Two Syrian seamen have died and eight others are missing after a cargo ship sank off southern Greece following a collision with another freighter, officials said today.

Promises of aid poured in from Greece and abroad as firefighters managed to douse most of the massive fires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week and killed 64 people.

All major blazes in Greece were under control today, and firefighters were working to extinguish smaller fires in the southern part of the country.

Winds relented throughout fire-ravaged Greece today, enabling thousands of firefighters to tame a rash of massive fires that killed at least 64 people and obliterated record swaths of field and forests in six days.