Clerics angered by a documentary video, showing angry men in robes destroying sculptures of the Parthenon during the VIII century A.D.

A warning for a “hot summer”, filled with protests was launched by the Syndicate of Private Workers following significant cuts in the working week hours and wages. In the meantime, unemployment for young women in Greece is up to 31,8 per cent, which is double the number compared to other EU member states. According to Eurostat, Bulgaria is the only country where the unemployment among the young is going down.

A USB stick, loaded with software capable of blowing up entire buildings, was found in the yard of the Trikala prison. According to the prison director Vassilis Dafos, the device is thought to be linked to a “dirty job” execution, planned by inmates.

According to a recent survey, ancient Greeks did in fact despise women. We shouldn’t also forget that being the wife of an Athenian citizen in the classical times wasn’t much of a benefit. Good women died in oblivion, while the only one that deserves a biographical writing, Cleopatra, will only be remembered by the preserved words of her enemies.

Due to the economic crisis consumers prefer to go to the beach in their old bathing suits - the fall in bathing suit sales this year is 20% and consumers prefer to buy cheaper products. The forecasts are that even though fashion dictates the new trends, thanks to the economic crisis the market will not undergo any development.

It’s been almost two years since the fires on Peloponnese and Euboea and now the citizens of those regions had to face the fire hell again. Due to the heat and the strong winds the following regions will be in danger: Attica region, Euboea island, Beotia region, Korinthos, Argolida, Lakonia – which are in Peloponnese, and the Cycladic islands Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Ikaria and Crete.

Swine flu is spreading quickly. The infected people in Greece exceeded 520. Cruise ship with 4500 passangers on board is traveling from Turkey to Pieria with three infected people on board.