Police in northern Greece have rescued 54 migrants found squashed into a van.

Furious Ryanair customers are bombarding the firm with complaints and questions following the latest batch of flight cancellations.

A missing British hiker whose dismembered, fleshless remains were found in the hills of northern Greece was probably attacked by wolves while walking alone on a remote path, torn apart and devoured, a Greek coroner said.

Latest: Three people have been killed and 10 injured when an Intercity train derailed and crashed into a house, exiting on the other side, in northern Greece.

Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures have continued to sweep the European continent, causing more than a dozen deaths, grounding planes and crippling ferries in Italy and Turkey.

Greece's parliament has approved a bill reforming the debt-ridden country's pension and tax systems.

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears yesterday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day.

Greece will miss its revenue target from asset sales this year due to delays in a €1.2bn airport deal, the head of its privatisation agency said yesterday, in a setback to efforts to meet the terms of its new bailout.

Greece will move rapidly to privatise its ports, regional airports and its power grid operator under a memorandum of understanding agreed with its international lenders.

Greek firefighters battled large bush and forest fires on the outskirts of Athens and in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, where flames forced the evacuation of at least three villages and two summer camps.

IT may seem off-target to talk about the privatisation of the free-to-air broadcasting of the Olympic Games — still, despite everything, a magnificent international spectacle — at the very moment the great European project, and especially the unfortunate, vulnerable people of Greece, is facing its greatest challenge.

Anxious Greek pensioners swarmed closed bank branches in the hope of getting their pensions, while queues formed at ATMs as they gradually began dispensing cash again following the imposition of strict controls on capital.

GREECE: A Greek court has convicted a dead man of stealing electricity from a power company, giving him a six-month suspended jail sentence. 

It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece’s Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler’s genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.

Talks between Greece and its eurozone creditors broke down without agreement or even a plan of action on how to move forward on the country's debts and bail-out.

Finding common ground between the Syriza-led government and German-led austerity measures is needed if Greece — and the eurozone — is to survive, writes Ann Cahill.

A protest through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager quickly turned violent as marchers damaged shopfronts and bus stations and set fire to looted clothes.

A protest through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager quickly turned violent as marchers damaged shopfronts and bus stations and set fire to looted clothes.

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the streets of Athens to mark the sixth anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager.

USA: One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart and ended up in a southwestern Michigan jail cell-

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There is a reason flares are banned from all football grounds and this is why.

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Riot police have scuffled with striking school guards in central Athens as unions gear up for a series of public sector strikes over job cuts.

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Greece has been hit by an unprecedented wave of metal thefts as its recession-hit people turn to crime.

Protesters have broken into a conference centre and clashed with police in northern Greece after gathering to demonstrate against the presence of a German government official.

One man died at an anti-austerity rally in Athens held during a national general strike as EU leaders were to tackle the eurozone crisis at a summit in Brussels.

Hundreds of youths have pelted riot police with petrol bombs, bottles and chunks of marble as yet another Greek anti-austerity demonstration descended into violence.

Four Russian tourists died and 30 others were injured today when a bus taking them to the airport overturned, Greek police said.

Greek police officers, protesting over new austerity measures, have defied their own colleagues in the riot force and blocked the entrance to a station.

A pensioner has been hailed as a “martyr for Greece” following his suicide outside parliament.

It was last autumn, not long after he failed to make it through the 200m heats in the World Championships in Daegu, that Paul Hession, see picture below, realised something had to change.

It’s been billed as the sale of the century — the sales of state assets from Ireland, Greece and Portugal, the three countries being bailed out by the EU and IMF to raise up to €58 billion in total to pay off creditors.

THE stout woman behind the ticket booth at Istanbul’s sprawling Otagor bus station looks quizzical, “Thessaloniki?”.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp could face disciplinary action from UEFA after he appeared to aim a clenched-fist gesture towards Shamrock Rovers supporters during tonight’s 4-0 win at Tallaght Stadium.

Greece’s new government was hit by its first general strike today as thousands opposed to cuts marched through Athens.

TOTTENHAM will need to hammer Shamrock Rovers to make the second round of the Europa League after they were beaten by 10-man PAOK Salonika on a controversial night at White Hart Lane.

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Thousands of anti-austerity protesters in Greece’s second largest city have forced the cancellation of an annual military parade commemorating the nation’s entry into the Second World War.

Greece's prime minister voiced deep relief today at the new debt relief and bailout deal hammered out by European leaders, which he said has bought the country time to make a new start and will spare future generations of Greeks from a crippling burden.