GREEK neo-Nazis protest lack of charges in 2-year-old murder

Dozens of Golden Dawn supporters gathered outside police headquarters in Athens on Saturday to protest that authorities have yet to arrest or charge ...

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ECB's GREEK bank test shows third bailout likely to be smaller than planned

The euro zone's third bailout for Greece is likely to be smaller than the initially envisaged 86 billion euros, because the European Central Bank's stress ...

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News of the Day From Across the Globe, Nov. 1

Several hundred right-wing supporters rallied Saturday in Austria against asylum-seekers who have been streaming into the country in search of a better life in Western Europe. Demonstrators marched toward a refugee camp holding banners reading “No Way” or You will not make Europe your home. Newly freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer wants an inquiry to examine whether British officials played a role in his treatment. The oil-rich Caspian Sea nation of Azerbaijan is set to hold a parliamentary election amid criticism from rights groups, which accuse authorities of limiting free speech. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is refusing to monitor Sunday’s vote after Azerbaijani authorities demanded that it sharply cut the number of observers it planned to send. The parliamentary race features 767 candidates competing for seats in the 125-member parliament. The Italian government has chosen Milan’s top security official to run corruption-plagued Rome after its mayor reluctantly stepped down. The figure announced Saturday is the result of an ECB review of Greece’s four main banks after an agreement on the troubled country’s third bailout: $94.6 billion from eurozone governments in August.

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Heeere She Comes…Miss America Visits Hometown Parish Festival

MACON, GA – Greek-American Betty Cantrell, recently crowned Miss America, returned to her home parish, the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Macon, GA. She was there to visit the Greek Festival and received a warm welcome, the Macon Telegraph reported. About her current status as Miss America, Cantrell said “it’s been the most insane […] The post Heeere She Comes…Miss America Visits Hometown Parish Festival appeared first on The National Herald.

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Employers: Check out Greek affiliations

For many years, academic institutions have worked with corporate America to anticipate the hiring needs of companies and to educate and prepare college ...

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Greece's NBG Q2 loss widens on bad debt provisions

Greece's largest lender NationalBank (NBG) on Saturday reported a loss in the secondquarter as bad debt provisions weighed.

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Japan's Kenzo Shirai wins world floor exercise title

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Might as well call them the even bars. China's Fan Yilin, Russia's Viktoria Komova and Daria Spiridonova and Madison Kocian of the U.S. made history on Saturday at the world gymnastics championships, tying for gold in the uneven bars when the judges awarded each the same score. There are no tiebreakers during world meets, meaning all four shared the top of the podium in one of the more unusual award ceremonies in the 112-year history of the event. "Guess they couldn't decide which routine was the best," Kocian said with a laugh. "I don't know." Neither, apparently, did the six-person judging panel. While there was a five-way tie for silver on pommel horse at the 1922 worlds, this is the first time the gold medal stand looked like a line at Starbucks. Organizers were forced to improvise during the ceremony, with the flags of all three countries being walked out onto the floor rather than being raised to the rafters because the rigging couldn't accommodate four flags hanging from the same height. The Chinese, Russian and U.S. national anthems were played one after the other, with the athletes kind of giggling in a moment that was equal parts weird, awkward and memorable. "It's very good," Russian coach Andrei Rodionenko said. "Not everything is understandable." Scores in gymnastics are comprised of two elements, one based on the difficulty of your routine and the other on how well you do it. Fan's set was the toughest, even though her coach always seemed to be within arm's reach in case of disaster. Kocian and Komova earned the best marks for execution. In the end, the total is the only thing that mattered, even if in this case it made things a little weird. OK, a lot weird. "I've never seen that before," said reigning Olympic champion Gabby Douglas, who finished fifth. "I was just like really judges? Come on now!" U.S. national team coordinator Martha Karolyi was just fine with the decision to spread it around, pointing to the pain that came in London three years ago when Aly Raisman lost a bronze in the all-around to Russia's Aliya Mustafina on a tiebreak. There will be no tiebreakers at the Rio Olympics next summer. The supersized podium also put Kocian and Komova in close quarters just days after Komova — the silver medalist in the all-around behind Douglas in London — accused the U.S. team of being on performance enhancing drugs after the Russians were a distant fourth to the Americans in the women's team final. Komova approached Kocian and three-time all-around champion Simone Biles in training on Friday to clear things up, a move Kocian considered sincere. "She said, 'I'm truly sorry for what I said,'" Kocian said. "I guess we take it as a good thing because we've been dominating for so many years now." Detente appeared to have been reached by the time the women were on the stand together. "Either way I figured I would get a medal," Kocian said. "I was just hoping it would still be gold." There was also a tie for bronze in men's pommel, though just more traditional two-way variety as Armenia's Harutyun Merdinyan and Japan's Kazuma Kaya each earned a medal behind British stars Max Whitlock and Louis Smith. Whitlock's gold was the first ever by a male British gymnast at worlds. Whitlock's score of 16.133 was a tenth better than Smith's total as Britain continued its ascension to the sport's elite. The British men won silver in the team finals on Wednesday, a day after the women earned bronze. Whitlock also picked up a silver on floor exercise behind Japan's Kenzo Shirai, who added second world floor exercise gold to go with the one he captured in 2013. Spain's Rayderley Zapata Santana edged China's Deng Shudi for third. Russian Maria Paseka earned her country's first medal of the championships on vault, where her average of 15.633 was just better than the Hong Un Jong of North Korea. Biles fought through spasms in her shoulder to claim bronze, her 12th career medal at the world championships, a record for an American woman. Biles actually had the top execution score on both of her vaults, but the difficulty of her second vault wasn't high enough to pass Paseka or Jong. Biles is working on a harder second vault, but it wasn't ready for the meet. She plans to correct that for Rio. The 18-year-old will get a chance to add to her haul during the balance beam and women's floor exercise finals on Sunday. American men Alex Naddour finished seven in the pommel horse. Brandon Wynn was fifth on still rings behind gold medalist Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece, while U.S. teammate Donnell Whittenburg came in eighth. Join the conversation about this story »

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