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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has unveiled a five-year plan involving more than 300 members of its teaching and research staff to lend their know-how to help protect the monuments and cultural heritage of Epirus, northwestern Greece.

The company responsible for Greece?s railways and trains, OSE, was on Monday investigating the circumstances that led to the electrocution death of a 15-year-old at a train power depot in Kilkis, northern Greece, on Sunday.

The boy was reportedly playing with a friend around the disused tracks and had climbed into a decommissioned train engine.

The announcement concerning the cause of death of 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis, the missing Ioannina Dairy School student from Crete, will be made on Monday. Coroner Theodoros Vougiouklakis said that findings are to be confirmed in lab tests at around noon.

A 37-year-old ethnic Greek from the former Soviet Union who had absconded while on a furlough from Felli Prison in Grevena, northwestern Greece, last November was caught by police on Thursday in Menemeni, a suburb of Thessaloniki.

The fugitive is serving time for several burglaries in central Thessaloniki and Menemeni.

Regional education authorities in Imathia, northern Greece, have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 17-year-old local girl who fell from a second-floor balcony in Rome earlier this month during a school trip to the Italian capital.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Greece to pay a total of 82,600 euros in compensation to 5 applicants who filed complaints with regard to the conditions of their detention in Korydallos, Larissa and Diavata prisons.

A 17-year-old Greek high school senior from the northern Greece city of Alexandreia, Imathia prefecture, died on Thursday night in Rome, just over a week after falling from the second floor hotel balcony in the city. The teenager was on a school class trip to the Italian capital.

During an event that was organized by Google to announce the expansion of its innovative "Grow Greek Tourism Online" program, the powerful company released interesting data with regard to the way travelers worldwide research their trips.

According to the data presented by Google, most travelers that search Greek destinations online come from UK, Germany and USA.

A state of emergency was declared on Tuesday morning in the region of Serres in northern Greece, after several days of heavy rain destroyed crops and took out parts of the road network.

Lead archaeologist at the Amphipolis dig, Katerina Peristeri, gave an interview with Greece's weekly Real News on Sunday stating that the mystery of the 2,300 year-old tomb at Amphipolis, northern Greece, will be solved through the study of the historical journey through the burial complex.