An incident that occurred on Friday morning at the Aigio Hospital had a tragic and rather shocking outcome.

The opposition PASOK party has suspended a local official and best man to party leader Nikos Androulakis, hours after his arrest in Crete as part of a crackdown on a €1.7 million agricultural subsidy fraud ring.

Greek authorities confirmed this week that 18 children in the country were born using sperm from a Danish donor carrying a high-risk cancer mutation, with at least one child already diagnosed with the disease.