Constantinos (“Costis”) Daskalakis, an MIT professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and principal investigator at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has won the 2018 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in mathematics.

The BBC covers the aftermath of the Mati fires of July 23, which led to dozens of people dying in the flames. underlining the growing rage of the citizens towards the government and local authorities for their incompetence in dealing with the disaster, as well as the fact that nobody has resigned yet. In a piece entitled “Greek wildfires:

"I would have expected, if anyone is honest in this process, to give up their parliamentary seats because they have been involved in spatial planning and urban planning in East Attica over time and many are reaching the limits of the supreme rulers, they are not simple Members'.