Greece still faces risks. Its mountain of debt has shrunk, but at 166 percent of the economy, it’s among the world’s highest. The country’s banks still hold a pile of nonperforming loans ...

We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary.All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts.

Oligarchy, a term originating in ancient Greece that means “rule by the few,” has been used in modern times to describe instances in which a few wealthy and often corrupt individuals hold ...

Two other people were killed in this week’s fires, bringing the death toll in Greece to at least 20. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

The Greece players were unaware of those deeply moving words until later in the evening, when they returned to the away dressing room at Wembley with tears in their eyes and Baldock’s No 2 shirt ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late 1940s. Latest U.S.

The Greek parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, in a landmark victory for human rights in Greece and making it the first majority Orthodox Christian country to ...

Clashes also broke out in Greece's second city, Thessaloniki, where a giant crowd choked the centre and people released black balloons into the sky in memory of the dead.