Society

A digital mosaic portrait of Mother Teresa crafted by internationally renowned Greek visual designer Charis Tsevis will decorate Tirana Square named after the ethnic nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity. The visual image was donated by Greek ambassador in...

While Greek-Americans and those in the Diaspora around the world were celebrating Greece's Independence Day, spectators in Athens were barred from a parade as the government, as it did last year, feared embarrassing protests against austerity measures. Most media avoided...

The Malliaropouleion Theater of Tripoli is reopening its doors to the public on March 22, the first day of spring. It is the theater emblem of the town, and among the few perennial theaters in Greece. It was donated to...

The Ministry of Education announced the school departments that will continue to receive students next year as well as those departments which will start preparing to close down. The application of the education restructuring plan Athena will reduce departments and...

The cardiosurgical clinic of the Children’s Hospital Agia Sofia reopened on March 20, and gradually all its departments will be working again. Two surgeries have already been scheduled, one of them being the replacement of a pacemaker in an...

According to a European Commission report published on March 19, Greece remains fourth regarding deaths caused by road accidents. Lithuania, Romania and Poland are respectively the countries in the first three places. However, on a European level, road fatalities...

In its monthly report on employment, wages, and taxes, GSEE, the General Union of Workers in Greece, claimed poverty is rising in unprecedented levels and that the tax system is stealing from the poor to give to the rich....

As the government tries to stifle criticism, and with much of the media aligned with political parties and downplaying scandals,  the NGO Journalists without Frontiers' Freedom of Press Index shows Greece has fallen to 84th in the world, and...

Greece has turned to the European Union for funds to help feed hungry elementary school students, many of whom are going without lunch during the country’s crushing economic crisis. The government said it can’t afford to feed them and will...

It's no surprise to Greeks who know the social phenomenon well, but Greece has one of the highest percentages of young adults who prefer to live at home with their parents instead of striking out on their own and...

South Korean back packer Hyun Young Jung, who had been traveling through Europe for more than a year before reaching Greece, has claimed he was assaulted by police, then handcuffed and taken to a police station where he was again...

Greek police are seeking suspects who authorities said set off a string of homemade bomb devices outside the homes of a number of journalists residing in Athens early on Jan. 11. The devices, made of gas canisters, exploded outside...

Mutilation, sexually transmitted diseases and drinking urine are some of the many things that more than 1.6 million viewers watched during the first episode of What Happens in Kavos on Channel 4, focusing on the sex lives of British...

Georgios Topoulos, born in Poland to a Greek father and Polish mother and now living in Switzerland, feels his Greek side being tugged at the heart strings as he watches Greece dissolve in an economic crisis that has left...

It seems that Crete had its very own Santa Claus this year. Dimitris Apostolakis, a DHL courier employee, decided to gather food, clothing, toys and other necessities in his spare time and distribute them to the charitable foundation Minors'...