Man charged with taking Dali work from NYC gallery
A Greek man proved inept at the art of thievery by swiping a Salvador Dali painting from a New York City gallery as security cameras rolled and, in ...
Tyler Hamilton discloses doping payments to doctor
Cyclist Tyler Hamilton told a Spanish court Tuesday he paid tens of thousands of dollars a year for doping to the doctor at the heart of the Operation ...

French president visits Athens amid media blackout
French President Francois Hollande pledged investments in Greece's ailing economy during a brief visit on Tuesday, seen as a show of support for the ...

Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...

Greeks snatch urban metal to get through crisis
When Greece adopted the euro, it poured billions into modernizing its infrastructure, building spectacular bridges, highways, and a brand new rail ...

Greek ferries sail as strikers forced back to work
Ferries set sail for Greek islands for the first time in a week Wednesday after the government invoked emergency powers to force striking seamen back ...

Greece orders striking ferry crews back to work
For the second time in less than two weeks, the Greek government invoked rarely used emergency laws to order strikers back to work Tuesday — in a move ...

Greek court orders probe of alleged police beating
A Greek prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into allegations of police brutality in the arrest of four alleged bank robbers after authorities ...

Greece says it met deficit-cutting targets in 2012
The Greek government said Monday its painful austerity drive is paying off, with the budget deficit reduced to the target of 6.6 percent of annual ...
Extreme-right supporters stage big Athens march
More than 5,000 supporters of Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party have marched past the U.S. Embassy in Athens, chanting anti-Turkish, anti-U.S.
Patrick Fitzgerald takes on Socrates at mock trial
Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors. On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a ...

Greek doctors, public transport workers on strike
Greek doctors, port workers and public transport staff in the country's capital walked off the job Thursday in strikes against deeply unpopular ...

Protesters break into gov't building in Athens
Protesters forced their way into a government building in Greece's latest anti-austerity protests Wednesday, reaching just outside a minister's office ...
Last jailed member of Greek dictatorship is dead
Nikolaos Dertilis, the last jailed member of the military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967-74, has died. He was 94. Dertilis had been ...

Greece grapples with strikes despite mobilization
Striking bus drivers in Athens have defied a court order to return to their jobs, extending last week's protests by subway employees over ...

Greeks protest transport workers' pay cuts
Greek workers have marched to parliament to protest upcoming pay cuts for transport workers and the government emergency decree that forced subway ...

Greek subway staff end strike after police raid
Striking subway workers in Athens returned to the job Friday, hours after the Greek government used riot police to evacuate holdouts from a train ...

Greek gov't forcing end to Athens metro strike
Greece's government announced emergency powers Thursday to force striking subway workers back to work, with those defying it risking dismissal, arrest ...

In crisis, Greeks turn to wood-burning - and choke
Fireplaces were long a status symbol for Greece's up-and-coming middle class, like the second car and the flat-screen TV. Now, they are increasingly ...

Athens' striking subway workers defy court order
Striking subway workers in Athens defied a court order to return to their jobs and continued their protest for a sixth day on Tuesday, as ...

Bomb explodes at Athens shopping mall, 2 wounded
A bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Athens on Sunday, slightly wounding two security guards and forcing the evacuation of about 200 people.

March protests immigrant's slaying in Greece
Several thousand people marched through central Athens on Saturday to protest a spate of anti-immigrant attacks in Greece, including the fatal ...

IMF: Greece recovering, needs more EU cash
Greece has salvaged its economic recovery program following months of political uncertainty but still faces "enormous" challenges and will need new ...

Greek Parliament votes to investigate ex-minister
Greek lawmakers voted early Friday to investigate former finance minister George Papaconstantinou over his handling of data on Greeks with Swiss bank ...
Greek doctors, Athens metro workers on strike
Greek doctors and workers at the Athens metro system have walked off the job, striking to protest salary cuts that are part of harsh austerity ...