Nea Smyrni

A fully equipped hydroponic lab where cannabis plants were being cultivated was found in an apartment in Kallithea, southern Athens, on Thursday by authorities who also arrested two foreign nationals.

The illegal lab was discovered during police raids of apartments in Kallithea, Nea Smyrni and Glyfada.

A 38-year-old Greek man was being questioned on Friday following his arrest for killing his 64-year-old mother at her home in the Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni earlier this week.

Neighbors alerted the police on Thursday after becoming suspicious that there were no signs of life from the apartment.

Panionios is on the verge of going down to the A2 division after losing at home to PAOK in the penultimate round of the Basket League regular season on Wednesday.

A 22-year-old woman who has confessed to throwing her infant child down a light shaft in the building where she lives has been given until Friday to prepare her defense by an investigative magistrate who visited her at Alexandra Hospital in Athens, where she is receiving treatment for shock.

A coroner's examination of a dead baby found at the bottom of a light shaft in an apartment block in the Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni on Saturday indicated that the infant was born healthy and died around 12 hours before its body was discovered.

Olympiakos beat AEK for the first time this year, after two losses in league and cup, but the most meaningful victory in the Basket League over the weekend was the triumph of Panionios over Lavrio that saw the Nea Smyrni club climb out of the relegation zone.

The Independent Authority of Public Revenues is planning to reduce the number of tax offices operating in Attica, Thessaloniki and Patra with a series of mergers.

The total number of tax offices around the country will be trimmed down from 115 to 97, while the 289 surplus employees arising from the scheme will be absorbed into the agency's auditing service.

Extensive damage was reported in the early hours of Christmas Day at several supermarkets of the "Market In" chain in Attica following attacks by a self-styled anarchist group.

Seven stores of the company, at Ilioupoli, Patissia, Nea Smyrni, Aghios Dimitrios, Zografou, Petralona and Gyzi, suffered damage from rocks, iron bars etc. between 1.30 and 2 a.m. on Monday morning.

Extensive damage was reported in the early hours of Christmas Day at several supermarkets of the "Market In" chain in Attica following attacks by a self-styled anarchist group.

Seven stores of the company, at Ilioupoli, Patissia, Nea Smyrni, Aghios Dimitrios, Zografou, Petralona and Gyzi, suffered damage from rocks, iron bars etc. between 1.30 and 2 a.m. on Monday morning.

Giorgos Xylouris, known on his native Crete by the nickname Psarogiorgis as a sign of respect for the work he has done with the island's traditional music, will be performing at the Gialino Music Theater on Saturday, December 9, and Sunday, December 10, with both shows starting at 10.30 p.m.