• Buses in the Greek capital offered partial services, while suburban and overland train services also were disrupted.

    WSJ: General Strike Hits Greece

  • In the other group game, AEK Athens bounced back from their thrashing at the hands of Everton as they edged out Benfica in the Greek capital.

    CNN: Werder Bremen go clear in Europa Cup group

  • ATHENS Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Greek capital as the country's two biggest unions staged a 24-hour general strike to protest record unemployment and continuing austerity measures the government has promised its international creditors.

    WSJ: General Strike Hits Greece

  • Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.

    ECONOMIST: A Phoenician statue for my coffee-table

  • So it would be absurd to expect their taxpayers to put extra capital into Greek and Portuguese banks: they will need money from the European Financial Stability Facility, the eurozone's main rescue fund, to recapitalise their banks.

    BBC: Southern European banks need most capital

  • Ben Heller, a portfolio manager at New York hedge fund Hutchin Hill Capital, which owns both Greek bonds and CDS, said that means the swaps aren't doing their job.

    WSJ: Greek Deal Highlights Flaws in Default Swaps

  • Out Mr Ocalan flew to the residence of the Greek ambassador in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on the understanding that Greece would try to persuade an African country perhaps South Africa to take him in.

    ECONOMIST: Greece

  • With his blond hair and perfect English, Economou has led a flotilla of Greek shipowners to the U.S. capital markets.

    FORBES: Curious George

  • Anxious Cypriots did not want to take any chances, queuing outside Popular Bank - otherwise known by the Greek name Laiki - cash machines in the capital Nicosia.

    BBC: Bank customers at ATM in Nicosia, 21 Mar 13

  • It could be because Greek elites have not yet moved all of their capital out of the country.

    FORBES: Our Big, Fat Greek Bankrupcty

  • At that point, the Bank of Greece would have to impose capital controls, and everybody who has euros in a Greek bank account would have to keep them there and see them devalued on euro exit.

    BBC: Watch deposit flight, not the eurocrats

  • To help think outside the box Ofer worked with Israeli-born Avery More to secure an initial round of venture capital and later added to the mix Alex Eleftheriadis, a Greek-born professor, along with other experts.

    FORBES: Ofer Shapiro and Vidyo: Bringing New Jobs and Innovations to America

  • Stress tests of Europe's biggest banks are due to be released on July 15th and are expected to show that the region's banking system could absorb the losses from a Greek default with only a dozen or so banks having to raise extra capital.

    ECONOMIST: The euro zone on the edge: The road to Rome | The

  • The capital of Victoria state is home to the world's third-largest Greek-speaking urban community, behind Athens and Thessaloniki, according to Victoria's state government.

    WSJ: Australia's Booming Economy and Shortage of Workers Attract Greeks

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