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Greece on verge of default as doubt grows over bailout
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is under fire amid rumours that creditors are about to pull the plug.
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Who owns the works of Zorba’s creator?
A row over the rights to the works of Greece’s most celebrated writer, Nikos Kazantzakis, is intensifying.
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Protests flare as Greece faces next hurdle
The banner flapped in the wind for almost a week, surviving the rigours of sun and sudden downpour.
Anger engulfs Athens
Protesters’ fury turns fatal as the Greek capital buckles under unrest.
Greek heritage crumbles
The economic crisis has accelerated the decline of the country’s incomparable archaelogical sites.
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Greeks wake up to their tsunami
From empty shops to half-full theatres, restaurants, concert halls and hotels, the signs are everywhere: economic crisis has come to Greece.
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Baklava for peace
A Greek café in the heart of Turkey signals a thaw in relations.
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Cyprus gets ready for a communist ‘takeover’
Fears of a Soviet-educated communist emerging as the next leader of Cyprus — and the first in the European Union — has eclipsed the closest election in the island’s post-colonial history as voters cast their ballots on Sunday. Demetris Christofias, chief of the Marxist-Leninist Akel, has angrily rejected the charges.
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After the inferno
The Greek poet George Seferis wrote: ”Wherever I go Greece wounds me.” But nothing would wound him more than the sight of his beloved country today after fires that have erupted across its length and breadth and consumed thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, devastated four million olive trees and gutted about 6Â 000 homes.
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A destiny they dare not refuse
Nuran Uca never made it to 61 Aydin Arslan Street. If she had gone to the colourful two-storey building, climbed its narrow stairwell, walked down a corridor and sat in the plump brown armchair that so many other women had used, she might be alive today.
