Voula, Greece News

Greek firefighters and residents battled side by side to contain a wildfire that raged for a second day Tuesday on the outskirts of Athens, burning through miles of forest and olive groves and threatening homes.

A traffic police officer, who ran over and injured a 23-year-old man in Thessaloniki early yesterday, did not have driving license, it later emerged.

Editor's note: The following is a column submission from Connie Beard, a member of the Greeley Chorale.

Inefficient town planning services, excessive bureaucracy and selective enforcement of existing laws have resulted in 2.5 million illegally built structures across the country and countless more buildings that have been illegally modified, according to research by Kathimerini.

St PatrickA's Day Quiz - Athens - Tonight The Greek-Irish Society is organizing a St PatrickA's Day special Irish quiz that will take place at the Blue Parrot in Voula at 9.30 p.m. today, with lots of prizes.

A businessman was seriously injured in a car bomb blast in Athens Friday. The man, whose identity was not immediately known, was rushed to hospital.

Sixty-five percent of the road accidents that took place in Athens occurred in the center of the city.

Just days after announcing details of an extension to the tramline that will take it to Piraeus, Transport Minister Costis Hatzidakis has revealed plans to extend the line also in the other direction in a bid ...

A 40-year-old businessman shot dead in the coastal suburb of Voula on Saturday in a gangland-style ambush is believed to have owed hundreds of thousands of euros to underworld figures, police sources have said.

4, 2008 at the Homestead Hospice house of Owatonna. Georgia was born on April 23, 1913 in Sparta, Greece; the daughter of Konstantine and Ageliki Giannakakos.