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Author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose multi-million-selling "Eat, Pray, Love" was made into a Hollywood smash starring Julia Roberts, said Monday she is shelving her new novel after an outcry because it was set in Russia.

The trial of seven people arrested during riots on Saturday night in Athens has been deferred to November 29.

The suspects face charges of attempted grievous bodily harm, disturbing the peace and resisting authorities.

The riots took place after events commemorating the 45th anniversary of a student uprising against Greece's military dictatorship in 1973.

Maria Kousidou, the 22-year-old woman who got arrested yesterday after attacking with a knife and lightly injuring 3 of her fellow students at a vocational school in west Athens, Rendi, got released on bail on Friday.

A woman in Oregon seemed to have had set her mind on committing suicide, but luck saved her. According to eye witnesses, the woman was driving erratically, resulting in her crashing her car against the barriers on a bridge. The woman left the car after the crash, when witnesses realized that she had set herself on fire.

A 32-year-old man faced a prosecutor in Kalamata, in the Peloponnese, on Wednesday on charges of causing grievous bodily harm after he shot a friend, 43, while the pair had been hunting in the region of Kalohori.

The pair had been hunting wild boar when the younger man accidentally injured his friend with two shots, to the stomach and collarbone.

An Athens court was scheduled to hear the case against Golden Dawn's Ilias Kasidiaris in connection to charges of attempted grievous bodily harm to Greek Community Party (KKE) MP Liana Kanelli, during a brawl on a live morning show on Antenna television in June 2012.

A soccer fan who was hospitalized after crowd trouble in Crete earlier this month died early on Monday.

Costas Katsoulis, 47, was taken to the hospital in Iraklio after fighting broke out in the stands at a third division game between local side Irodotos and Ethnikos of Piraeus.

Two Cretan soccer fans were remanded in custody on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a rival supporter who is in a coma after suffering serious head injuries.

The two suspects, aged 24 and 27, are accused of attacking their victim, an Ethnikos Piraeus fan, when his team was playing Irodotos on Crete.

A third man, aged 22, was released after posting 2,000 euros in bail.

Dozens of migrants gathered on Friday outside a court house in the western port of Patra where judges opened the trial of the owner of a strawberry farm in Nea Manolada and his three foremen who are accused of shooting at dozens of foreign workers following a dispute over pay in 2013.

The manager of a small fairground in Elliniko, southern Athens, where a child was killed on Sunday was arrested on Monday after handing himself in to police.