Vasiliki

I first met her in 2014 as an entertainer at Madame Tussauds Museum, among wax figures of celebrities, just as her first short film was hitting theaters. I photographed her on the 10th floor of the Tate Modern with all of London at her feet. Was it prophetic? Certainly. Seven years later, we met again in a pole dancing class.

Prodromos is one of the beautiful villages of Paros, one of those blue-and-white Cycladic dreams we close our eyes and think about during the winter, eagerly awaiting the hour we can get off the ferry again and lose ourselves in its narrow, freshly whitewashed streets.

The African Voices Festival, held on June 6 at Panteion University, was a vibrant celebration of the African diaspora in Greece and a poignant revelation of the community's struggles.

Greece has secured its first gold medal in a team free artistic swimming competition in the European Aquatic Championships, which are taking place in Belgrade.

The national team took first place in the team free final, with a score of 270.1980, 15.5 points ahead of Italy (254.7354), the UK and Turkey, the only other competitors in the event.

The Non-Executive Directors' Club of Greece is to announce its launch with an inaugural event to be hosted at the British Residence on Monday November 18.

A Greek father is appealing for help locating his missing twin daughters, who he says he spotted alive in TV news footage showing people getting off a fishing boat that had rescued them as they fled deadly wildfires near Athens.

Torrential rainfall has caused floods in areas of Ileia in southern Greece.

According to the Athens News Agency, the floods have caused disruptions on the Pyrgos-Tripoli national highway at the Strefiou intersection and on the Pyrgos-Kyparissia highway near the Kallikomo community.

“City & State”, a newspaper based in New York, announced the annual list of the most successful people under 40, with Greek-American Eftichia Thomopoulou among the winners for 2016. She is from Nafpaktos, a small city in Western Greece and is the daughter of George Thomopoulos and Vasiliki Goupiou.

protothema.gr confirmed reports that two women have lost their lives in the magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck Lefkada at 9.10 a.m. on Tuesday. The first woman died south of the island at the village of Ponti in Vasiliki and the village of Athani, southwest of the island.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is considering not convening a meeting of political leaders after another three-day period to form a government given to the head of the newly formed Popular Unity party, Panayiotis Lafazanis, which expires on Thursday.