The Guinness Storehouse has been named 'Europe's leading tourist attraction' at an awards ceremony in Sardinia.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and German chancellor Angela Merkel put on a public display of mutual goodwill yesterday, appealing to Greeks and Germans to set aside recrimination and national stereotypes and work for a better European future.

ALAN DAVIES is the only permanent panellist on the BBC quiz show QI, a series that has possibly logged more comedy gold moments than any competitor since hitting television screens in 2003. 

On home ground, it is not surprising that there is a wave of expectation on Craig Breen to win the Discover Northern Ireland Circuit of Ireland Rally, round four of the European Rally Championship that gets underway in Belfast this morning.

You could have parked anywhere you liked in Athens a few weeks ago — the city’s parking police had all been fired.

Thirty-nine people were killed and around 10 injured when a bus plunged off a viaduct in southern Italy in what Prime Minister Enrico Letta described yesterday as a huge tragedy.

A bomb exploded outside a ship owner’s house near the Acropolis in central Athens, causing damage but no injuries.

A bomb has exploded in the Greek capital Athens.

Police have clashed with protesters hurling petrol bombs in central Athens after an anti-government rally called as part of a general strike turned violent.

Europe’s fragile financial calm was shattered today as investors worried that violent anti-austerity protests in Greece, and Spain’s debt troubles, showed that the continent still cannot contain its financial crisis.

A man has fallen off Greece’s most famous monument, the Acropolis, in central Athens and suffered head injuries, police say.

For a nation known — fairly, or not — the world around for its drinking habits as well as its riches-to-rags economy, it’s disappointing that no Irish hostelries feature in a compilation of the planet’s 50 best bars.

No tickets for London’s big event? Get into the Olympic spirit on a tour with a sporting twist, says Sally Howard

Mobs threw stones and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out in Athens today during a mass protest over budget cuts.

Riot police in Greece have used tear gas and flash grenades to disperse firefighters protesting outside parliament today amid the financial crisis in the country.

Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low today in parts of France as the country braced itself for another nationwide protest against government plans to raise the retirement age.

The Acropolis reopened today after a labour dispute kept thousands of visitors out of debt-ridden Greece’s most famous monument for three days.

The Acropolis was closed for a third day today by a labour protest, and riot police were guarding the entrance to ensure Greece’s most famous monument could not be blockaded by striking workers.

Greek riot police had to use tear gas to clear striking staff blockading the Acropolis today.

Riot police today confronted protesting government workers who have shut down the Acropolis, Athens’ most popular tourist site.

More than 20,000 protesters marched through Athens in a challenge to Greece’s harsh austerity measures today, but this time the demonstrations ended peacefully.

Three people died in a blaze at an Athens bank today during rioting over government spending cuts.

Protesters tried to storm Greece's parliament and hurled paving stones at police today as tens of thousands of outraged Greeks took to the streets of Athens to protest at spending cuts aimed at saving their country from bankruptcy.

Flights to and from Greece were grounded, trains and ferries suspended their routes and public services were paralysed today as angry workers went on strike in protest over huge spending cuts.

GREEK protesters unfurled banners over the defensive walls of the ancient Acropolis in protest at harsh new austerity measures as strikes began across the country.

Greek protesters unfurled banners over the defensive walls of the ancient Acropolis today in protest at harsh new austerity measures as strikes began across the country.

WITH regard to recent suggestions in the media as to what to do with the GPO in Dublin, it is imperative that we hold that problem in “Abbey-ance”. Since this is a problem of classical proportions, we must consider very carefully what to do, if anything is to be done, with what might be described as our Celtic Parthenon.

ICONIC buildings across Ireland turned their lights off and prevented the release of an estimated 30 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere during Earth Hour.

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed today as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

THE Government is to submit an ambitious proposal that could lead to world heritage status for Cork city and its huge natural harbour.

PROTESTERS hung two giant banners off the Acropolis yesterday with slogans calling for mass demonstrations across Europe and resistance, after days of violent protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens.

Greek protesters hung two giant banners off the Acropolis today with slogans calling for mass demonstrations across Europe after days of violence sparked by police shooting dead a teenager in Athens.

Greece has finally taken possession of a chunk of the Elgin Marbles, and now holds renewed hopes of regaining the rest.

BP Ford team leader Mikko Hirvonen admits he needs to learn how to control the World Rally Championship from the front if he is to take the title fight to reigning champion Sebastien Loeb.

American film director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie 'Never On Sunday' and six more of his films, has died in Athens at 96.

Heavy snow left 200 villages cut off across Greece today and forced airports to cancel dozens of flights.

THERE has been much talk lately about the qualities required to be a successful Irish manager but, from my current vantage point here in grey and freezing Cardiff, not nearly enough about the importance of the new man having a decisive say in ensuring that a qualifying campaign concludes, if at all possible, in a balmy climate.

A state-of-the art museum that Greeks hope will persuade Britain to return the Elgin Marbles will start the operation to transfer priceless artefacts from the Acropolis this weekend.

THE Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll.

The new seven wonders of the world have been chosen after 100 million people voted.

The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru’s Machu Picchu are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world, as a massive poll draws to a close.

FURIOUS Egypt says a contest to name the new seven wonders of the world in which the ancient Pyramids of Giza must now compete with sites like Stonehenge, is a “disgrace”.