Authorities in Greece closed down the Acropolis in Athens during the afternoon for a second day on Thursday (Friday AEST) as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures.
The wife of missing British doctor and television presenter, Michael Mosely, has spoken out of the family's hopes he will be found alive on the Greek Island of Symi.
Greek authorities have confirmed they are searching for Michael Mosley, a well-known British television doctor who popularised intermittent fasting for weight loss.
Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an ancient Greek priestess uses the sun to ignite a silver torch - after offering up a symbolic prayer to Apollo, the ancient Greek sun god.
Ukrainian President said he'd listen to former US President's ideas to end the war in Ukraine with "pleasure" but trod carefully around the issue during an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum.
The burned bodies of 18 people were found as wildfires ripped through Greece on Tuesday and countries across Europe sweltered under yet another extreme heat wave.
An infamous restaurant on the Greek island of Mykonos is back in the news after a group of enraged tourists posted a photo of their bill on Tripadvisor.
Greece's prime minister is offering a "do-over" for travellers whose trips to the holiday island of Rhodes were cancelled or truncated due to the country's wildfires this summer.
She's on her way back to Australia while her friend is still on the island, playing to theatres doing double time as shelters for thousands of evacuees.
Authorities have said some of the wildfires currently sweeping multiple Greek islands could be the product of arson, as evacuations continue and Aussies were told to check if they should still travel.
Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries are headed to Greece to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heatwave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 40 degrees.
Cabinet ministers from Greece and the UK discussed Greece's bid to get the Parthenon Sculptures returned from London but gave no sign the world's thorniest cultural heritage issue was any closer to resolution today.