Bus bursts in flames in Thessaloniki
A city bus in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, burst into flames as it was travelling in the district of Agios Athanassios on Saturday.
Greek and Italian olive oils battle it out
Thirty internationally renowned olive oil experts took part as judges in the Athena International Olive Oil Competition in the town of Sitia on Crete last week.
Shops to open on Greek Palm Sunday
Adjusting to the Orthodox Easter holiday, shopping hours for retail stores next week, will change as follows.
Athens University Zoology Museum to open its doors
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) Zoology Museum will open its doors to the public this weekend, the institution said Friday.
Microsoft and Terna Energy investment projects approved
Two new strategic investments worth over 1.2 billion euros were approved on Friday by Greece’s Interministerial Committee of Strategic Investments.
The Iniochos exercise and its significance for Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Greece recently hosted the Iniochos 2022 military exercise, bringing together a robust list of countries, including the US, France, and Israel, and giving them the opportunity to hone their military capabilities and enhance their defense cooperation to meet key regional security challenges.
Holy Week Concerts | Athens | April 17, 18 & 20
Inspired by Greek Orthodox Easter, the Athens Concert Hall is hosting three special events during Holy Week, starting on Sunday with “The Lament of the Virgin Mary,” a lengthy medieval poem in rhyming verse.
UN food chief says Mariupol is starving
The head of the UN World Food Program, David Beasley, said people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in the coming weeks.
Body of a child recovered from sea off Cycladic island
The body of a child, estimated to have been 12 to 15 years old, were recovered from the sea near the Cycladic island of Iraklia on Friday.
Antikythera Mechanism: A crowning achievement of ancient technology
It was sometime between 1900 and 1902 when an ancient Greek shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, and inside it, a mysterious mechanism with intricate inner workings.