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Greece's Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) on Friday issued a public health warning, advising citizens and visitors to avoid exposure to areas affected by last weekend's oil spill in the Saronic Gulf.

Yiannis Aggelakas and his band 100ºC, currently on tour with their new album, will be performing at the old olive oil factory in Elefsina, western Attica, on Wednesday, August 23, one of many events the town has planned in the run-up to 2021, when it will don the European Capital of Culture mantle. The concert begins at 9 p.m.

Tugs tow the 107-year-old battleship Georgios Averof to Trocadero marina in Palaio Faliro in southern Athens, Wednesday. The 10,000-ton former Hellenic Navy flagship returned to its berth, where it serves as a floating museum, after months of privately funded maintenance and conservation work at the Skaramangas shipyard.

Finnish author Goran Schildt fell in love with Greece in the 1950s and 60s, photographing many of the places he and his wife Christine visited during their trips to this country. Schildt's black-and-white photographs beautifully captured Greece during that period, showing the people, the sea and the mountains.

Nations from across the African continent will share their customs, culture and traditions at the 16th annual African Gastronomy, Music and Folk Art Festival. Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Seychelles, Morocco and Egypt are among the many African countries whose unique contributions to world culture festival-goers will be able to learn about and enjoy.

After nearly a decade, the cycle of decline in the property market appears to be closing. In the year's first quarter prices in selected areas of the Greek capital may have shown a decline but this was at a rate below 1 percent on an annual basis, which has been the smallest yearly drop since the outbreak of the financial crisis.

The robber who escaped after spending 14 hours in a cupboard - even defecating inside it - as police officers from six departments searched for him in the apartment, the block and the neighborhood, could serve as a parable for many of our society's problems.

The outcry following an armed robbery attempt by four released convicts on the home of an elderly woman in Athens's southern suburbs earlier this week has prompted the Justice Ministry to re-examine a law introduced by the previous minister aimed at decongesting Greek prisons.

The fourth robber involved in a break-in on the apartment of an elderly woman on Athens's southern coast on Monday morning was found hiding in one of her closets nearly 14 hours after police were called to the scene, but managed to run off nevertheless.

Four men, three from Georgia and one from Armenia, invaded an apartment of an old couple on the 8th floor in Palaio Falyro, Athens. The couple, however, managed to notify the police which responded immediately.