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Alex Symeonoglou, a 34-year-old living the U.K. who earns over $181,000 a year, shares how he saves and invests his money.

The pandemic ended some jobs and turned others remote, allowing people to make life-changing moves to places like Greece, Napa Valley and Costa Rica.

A growing number of people are booking two or even three trips over the same travel period in case Covid-related problems ruin their preferred plans.

Firefighters in Greece battled a large blaze in the Vilia area northwest of Athens as wildfires erupted across the country during its most severe heat wave in decades.

A Belarus warplane forced a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk and arrested a passenger, dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

Greece has celebrated its independence bicentennial with a military parade that included fighter jets flying over the ancient Acropolis and tanks rumbling past Parliament in central Athens

Greek authorities say a bust of the ancient god Hermes has been discovered in good condition in central Athens during sewage work.

Anyone moving to Greece in 2021 won’t have to pay income tax on half of their salary for seven years, the latest effort to make the country more attractive to foreign investors.

An American citizen suspected of being an Islamic State group member was deported to the U.S. on Friday after spending five days in no man’s land between Turkey and Greece, the Turkish interior minister said. Suleyman Soylu said the suspect — identified by local media as 39-year-old Muhammad Darwis B. — had been put on a plane to the U.S....

A strong earthquake centered northwest of Athens shook Greece on Friday, causing frightened residents to run into the capital’s streets and damaging several buildings. Authorities said no serious injuries were reported. The Athens Institute of Geodynamics gave the earthquake that struck at 2:13 p.m. local time (1113 GMT) a preliminary magnitude of 5.1. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude...

There’s no truth to the rumor that James Holzhauer is a cyborg created to be the perfect “Jeopardy!” contestant. But given how he’s made a level of excellence rarely seen on the television quiz show appear almost mundane, it sometimes seems that way. Holzhauer eclipsed the $1 million mark in winnings Tuesday on his 14th appearance. Not only has he...

A Greek man who narrowly missed the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed Sunday said he had argued with ground staff in Addis Ababa to try to get on the plane after reaching the gate minutes too late. “I saw the last passengers going through, but the gate had already closed. I complained, in the usual way when that kind of...

The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 on board.

Police identified Saturday the two students aboard a school bus in Athens when it was struck by a train Friday afternoon, killing one of them and injuring the other.

Massachusetts suspended football coach Mark Whipple for one game Sunday after he said one of his players had been “raped” while complaining about the officiating Saturday in a loss to Ohio.

Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe’s deadliest forest fire in more than a century. Before the national fire service updated the official number of fatalities, it stood at 86 as hundreds of...

The kitten lay on the ground so perfectly still that passing volunteer rescuers had initially written her off as just another of the many victims — human and animal — of this week’s ferocious wildfires near Athens. But then came a hint of life — the frail feline began crying out and slowly moving her tiny body, singed by heat...

Frantic relatives headed to the Athens morgue Thursday to seek the fate of loved ones still missing after Greece’s deadliest forest fire in decades, a blaze that Greek authorities said they increasingly suspect resulted from arson. Public Order Minister Nikos Toskas said satellite image analysis and ground inspections provided “serious indications” the fire that broke out in multiple places within...

Rescuers intensified a grim house-to-house search Wednesday for more casualties from a deadly forest fire outside Athens, as the country’s military said it was using footage from U.S. combat drones and surveillance aircraft to try to determine whether arsonists were behind the blaze and stop future attacks. Joint patrols of the Fire Service, army personnel, and volunteer rescuers discovered more...

Hundreds of people had to be evacuated to yachts and fishing boats to escape flames and smoke from rapidly moving wildfires that decimated homes and forests in Greece. Dozens were killed in the country’s worst wildfires in a decade.