An Indonesian Tribe’s Language Gets an Alphabet: Korea’s
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, ...
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Waymo Raises $5.6 Billion From Outside Investors
Alphabet’s driverless car unit now has vehicles operating in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco Amid its push to grow its fleet of autonomous robot ...
New York Sun15d
A Hauntingly Unfamiliar Fall Drive Around Mystical Greek Island Tinos, Plus Three More
It starts, for many, with the Church of Panagia Evangelistria. Also known as Our Lady of Tinos, it is the preeminent shrine to the Virgin Mary in Greece and a major pilgrimage site for Greek Orthodox ...
Northern Territory News16d
South Australia’s Greek Orthodox community peace bid to end toxic six-decade-long religious split
The South Australian Greek community is on the brink of ending more than six decades of religious infighting as it prepares a landmark vote to reunite its state chapter. In what campaigners claim ...
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Waymo raises $5.6B Series C from Alphabet, major investors
Robotaxi company Waymo announced on Friday it closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round, the largest investment round the company has raised to date. The Moutain View-based company said it ...
The Sun23d
Greek island set to be the next big thing in 2025 – with much quieter beaches and new hotels
GREEK island are aplenty, with Santorini and Mykonos some of the most popular holiday destinations in the world. But a new study has named the island of Paros as a trending destination for next ...
Greek Reporter23d
Greek Airports Record New Rise in Passenger Traffic
A new report published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday showed how Greek airports have continued to host significantly higher numbers of travelers this year. Passenger traffic at the ...
Greek City Times23d
Nikos Kazantzakis Museum Co-Organises Historic Cultural Events in New York
The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, based in Crete, will play a key role as a co-organiser in a series of significant cultural events set to take place in New York between 21-25 October 2024, celebrating ...
The Conversation24d
A brief history of the muses: the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets
Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...
TradeWinds24d
‘Roaring 2020s’: Greek shipowners front and centre as bets placed on new and alternative sectors
Not surprisingly, Greek shipowners have been front and centre.” The rise in offshore ship values prompted Evangelos Marinakis’ Capital Offshore to pay $180m for four new PSVs at China’s ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation24d
UN Rights of the Child committee chair says NT government's lowering of criminal age 'contravened' global treaty obligations
The NT's new conservative Country Liberal Party government legislated a new criminal age of 10 years old during its first parliament sittings this week. Australia's Children's Commissioner is also ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation24d
NT's Northern and Anindilyakwa land councils raided by National Anti-Corruption Commission
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has executed search warrants at two Top End land councils this week as part of separate and ongoing corruption investigations. Following the raid on the ...