Costas Simitis: modernised a heavily statist economy with labour reforms and part-privatisation, particularly in the banking sector - MARIA MAROGIANNI/EPA-EFE ...

A taste of the suffering to come had already been evident in 2005, when the European Commission put Greece under fiscal monitoring after the state had spent more than €9 billion on the Olympics ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80 ...

At least 383 people died at the sinking of Himara in 1947 off Evia island. Public Domain The sinking of the Greek passenger steamer Himara on January 19, 1947 near South Evia resulted in the loss of ...

The 1904 St. Louis Olympics medal, auctioned for $545,371, bears the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a wreath on the front. On the other side, Nike, the goddess of ...

Some Donald Trump allies have urged that the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics be moved to a conservative city, but the president-elect reportedly pledged to ensure the Games stay right where they are. In a ...

You’d have to go back more than a century to find another Olympics that was changed because of a natural disaster. Jeremy Fuchs, the author of a 2021 book about the history of the Olympics ...

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. It also hosted the Olympics in 1984 and 1932. Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images ...

Supporters say the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympics will boost morale and the economy. Critics worry that time and resources spent on sports over next three years will detract from rebuilding.

Several figures have called for the 2028 Olympics to be moved to a different city amid all the rebuilding Los Angeles is going to have to do after being ravaged by wildfires. California Governor ...

Los Angeles, which is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, is currently ravaged by devastating wildfires—with some of them surrounding venues for the Games. Newsweek has contacted the Los ...

Some of the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris ...