Greek News

A funeral home in Nafplio, in Peloponnese, has built a special order coffin in the shape of the Parthenon and its form has become all the rage in the area. The particular coffin is made of marble and wood, using...

An official ceremony took place on Saturday evening at the Athens Cathedral to celebrate its reopening after seven years of restoration. The reopening ceremony was attended, among other officials, by the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Minister of...

Greece is the European Champion in Deaf Women's Basketball after beating Lithuania 52-41 in the final that took place at Nick Galis Hall in Athens. The team of coach Athina Zerva made it to the final easily and won the trophy...

President of the Board of Directors of Mamidoil Jetoil Kyriakos Mamidakis was found dead in his home by a relative, with the handgun next to his body suggesting suicide. His body was found on Sunday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. at...

The Greek Theater of New York (EllinikoThεatro) and Visionary Culture present "Socrates Now," an interactive performance that has traveled to 20 countries and has been staged at the world's finest universities, such as Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. The...

Lena Headey, Liam Cunningham and Maisie Williams, stars of popular television series Game of Thrones, visited a refugee camp on Lesvos island in Greece. Cersei Lannister, Davos Seworth and Arya Stark, as they are known by millions of fans worldwide, visited...

The Acropolis Museum holds an exhibition on the Oracle of Dodona from June 20, 2016 to January 10, 2017. The exhibition aims at providing wider knowledge about the oldest Greek oracle, tracing the way it functioned, its role and importance...

The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 15,500 asylum seekers have gone through a so-called pre-registration process on mainland Greece. The UNHCR said these people will be able to lodge future claims for asylum in Greece or in other European...

An MTV reality show filmed on the island of Corfu has caused a great uproar because of its lewdness, causing the municipality to cancel the filming permit given. The British MTV show "Geordie Shore", filmed at the Kavos village on...

A new opinion poll shows conservative New Democracy leading the intention to vote race by 11.5% ahead of SYRIZA. The poll that was conducted by the University of Macedonia on behalf of Skai television, also shows that six out of...

The summer of 2016 turns out to be another summer of discontent for Greek pensioners and wage earners who see their incomes slashed, as a new round of austerity begins after the imposition of the new bailout program measures. It...

Over 427,000 people left Greece since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008, marking the third wave of mass emigration in the 20th and 21st centuries. The figures come from a recently released Bank of Greece report entitled "Fleeing...

By playing in Greek movies, approaching strange women in bars or enjoying their coffee with friends, Greek men have become throughout the years something like urban legends, while much has been written by women struggling to understand them. Just...

Greek family business, Mamidoil Jetoil, is the latest in a chain of companies filing for bankruptcy according to article 99 of the Bankruptcy Code. The company dealing in storage, transport and trade of petroleum-based products in Greece and the...

Greece's Council of State, it's top administrative court, decided that the Greek lawyers strike that started on January 12 is illegal and in violation of the Greek constitution and international law. The lawyers' strike brought Greek courts to a...