A CYPRIOT airliner carrying 121 people into a hill near the ancient city of Marathon yesterday, killing all passengers and the six crew members on board.

A Cypriot airliner ploughed into a hill north of Athens today, killing all 121 people on board, Greek officials said.

The Christian Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria was killed today when an army helicopter that was transporting him and his entourage to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed in the sea, government and church officials said.

A search of a warehouse used by the coach at the centre of a doping scandal involving Greece’s star sprinters uncovered small amounts of anabolic steroids. a government agency said.

Security will be top of the agenda at two top-level meetings of international Olympic leaders this week, following today’s bomb blasts in Athens.