Nursing homes fill up in August
(eKathimerini) Aug 20, 2008
The number of residents in old people's homes increases by a third in August, when many families go on vacation and leave their elderly relatives behind, new statistics show....

Tourist critical after fight
(eKathimerini) Aug 20, 2008
Dutchman stabbed while trying to stop brawl at troubled Cretan resort of Malia...

Worrying spike in road accidents
(eKathimerini) Aug 19, 2008
Traffic police officers are alarmed by a sharp rise in serious road accidents over the last two months, with the number of people being killed in crashes almost doubling during the summer....

Dirty rivers to get ‘black flags’
(eKathimerini) Aug 18, 2008
The uncontrolled discharge of toxic waste by industry and agriculture as well as dwindling rainfall are transforming many of the country’s rivers into festering pollution hot spots, according to scientists in northern Greece who are planning to grade th...

Cyprus teacher, 25, shot dead by her sister
(eKathimerini) Aug 18, 2008
A woman in Cyprus alleged to have shot dead her 25-year-old sister in the kitchen of their Nicosia home on Friday was being questioned by police on the island yesterday....

Six arrested after Crete flight brawl
(Herald.ie) Aug 16, 2008
SIX men have been released without charge by Italian authorities after a drunken brawl caused a flight from Dublin to Crete to be diverted....

Greek Festival kicks off in Reno
(Reno Gazette Journal, NV) Aug 16, 2008
Opa! The 21st annual Greek Festival kicked off at the Saint Anthony Greek Orthodox Church at 5 p.m. Friday, and within an hour, hundreds of people were there, satisfying an appetite for baklava, gyros and more....

Guns for Texas school's teachers
(BBC) Aug 16, 2008
Teachers in one part of the US state of Texas are to be allowed to carry concealed firearms when the new school term opens this month....

Chip fat rally heads for Athens
(Environmental Data Interactive) Aug 15, 2008
In a challenge that gives a whole new meaning to the term "fast food", ten rally teams are attempting to drive from London to Athens powered by waste cooking oil that participants will have to scavenge from restaurants and burger bars....

S Africa to close displaced camps
(BBC) Aug 15, 2008
Six camps in South Africa housing thousands of people displaced by anti-immigrant violence in May are set to be closed....

Ethnic Greek among victims in South Ossetia clashes
Aug 15, 2008
A 78-year-old ethnic Greek has been killed during clashes between Russian and Georgian forces in the city of Tskhinvali in the breakaway province of South Ossetia....

Traffic respite only temporary
(eKathimerini) Aug 15, 2008
Roads in Athens will be at their emptiest over the next few days due to the large number of people who have left the city for their vacations, but transport engineers are warning that from September onward, congestion will only get worse unless changes ar...

Faithful email their prayers
(eKathimerini) Aug 15, 2008
Authorities at the Church of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tinos, one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in the country, say they have received hundreds of e-mails from Orthodox faithful living abroad and in Greece....

Holidaymakers mass exodus
Aug 14, 2008
The annual Dormition of the Theotokos (Assumption of the Virgin) religious holiday in the predominately Orthodox Christian nation, one of the most significant on the ecclesiastical calendar...

Land register rush fails to ease
(eKathimerini) Aug 14, 2008
Hundreds of property owners who had hoped to avoid queues by submitting their land register applications in mid-August, when the capital usually empties, were surprised to find they had to wait several hours yesterday to get the job done....