Greece

The first car accident officially recorded in Greece occurred on a Sunday in March, 1907, at about 11:30 in the morning. Tragically, the country's very first car accident was a fatal one, as a pedestrian was struck by the vehicle...

The first phase of the ambitious reconstruction of Faliro Bay is almost completed and the plans for Phase B have been presented, with the Attica Region now seeking the funds needed for its implementation. The plans for Phase B are...

A joint study conducted recently by the Hellenic Centre for Maritime Research and the Geology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens reveals the massive amount of new construction along the Athenian Riviera in the last 80...

Vaggelis Chatzis, the world’s only one-armed boxer, returned to the ring on Saturday in Athens' Paleo Faliro and managed a win against his greatest rival, Bosnian pugilist Mirko Zdralo. This marks the second time the Greek boxer has triumphed in a...

Vaggelis Chatzis, the world’s only one-armed boxer, returns to the ring this week in Athens for a rematch against his greatest rival, the Bosnian Mirko Zdralo. Chatzis, who returned the ring last year after spending three difficult years recovering from...

Cine ThisioGoing to a summer movie is one of the unique Greek pastimes; watching a film under the stars with a cool breeze and (often) the smell of flowers is one of the many things that make Greece special. Open-air...

British royals Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall will be visiting Greece next week in what it will be the first time in modern Greek history that members of the British royal family will be official...

    All of us had special toys that we treasured as we grew up but not everyone can say they were presented with a wooden horse by the leader of Greece’s independence movement. Yet it is special artifacts like the toy...

The historic Hellenic Navy battleship "Georgios Averoff" set sail from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday; after a two month stay, and has begun its long journey back to Athens and its usual berth at the Trocadero...

The Greek government said that the cleanup of a section of Athens coastline polluted by a large oil slick more than a month ago is almost over, and the remaining operation should be finished within days. Merchant Marine Minister, Panagiotis...

Summertime in Greece means great, fresh seafood galore! However, if you are saying in Athens on the mainland, where do you go for amazing seafood? Let's take a look at the top 10 places the locals like to frequent...

A convoy of 29 buses carrying a total of 1,500 migrants are currently driving back to Athens from the Idomeni railway station on border shared between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM,  and Greece. This is according to Greek...

The 2014 Athens Flying Week airshow will be held for the third consecutive year in Athens, Greece, from September 25 to 28 in the areas of Faliro and Tatoi. The AFW events started on Monday, September 22, with the "Aviation Development...

Two died in a fire late on Friday at Athens southern seaside suburb of Paleo Faliro in Greece. A 30-year-old fireman lost his life trying to save the life of a woman stuck on the 2nd floor balcony of...

Greek police issued an announcement saying that the article which first appeared in the Greek newspaper "To Ethnos" contains false information. According to the newspaper, Greek police officers performed a random check on a car that was moving suspiciously in...