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Officials at Greek club Larissa say Mexican striker Antonio de Nigris has died in the central Greek city.
A convicted murderer in Greece who made a dramatic prison escape by helicopter earlier this year was arrested near Athens on Monday, police said.
Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding six police officers, authorities said.
A small boat loaded with Afghan families smashed onto the rocks and sank off an island in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday, causing three immigrant women and five children to drown.
Greece's new Socialist prime minister took charge Wednesday, promising Greeks "time to breathe" before they face the realities of a rapidly cooling economy compromised by high state spending and a soaring public debt.
A list of Greece's government ministers announced Tuesday, after Sunday's election victory by the Socialist PASOK party. The Cabinet comprises 15 ministers and 20 deputies.
Two years ago, when George Papandreou led Greece's Socialist party to its worst election result in three decades, he was widely derided as an ineffective politician.
A look at how Greek voters chose their government and members of parliament in Sunday's election:
A small bomb exploded on Friday at a campaign rally attended by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and tens of thousands of his supporters, but caused no injuries, police said.
Greece's new Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou will personally handle foreign affairs in the Cabinet he announced Tuesday, which merges existing portfolios, creates a new Environment Ministry and places women in key posts.
Socialist opposition leader George Papandreou, who is widely expected to win Greece's national election next weekend, says fighting endemic corruption and creating a stimulus package are essential if Greece is to emerge from a deep financial crisis.
A man has been arrested in northern Greece for allegedly growing marijuana in the median strip of the country's main, um, highway.
Archaeologists in Greece say a sprawling ancient cemetery dating to the 6th century B.C. has yielded dozens of rich grave offerings, including weapons and gold ornaments.
In an Aug. 5 obituary of Nikolaos Makarezos, a senior figure in the 1967-74 Greek dictatorship, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Makarezos was sentenced to death for treason after the fall of the military regime — a sentence later commuted to life imprisonment.
Greece's Culture Ministry says a column capital has been stolen from the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia, one of the country's most important.
By day, this lush island set in the Aegean Sea offers a sanctuary to tourists seeking clear blue seas and immaculate beaches.
The early election that Greece's embattled conservative prime minister has called for next month — just halfway through his four-year term — will be a risky bid to shore up enough support to reform the country's faltering economy.
A van bomb exploded outside the Athens Stock Exchange Wednesday, injuring a woman and causing extensive damage to the building in what police said was a coordinated double bombing that also targeted a government building in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
The U.N. refugee agency says it is "alarmed" at the conditions at a Greek detention center where hundreds of illegal immigrants are being held, including scores of children.
Archaeologists said Friday they have unearthed a lavish burial site at the seat of the ancient Macedonian kings in northern Greece, heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue.
Massive fires outside Athens have scorched more than 37,000 acres (15,000 hectares) of forest and brush. Here are some of the areas hardest hit by the wildfires.
Greece mourned its first death Thursday from a string of devastating summer wildfires, when a small water-dropping plane crashed during an island firefighting operation, killing the pilot.
Nikolaos Makarezos, one of the leaders of the military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967-1974, has died at age 90, according to media reports.
Greece's new Acropolis Museum said Tuesday it would restore references to early Christians vandalizing the ancient Parthenon temple, which were deleted from a film shown to visitors for fear of angering the country's powerful Orthodox Church.
A scene from an animated film shown to visitors at the new Acropolis Museum that depicts Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church.
Greek Socialists win landslide victoryOver the last three weeks, socialists have won narrow victories in Norway and Portugal, and now a big win in Greece. The conservatives won a narrow one in Germany.
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis gambled on an early election, a last throw of the dice just half way through his four year term. The campaigning has been awful: nobody inspired and nobody gave solutions.
Early results show Socialists winning Greek electionGreece's opposition Socialists were winning Sunday's election with enough seats to form a government and oust conservatives who angered voters for failing to tackle graft and the economy, early official results showed.
Remember that cute little cat you patted on holiday in Rhodes? It's got six weeks to liveThey sell comic T-shirts featuring them in various different poses, all capturing distinctly human failings; and you can get 'Kitty Calendars' offering a different Rhodean kitten - each sweeter than the last - for every month of the year.
New finds at rich ancient cemetery in GreeceTHESSALONIKI, Greece — Archaeologists in Greece say a sprawling ancient cemetery dating to the 6th century B.C. has yielded dozens of rich grave offerings, including weapons and gold ornaments.
Fascist violence victim snatched from hospital by Greek policeA victim of the continuous parastate operations of fascists and plainclothes policemen in the area of Agios Panteleimonas in Athens was snatched early this week from hospital by police forces violating doctors orders and basic rights to healthcare.
Bomb explodes outside Athens Stock ExchangeA van bomb exploded outside the Athens Stock Exchange Wednesday, lightly injuring a passer-by and causing extensive damage to the building and to nearby cars, Greek police said.
Wild bushfires threaten Athens suburbsThousands of Greeks are battling to save their homes from forest fires raging out of control on the outskirts of Athens.
Summer of '74 a dark time for our peacekeepersRobert Smol writing for the Toronto Star. Remembering Canadian soldiers who died in past peace missions, highlighting the most brutal which was in Cyprus and the Middle East in the summer of 1974, and how we've forgotten all about it.
Greece anounces swine flu vaccination for all 12 million citizens | HEALTH NewsGreece will vaccinate its entire population of 12 million against the H1N1 swine flu pandemic which has swept around the world in weeks, killing hundreds of people, the country's health minister said on Friday.
Greek woman accused of setting fire to UK touristA Greek woman appeared in court in Crete today accused of setting fire to a British tourist after he allegedly pulled down his trousers in front of her.
Scene cut from Athens Parthenon Museum film after Church objects to the truth; Director Costa-Gavras demands name be removed from creditsA scene from an animated film shown to visitors at the new Acropolis Museum that depicts Christian priests destroying parts of the Parthenon has been deleted following protests by the Greek Orthodox Church.
Homer's Odyssey Fossils of CreteThe islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that extend out from the mainland. Crete is the last of this range and boasts a diverse beauty from its high mountains of Psiloritis, Lefka Ori, Dikti, to its ocean caressed pink sand beaches.
Greece fined over airline subsidy Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice, has fined Greece 2m euros ($2.8m; £1.7m) for failing to recover state aid from Olympic Airways.
Forsyth, Georgia – Reading Feeds the Brain, the Spirit & the Soul Reference Information for the Book
Oldest human settlement in Aegean unearthed on Limnos islandThe ruins of the oldest human settlement in the Aegean found so far have been unearthed in archaeological excavations by a team of Greek, Italian and American archaeologists on the island of Limnos, headed by a professor of Prehistoric Archaeology from Thessaloniki Aristotle Univ …
Greece fears tensions on the rise with TurkeyATHENS, Greece - Greece's foreign minister said Monday that Athens was concerned about increasing tension in its relations with neighboring Turkey over military flights in the Aegean Sea.
Tim O'Reilly: The Benefits of a Classical EducationAs some of you may know, I got my undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin Classics. So when Forbes asked me to do an interview on the subject of how my Classical education had affected my business career, I agreed.
Greece fears tensions on the rise with TurkeyGreece's foreign minister said Monday that Athens was concerned about increasing tension in its relations with neighboring Turkey over military flights in the Aegean Sea.
Homer's Odyssey Fossils of CreteMuch of the island of Crete is Miocene and filled with fossil mollusks, bivalves, gastropods who lived 5 to 23 million years ago in warm, tropical seas. They are easily collected from their pink limestone matrix and are often eroded out, mixing with their modern relatives.
Nestled between the Aegean and Libyan Sea, Crete, the largest of the Greek Islands, sits at the southern most tip of Europe, the crossroad of cultures, civilizations, East and West, Africa and Europe.
Cyprus reunification talks - drowned out by shouting?After months of Cyprus reunification talks, what comes out of the negotiating room more often than anything else, is shouting.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Annual Report 2009: Turkey to be placed on this year's "Watch List"The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its Annual Report, published in May 2009, reaffirmed that the Turkish state has yet failed to implement a series of amendments to its Constitution and has further failed to fulfill its commitments again …
Greece would refuse a short loan of the Elgin Marbles"Greece would not accept a short loan of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum as it would "legalise their snatching", the Culture Minister said. Antonis Samaras said any loan would mean renouncing Greece's claim to the 2,500-year-old sculptures.
Bilderbergers Decide Our Future: Here's a LookMy experience over the last several days in Greece has granted me a single, diamond-hard opinion," writes Skelton, "That we must fight, fight, fight, now – right now, this second, with every cubic inch of our souls – to stop identity cards."
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