S&P returns Greece's credit rating to investment gradeWashington,United StatesGREECERATINGDEBTINVESTMENTADDS COMMENT FROM GREEK PRIME MINISTERThe ratings agency S&P has returned Greece's credit rating to investment grade for the first time si...

While the Greek government has been quick to blame global warming for the summer's devastating wildfires, some experts argue that poor planning is at least as much to blame.The European Commission has said that the blaze in the Dadia national park, w...

As Greece was hit by wave after wave of wildfires this week, unfounded claims that asylum-seekers are behind some of them whipped up anti-migrant frenzy online.The speculation intensified after a group of 13 Pakistani and Syrian men were accused by l...

Greek firefighters on Wednesday struggled to contained uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.A fire ripped through the foothills of Mount Parnitha, the largest forest adjoin...

The fight against deadly wildfires raging in Greece for more than a week is improving, the fire service said on Friday, warning it remained on alert as fierce winds were forecast that could rekindle blazes.Hundreds of firefighters are battling flames...

Greece was Saturday facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures forecast to soar above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), while a record-breaking heat wave stretching across the southern United States was expected to expand in the coming...

A densely-populated concrete jungle lacking in green space, Athens has become one of Europe's hottest capitals and despite its vulnerability to extreme temperatures, has failed to make environmental innovations, experts warn.Residents and visitors ha...

In an out-of-sight flat in one of Athens' poorest districts, dozens of migrant women and young children left exposed by Greece's dwindling asylum support programmes queue for food donations.Deniz Yobo, a 33-year-old woman from Nigerhas picked up enou...

Greek rescuers on Friday scanned the Ionian Sea by air and boat for survivors of a migrant boat sinking, as hope faded of finding more people alive two days after the disaster.On Wednesday, a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank, k...

"Here it is women who command!"declared Rigopoula Pavlidis, as she sang the virtues of her remote village on the island of Karpathos, one of Greece's rare matriarchal societies.Sitting at a desk across the room painting religious icons, her husband G...

The fish market of Keratsini, west of Athens, is abuzz in the early morning, with trawlers disgorging crates of sardines and anchovies as trucks await nearby to be loaded.But on his family's fishing boat, Lefteris Arapakis sorts out a different sort...