Police detained three women members of the Association of African Women, Loretta McCauley, Aua Sanko and Monica Askenton, although they were carrying the necessary documentation.

The reconstruction of Panepistimiou Street is expected to begin within 2015 and work is expected to last two years, according to the Secretary of Public Works, Stratos Simopoulos.

Aegina, the first capital of the modern state of Greece, the island of the pistachio, is hosting the sixth annual “Fistiki Festival”.

A monk was killed and two fire fighters injured when the vehicles they were on fell in a ravine 70 meters deep, near the chapel of the Hilandarion monastery on Mount Athos.