Two men are believed to have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside an office of the far-right, Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party in Athens, Greek police have said.

Hundreds of rioters are fighting pitched battles with police in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki following the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in central Athens last night.

A British man has been charged with attempted murder on the island of Crete, after his girlfriend fell from a hotel balcony and was impaled by an iron railing spike, police said today.