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FRONT PAGE NEWS |
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 Morning raid nets Zoniana suspects |
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| Police arrested eight people in Crete on Saturday in connection to a series of bank heists on the island in a move that also targets criminal gangs based in the village of Zoniana.
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| AEK holds onto league top spot |
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| AEK goes into the new year as the Super League's front-runner following a 2-0 win over visiting Thessaloniki soccer team PAOK last night.
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| Politics ‘peaked’ in 1980s |
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| Andreas Papandreou, the father of the current PASOK leader George, is considered by almost half of Greeks to be the best prime minister the country has had since the return of democracy in 1974, according to a poll conducted for Sunday's Kathimerini.
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| Mother, baby in fatal leap |
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| A 29-year-old woman committed suicide by leaping some 60 meters into the Corinth Canal with her 3-month-old son, who was also killed, police said yesterday.
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| New Year’s lottery ticket... |
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A woman tries her luck and buys a New Year's lottery ticket from a street vendor in Syntagma Square, central Athens...
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| Man dips hand in till to pay for casino spree |
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| A 38-year-old male employee working at a gas station in Thessaloniki reported a fake robbery to police to cover up for money he had stolen and gambled away, authorities said on Saturday.
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TO OUR READERS
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| Kathimerini English Edition and the International Herald Tribune will not be available in Greece, Cyprus and Albania on New Year’s Day due to the public holiday. We will be back on Wednesday, January 2. We wish all our readers a happy and prosperous 2008.
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Protest for Bhutto in Athens...
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EDITORIAL |
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Light needs to be shed on Zachopoulos case
Greece faces significant structural problems that require immediate solution. Society, with the help of many different sectors of the media, has spent the past few days focusing on the personal lives of government figures.
Naturally, light must be shed on every aspect of this case so that we can understand how much of it has to do with personal issues, how much with any blackmail attempt and how much about the misappropriation of public funds. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Greeks and Serbs’ shared DNA
Whenever I read the news from Serbia, I am saddened. A serious country, with a great history and tradition, has managed to commit international suicide and slide into isolation. And often I ask myself how a country that has so much in common with Greece has managed to fall into such desperate straits.
In the DNA of Greeks and Serbs, one finds some classic symptoms. We both believe that we are nations that are both alone and unique and that the rest of the planet owes us much. We both believe very strongly that we are such unique people that everyone else wants to eliminate us lest we spoil things for them. We have a strong tendency to see ourselves as victims, as prey in a centuries-old hunt in which the hunters are Turks, English, Americans and so on. |
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