Barcelona

A prosecutor investigating sports-related issues has launched an investigation against Panathinaikos basketball club owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos after he was accused of directing threats at Olympiakos captain Vassilis Spanoulis following a league game between the two teams on Saturday.

Bulgarian seaside resorts yet again rank as top destinations for Romanian tourists for the upcoming May holidays.

Information was reported by the newspaper Cotidianul, and quoted by Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).

Greece takes the second spot in terms of vacation preferences, and Turkey also falls into the most wanted list with its popular resort Antalia.

Olympiacos’s basketball team will again head to a European Final Four this season after a buzzer-beating three-pointer on Thursday evening at home against Barcelona by Giorgos Printezis, 71-68.

Doubles from Robert Lewandowski and Neymar inspired Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively into the Champions League semifinals on April 21.

There was Turkish delight and Spanish sorrow on a night of frantic Euroleague playoff action as Anadolu Efes Istanbul beat Real Madrid while Greek side Olympiakos Piraeus sank Barcelona on April 21.

BARCELONA - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Poland's Marcin Matkowski have been ousted in the first round of the Barcelona ATP men's doubles tournament after losing to the Spanish-Belarusian pair of Feliciano Lopez/Max Mirnyi 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 10-7 on Tuesday.

The operation on recovering the debris of the Germanwings plane, which crashed in the French Alps in March, was completed on Monday.

The fragments of the Airbus A320 have been stored in a hangar near the site of the crash, Deutsche Welle reports.

An unforeseen tragedy perpetrated by a 13 year-old student who killed a teacher, took place in Barcelona on Monday.

Lionel Messi set up Luis Suarez's first-minute opener then notched his 400th goal for Barcelona in stoppage time to give the Spanish league leaders a hard-fought 2-0 win over Valencia on April 18.

By George Georgakopoulos

Olympiakos produced its best away performance so far this season to defeat host Barcelona 76-63 on Friday and snatch the home advantage in the Euroleague play-offs.

The Reds have now tied the series at 1-1 and are taking it to Piraeus for two games next week, expecting to win the best-of-five series in front of their own fans.