The death toll in the Greek ferry fire has risen to eight and rescuers are checking to see if anyone else might still be missing.

The evacuation of the Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania has been completed, officials say, and only the vessel’s captain and four Italian sailors remain on board to assist in the operation.

Hundreds of passengers and crew braved cold temperatures and gale-force winds as they waited for nearly a day to be evacuated from a burning ferry adrift in rough seas between Italy and Albania.

Rescue crews battled gale-force winds and massive waves as they struggled to rescue hundreds of people trapped on a burning ferry adrift between Italy and Albania.

A ferry carrying about 470 people caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu, trapping passengers on the top decks as gale-force winds and choppy seas hampered the evacuation.

A fire broke out on the car deck of a ferry carrying 466 people from Greece to Italy, forcing authorities to order an evacuation.

Clashes have broken out between police and protesters near the site of the fatal stabbing of a left-wing activist blamed on an extremist right-wing party.

Authorities have issued evacuation orders for villages in south-western Greece where wildfires, aided by strong winds and soaring temperatures, have ravaged large areas.

Masked youths hurled firebombs and chunks of marble at Greek police during a march in Athens to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots.

Greek police have cleared an immigrant camp in the western port city of Patras where hundreds of mostly Afghans had been staying in squalid conditions hoping to sneak on to Italy-bound ferries.

Riot police clashed with demonstrators outside parliament today as a general strike paralysed Greece, shutting down schools, hospitals and international flights and raising pressure on a fragile government reeling from four days of riots.

Seismologists warned today that a strong aftershock was expected in south-western Greece after yesterday’s powerful earthquake, which killed two people and injured nearly 150.

AN earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck southern Greece yesterday, killing at least two villagers, injuring another 37 and damaging homes and a military base, authorities said.

At least two people died and 90 others were injured when a strong earthquake struck southwestern Greece today.

Three people were killed overnight in wildfires that ravaged southern Greece and destroyed dozens of homes.

The British family at the centre of a suspected poisoning tragedy complained of feeling woozy the morning before the two children died, it has been reported.

Two moderate earthquakes shook parts of eastern Greece today but there were no reports of injury of damage, authorities said.