Two teachers, a 50 year old man and a 27 year old woman, are missing, on Rhodes, since this afternoon when their car was swept away by a flash flood as they tried to cross a bridge over a stream bed. One more passenger managed to get out and was rescued.

For six months a group of criminals had been dumping dangerous waste in a vacant lot in the Votanikos district of Athens.

Lamia was struck by an earthquake a little after five this afternoon.

Greek psychiatric hospitals are in an uproar over the decision by health minister Adonis Georgiadis to include staff in the mobility measures that will spell layoffs for some.