Significant delays in arrivals and departures were caused by a sudden slowdown called by air traffic controllers at Athens airport on Friday.

Trains overflowing with the city’s denizens and tourists. Buses clanking along as they shift from first to second gear or idling on streets bottle-necked by a crash up ahead, a protest rally, fans of a sports event, roadworks – there’s always something. Traffic jams stretching for kilometers are back. 

We watch the car thermometer drop 10 degrees from 30 Celsius as we leave the village of Anogeia in central Crete as we make the climb to the Skinakas Observatory on the summit of Mount Psiloritis (Ida).

Two incidents over the weekend highlighted the alarming rise in crime and delinquency among minors that has been noted in the past few years. In a shocking case in Alexandroupoli, northern Greece, two kindergarten children aged 5 are accused of sexually abusing a fellow pupil.

Regional airports in general experienced a 6% expansion.

European, Arab and Islamic nations have launched an initiative to strengthen support for a Palestinian state and its institutions, and prepare for a future after the war in Gaza and escalating conflict in Lebanon, Norway's foreign minister said Friday.

Reports emerged on the weekend regarding the arrest of the Greek-Ukrainian crime boss known as “Entik,” in Dubai.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited on Saturday to the "FIRST Global Challenge," the international competition of student robotics taking place in Greece for the first time, with national teams from 193 countries.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese. 

The wife of a 68-year-old man who was found dead with stab wounds in Corfu on Saturday has allegedly confessed to the killing, sources have said.

After nearly a week of early summer temperatures in most parts of the country, thermometers across Greece are expected to drop back down to fall-time levels starting on Sunday afternoon and until Monday, with forecasters predicting a decrease in the daytime highs by as much as 9 degrees Celsius.

Professor Konstantinos Fountas has been elected president of the CERN Council, the top decision-making authority of the Organization, composed by delegates of all its twenty-three member states, for a two-year period (2025-2027), it was announced Saturday.

Real tourism revenues, as reflected in the travel balance, have been underestimated, the National Bank argues in an analysis released after the recent publication of July data, where a yearly decrease of 5.4% was recorded, even though arrivals from abroad increased by 4.1%.

Tax collection authorities are going after vehicle owners who did not pay the 2019 road tax as they become statute-barred at the end of the year.

The aim is for consumers to switch to cleaner forms of energy.

Greece’s electoral rolls are posing a significant challenge, with outdated and inaccurate information creating a chaotic situation that points to the country’s worst administrative shortcomings.

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) is launching the country’s first broad, structured and reliable initiative for self-regulation and self-control in matters of environmental and social sustainability in the private sector.

Police on Corfu are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 68-year-old man, who was found dead in his bedroom by his wife.

A search and rescue operation is continuing on Crete for a 60-year-old German man who was reported missing on a hike on Friday.