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ATHENS, Greece - Greece says it will open a screening center for illegal migrants to review asylum claims, as part of an overhaul of human rights procedures promised by the country's new Socialist government.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says his country has lost international credibility and is in danger of drowning in debt.

World markets mostly rose after Dubai said it had received $10 billion in emergency funds from its oil-rich neighbor Abu Dhabi, helping to allay investor fears that the emirate will default on its debt.

Prime minister George Papandreou is being warned by bankers and economists to take harsh measures to prevent Greece's bond market from collapsing and to restore its international credibility following rating downgrades.

Students at Athens Middle School have used history, art, language, science and math to turn an auditorium into Athens, Greece.

Put away the passport and leave the money for plane tickets in the bank. To visit Athens, Greece, just go to Athens.

ATHENS, Greece - Prime Minister George Papandreou has called on Greece's major opposition leaders to hold rare joint talks on the troubled economy.

A Greek shipowning company says it has paid a ransom to Somali pirates holding one of its freighters for the past seven months.

Athens - Greece's newly elected Socialist government insisted Wednesday that the country was neither this year's Iceland, nor the new Dubai, as worries increased over public finances, causing its debt rating to be downgraded to the lowest level in the euro zone.

Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report.

Protesters and police in Athens, Greece, clashed Sunday during demonstrations marking the 2008 shooting death of a teenage by police, the BBC said.

Athens, Greece Riots broke out in Athens today to commemorate the first anniversary police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the 15-year-old protestor that was killed last year on Dec.

Residents stand next to a memorial for Alexandros Grigoropoulos, on the spot where he was shot dead by a policeman a year ago in central Athens, on Saturday, Dec.

Protesters throw stones against police during riots outside the Athens' Academy Dec.

At the Big Picture, photos of the Olympic Torch Relay . After departing Athens, Greece on October 30th, the Olympic Flame has been traveling across Canada, now about 1/3 of the way into its 106-day, 26,000 km overland relay .

The Friendly City's Vice Mayor Bo Perkinson is traveling this weekend to Athens -- the ancient city in Greece.

An appeals court in Greece has cleared three suspected members of a far-left terrorist group that was blamed for more than 30 attacks on American targets, citing insufficient evidence.

ATHENS, Greece -- Prime Minister George Papandreou and Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas have told Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki that their country's position regarding Skopje's efforts to get a date for starting EU accession talks has not changed, Macedonian media reported on Tuesday .

This theater was sacred to the god of wine and drama and in ancient times hosted the annual Dionysia, a festival in his honor.

ATHENS, Greece a ' The ruined theater under the Acropolis where the works of Euripides and other classical playwrights were first performed 2,500 years ago will undergo partial restoration over the next six years, officials said Wednesday.