(c. fourth century BCE), ruler in the Punjab. Poros is the classical Greek name of a ruler in the Punjab (northwestern India) who was also called Parvataka. His kingdom lay between the Jhelum and the Chenab Rivers. In 326 BCE, instead of submitting to...

Poros (Greek: Πόρος) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 48 km (32 miles) south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel. Its surface is about 31 square...

There will come a day, I suppose, when the annual London Handel Festival will run dry of rare Handel opera. But not yet. This year's offering - Poro, Re Dell'Indie ("Poro, King of the Indians") - hasn't been staged in its original version in...

Power blackouts hit 13 locations in Athens and 95 fires were reported across Greece on Wednesday amid a heat wave that has killed dozens of people in southeast Europe over the past week.Two more deaths were reported Wednesday in Bulgaria and Cyprus. Temperatures of up...

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Monday, August 20, 2007:Asian Markets Rebound After US Rate CutTOKYO (AP) _ Asian markets rebounded Monday, taking their cue from Wall Street's recovery late last week after the Federal Reserve cut a key...

Wildfires swept through Greece Thursday, killing two people and destroying homes after days of record high temperatures that led to at least nine heatstroke deaths and extensive power cuts.Two men died trapped in flames after abandoning their truck in a forest fire outside the central...