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Speculation about Barcelona footballing superstar Lionel Messi buying a Greek island in the Ionian Sea came out of the blue on Wednesday, spreading like a virus on online media. However, the fact there has been no official confirmation by the...

Three-time Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis will be in Athens for the premiere of his new film Phantom Thread on Feb. 1, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. This is not the first time the popular actor is visiting Athens...

This year’s first episode of Greece in our Hearts -- the popular web TV show for the Greek diaspora -- has featured two prominent fashion designers speaking about their work at home and internationally. Blogger and designer Vicky Bouzouni, founder...

About 420 employees of Greece’s Mega television station fear losing their jobs after signs the company’s management is not intent in joining a broadcast licensing tender next month. In a letter sent to banks, the TV station’s shareholders said they...

A young disabled man stole the limelight at a recent basketball match in western Greece when he took to the court to perform a thrilling dance routine from his wheelchair. Thirty-year-old Andreas Stratoudakis, who has been confined to a wheelchair...

Some of Hollywood's biggest directors and actors defended the controversial new Troy series where the mythological Greek warrior Achilles is played by black actor David Gyasi. Speaking exclusively to Greek Reporter from the red carpet of the 2018 Golden Globe Awards,...

The Council of State (CoS), Greece's supreme court, has rejected a temporary injunction motion by four private TV stations against the government's television frequencies tender. Four stations -- Antenna, Alpha, Star and Skai -- were asking for a temporary freeze...

A Japanese band, called Pyramidos, has captured the attention of thousands of YouTube users with its take of a popular Greek tsifteteli song called "Vre Melahrinaki". The band from Tokyo describe themselves as a gypsy band playing Balkan, Roma, Arabic,...

Digital radio arrived in Greece this week, with a first pilot broadcast coming from public broadcaster ERT’s facilities on Ymittos mountain overlooking Athens. Unlike many European countries, Greece has no definitive road map towards a switch-off from analog FM radio...

Springtime temperatures and plenty of sunshine were the backdrop of today's Epiphany celebration in the city center of Chania, in Crete. On January 6, the Greek Orthodox church celebrates the day that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in...

  Athens is one of those cities that everyone visits for its rich history, but also because of the local food. The fame of Greek food, genuine and healthy, is very well represented in any of the endless restaurants, bistros,...

Twitter has blocked the account of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, apparently in line with the platform's new rules against hate speech. The micro-blogging and social networking service did not say why it blocked the Golden Dawn account on Thursday,...

  The B&M Theocharakis Foundation for Fine Arts and Music continues this month presenting an exhibition that focuses on Giorgos Seferis works. The event named “When the light dances, I speak fairly: George Seferis and his poetry through painting and photography”,...

Dozens of local residents of Palaio Faliro, south of Athens, led by the local priest marched on Sunday at the site of a controversial sculpture and demanded its removal. The bright-red sculpture "Phylax" (guard in Greek), has offended some who...

Greek bakers gave Greece their well wishes for 2018 by making and offering a record-breaking 2,500 kilo Vasilopita (Greek New Year’s cake) to locals for free. The 70-metre-long and 3-metre-wide Vasilopita was cut in 15,000 slices in Athens’ suburban municipality...