The agency rated the state securities Caa1 and does not exclude further downgrading. Economists call for an immediate "soft" haircut of payments.

Eight months after their rescue operation that followed the 69-days stay almost 700 m under the ground the 33 Chilean miners and their families arrived in Greece at the invitation of the Greek mining company ELMIN.

"We did not believe that the crisis could affect the consumption of feta so much and the eating habits of people as a whole, given that white cheese is present at the table of every Greek," say producers.

The deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Greece Athanasios Katsirodis spoke in support of revealing the anonymity of bloggers when they upload threatening, blackmailing and insulting texts and images of children that make them victims of pornographic sites. His opinion supports the two previous statements on the same issue made by the former prosecutor of the Supreme Court Georgios Sanida and the present prosecutor Ioannis Tendes.

Over 1000 km from the Greek seashore is threatened by subsidence, and the average increase in winds in the region is expected to reach 10%. These are some of the conclusions in the report on the implications of climate change over the Greek and economy, commissioned by the Bank of Greece.

Dozens of bodies carried to be buried in Greece could be trapped in warehouses for the lack of personnel in the medical service at the airport in Athens.

The financial crisis has seriously damaged the international image of Greece. Media experts believe the only way the country could change this picture is to make the necessary reforms.