Athens - Two people were reported dead after their car was swept away by waves near the port of the holiday island of Kefalonia as dropping temperatures and heavy rain hit Greece on Friday.

Athens  - Police recorded the calmest night since the outbreak of violence after a fatal police shooting of a teenager last weekend, Greek state radio said Friday.

There were no reports of rioting during the night, the protests dampened by heavy rains falling across Greece.

The results of the ballistic examination of the bullet which killed 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Saturday are expected to be released Friday. The policeman who shot the boy remains in custody in a high-security prison in the Athens suburb Korydallos.

New student rallies were planned for Friday and Monday.

Athens - Hundreds of mask-wearing municipal workers used bulldozers and water hoses to clear the streets of Athens from marble chunks, broken glass and burned barricades on Thursday following five days of rioting and social unrest.

While no major demonstrations were planned Thursday, authorities braced themselves for more civil unrest as tensions remained high over the police shooting of a
15-year-old boy at the weekend.

Two officers involved in the teenager's shooting were taken into custody and charged with manslaughter.

Madrid/Barcelona - Nine people were injured overnight in Spanish demonstrations against the killing of a Greek student in Athens, police said Thursday.

Athens - As dusk settled upon the Greek capital, downtown Athens, the commercial hub normally bustling two weeks before Christmas, was eerily empty of customers.

Instead, amid a sea of broken glass and charred debris, many shops stayed shut, with boarded windows to prevent further damage after days and nights of violence triggered by the shooting death by police of a 15-year-old youth Saturday in the bohemian Athens district of Exarchia.

Workers and shopkeepers wearily attempted to take inventory of their remaining stock, the majority refusing to abandon their businesses fearing they could be be burned or looted in another spree of violence.

Athens - The assassination of his father by Taliban militants forced 13-year-old Jahid to escape his home in Afghanistan.

But his long perilous journey toward asylum in Europe has left him and thousands others trapped for months in a makeshift camp in Greece's western port city of Patras.

Dumbfounded by the government's neglect and the European Union's tough immigration policies, Jahid's future lies in limbo.