Athens

  The mother of a young Greek who was murdered last week at Filopappou Hill, opposite the Acropolis, accused Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of "negligence and complicity" in her son's death. The 25-year-old died after he fell from a cliff as he...

Most parts of Athens were without electricity early Wednesday afternoon after a fault crippled the power supply system in the Greek capital. Suburbs from as far south as Glyfada to Kifisia in the north were all affected. According to the Independent...

A special evening of music in Melbourne has helped raise money for those affected by Greece's devastating July fires. Melbourne’s Greek Center was the venue for ABC Radio's live benefit broadcast hosted by The Friday Revue’s Richelle Hunt and Brian...

A deal which could see refugees who applied for asylum in Greece but subsequently moved on to Germany returned has been struck between Athens and Berlin, a German government spokeswoman has said. Quoted in Greek newspaper Kathimerini, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Eleonore...

Athens is a breathtaking city. In fact, it is one of the oldest cities in the world with a recorded history of over 3,400 years, and over that time, the city has racked up many local specialties that Greeks...

A storm hit Athens on Thursday noon turning roads in the northern suburbs of the capital into rivers. Traffic police closed main roads in Kifisia and Nea Erythrea as the torrents of water made driving conditions dangerous. According to the fire...

At least twenty-four people have died in huge fires raging out of control outside the Greek capital. Twenty deaths were confirmed by Greek government spokesperson Dimitris Tzanakopoulos while four more were found dead in the sea at the area of...

The Greek capital is covered by smoke on Monday as a big forest fire burns on the mountain slopes of Gerania, near the resort town of Kineta, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Athens. Acropolis and the parliament are...

Young refugees in Athens are getting the chance of a free education at the city's American Community School (ACS) through a scholarship project being run by the HOME Project NGO. Eighteen scholarships have been made available through support from the Shapiro...

Thousands of Greek music lovers attended the “Once in a Lifetime” concert by veteran hard rockers Scorpions on Monday in the ‘Kallimarmaro’ Panathenaic stadium in central Athens. Scorpions, a German rock band formed in 1965, shared the limelight with the...