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Relatives of the 121 Helios victims were due on Monday to visit the site where the plane went down at Grammatiko, in Greece, on August 14, 2005, for the annual memorial services to mark the 12th anniversary of the...

Memorial services in Cyprus and Greece on Thursday marked nine years since the Helios plane crash just north of Athens, which caused the death of 121 passengers and crew heading to Prague. Around 100 relatives of the victims arrived in Greece to attend the...

Officials of the Nicosia Assize Court have accepted a recommendation by the Law Office to dismiss all charges against the defendants in connection with the case relating to the 2005 crash of a Helios airplane in Greece which killed...

A Greek court sentenced four employees of Helios Airways, a defunct Cyprus budget carrier, on Friday for their part in a 2005 plane crash in which 121 people died after being deprived of oxygen. The Athens court verdict came despite...

A draft law on the Helios photovoltaic project for the production and export of electricity will be tabled in parliament within the next few weeks, Environment, Energy & Climate Change Minister George Papaconstantinou announced on Wednesday after meeting with...

Attorney-General Petros Clerides lodged on Tuesday an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Assize Court`s majority ruling to acquit the five defendants over a fatal air crash in 2005 in which 121 persons died. According to credible sources the...

Cyprus Attorney-General Petros Clerides said he will lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Assize Court's majority ruling to acquit five defendants over a fatal air crash in 2005, in which 121 people died. The Court ruled yesterday...

The majority of the Assize Court in Nicosia, in a prima facie decision, acquitted the defendants in the case of the Helios 2005 air crash which resulted in the death of all 121 passengers and crew on board, ruling...

Today, April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of industrialization.

A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic discoveries.

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the United States. The cast of gods and goddesses of Roman and Greek myth offers a treasure trove of baby name ideas. From Athena to Zeus, you might...

The Twelve Labours of Hercules occupy a special place in the pantheon of Greek mythology, exemplifying the ancient beliefs of the Greeks.

Family members of the victims who tragically lost their lives in the Helios Airways Flight 522 crash, an incident that claimed the lives of all passengers on board, including twenty-two children, gathered to honor their memory at the crash...

Zeus, the greatest of all the figures of Greek mythology, ruled over all the assembled gods and goddesses of the realm atop his mountain fastness on Mt. Olympus along with his wife Hera. He was the god of the sky,...

Ancient Greeks believed that the weather, like nearly everything else on earth, was the result of divine activity. Wind, specifically, was associated with the Anemoi, or the Greek gods of the wind. The Anemoi are the four gods named Boreas,...