This may not be the warmest May on record, but the first large fire of the season already broke out at Daskalio Keratea, in Attica, catching authorities completely off guard.

Abducted Greek businessman Manolis Karamolegos managed to escape, after persuading one his kidnappers to let him go and surrender to the police. Karamolegos, who was abducted late on Tuesday, turned up at a police station on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by one of his abductors.