Geography of Greece

Expressing its deep concern "about the destruction of its cultural heritage," the Municipality of Sifnos has become the first in the Cyclades island chain to ask the state to stop the construction of cave houses, ban private swimming pools and enforce stricter measures to protect it from dizzying tourist development.

In "The World as an Open Studio," Greek-Canadian Christos Dikeakos presents a retrospective spanning five decades of work. Born in Thessaloniki and raised in Canada, Dikeakos rose to some prominence in the Vancouver art scene as early as the 1970s and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Deputy Environment Minister Giorgos Amyras has instructed relevant local authorities to adopt urgent protection measures to tackle spring poaching against the turtle dove in the Ionian Islands.

A 47-year-old man crashed his car in the sea area of Akti Vassiliadis, near Gate E1 of the central port of Piraeus on Tuesday.

A team comprising environmental inspectors and financial police, accompanied by a public prosecutor and a strong law enforcement contingent, began audits on the popular tourist island of Mykonos on Monday amid a proliferation of complaints and reports of arbitrary and illegal construction activity. 

An aerial view of a train on the Athens-Thessaloniki route that resumed on Monday, 32 days after the train accident in Tempe in northern Greece. A stone-built chapel now stands on the site of the head-on collision. The moment when the inter-city passed the site of the fatal collision was a poignant one as the driver announced that he was 'passing the spot' where 57 people died.

Police in Thessaloniki are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a car near the northern port city's cemetery on Tuesday morning.

The woman, who has not been identified, appears to have sustained a head injury that does not seem to have been self-inflicted. According to reports, authorities are treating her death as the result of foul play.

Two ferries were tied up at the port of Kyllini, western Peloponnese, on Saturday, after one of them came into contact with the other while docking, local port authorities said. No injuries were reported. 

Police are investigating an alleged attack on a teacher at a vocational high school (EPAL) in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

The teacher reported that two young men, who may be out-of-school youths, broke into her classroom while she was teaching. When she asked them to leave, they kicked the door, causing her to sustain injuries to her abdomen.

An eight-year-old student was left with a partly amputated finger from an incident in the school washroom in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.