The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

A career criminal who kicked a taxi driver to death after asking him for a cigarette has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years. Steven Greig, 47, left Mark Ward, 55, severely disabled after the ...

Steven Greig has been jailed for a minimum term of 16 years (Police Scotland/PA) A career criminal who kicked a taxi driver to death after asking him for a cigarette has been jailed for a minimum ...

The 36-year-old Maxwell has admitted to the Level 1 offence under article 2.2 which relates to abuse of fixtures and fittings during the match which was played here at the New PCA Stadium on ...

In spite of the lack of sophisticated modern technology in antiquity, they were very extremely inventive in how they killed one another. Some of the ancient weapons used would blow the mind of modern ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

God put me here to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa ... when he was 18. He’s now one of only two monks there, plus an assistant, 35-year-old ...