The Mediterranean island-nation of Cyprus has been cleaved into the sovereign Greek Cypriot south and the occupied Turkish Cypriot north since Turkey invaded the island in 1974. As reunification talks begin again, the Cypriots who live in the divided capital of Nicosia are cautiously reaching out to each other.

As wind energy becomes a strong clean-air alternative for industrialized countries, an increasingly vocal anti-wind farm lobby is decrying the turbines as ugly, noisy and hazardous to tourism.

Can resort development on increasingly drought-baked and desertifying land be ecologically sound?

The Mayberry-meets-MIT appeal of North Carolina's brainiest region blooms in spring and summer, when families hit the area's lakes and river-cut parks and bask in the flurry of music festivals.

Though often overshadowed by Athens, Greece's second-largest city is actually Southeast Europe's cutting-edge cultural gem.

Once a sooty, dilapidated neighborhood next to the Greek capital’s gasworks, Gazi has become the hottest arts and entertainment hub in Athens.

A narrow causeway connects this beautifully-preserved Byzantine-era town, built into a Gibraltar-like rock, to the Peloponnese.

The most eclectic English-language bookstore in Greece is in a tiny town on the much-photographed volcanic island of Santorini.

Everyone is wild for the Fringe, this Scottish city’s biggest and headiest annual festival.

The rugged, storied peak of Mount Olympus is attracting growing crowds of nature-seeking adventurers who have grown tired of Greece’s hedonistic beach scene.

A Cretan village that was the painter’s birthplaces bridles at a nearby town’s claim on the artist locally known as Domenikos Theotokopoulos.

The pretty Peloponnesian town of Olympia prepared mightily for a wave of tourists during the Olympics, but the summer of the 2004 Games turned out to be one of the quietest and most disappointing on record.

A massive — and massively delayed — Olympic face-lift for Athens halted business for many shopowners boxed in by construction.

An immigrant father and his Americanized daughter struggle through a cultural divide that threatens to ruin their bond.

A look at the manic world of the N.C. Symphony’s new conductor, the Welshman Grant Llewellyn

Museums scramble to pay hefty anti-terrorism premiums after 9/11.

An ambitious new development unsettles a historically black neighborhood in Raleigh, NC.

Floods spawned by Hurricane Flood devastate parts of eastern North Carolina.