Here come the Olympics.
http://www.ekathimerini.com Three of the News Briefs I thought were interesting:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100022_12/02/2004_39525 "COURT RAID"
"Burglars take computer hard drives"
NEWS BRIEF: "Unidentified burglars broke into the court houses of the northern Peloponnesian town of Aigion early yesterday morning and removed the hard drives of two computers containing files with details of various legal cases, police said. The computers that were tampered with were in the lower court service and bar association offices. The closed-circuit television network had been disabled."
"Factory fire"
NEWS BRIEF: "A total of 45 of the 80 barrels of pesticides outside a disused factory in Thessaloniki were “affected” by last Saturday’s fire but the emissions released during the blaze have caused neither long-term pollution to the atmosphere nor created a threat to citizens’ health, officials of Thessaloniki’s prefectural authority said following a meeting yesterday. “Dangerous (chemicals) for man and for the environment, such as dioxins and clophen were not produced,” the officials said."
"Falcon accident"
NEWS BRIEF: "The pilot of a government jet involved in a freak accident over Romania in 1999, which caused the deaths of a deputy minister and six other people, appeared in court yesterday for the hearing of his appeal against a five-year suspended jail sentence he received last summer. But the trial was postponed due to the absence of a key witness, civil aviation expert Akrivos Tsolakis. After the accident, Tsolakis had prepared a report attributing the accident partly to pilot error. In July 2002, a court found pilot Yiannis Androulakis guilty of multiple manslaughter and grievous bodily harm."