The Greek national football team have punched their tickets for the 2014 Mundial international face off in Brazil, after bringing in a 1-1 tie in a very hostile Bucharest.

Turkey is continuing provocations over the issue of the Agia Sophia cathedral through an announcement by its foreign ministry stating that "Turkey has nothing to learn from Greece, on the issue of religious freedoms."

Administrative staff at the University of Athens and the Athens Polytechnic have decided to continue their strikes until Friday, despite a judicial decision that their strike is illegal.

Former PASOK minister Theodros Pangalos has urged a mass airborne exodus from the country in the event that Alexis Tsipras is elected to power, arguing that a SYRIZA government would be disastrous for Greece and would involve the country "committing suicide again".