The appeals council has decided to extending the pre-trial detention of members of the Golden Dawn, Christos Pappas and Yannis Lagos for another six months.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced a few days ago that a 1,500 year-old Byzantine monastery with large floor mosaics has been discovered near a Bedouin village by the name of Hura, in the Negev Desert, near Horbat Hur, a Byzantine settlement.

The son of former cabinet secretary general Panos Baltakos, coast guard frogman, Dimitris Baltakos, turned himself in, at Coast Guard headquarters, Friday morning.

The board of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, during its latest meeting, decided to establish a branch in Nicosia, in a building offered by the government of Cyprus. The board also decided to place Eleni Varopoulou as director of the HFC's branch in Berlin, replacing Eleftherios Oikonomou.