lucia Rikaki

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ENERGY EGYPT REVOLT SHOOTS UP OIL PRICES

It does not start with belly fat

FAT in the liver is the new marker for obesity-related complications such as diabetes, heart diseases and strokes. People trying to reduce belly fat to avoid these diseases will have to rethink their lifestyle.

Not my street

Google faces roadblocks in Greece. The country's data protection agency has banned Google from expanding its Street View service, pending "additional information" from the firm. Street View gives users a 360-degree view of a road via Google Maps. Authorities want to know how long the images would be kept on Google's database and what measures it will take to make people aware of privacy rights.

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seasonal shift Cherry blossoms early in Japan Japan's cherry blossom season, which heralds the start of spring, officially began on March 21--five days ahead of schedule. It is the fourth consecutive year that the flowers have appeared early, said Japan Meteorological Agency, which predicts the bloom dates.

Grease to Greece

In the last week of August, eight cars rolled triumphantly into Athens, having driven across Europe from London in a cloud of dust and cooking smells. The 3,000-km car rally ran on oil, recycled from used cooking oil collected from restaurants, service stations, hospitals, even "old folks' homes along the way". The rally's organiser, Andy Page, called it a "fat-finding mission". No stranger to alternatively-powered rallies, he led a team of

Predicting earthquakes

there could be a link between disturbances in the ionosphere and the Earth's magnetic field, and earthquakes. Such disturbances preceded the quake that struck Gujarat on March 7, 2006. A study says the disturbance were caused by the changes in the electromagnetic radiations over the Earth before the tremors occur.