Marathon Mayor Ilias Psinakis has suggested his municipality was close to bankruptcy, but Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos says municipalities can’t go bankrupt.

Entrepreneurs close to the government were gathering money to bribe MPs into backing the coalition’s candidate for crucial presidential elections early next year.

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos expresses his sympathy to the victims.

This week the stock market fall 6.25 per cent and the yield on 10-year bonds rise to as high as 7.85 per cent.

40 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms in Greece over the last month.

Any suspicious cases will be reported to the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The mosaic is not fully intact, but does show the god Hermes depicted as the conductor of souls to the afterlife.

After a recent Turkish encroachment of the island’s exclusive economic zone, Cyprus is considering an appeal to the UN Security Council.

Medical staff will not have to work longer hours in a new scheme that will see doctors hired at the same rate of departures.

The deal will allow for joint search-and-rescue operations between the two Mediterranean allies.