London Mayor Boris Johnson will read out an Olympic Ode in ancient Greek composed by an Oxford academic to celebrate the athletes and personalities of the London 2012 Games as part of opening ceremonies.
Sprinter Katerina Thanou was named on Monday in the Greek team for the Beijing Olympics opening next week setting up a potential confrontation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The actress sports a desi look in her first international film.
With the qualifying tournament offering four quota places in the men's 71kg weight class, Dev needs to win his quarter-final on Monday to seal his passage for Paris Games and earn the fifth 2024 Olympic quota for India and the first in the men's category in boxing.
Barcelona's Raphinha scored deep into stoppage time to hand his side a dramatic 5-4 comeback win at Benfica and a place in the Champions League last 16.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras battled to win lawmakers' approval on Wednesday for a bailout deal to keep Greece in the euro and avoid bankruptcy, as the IMF pressured Greece's creditors to provide massive debt relief for its crippled economy.
EU authorities made a last-minute offer to salvage a bailout deal that could keep Greece in the euro as the clock ticked down on Tuesday, with Germany warning that time had run out to extend vital credit lines to Athens.
Andy Murray will not get another chance to feature on court in his farewell at the Grand Slam.
Sunday was a Day of Suits in Mumbai at the GQ-Arrow do
Olympic ceremony's Last Supper sketch 'never meant to disrespect'
Nigeria are keeping everyone guessing about their plans for the World Cup Group B match with Greece on Thursday, training in seclusion on the Indian Ocean coast since their defeat by Argentina.
Conditions are fit for a raise in Emergency Liquidity Assistance
Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have sent explanations to the governing body of world athletics as to why they missed doping tests at the Athens Olympics in August.
A brothel and a funeral home have become the newest benefactors of two cash-strapped Greek soccer clubs struggling to survive the country's economic crisis.
The Belem, a three-masted sailing ship that carries the Olympic Flame from Greece to Marseille in France, crosses the Corinth Canal, following the handover ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics, in Corinth, Greece.
Germany's political establishment rushed to defend a deal with Greece on Monday to negotiate a third bailout, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's lieutenants selling the agreement as a victory for Europe that her conservatives can support.
The win leaves United in 15th place in the Europa League standings on six points from four games.
As the Olympics return to Athens after a century of globe-trotting some Greeks are not so sure they want them back.
Twice finalist Ruud overcomes Davidovich Fokina test
France's golden age of soccer is over, perhaps not for good but certainly for now.
Stefanos Tsitsipas has pledged to donate $1000 for every ace he hits during the Mexican Open tennis tournament to help with the reconstruction of Acapulco following the devastation caused by Hurricane Otis last October.
In the video, Svane, standing in the middle of the lane, points to the trash and construction debris strewn along both sides of it.
A Greek soccer match was delayed on Friday when players staged a sit-down protest in a moving tribute to migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach Greece's Aegean islands.
Prime minister bats for common standards to be implemented in all jurisdictions.
Images from the Olympics swimming action at the La Defense Arena, Paris, on Thursday.
Today around 317 million EU citizens use the euro as their currency.
Greece beat England for the first time as striker Vangelis Pavlidis's double earned the visitors a richly-deserved 2-1 victory.
The legislation passed with 230 votes in the 300-seat chamber.
World number one Iga Swiatek dominated ninth seed Maria Sakkari to win the Indian Wells final.
From jetting off to quick holidays to dipping in the pool, Namrata Thakker shows us how stars are chilling and beating the summer blues!
Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned oil tanker with 26 crew members, including 11 Indians, after holding them captive for ten months, the vessel's operating company said on Tuesday.
Enchanted rings, talking teddy bears and arranged marriages of the phony kind, hijack horror and more on OTT this week.
Traianos Dellas, Angelos Charisteas, Michalis Kapsis, Antonis Nikopolidis, Yourkas Seitaridis and Theodoros Zagorakis have been named in an initial list of 50 for the European Footballer of the Year award.
Rediff.com brings for you a collection of off-beat stories in the past 24 hours that often fail to make it in the print media.
Images from Day 8 of the 2024 French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday.
