Thessaloniki – for only 30 years, Anna Theofylaktou has been collecting historic images depicting the progress of Hellenism in the Black Sea, Cappodocia and the Asia Minor coast. Today, her archives include thousands of original historical photographs, showing monuments, events and personalities that left their mark on the Hellenism of the region.

Paris – A beautiful low-key ceremony to bid a final farewell to the late, great Greek philosopher Costas Axelos, was organised by his sole companion for the past thirty years of his life, the writer, journalist and former European deputy, Katerina Daskalaki. Costas Axelos, who died in the French capital on February 4, was buried at the historic Montparnasse cemetery on Thursday, February 11.

The well known 40-year-old Greek physicist Maria Spiropulu – a professor at California’s Caltech University and a CERN researcher in Geneva, recently took the initiative of organising an ambitious meeting in Los Angeles, entitled “Physics of the Universe Summit”, where a few dozen scientists got together to talk about their craziest hopes and dreams for the universe.

Popular Greek-Australian author Vasili Kanidiadis has written a second book, entitled “Vasili’s 101 ways to grow it and eat it”, featuring useful gardening advice that everyone can enjoy and practise, while keeping as true to organic methods. Simple and easy to read, the book offers an A to Z guide covering a wide range of productive plants, as well as solutions to pests and diseases.

Corfa, known by all by his nick name, “Joffa” is the “lunatic” fan of the Collingwood team, who with his antics has managed many times to attract media attention and as can be expected, the start of film by expatriate director, Christos Liontas.