OFI stuns AEK, Panathinaikos salvages draw with PAOK
Olympiakos has put some clear blue water between itself and its title rivals at the top of the Super League.
Living in an age of extremes
Extreme natural phenomena have had a crippling effect on Greece in the past few months, coming at it with fires and floods and exposing tragic failures in getting the state mechanism to do its job at every level.
Seong-Jin Cho | Athens | October 25
The renowned piano maestro Seong-Jin Cho rose to global fame in the international classical music world in 2015, after winning the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, becoming the first pianist from his country to do so.
Police officer arrested for rape and human trafficking
A police officer was arrested on Monday for human trafficking and the rape of a 34-year-old woman.
Fire broke out in Heraklion, Crete
A major fire service operation is underway to extinguish a fire that broke out shortly before 8 p.m. on Monday, in a grassy area in Heraklion, Crete, between the villages Ambelouzos and Agioi Deka.
Reviving the Greek diaspora
The active Greek diaspora in the United States is dwindling and this needs to be stopped. Proponents of the generation that played such an important role after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 have either stopped participating actively in public life or have passed away.
Greece sends firefighting aircraft to Albanian forest fires
Greece sent two Canadair CL 415 aircraft to Albania on Sunday, after the Albanian authorities requested assistance from the European Civil Protection Mechanism to aid with the ongoing firefront in the Pishe-Poro protected area of the Fier region.
Lubomyr Melnyk | Athens | October 18
A force to be reckoned with, Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is known as the creator of “continuous music,” as well as his ability to play up to 19 notes per second with each hand.
Man charged with manslaughter over family shooting
A prosecutor in Athens on Monday charged a 74-year-old man with manslaughter and attempted manslaughter for shooting a man and injuring his wife, following a birthday celebration in Agios Panteleimonas, central Athens.
Greece has second highest unemployment rate in the EU, reports Eurostat
The unemployment rate in the EU, and in Greece, has dropped from last year, according to a Eurostat report released on Monday. At the same time, Greece recorded the second-highest unemployment rate in the EU (10.9%) followed by Spain (11.5%).