Greek pupils seek Elgin Marbles
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Greek schoolchildren form a human chain around the Acropolis to demand the UK return the Elgin Marbles.
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Discovery Kids pins some hopes on a chip off the crocodile hunter.
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If you have ever wandered around a dusty Greek archaeological site in midsummer, clueless about what you are seeing or where you are going, help is finally at hand. Greece's Culture Ministry on Thursday unveiled a hand-held gadget for visitors that offers high-resolution video, detailed diagrams of sites such as ancient temples, position indicators, and imagery along with stereo sound.
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece  -- Massive fires consuming large areas of southern Greece for a third day raced toward the site of the ancient Olympics on Sunday, engulfing villages and forests as the flames reached one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou are set to find out if they will face criminal charges.
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Pupils will have to master their times tables by the age of eight, the government says.
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From Athens to Washington, museums jostle one another for a place in the sun.
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Emergency services try to rescue two teenagers trapped in a north Wales slate quarry.
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By Moira Sharkey  South Wales Echo  Pupils are all smiles now their classroom has been given a splash of colour.
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ATHENS (Der Spiegel) - According to recent reports resulting from October fact-finding missions conducted by the German Working Group on Refugees, Pro Asyl, and the Greek Group, Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers on the Aegean coast.  Refugee organisations are demanding a response at the European level. ...refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food... It is hardly a secret that Greece has shown reluctance recently to accept refugees and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, the Mediterranean country was lampooned for the fact that it turned down almost all of the asylum applications it received from Iraqis fleeing violence back home.  But now it looks as though Greece may be in blatant violation of human rights norms. Reports released this month by Greek and German refugee organisations suggest that the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea has been systematically maltreating and obstructing asylum seekers arriving on their shores. Fact-finding missions conducted in summer and October of 2007 by Pro Asyl and Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants found that refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food.  The investigative missions visited three detention centers on Greek islands and found the conditions to be "degrading and inhuman." In one case, on the island of Chios, there were reports of electric shock treatments, mock executions and beatings. In an independent report, the Greek branch of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the detention center on Samos, an island less than two kilometers from the Turkish coast, as being "deplorable" and demanded that the government close it down. Fully 391 people were found living in a room designed for 120. The staff consisted of one doctor, one social worker and a caretaker. Read more...
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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LOCAL SHOPS TAKE PART IN TV APPEAL ISLE of Man residents are being urged to dig out old clothes for Blue Peter and the British Red Cross.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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For children in the village on Russia&#39;s southern fringe,  after-school games means balancing on a wire suspended one  storey above the ground.
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By Tony Pierro  tonyp@cnpapers.com 348-3022  Last week, seventh-grade students at Stonewall Jackson Middle School were getting excited about science.   Specifically, they were expressing their excitement at the results of the school's science fair.
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Greek forest fires that have killed 47 people in the past three days are approaching the archaeological site of ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games, the fire department said on Sunday.
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Police appealed to the public Friday for help in tracking down stolen jewels once owned by Marie-Antoinette.