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Athens airport delays spiral into hour-long waits as travellers face growing chaos

Eurocontrol figures show Greece among Europe's worst for flight delays, up 63% on last year, as air traffic control recently handled a record 5,082 flights on 18 July and swore in 45 new controllers

World Cup and social media: football players reach new heights in popularity

Erling Haaland's playful, offbeat Instagram posts won over American audiences unfamiliar with his European stardom, driving an 80% surge in followers and cementing him as the World Cup's most talked about true breakout personality online

Heatwave: Outdoor work banned from 13:00 to 17:00 on Wednesday in Attica and three regions

Exemptions apply to activities linked to critical social infrastructure in the health, transport and public utility sectors

Wreckage of Pan Am plane lost in 1952 Puerto Rico crash located on Atlantic seabed after 74 years

An autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with sonar and high-resolution cameras spent days scanning the seabed off San Juan before spotting the Douglas DC-4's remarkably preserved fuselage, its aluminium gleaming some 600 metres below the surface

Trump: US will respond immediately if Houthis threaten Red Sea shipping

US President Donald Trump has pledged that Washington will act without delay if Iran-backed Houthi rebels attempt to disrupt commercial shipping through the Red Sea, though he stressed no such incident has yet occurred

Emergency heatwave warning as thermometer set to hit 43C in three regions

The National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued an orange warning for extreme heat set to grip parts of Greece tomorrow, Wednesday 22 July, with temperatures forecast to climb as high as 43 degrees Celsius in some areas

Eurostat: Greece leads Europe in public debt reduction

It fell by 9.4 percentage points in one year and by nearly 70 percentage points compared with the record level reached during the pandemic, with Greece achieving the highest rate of debt reduction in the EU and the OECD

Former minister Ann Widdecombe killed in hammer attack, court told

Joshua Kerry, accused of murdering former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe, struck her 21 times on the head with a hammer, prosecutors told Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, as an inquest opened separately into her death

Houthis open a second war front: Threat of a Saudi Arabia blockade brings new risk to oil

Yemen's Houthi movement has declared a naval blockade of Saudi ports, warning tankers to stay away as Riyadh weighs how to respond to a group it fought to a costly stalemate over nearly a decade

Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority: 45 new air traffic controllers sworn in

At the same time, one Airport Flight Information Officer (TE category) was sworn in and will take up duties at Kastellorizo Airport, along with four drivers to strengthen the airports of Chios, Naxos, Kythira and Sitia

France records worst wildfire season in 20 years by mid-July

More than 42,000 hectares have burned across France since January, already surpassing the total for all of 2025, as satellite monitoring shows fires this month tearing through Fontainebleau, the Var, the Drôme and Corsica alike

Greek EU presidency is a national goal that transcends parties and political divisions, says Tasos Hatzivasileiou

The Deputy Foreign Minister stressed that it is a significant milestone not only for the European Union but also for Greece

Kimolos: A Small, Essential Guide to a Cycladic Paradise

On one of the Aegean's quietest islands, days unfold around volcanic coves, pale coastlines and swimming, not sightseeing