Unknown persons, who were in a car, opened fire on a DIAS patrol in the Athens suburb of Paleo Faliro. The policemen wanted to check the documents of the car and of its driver when the passengers responded with a bullet. It is not yet clear if there are any injuries.

Black remains a fashionable colour for this year's Christmas evenings as well as the Brussels lace with a shiny thread, and the red and dark blue colours as advised by Bulgarian designer Fanny Papadopoulou in an interview with Polina Spartyanova.

Their use in enclosed spaces is dangerous because of the carbon monoxide they emit, but they also lead to air pollution in large urban centres

As if frozen in time, in a pristine landscape of outstanding beauty, located on the northeastern border of Greece, Prespa Lakes and the small villages around them are one of the most beautiful destinations

Parliament approved the budget for 2014; officially, representatives of creditors will return in January; Paul Thompson may visit Athens next week

The victims are a 43-year-old Greek police officer and two Albanian poachers

The office combating economic crimes is investigating people involved in match-fixing, and officials of the Ministry of Defence because of huge undeclared amounts