Paiania

A number of roads will be closed in central Athens on Sunday due to the running of the 32nd Classic Athens Marathon.

Participants will be running along Marathonos Avenue and then down Mesogeion Avenue toward the Panathenaic Stadium in the city center.

Runners will also compete in 5- and 10-kilometer races.

Greek singer-songwriter Antonis Vardis died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 66.

Born in Moschato, southern Athens, in 1948, Vardis formed a band called the Vikings when he was 17.

He subsequently appeared in various Plaka music clubs during the 1969-81 period.

Three policemen are under investigation for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a 35-year-old man.

One of the policemen works at Athens security police headquarter, another is stationed at the Aghios Dimitrios precinct in southern Athens and the other at a police station in Paiania, east of the capital.