A 12-year-old girl was killed in the western Athens suburb of Renti in the early hours of Thursday after a driver lost control of his car and plowed onto the sidewalk where she was standing, crushing her against a concrete pylon. An ambulance was called to the scene and the child was rushed to the »»»

The British Museum says it is partly closed after a fired employee shut down IT systems LONDON — The British Museum, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems, museum man»»»

It was commissioned by a Greek king, made its creator a superstar and in his native Denmark attracted crowds like no other painting before. Then it mysteriously disappeared. Now, nearly nine decades after it was last seen gracing the stairwell of the royal palace that would become the Athens parlia»»»