Wonder of the World

The most prominent symbol of ancient Greece, the Acropolis in Athens, and the former landmark of Christian Orthodoxy, Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul, are among 21 sites competing to be named among the new seven wonders of the world.

Three Pakistanis who claim they were abducted by secret agents and interrogated about terrorist attacks in London yesterday repeated their claims that they had been beaten and threatened by Greek police and British security forces.

An illegal immigrant drowned when the boat transporting him and 19 other illegals sank close to Lesvos yesterday.

A prosecutor in Rethymnon, Crete, yesterday charged six Greek men and a Bulgarian woman with the murder of an Albanian youth on New year’s Eve.

Greece had the third-highest rate of road deaths per million inhabitants in Europe in 2004, according to European Commission figures.

And the world must wander what the Automobile Association in the UK is playing at. It refused to help the family of a member who died at the wheel of his car. The AA insisted that his death terminated his membership and that another member of the family would have to pay to join.

Microsoft hopes to have a patch ready next week to fix the most recent flaw found in its Windows program - a flaw that could leave computers vulnerable to a virus.

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