Profitis Ilias, Athens

The funeral was held in the southern town of Tripoli on Thursday of a Hellenic Air Force officer aboard the F-4E Phantom II jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday. The plane went down during a training exercise, and the body of the co-pilot, Lieutenant Marios Touroutsikas, 29, was discovered shortly after.

The funeral of a Hellenic Air Force officer aboard the two-seater F-4E Phantom II fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday was held at the Peloponnesian city of Tripoli on Thursday.

The funeral of Lieutenant Marios-Michail Touroutsikas, the co-pilot aboard the F-4 "Phantom" fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday, will be held in the city of Tripoli on Thursday.

Greece beat Belgium in Athens 85-68

They took part in the “Athens Flying Week” and said goodbye to Greece this morning

The Contemporary Orchestra of state broadcaster ERT and vocalist Aspasia Stratigou will perform a medley of songs from Asia Minor and the Ionian islands, as well as original pieces composed by santour soloist Andreas Katsiyiannis, at the Rematia Theater on Wednesday, September 20. The orchestra will be conducted by Andreas Pylarinos. The concert starts at 8.30 p.m.

Founded in 2010 in an Athens basement, the Underground Youth Orchestra - whose members now comprise 45 music students aged 10 to 24 and four professional musicians - has performed more than 40 concerts in different parts of Greece.

The 10-member Cinema Paradiso Project will be performing music from films from different parts of the world, in a concert inspired by Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 Italian drama "Cinema Paradiso" and its beautiful soundtrack penned by the director and Ennio Morricone, at the Rematia Theater on Saturday, September 2.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Lerta will perform tracks from her new album, "The Echoing Green," as well as covers of folk, blues and jazz favorites, with sultry-voiced Jennie Kapadai, at the Rematia Theater in Halandri on Saturday, August 26. The concert starts at 8.30 p.m.

Contemporary folk singer Kalliopi Vetta and musician Haig Yazdjian, who blends traditional and modern sounds, teamed up several months back for appearances at different venues around Greece with a show that both highlights their individual careers and bridges their disparate elements.