Robbers broke into a museum in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics, tied and gagged a museum guard, and fled with stolen artifacts, Greek authorities said Friday.
The torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was lit in a ceremony at the ancient Greek site of Olympia on Thursday, less than four months ahead of the games' opening ceremony.
If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Studded with antiquities, this land of ancient Olympia, Corinth and Sparta offers plenty of fun in the eternal Greek sun, with pleasant fishing villages, sandy beaches, bathtub-warm water, and none of the tourist crowds that plague the much-scrambled-after Greek Isles.
A sign above Interstate 5 outside of Seattle, Washington, flashes, "Voting for Obama? We Need CHANGE in Olympia too. Vote Dino Rossi for Governor!"
Strange politics
updated: Thu Oct 30 2008 16:46:00
Both the GOP and Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Washington state are embracing Barack Obama.
Hans Ertl, who helped shape the official visual record of Hitler's regime, left behind a veritable archive - in a shoe box
An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found
Activists protesting China's crackdown in Tibet briefly disrupted the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday, calling for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing later this year.
Practicing the clarinet may be beyond tedious for teenagers forced into music lessons by their parents but for 70-year-old Joe Pedlosky it's a labor of love.
Clay Aiken, move over. There's a new Broadway baby on the horizon.
The most expensive film in French history is released to scathing reviews but is proof that there remains a market for its hero
I-Reporter Aaron Meola shot video of heavy flooding and people floating in Olympia, Washington.
Washington residents begin massive cleanup after floods cause major damage. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports.
I was in Athens, on a rooftop restaurant under a floodlit Acropolis, marveling at how a Greek salad never gets boring. It was the last day of a trip I enjoyed with my wife Anne. I was reviewing, as I always do after completing an itinerary, how effectively our time was spent. We had kept our focus more on seeing historic sights on the mainland rather than luxuriating on Aegean Islands. Given that focus, here are the top 10 stops -- in itinerary order -- that make what I consider the best two weeks Greece has to offer:
The Prime Minister's suggestion of sabotage has roiled a country already reeling from the destructive wildfires
The wildfires that have scorched southern Greece, killing dozens of people, reached the ancient city of Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games, an official said Sunday.
Hundreds of U.S. troops marked the Fourth of July by re-enlisting in the military Wednesday while others took their oaths of American citizenship
The Department of Veterans Affairs knew for months that shower heads, handrails and other fixtures posed serious suicide risks to Seattle-area psychiatric patients, but refused to fix the problems
After trying for the past month to identify a man who authorities say suffers from amnesia, police identified him Sunday as Jeff Ingram, 40, of Olympia, Washington.
A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.
Spa experiences for a wider range of tastes and budgets are springing up all over the world, and weary Americans are taking note.
As forecasts for housing price growth have cooled for most of the country, they are calling for booming values in the state of Washington.
Tired of the "alternative" mix on the radio? Looking for something a little more original? Or perhaps you just want to impress your hipster friends by busting out some cool tunes from the underground. Well, here are three indie gems just waiting to be dug up:
Cecelia Bonifay and her husband Greg Presnell always wanted a house on the water where they could indulge their love of fishing and sailing. Now they walk out of their three-story contemporary home...
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Human Joystick
The flashbacks come at the oddest moments. Suddenly Ric Clark is staggering through the streets of lower Manhattan, the air filled with smoke from the flames beneath the heap of rubble and steel th...
PAUL REICHMANN is a man who likes to take huge risks to build enormous things. Along with two of his four brothers he created an empire of office buildings and natural resource companies and a fort...
With Olympia & York falling into bankruptcy, what will be the fate of its $5.4 billion Canary Wharf development in the docklands of London? Rumors abound that Dubai's Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum, Hon...
More irony than ecstasy greeted the topping out last month of the tallest buildin in Europe's largest commercial development: Olympia & York's 50-story, $8 billion Canary Wharf project on London's ...
SOMETIMES the people you get into business with can drag you into trouble. This happens even to supposedly smart operators. Take the involvement of the Reichmann brothers, who run the giant Olympia...
Like jello, the $200 billion junk-bond market jiggled these past few weeks but didn't break. It was already trembling from the summer defaults of Resorts International and Southmark when Campeau, t...
Anthony Gray bought his first stock in college -- 20 shares of United Fruit Co. Three months later Fidel Castro seized the company's Cuban plantations, and the price fell by half. But the Omaha lad...
Fortune: Canada warms upupdated: Mon Oct 26 1987 00:01:00
After years of giving U.S. companies the cold shoulder, and despite the on- off-on nature of recent trade talks, Canadians seem friendlier to Yankee developers than at any time since the 1950s. The...
CANADA'S three reclusive Reichmann brothers have built a reputation as contrarians who deftly cull profits from ventures others scorn. Their entry into the New York City real estate market in 1977 ...
A detail curiously omitted in the plethora of commentary on Hardhatgate, as the media nomenclature department may yet decide to baptize the event, is that the spotlighted union behavior was apparen...
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