In Greece, an Inside Track for Some
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Costas&#39; nerves are on edge. It&#39;s 10:45 am, and he can&#39;t get his usual frappe, a coffee-and-milk concoction that&#39;s one of Greece&#39;s most popular picker-uppers. Twenty-five-year-old Costas is working at the cafe in the Olympic Village international zone for ...
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Greece's buoyant growth has driven unemployment lower but not enough for many Greek voters rushed to polls on September 16 to decide whether their centre-right government deserves a fresh mandate for reforms.
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HERAKLIO, Greece -- It&#39;s almost as though their careers are intertwined, one just beginning, the other only a gold-medal match away from retirement.
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Greek authorities dealt with more than 700 security scares during the Athens Games, including a bomb hoax before the opening ceremony and a propane leak at a luxury hotel that was hosting hundreds of representatives from major Olympic sponsors.
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Athens - The Athens Olympics have turned from party to tragedy for hosts Greece after doping scandals involving three of their top athletes.
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The Greek Parliament received a report Tuesday which examined state funding for a business owned by Christos Tsekos, the former coach of Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, who are themselves under investigation for avoiding drug tests
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The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greece's political landscape: The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism yesterday, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeks' fears about who might be ...
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Greek organizations looking for a better way to collect dues and raise money have a new source.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - The battle against raging forest fires that have killed 63 Greeks and made thousands homeless entered its fifth day as opposition parties accused the government of incompetence in handling the crisis.
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A member of the Chinese Olympic Committee came to Athens last May. He visited our Olympic sites, which were still under construction, and met members of the Greek Olympic Committee.
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ATHENS, Greece - There were Patriot missiles, citywide surveillance cameras, a chemical-sniffing blimp and a $1.5 billion price tag.
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By MIRON VAROUHAKIS      ATHENS, Greece  -- If you're planning on attending this month's Olympic Games, you'd best be careful what you say and do in public.    Software will be watching and listening...
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ATHENS - Greece woke up to the Olympics last night, the spirit as it swayed to the music of Zorba&#39;s Dance in the Olympic Stadium so infectious, so tantalizing that the finalists in the 100 meters joined in, acting more like dancers than runners minutes
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The heady days of the Athens Games are over. Colorful banners have been pulled down and stadiums built in a rush of last-minute construction lay empty. Now Greeks are bracing for the Olympic-sized bill.
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No major choreographer has yet emerged from Greece, but thereâs a reasonably active contemporary dance scene here.
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OLYMPIA, Greece  The competition was history. The time had come for everyone to leave, to follow the sun toward that narrow path lined with olive trees out of the stadium, a trek that would take athletes and spectators alike not to a ...
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ATHENS, Greece -- It was just after 8 am Wednesday, and across the street from the downtown Hilton, hundreds of media waited for the ultimate Greek tragedy to reach its sad conclusion.