Home team rowers land five gold medals during the continental championships near Marathon > Chryssa Biskitzi and Alexandra Tsiavou triumphed in the women’s lightweight double sculls, finishing first ahead of the second-placed Polish pair.
Greek rowers won an amazing total of five gold medals in the European Championship that was held at the Olympic Center [...]
A child writes on a display that formed part of exhibition set up in Klafthmonos Square, central Athens, to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Smurfs cartoon.
The tiny blue characters were created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo. “Les Schtroumpfs” as they are known in Belgian, made their debut appearance on October 23, 1958, and in [...]
Athens is marking World Carfree Day today by offering commuters free travel on public transport, but experts are warning that more measures are needed to cope with the almost 3 million cars in the city, as the inner circulation ring introduced 25 years ago is totally outdated.
Authorities introduced a system in 1982 whereby cars with [...]
Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and President of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Branko Crvenkovski are due to meet in New York this week as the two sides significantly step up their efforts to solve the name dispute.
In a significant development, Bakoyannis held a surprise meeting with her FYROM counterpart Antonio Milososki in Paris [...]
“Stateless” photographer and Czech lithographer in Athens exhibitions
“Conversation with a Satyr” a lithograph by Adolf Born, a Czech painter, cartoonist and set designer whose work will appear in an exhibition titled “Satyrs, Naiads and other Animals” at the Melina Cultural Center, due to open on Thursday.
We must salute the impressive appearance of the Czech [...]
For the first time in the last four years, the country’s tourism professionals are pessimistic about the course of Greek tourism next season, even before the current one is over.
The mixed picture for this year has revealed some signs of upcoming crisis, with visitors’ numbers remaining at the same levels as in 2007, hotel occupancy [...]
The competitiveness of the port of Piraeus is continuing to sink due to continued industrial action, but regional harbors seem to be benefiting.
In the first half of 2008, the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) showed losses of 4.3 million euros, with imports of containers dropping from 167,645 in January-June 2007 to just 65,238 during the same [...]
