Aegina

Ten municipal authorities in Attica on Thursday responded to a cry for help from Aegina, sending garbage trucks and crews to clear the holiday island's streets of piles of trash that have appeared since the beginning of August.

Soprano Maria Mitsopoulou and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform popular opera duets in the courtyard of the Sotiros Church at the Capodistrian Orphanage on Aegina on Wednesday, August 23. They will be accompanied by Nasos Grozias on piano.

Greece keeps breaking new records in tourist arrivals, yet there are a number of extremely important and persistent problems that it should be dealing with, especially when it comes to key infrastructure issues.

A row appears to be building between municipal and central government officials over the growing piles of trash on Aegina.

Staff from the Greek Wildlife Hospital on the Saronic island of Aegina release a pelican into the wild at Kerkini Lake in northern Greece, in this photo released Monday.

A rosy pelican and two Dalmatian pelicans - both of which are endangered species - were returned to their natural habitat after receiving treatment for injuries and being tagged with a tracking device.

The scene when you sail into the port of the Saronic holiday island of Aegina is one of incredible cleanliness and neatness as a municipal street cleaner carefully picks up every piece of trash, every cigarette butt, however hard to spot.

A criminal prosecutor probing Wednesday's collision between a water tanker vessel and a fishing boat off the island of Aegina on Thursday told a Piraeus court that further investigation was necessary to determine the causes of the tragedy that left two brothers, aged 62 and 74, dead.

Meanwhile the captain and a crew member of the water tanker were released without charge.

The captain and a crew member of a water-tanker vessel that crashed into a fishing boat, killing the two brothers on board, were charged by a Piraeus court on Thursday with negligent manslaughter.

A probe was launched Wednesday into a collision between a fishing boat and a water tanker vessel off the Saronic island of Aegina earlier in the day that left two brothers dead.

A collision between a fishing boat and a water tanker vessel off the Saronic Gulf island of Aegina near the Greek capital on Wednesday left two people dead, reports said.

The bodies of the two victims, which early reports say they were brothers, were reportedly recovered by the crew of the tanker, while the fishing vessel, "Panayiotis," sank after the collision.