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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – The average Greek works 2,035 hours annually, placing Greece at the top of all European countries, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) annual statistics on average annual hours worked.
The report, which comes out annually, provides averages for 35 Western countries, including the United States (1,783 hours annually) and Germans (1,363 hours), who came first in productivity. The most recent data is from 2016.
OECD includes in its analysis regular work hours of full-time, part-time and part-year workers, paid and unpaid overtime, and hours worked in additional jobs, and excludes time not worked for several reasons including holidays, illness and paternal leave.
The organisation also gave data for part-time workers. According to the data, the countries with the highest percentage of part-time work is Holland (37.7%), Switzerland (27%) and Australia (25.9%). In Greece, part-time employment accounts for 11% of the work force. In terms of self-employment, Greece came second (34.1%), after Colombia (51.3%).
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
SACRAMENTO, CA – The Hellenic Studies Program and the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection at Sacramento State University, California, will celebrate their 20th anniversary on Thursday, May 9, 6:30-9 PM.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation.
LONDON (AP) — Several military horses bolted during routine exercises Wednesday and ran loose through central London, injuring four people and damaging vehicles during the morning rush hour.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday when doctors can provide abortions during medical emergencies in states with bans enacted after the high court’s sweeping decision overturning Roe v.