The 2015 state budget has been passed by parliament in a vote that concluded after midnight on Sunday.

The acclaimed author Menis Koumandareas who was found dead in his apartment in the early hours of Saturday morning was strangled to death according to the coroner’s report following an autopsy. His murderer did not use gloves.

The Athens neighborhood of Exarheia and surrounding areas have seen a night of street battles, petrol bombs and flames.

The British Museum has stated that it intends to loan more of the Parthenon sculptures to museums around the world.