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Thousands of Greek Australians gathered at Melbourne’s Lonsdale Street over the weekend for a feast of song, dance, food and culture which has been described as the biggest Greek festival ever to have taken place in Australia. Bill Papastergiadis, president...

Dimitris Parthenis, one of the most important figures in Greece’s fashion industry, died this weekend in an Athens hospital aged 74. For almost 50 years Parthenis was synonymous with innovative design, based on his famous white with simple lines. He established...

The famous Rethymno Carnival that kicked off on January 27 to culminate on Sunday February 18 is going strong for another year with thousands of visitors coming from all over Greece. This year's theme is "Be Your Best Self" and...

A Greek man sailed around Crete on a kayak and circled the island in 39 days, starting on New Year's Day and finishing on Thursday. Manolis Loudaros shared his experience on Facebook posting pictures and writing about his daring winter...

Greeks joined their Chinese friends living in Athens on Saturday to celebrate ahead of the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, according to Xinhua news agency. The Chinese community of Athens welcomed their Greek friends at Technopolis in the capital...

Greeks are preparing to welcome spring by celebrating an ancient annual custom with the tradition of Martis where both adults and children adorn themselves with red-and-white bracelets made of thread from March 1 to March 31. It must be threaded...

A Greek engineer made the first known attempt to send a koulouri, the famous Thessaloniki round bread, into space. Thanasis Foukis attached the koulouri to a hydrogen balloon and released it from the town of Ptolemaida in northern Greece. The mission...

  One of the most magnificent monuments of nature, the "Theogefyro" natural bridge in Epirus, has collapsed, according to epirusgate.blogspot.gr. Area residents saw the fallen bridge and called the pertinent authorities. The fall of the natural bridge is attributed to the...

When Greeks say "Let's go for a little ouzo," this is not only an important social invitation but also a culinary pleasure that is rarely turned down. Ouzo conjures up many images but the most common one is a picture...

This year's Athens Festival will include 87 performances in a reduced but more targeted program than 2017's, organizers said this week. The annual Greek festival includes performances and events mostly focused at Irodio (Herod Atticus theatre) in Athens and the theatre...

  As from Monday, the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania presents the exhibition "Artists of Chania interpret the Tower of Babel". A group of artists from the Cretan city will use the whole building to present their visual work on the...

In a land where ice hockey rules, four lifelong Greek-Canadian football fans -- friends for over 20 years -- have united to bring soccer to Toronto’s young people. Nick Papalambropoulos, Markos Dimopoulos, Giorgio Trikkas and Johnny Giorgopoulos have been offering...

Melbourne's largest Greek street party will paint the city blue and white with a bumper weekend of food, music, dancing and culture, February 10-11. This year’s Festival will be larger than ever, extending further down Lonsdale Street from Swanston Street...

"I just feel it's time to explore the world in a different way now," Daniel Day-Lewis has told an Athens audience about his recent decision to retire from acting. The award-winning thespian made the statement in the Greek capital on...

It all started back in 1914 and ever since, year after year, the Cretan city of Rethymno hosts a traditional carnival celebration like no other place in Greece. Over three weeks, the Cretan coastal city holds parties and masquerades with...