Schools around Greece are beginning the new year on Friday with major staff shortages. Education Minister Froso Kiaou on Thursday assured that the caretaker government will be filling some of the gaps.

Maine litter impacts, to a larger or smaller degree, all areas of our Planet. Since 1985, the extent of this problem is brought to the forefront by the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) campaign, an initiative of the evironmental NGO Ocean Conservancy.

The procedures for the first evaluation of the new programme will start in October, a senior eurozone official said on Wednesday.