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Evanthia Plakoura's life recently became a lot more complicated.
Private creditors are balking in talks about forgiving euro100 billion ($130 billion) in Greek debts, European officials warned Friday, just as negotiations heated up on the debt restructuring that aims to save Athens from bankruptcy.
It's the ultimate belt-tightening handbook: No Meat? Push an eggplant through the grinder instead. Chew your food long enough for your stomach to feel full. And don't forget to sweep crumbs off your table and into a jar.
Greece's lawmakers overwhelmingly approved next year's austerity budget early Wednesday, extending tough spending cuts that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its vast debts and tame a severe recession.
George Papandreou is used to getting his way.
Greece's embattled Socialist government was on the point of imploding Thursday as a revolt against Prime Minister George Papandreou's planned referendum on the country's hard-won international bailout package gathered pace.
Politicians hate yielding power. But in recession-hit Greece, more governing Socialists are choosing to do so rather than back Prime Minister George Papandreou's deeply hated austerity measures.
Hundreds of workers in mental health services staged a protest outside Greece's finance ministry Friday, warning that staff and budget cuts will leave them unable to cope with an emerging mental health crisis caused by the threat of Greece's financial collapse.
In a case that dragged on for nearly seven years, two Greek sprinters were acquitted by an appeals court Tuesday of faking a motorcycle crash after missing a doping test on the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Evangelos Venizelos, a long-time political rival of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, faces the biggest challenge of his political life as he tries to convince deputies in his own party as well as the markets that Greece can avoid a devastating debt default.
Greece appeared to step back from the prospect of a devastating debt default Friday after its prime minister quelled chaotic political infighting and Germany softened a contentious demand that the private sector participate in a European bailout.
Youths wearing ski masks hurled chunks of marble and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transport around financially struggling Greece.
More than 200 immigrants on hunger strike ended a five-day occupation of Athens University's Law School early Friday, following a tense standoff with police that underscored the country's ongoing illegal immigration crisis.
Greece's governing Socialists won a key budget vote in Parliament early Thursday, calling for deeper austerity measures in the crisis-hit country and promising to avoid default despite a soaring national debt.
Greece's governing Socialists have won mayoral races in Greece's two largest cities for the first time in 24 years, extending gains in local government elections.
Greece's prime minister vowed to press ahead with painful austerity measures to pull the debt-strapped country out of a severe financial crisis, dropping a threat to call snap elections after his party retained a slim lead in local government polls.
Some 2,500 protesting truck drivers, carrying Greek flags and shouting "shame" and "thieves," marched to parliament Tuesday, on the ninth day of demonstrations against planned labor market reforms.
A ship commissioned by a Libyan charity organization has left Greece headed for the Egyptian port of al-Arish, and not for Gaza, as originally planned, according to Greek authorities.
Japan coach Takeshi Okada is unhappy that tactics from closed practice sessions have been leaked and could benefit the team's Group E opponents.
It may be a must-have for every fan at the World Cup, but sports venues around the globe are trying to make sure the blare of vuvuzelas doesn't catch on beyond South Africa.
Greece refuses to be spooked by its 0-for-the-World Cup scoring streak.
When it comes to overspending, Greece gets the gold medal.
Greece's prime minister on Friday said his country will not raise the issue of World War II reparations payments from Germany during the financial crisis.
The EU's financial affairs chief pressed Greece hard Monday to make more painful, permanent budget cuts soon, as markets speculated that the bloc or heavyweights France and Germany are preparing a financial lifeline to get the country out of its debt crisis.
Greece is greeting European outrage over its dubious economic data with repentance, defensiveness and fear that no one will believe them again — even if they do clean up the statistics and accounting agencies slammed by an EU report for faking growth and deficit figures.
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