Costas Simitis, the reformist prime minister whose governments oversaw Greece's eurozone entry, helped Cyprus join the EU and ...

Greeks bid farewell on Thursday to former prime minister Costas Simitis, a law professor and reformist, who died last week at ...

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis, renowned for steering Greece into the EU's single currency in 2001, was commemorated in Athens following his passing. Thousands gathered to pay their ...

Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Paris Olympics organizer Tony Estanguet was nominated Tuesday to return to the IOC as a member.

Historically, Greece wasn't precisely the antagonist during the Maccabean era; instead, it was the Assyrian Greeks, a faction of the Greek Empire based in Syria.

But were the Greek Olympics actually influenced by the existence of a very similar tournament in Ireland, created centuries before? Some have claimed that the Tailteann Games in ancient Ireland ...

New York Knicks asset Mathias Lessort is continuing his European holiday. Lessort, whose NBA rights currently belong to the Knicks, has agreed to a contract ext ...

The loss of former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis marked an eight-year period of a  major political transformation and ...

Why do we have the Olympics? Why is physical activity important ... The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came ...