Athens - At approximately this time every year, Greeks young and old would normally be seen gathered around a brightly-lit Christmas tree in central Syntagma Square and eagerly shopping for gifts along the highly popular commercial street of Ermou.
But as clashes between students and police continued for a third straight day Monday, with thousands attacking police stations, government buildings, banks and businesses, no one in central Athens appeared to be in the Christmas spirit.
Athens - Anorthosis Famagusta can extend their unexpected European Champions League adventure into the knockout stages if they do well against a Greek side again on Tuesday.
Anorthosis became the first team from Cyprus to qualify for the group stage of the elite event when they knocked out Olympiakos Piraeus in the third qualifying round.
Now a victory at Panathinaikos Athens is required to join Inter Milan in the round of 16 from group B.
Athens - Civil unrest, which rocked Greece over the weekend after the shooting of a teenager by police, subsided early Monday, media reports said.
According to Greek television reports almost all of the 150 hooded youths who had sought shelter inside the Polytechnic University, which is off-limits to police under Greek law, had left the building.
At least 40 people were injured in the riots, which raged since Saturday. The unrest left Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as self-styled anarchists torched cars, banks, police precincts, car dealerships, government buildings, private homes and stores and erected barricades that were set ablaze.
Athens - Civil unrest over the weekend shooting of a teenager by police continued early Monday across Greece as hooded youths clashed with riot police for a second straight day.
Two days of rioting left Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as self-styled anarchists torched cars, banks, police precincts, car dealerships, government buildings, private homes and stores and erected blazing barricades.
Despite charges of manslaughter filed against two of the police officers allegedly involved in the shooting, the violence continued unabated.
Entire streets and avenues remained blocked by burned and overturned vehicles, and garbage bins and tear gas filled the air throughout Athens and Thessaloniki.
Athens - Riots continued throughout Greece on Sunday following the death of a teenaged boy shot earlier in the night by police.
In the capital Athens, hundreds of riots destroyed dozens of shops in along the city's most important commercial street Ermou.
In Thessaloniki, Greeces second largest city, hundreds of youths rioted through the city and the protests also spread to the southern Mediterranean island of Crete and the northern cities of Komotini and Ioannina.
Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos offered his resignation to the prime minister. The offer was rejected.
Athens - Riots continued throughout Greece on Sunday following the death of a teenaged boy shot earlier in the night by police.
In the capital Athens, hundreds of riots destroyed dozens of shops in along the city's most important commercial street Ermou.
In Thessaloniki, Greeces second largest city, hundreds of youths rioted through the city and the protests also spread to the southern Mediterranean island of Crete and the northern cities of Komotini and Ioannina.
Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos offered his resignation to the prime minister. The offer was rejected.
Athens - At approximately this time every year, Greeks young and old would normally be seen gathered around a brightly-lit Christmas tree in central Syntagma Square and eagerly shopping for gifts along the highly popular commercial street of Ermou.
Athens - Anorthosis Famagusta can extend their unexpected European Champions League adventure into the knockout stages if they do well against a Greek side again on Tuesday. 
