3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (377+ words) Prominent Greek criminal defense attorney Stavros Georgiou was found dead Tuesday night inside his law office in central Athens, prompting a major homicide investigation after police discovered what officials described as suspicious circumstances at the scene. Georgiou’s daughters reportedly went…...

16+ hour, 15+ min ago   (626+ words) A recent scientific study has identified the Greek name Sofia (or Sophia) as the most beautiful name in the world. According to research conducted by Dr. Bodo Winter, a cognitive linguist at the University of Birmingham, the name Sofia stood…...

23+ hour, 27+ min ago   (542+ words) For decades, Greece has pressed for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, arguing that the sculptures belong alongside the remaining masterpieces displayed at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Now, with Andy Burnham becoming Britain’s prime minister after years of publicly…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (535+ words) Ancient fish traps found in Norway’s mountains show that Stone Age hunter-gatherers reshaped remote landscapes thousands of years before farming reached the region. Researchers say the communities introduced brown trout into lakes that had no natural fish populations. They then…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (688+ words) Greece’s real estate market attracted €12.4 billion ($14.15 billion) in foreign investment between 2019 and 2025 according to data from the Bank of Greece. The figure represents a substantial increase compared with the amounts recorded in earlier years. From 2002, when the Bank of Greece…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (376+ words) Lionel Messi was overcome with emotion after Argentina’s 1-0 extra-time defeat to Spain in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, with the Argentine captain breaking down in tears as he collected his runners-up medal in what is widely expected to be his…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (388+ words) Europe is not a continent commonly associated with deserts. When we think of vast stretches of sand, our minds usually travel to places like the Sahara or the Arabian Peninsula. Yet in the northern Aegean, the Greek island of Lemnos…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (422+ words) Greece celebrated a remarkable weekend at the European Athletics U18 Championships in Rieti, Italy, as two teenage athletes delivered medal-winning performances that underscored the country’s bright future in track and field. Eleni Iakovaki claimed the European title in the girls’ 400 meters…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (525+ words) In 1826, British Regent Charles James Napier settled around three hundred farmers from Malta on the Greek island of Kefalonia (also spelled Cephalonia) in an ambitious bid to transform agriculture, but the project ended in disaster. According to a 200-year anniversary…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (575+ words) Greece has emerged as one of the main opponents of a proposed European Union ban on the transportation of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to third countries, arguing that the measure would disproportionately damage Greek shipping interests and strand billions…...