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A Greek court has handed down a six-month sentence to a man for using a Facebook laughing emoticon underneath a post advertising a business in the city of Volos. The court ruled last week that the emoticon was offensive and...

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...

A Greek Cypriot has set the stage on fire -- literally -- at auditions for the U.K.'s Britain's Got Talent television show. Bambas, a Cypriot entertainer, hoped to impress the judges with his eccentric routine and it certainly won’t be...

The bookies were proved wrong on Saturday night when Israel's Netta Barzilai beat Eleni Foureira of Cyprus to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon. Foureira had been hot favorite to triumph at the final with her tantalizing performance of 'Fuego'. However, the...

Thousands of music fans gathered at the Athens Olympic Stadium indoor arena on Thursday evening to hear Enrique Iglesias, dubbed the King of Latin Pop. The Spanish superstar performed most of his worldwide hits in his first ever concert in...

Aerial dancer Katerina Soldatou has presented a daredevil performance as part of the project Greece Has Soul, dancing while hanging from Greece's Rio-Antirrio Bridge. The Rio-Antirrio bridge is one of the largest in the world and Soldatou's aerial performance video went...

Cyprus has emerged as one of the favorites of Eurovision 2018 as Greece bowed out from the competition following the first round of semi-finals that took place in Lisbon on Tuesday evening. Eleni Foureira, representing Cyprus with the modern and...

A highly acclaimed documentary about the Greek island of Patmos and the world-famous monastery of St. John the Theologian will premiere in Greek cinemas later in May after successful screenings in Europe and the U.S. Acceptance of Inheritance: Apocalypse Again...

Greece and Cyprus are competing on Tuesday for a place in the final of the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest which is taking place in Portugal for the first time. Nineteen countries are competing in the semi-final. Only 10 will qualify...

A movie on the life of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis will premiere in German cinemas on May 10. The film -- Dance Fight Love Die -- by director Asteris Kutulas is described as an exuberant visual epic; a poetic road...

Greece's independent regulator granted TV licenses to five of six bidders after a 12-hour meeting this week. The National Council for Radio and Television (NCRT) announced that SKAI TV, STAR, Alpha, Antenna and E TV have been unanimously approved to...

  Greek music legend Nana Mouskouri will be touring in Canada from Thursday to May 25 to celebrate her 60 years of success in music. Mouskouri's Canadian 'Forever Young' tour begins on the west coast on May 3 at Victoria's Royal...

Influential Greek publisher Giorgos Kouris died Monday morning at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer, his family announced. Kouris was born in Argostoli, Kefalonia in 1937 and began publishing in the local newspaper Kefalonia's Voice which...

Greek newspapers' sales fell 19.6 percent to 57,614,541 in 2017, from 71,641,595 in 2016, after suffering a 15.9 percent decline in the previous year, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Friday. The statistics service, in a report, said that religious newspapers...

The annual London Greek Film Festival aims to be the international meeting point for Greek film from across the world kicks off in the British capital on May 7. At Camden's Theatro Technis the modern Greek film will be introduced...