Tatiana Bolari

Visitors packed the halls of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, as well as other sites and museums across the country on Friday, taking advantage of the offer of free admission on International Museum Day. International Museum Day was established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to promote the idea of museums as an important means of cultural exchange.

Members of the far-left, anti-bailout Popular Unity party, led by former SYRIZA minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, gathered outside a notary's office in central Athens on Wednesday to protest against foreclosures on the properties of overindebted Greeks.

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou visits the Greek Archaeological Fund's (TAP) workshop of casts, copies and replicas in Athens, on Wednesday. Koniordou and newly appointed TAP president Athena Hatzipetrou outlined the fund's main priorities for 2018.

Pedestrians cross the road in central Athens amid a downpour on Monday. Following several weeks of unseasonably mild weather, the temperature fell yesterday, with rainfall and storms spreading across the country. Meteorologists forecast strong storms in central and southern parts of the country, which were expected to reach the central Aegean and Dodecanese islands by the end of the day.

Flames from the fires northeast of Athens, which were contained Wednesday after burning out of control for four days. The blaze scorched dozens of homes and thousands of hectares of pine forest. [Tatiana Bolari/Eurokinissi]

Former US vice president Joe Biden reads Wednesday's issue of Kathimerini English Edition during the Concordia Europe Summit held in Athens. Biden told the summit that part of Greece's huge debt must be written off in order to resolve the country's financial crisis and spur a recovery.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seen at Maximos Mansion in Athens Tuesday with athletes who represented Greece at the 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, including pole vaulters Katerina Stefanidi and Constantinos Filippidis and triple-jumper Voula Papachristou.

One police officer was suspended on Friday for punching a sacked Finance Ministry cleaner on the head and another was being investigated for wearing non-issue toughened gloves normally worn by motorcycle riders.