The crisis has cut family incomes by up to 40%, yet despite cutting budgets in other sectors, Greek families have only marginally curtailed the huge amounts spent on parallel education.

A research by the Natural Gas Supply Company shows that until now, fewer Athenians living in apartment buildings have bought heating gas this winter, compared to the previous one. About half of them (44%) have not yet filled their fuel tanks with heating oil. Last year the figure was at 33%.

The Greek men's national football team ranks 12th, according to the recent World Ranking published by the International Federation of Assoociation Football ( FIFA ).

The suicide of a 49 year old man has shocked his colleagues that say that two days before his death he was pressured into signing his resignation from the Praktiker supermarket chain where he had been working for the last twelve years.