Greece News

Having failed to woo Gazprom, Greece is to sell a 66 percent share in DESFA, a fully owned subsidiary of state-run natural gas company DEPA, for a 400 million to Azeri state-owned SOCAR.

Three people were injured late on Tuesday during a protest against the firing of three employees at a grill house in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.

The Finance Ministry's general secretary for revenues, Haris Theocharis, said that a decision regarding an extension to the June 30 deadline for tax declararions could be taken by June 25. According to government sources the new deadline would be a "one-off" extension that could see taxpayers submitting their declarations by the end of July.

Bethleham Lutheran Church in Colusa is hosting a Bible vacation school, "Go to Athens Greece" starting on Monday at the church.

'Oh My CAD' is an architectural installation that is set up in Greece by the creative group 'Beforelight.'

A Carnival Corp. Yachts of Seabourn cruise ship sails past Santorini, Greece; one of the most popular Greek islands, Santorini gets about 500,000 visitors a year.

From the First Cardiology Clinic, University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece ; and State Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece .

There is an interesting article in the Telegraph by Nigel Richardson that talks about his father and his fellows in the battle for Crete in 1941.

AmpleHarvest.org announces that its founder and executive director, Gary Oppenheimer, has been invited to present AmpleHarvest.org at the plenary session of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation International Conference on Philanthropy in Athens Greece on June 28. In the past few decades, globalization and rapid technological advances have challenged the ... (more)

Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Tuesday urged the government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to drop its intransigence over an ongoing name dispute with Greece that has blocked the Balkan state's European Union and NATO ambitions.

Greek state broadcaster ERT has stayed on air, despite an order by the government to close.

The mountains continue their ancient and indomitable reign over the heartland of Epirus.

Monster Employment Index India is a monthly gauge of online job posting activity based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career Internet websites and online job listings across India.

Few experiences in life leave as lasting an impression as the very first time you see a movie in a theater.

Police in Ilioupoli, southern Athens, and Marathonas, northeastern Attica, arrested five Chinese and two Vietnamese nationals for allegedly growing cannabis plants last Friday.

Since immigration agents whisked away her husband and left him on a tarmac in Jordan more than six years ago, Jacquetta Al-Mubaslat has lived in an emotional torture chamber.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1894 lithograph of Yvette Guilbert singing A "Linger, Longer, Loo!" From the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece.

A 37-year-old policeman was killed early on Monday near the village of Distomo in the prefecture of Viotia when gunmen in a car, believed to be fugitives from Trikala Prison, opened fire on officers manning a road block.

Off the air: Protesters march in solidarity with employees of Greek state broadcaster ERT in Thessaloniki on Sunday.

It typically took Cam Stubbs two or three Red Bulls, 6-1/2 hours and some loud music pumping on the... ATHENS, Greece - A magnitude-5.6 earthquake has struck in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Greek island of Crete but no damage or casualties have been reported.