Heat wave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives
Giving heat waves names and strength ratings, as is done with typhoons and hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said ...
Kids' performance led by Exile star at Olympic flame ceremony to draw on Japan's culture and myths
The March 19 ceremony to mark the handover of the Olympic flame in Athens will include a performance that draws on Japanese culture. A rehearsal for the performance was held Sunday at the Makuhari Messe convention center in the city of Chiba, where the media ...
Greek police arrest Lebanese suspect in 1985 hijacking of Trans World Airlines plane
Greek police have arrested a 65-year-old man suspected of an aircraft hijacking and kidnapping, crimes committed in 1985 and 1987, they said Saturday. Greek media said the man was thought to be involved in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight in ...
Acropolis Museum opens ancient Athens neighborhood site below its base
Greece's Acropolis Museum has opened an excavation site underneath its modern building, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighborhood that survived from the classical era to Byzantine times. The museum, which sits at the foot of the Acropolis hill ...
Wildfire kills at least 50 near Athens, families flee to beaches
A wildfire killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 as it swept through a small resort town near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled. The fire which hit Mati, 29 km (18 miles) east of the capital, ...
Arson suspected as over 90 wildfires rage in Greece, gutting homes, spurring evacuations
Firefighters battled more than 90 forest fires across Greece on Monday, an outbreak fed by dry winds and hot weather that saw blazes burning near Athens, in the Peloponnese, and on the Ionian islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia. The fire near Athens was burning unchecked ...
Greek police rounded up some 2,300 migrants who had been stranded for three weeks at the border with Macedonia and transported them to Athens on Wednesday, dashing their hopes of seeking asylum in Northern Europe. Scuffles broke out but not on the scale of recent ...
