Spyros Chrysikopoulos, the famous Greek ultra-long-distance swimmer, made history by swimming the sea distance that separates Greece from Italy. According to his social media post, he started on Sunday, August 31st from Othonoi, the westernmost point of Greek territory in the Diapontia Islands, and arrived in Santa Maria di Leuca, on the tip of the Italian Salento peninsula, on Tuesday, September 1st.

The 38-year-old German woman at the center of the Athens baby-in-suitcase case has not confessed to any wrongdoing and is in a fragile psychological state, her lawyer said, calling the discovery “an unprecedented crime in Greek judicial and police history.”

The new olive oil season is expected to bring solid production across the Mediterranean, but not a bumper crop, with supply forecast to be sufficient to meet demand and keep market prices under control.