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3 months ago, I met an extraordinary man, in Athens. His name is Tobias Nyabola, he comes from a small village in Kenya, Bama. Tobias is a retired teacher and the elected leader of what is called a CBO in Bama, a community [...]

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Week-end Alonistaina, Peloponnisos
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A BBC poll of more than 17,000 people in 17 countries indicates that people throughout the world are optimistic about Mr. Obama’s presidency. What do YOU think?
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A very popular slogan in the USA just before the historic elections was the following: “Rosa Parks sat, so Martin Luther King could walk, so Barack Obama could run, so we could fly.” That saying describes as few the history of the civil rights movement in [...]

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Massive riots in the centre of Athens…

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Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa , half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!
Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe , well developed and open to trade, especially for someone with cash.
Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain [...]

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Here, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King has been preaching 45 years ago, African-Americans lived their big dream. The night of November 4th, full of Gospels and cries of joy, went down in history as the moment when Civil War wounds were at last healed and the [...]

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For me, the Mediterranean Sea is about aesthetics. The lines of the horizon, the shades of blue in the sky and the sea, the unique light, the dark green of the olives, the glitter of the sand, the earth colours, the white shapes in the [...]

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One German and two French scientists won the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine , traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.
The prestigious prize goes to Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his work into the cause of cervical cancer and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi [...]

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