Giorgos

A few minutes after the clock struck 12 noon on Tuesday, the crowd gathered at the recently renovated Serafeio complex in downtown Athens broke out in applause and cheers.

An Athens appeals court on Tuesday cleared 11 people in connection with the 2007 structured bond scandal while convicting two members of an Athens brokerage firm.

The court upheld the appeals of the 11 - chiefly pension fund managers and investment bankers - against suspended terms they were given four years ago for mediating in connection with the sale of the 280-million-euro bond.

Work to renovate the plenary chamber of Greece's Parliament was nearing completion on Monday. The revamp is a continuation of efforts to modernize the House, which began with the installation of an electronic voting system in 2014, and has included maintenance work to the building's metal roof. [Giorgos Kontarinis/Eurokinissi]

Selected museums and archaeological sites across the country will be open to the public free of charge for the August full moon on Sunday, with several also hosting cultural events not just on the night itself, but across the weekend.

"Thesmophoriazusae," considered one of Aristophanes' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, written at a time when democracy was replaced by oligarchy, will be staged at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on July 27 and 28.

The Anemi Festival returns to the southern Cycladic island of Folegandros for a three-day musical celebration from July 26 to 28, with events taking place in the main of town of Hora and the Karavostasi port.

"I'll put it simply: 'Perouze' is made for the Herod Atticus Theater. Shortish, in two acts of 45 minutes each, it is theatrical and has very interesting music with a variety of influences - Viennese operetta, Greek folk songs, the Doric harmonies of Byzantine music - and of course its cliches.

The Greek Parliament will decide on Friday whether or not to request the prosecution of 10 prominent politicians named in a bribery scandal involving the Swiss drugs manufacturer Novartis, in the final phase of a parliamentary inquiry into the case.

Hellenic Navy divers on Saturday located at a depth of 800 meters north of Skyros signals from the flight recorder of the Mirage 2000-5 which plunged into the sea in the central Aegean on Thursday, killing the pilot Captain Giorgos Baltadoros.

The Greek parliament announced on Friday it will support financially the family of 34-year-old Greek Air Force pilot Giorgos Baltadoros who died when his fighter jet plunged into the sea in the central Aegean on Thursday.