For six months a group of criminals had been dumping dangerous waste in a vacant lot in the Votanikos district of Athens.

Lamia was struck by an earthquake a little after five this afternoon.

Greek psychiatric hospitals are in an uproar over the decision by health minister Adonis Georgiadis to include staff in the mobility measures that will spell layoffs for some.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble considers the cutback policies enforced in Greece, correct, as he stated on German public radio, adding that any relaxation in austerity would be a mistake.