Estimated losses of 5 million euros for social security fund IKA and 7.8 millionwere caused by the activities of a ring that set up dummy companies that faked insurance payments for employees.

The Greek Service of the Voice of America (VOA, the the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government) has announced that it will soon end its broadcasts, after 72 years of operation.

Two Greek men who had recently travelled to Nigeria were tested in Athens hospitals for signs of the Ebola strain, but were found suffering from malaria instead.

Artemis Mattheopoulos was released by decree of the Board of Appeals under a bail of € 50,000 and a ban on leaving the country.