Greek authorities are investigating a case in which a family allegedly hid an elderly woman's death for years so they could keep collecting her pension, after her body was found wrapped in plastic in the basement of the family's home in Marathon, northeast of Athens.

In the southern tip of Calabria, where the Aspromonte mountains descend towards the Ionian Sea, there are still villages where Greek memory can be heard like a whisper, in songs, place names, family stories and words passed down through generations. Chora tou Voua, the old name for what is now Bova, along with Bova Marina, Gallicianò and Roghudi, the small settlements of the so-called Area Grecanica, carry a history that begins with Magna Graecia and reaches into today’s efforts to save a language that refuses to fade.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out a “roadmap” to 2031 for the future of the market and of businesses as he inaugurated the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair yesterday.