Athens

  A hailstorm in Athens on Tuesday gave hope to firemen battling at two fronts to keep the fire at Dervenohoria, northwest of Athens, under control. The fire, raging out of control since Saturday, has swallowed an estimated 1,200 acres of...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) was first conceived in 2006 and took eight years to design and build. Ten years since its conception, it is finally being inaugurated in a sprawling new park, complete with an exquisite...

Over a decade ago an ancient grave located northeast of Piraeus near Athens, revealed the cremated remains of a young women and five lead curse tablets from 2,400 years ago. Four of the curse tablets are engraved with curses to be cast...

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker arrived in Athens on Tuesday just as the release of 7.5 billion euros in bailout money was being announced for Greece. An upbeat Juncker assessed that Greece is on the right path to exit...

Museum Herakleidon in Athens is hosting an exhibition showcasing the dedication to the art of contemporary printmaking. The exhibit, Contemporary Print Art from Athens, is showing from June 17 through September 18. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts...

A 72-year-old man shot himself to death at a public home for the elderly in Athens early on Thursday; allegedly the man was facing financial problems. The man was staying at the public home for the elderly in Athens for...

A new process for registering asylum seekers was launched in Greece on June 8. The new pre-registration process is aimed at speeding up the process by which families can be reunified and requests for relocation for those migrants who wish to move...

Speaking at the first day of the INSP Global Street Paper Summit in Athens on Tuesday, the charismatic and controversial former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis "diagnosed" the country as suffering from "an economic and psychological depression" from which...

What do the Antikythera Mechanism, Nestor's golden cup and the marble statue of an athlete from Delos all have in common? The answer is that they are all found in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens...

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will visit Athens on June 21. Juncker will meet with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said in a press briefing on Friday. More details on Juncker's visit...