Konstantinos Kenteris: Glorious past, uncertain future
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MITILINI, Greece Inside the pint-size community theater here, on a street hugging the Aegean Sea, the party was to begin at sundown.
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Former Newcastle midfielder Georgios Georgiadis believes Olympiakos are on the verge of achieving something special. The Greeks face Liverpool at Anfield tonight needing only a draw to progress to the next stage of the Champions League.
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The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greece's political landscape: The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism yesterday, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeks' fears about who might be ...
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Thomas Brown heard the doubters long before he arrived in Athens. In fact, some of the cynics were in his hometown.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece as seen through the eyes of Hyperides, an important fourth-century Athenian orator and politician.
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In the international party atmosphere of the Olympic Games, the Greek gay scene is finally coming out of the closet. After decades in the shadows of a macho society, the
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In contrast to their meteoric rise, the former Olympic 200 metres champion, Kostandinos Kenteris, and the 100m silver medallist, Ekatherini Thanou, are fading slowly before being sucked into the black hole of sporting oblivion.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents an Abbas Kiarostami retrospective that covers more than three decades of the artistâs films and photographs.
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IN A week in which one of their former players rechristened himself G8 to distance himself from the past, Middlesbroughâs attempts to rewrite history took another step forward in Athens.
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ATHENS: Among the many honours showered on Olympic champion Kostas Kenteris were lucrative sponsorship deals and streets named after him, as well as a high-speed ferry carrying his name.
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Thursday was the night every Greek had marked down in their diary weeks and months ago. It was the night Kostas Kenteris was supposed to successfully defend his 200m crown in front of his adoring public.
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Return with me to yesteryear when the St. Johns River was used as a transportation corridor.  That could be the future as well as the past.
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An insight into the great events in Ukraine over the last five weeks may be gleaned from an incident in the long life of Francois Marie Arouet, known to history as the philosopher Voltaire.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The Greeks arrived with their flags of deep blue and white, their strongest voices and their highest hopes Tuesday night at the Helliniko Indoor Arena.
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The man behind the Athens Olympics' opening ceremony is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.
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MOSCOW -- Maxim Kantor is a big man who thinks big thoughts. For almost 30 years, his apocalyptic paintings, grim despite their primary colors, have depicted Russia as a yawning void, devouring its citizens. Discovered as an underground artist during the period of openness in the 1980s known as glasnost, Kantor experienced quick and heady success in Western Europe....
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FORMER Newcastle midfielder Georgios Georgiadis believes Olympiakos are on the verge of achieving something special. The Greeks face Liverpool at Anfield tonight needing only a draw to progress to the next stage of the Champions League.