Crews in Greece working to contain deadly wildfires 02:57. Firefighters and milder winds have helped tame a spate of active wildfires surrounding Athens, but the risk for flare ups remains ...

Where just hours ago there were thick rows of trees, now stumps protrude and smoke still rises from scorched soil. On one road in Chalandri, a hilltop village that peers over Athens, a family ...

“There’s nothing for the people.” Street artist and tour guide Nikolas Tongas, known locally as “Rude” says that while the graffiti scene in Athens started in the late Eighties, the art ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athens in 594 BC: some see him as the father of Athenian democracy.