The travel balance for May registered an increase of 3.4% in surplus recording 897 million versus 868 million during the same month in 2013, according to provisional data from the Bank of Greece.

President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Tuesday received General Inspector for Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis, who reported a "marked improvement" in the public sector as he presented his report for 2013.

Police say a 59-year-old Greek man has died in an accident while climbing Mount Olympus, Greece's highest mountain.

An archeological sounding in a plot at the are known as Psomi, on Chios revealed part of an ancient necropolis of the 6th and 7th century bC.