The Greek Government has agreed to the sale of Olympic Airlines to the Marfin Investment Group.

The appointment of Tom Koutsantonis as a Minister is the first time South Australia has had a State Minister of Greek background.

Marked arsonists attacked a train in Kifissia in which carriages were destroyed but no one was injured.

A 10-centimetre piece of track was removed from the railway line north of the city of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese in a failed extortion attempt.

The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, continued their UN-led direct negotiations

Greek tourist buses were vandalised and

Afghani migrants and police clashed in Patras.

The Greek Economic Sentiment index slumped this month.

Greek Foreign Minister, Dora Bakoyiannis, visited Egypt where she spoke about Gaza.

The European Court of Human Rights finds Turkey guilty of violating the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation whose lands it had seized.