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A 34-year-old British astrophysicist visiting the Greek island of Ikaria vanished during a morning run — and authorities believe a body found in a ravine Wednesday is hers, according to new reports. Dr. Natalie Christopher, who was from London but was living in Cyprus, was on vacation with her 38-year-old partner, who reported her missing when she didn’t answer her phone Monday, Metro UK reported. Authorities on the island, about 130 miles southeast of Athens, discovered a body in a ravine as they swept the region for any signs of Christopher, the outlet reported. The body has yet to be...

Hailed as one of the top archaeological finds of 2015, the discovery was made by a joint Greek-American archaeological expedition in the small Fourni archipelago with an area of just 17 square miles. This is a collection of 13 islands and islets located between the eastern Aegean islands of Samos and Icaria. "Surpassing all expectations, over only 13 days we added 12 percent to the total of known ancient shipwrecks in Greek territorial waters," Peter Campbell, of the University of Southampton and co-director from US based RPM Nautical Foundation, told Discovery News. Fourni lies right in the middle of the...

Greek island wants to join Austria Posted By Joshua KeatingWednesday, July 18, 2012 - 12:11 PM Share German MPs provoked outrage in Greece in 2010 with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the coutnry shoudl consider selling off some of its islands to settle its accounts. But it appears that some residents of the island of Ikaria is looking to leave the country unilaterally: