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Awesome ancient sites off the beaten path

Italy, for example, has 41 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country, and makes roughly $38 billion in tourism every year, according to the World Tourism Organization. Greece, too, is fed by its ancient ruins; tourism injects roughly ...

Ancient urn returns to Greece

ATHENS, Greece - A 2,400-year-old funerary urn has been returned to Greece and put on display, part of a campaign to reclaim illegally exported antiquities from museums and art dealers around the world. The marble urn was displayed Monday at the ...

Torch relay confined to Jakarta stadium

... against a global relay that Beijing had hoped would promote the Aug. 8-24 Olympics. Criticism of China’s human rights record has turned the relay into one of the most contentious in recent history. Anti-Chinese protests have dogged stops in Greece ...

Malaysian cops detain family protesting torch

Protests dogged the relay during its stops in Ancient Olympia, Greece, Paris, London and San Francisco, with demonstrators protesting China’s crackdown on anti-government riots in Tibet. Security concerns prompted authorities in Indonesia, Australia ...

Soviet domain name resists death

Domain names for the Roman Empire or Ancient Greece? Country-code domains, derived from a list kept by the International Organization for Standardization, typically disappear when a country ceases to exist or changes its name. Both Yugoslavia and ...