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The flight recorder or "black box" from the fallen Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet, which crashed into the sea nine miles northeast of the Aegean island of Skyros, has been located and recovered, Hellenic Air Force sources reported on Tuesday. The...

A Greek start-up company is offering a repatriation bonus of €5,000 to €10,000 for Greeks wishing to return to their home country to work at its headquarters. Transifex's Chief Executive Officer Dimitris Glezos says that this initiative is more than...

113-year-old Ekaterini Kornarou from the town of Krestena in Peloponnese has joined the group of the oldest people in the world. According to official documents and electronic records Karnarou was born on July 25, 1905. According to local news reports, her...

(Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos addresses the event: Photo Marios Lolos/Xinhua) Athens was honored on World Book Day on Monday taking over as World Book Capital for 2018 with a celebratory event hosted at the Acropolis Museum. The Greek capital as of...

A new report reveals the best and worst places to raise a family in Europe – with Greece topping the table, and Switzerland taking last place. The We Are Family Index from Wren Kitchens is based on research on 25...

The 2018 Athens Science Festival opens its doors on Tuesday, with five days of events that explore the frontiers of knowledge from the quantum level to that of planets, stars and galaxies, as well as all the stages in...

A fight broke out at a church of a small village of Messinia, southern Peloponnese, over the rights of an icon of St. George. As the village of Dorion celebrated its patron St. George on Monday with a liturgy in...

An open lecture about the roots of the Rebetika will be presented by Dr Demeter Tsounis on Thursday 26 April 2018, at the Greek Centre, as a part of the Greek History and Culture Seminars, offered by the Greek...

London Greek Radio (LGR) which airs in both Greek and English 24/7 is expanding into Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city and home to a sizeable Greek community. Last week it was announced that it has been added to the DAB+ multiplex...

A house belonging to the Pitsos family is, according to Sotheby's, the most expensive home in Greece and was recently sold for €20 million. The house that overlooks the Saronic Gulf is located in ​​Kounoupi in the Porto Heli area...