IT’S ‘maths week,’ the festival of numbers.

With 72 Royal Ascot winners already under his belt, Henry Cecil could be forgiven for taking his foot off the gas as the years roll on but the legendary trainer has one of his strongest ever teams this year.

Two astronauts made history today as the final spacewalkers of Nasa’s 30-year shuttle programme, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension boom.

IS it the kiss of death for one of the world’s best known tourist attractions?

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.

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

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.

A NEW campaign to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece was launched yesterday but was met with indifference by the British Government.

The “vast majority” of Britons support a Greek proposal to return marbles removed from the ancient Parthenon for display in Athens during the Olympics, the Greek government’s top games official said.

Tourists are wrecking the Titanic. An iceberg did it first time around. Now it’s holiday-makers with enough money to pay for an underwater visit.

Museums and archaeological sites across Greece, including the 2,500-year-old Parthenon, will be closed to visitors on Sunday after Culture Ministry employees today announced a 24-hour strike.

A MP has suggested that the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum should be returned to Athens when the city hosts the Olympic Games in 2004.