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Elli Cheney (center) takes part in the finals of the running event during the Greek Olympic Games at Knowlton Elementary School on Friday. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Mock Olympic Games give Davis students insight into Greek culture

Last updated Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 8:15am

FARMINGTON — The mock Olympic Games held at Knowlton Elementary on Friday morning may not have been exactly like the original, but the experience helped sixth-grade students understand more about the origins of the event and the culture from which they came.

As part of their study of ancient cultures, students came dressed in homemade Greek chitons — the Greek version of togas — to participate in competitions similar to events held at the original Olympics.

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Coast guards officers hold flares as they chant anti-government slogans during a protest in central Athens on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. More than a thousand protesting officers from the police, coast guard and fire department joined a rally in Athens to demonstrate against government cuts, in the latest protest ahead of a planned two-day general strike next week. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek society in free-fall

Elena Becatoros The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 12:44pm

ATHENS, Greece — A sign taped to a wall in an Athens hospital appealed for civility from patients. “The doctors on duty have been unpaid since May,” it read, “Please respect their work.”

Patients and their relatives glanced up briefly and moved on, hardened to such messages of gloom. In a country where about 1,000 people lose their jobs each day, legions more are still employed but haven’t seen a paycheck in months. What used to be an anomaly has become commonplace, and those who have jobs that pay on time consider themselves the exception to the rule.

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In this image taken off a TV screen, Ilias Kasidiaris, 2nd left, spokesman of Greece's extremist far-right Golden Dawn party, who was elected to Parliament in the country's recent inconclusive polls, physically assaults Liana Kanelli, a female member of the Parliament for the Greek Communist party, during a talk show at the studios of the ANTENA TV station in Athens on Thursday, June 7, 2012. Kasidiaris bounded out of his seat and slapped Kanelli three times after throwing a glass of water over radical left Syriza party member Rena Dourou. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Kasidiaris after he physically assaulted the two left-wing deputies on live television during a morning political show. (AP Photo/ANTENA TV)

TV assault shows Greek politics getting more heated

Elena Becatoros The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 9:45am

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's election campaign turned ugly Thursday on live TV: The spokesman of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, after trading insults of "commie" and "fascist," lunged at two female left-wing politicians on a mainstream morning talk show, throwing water at one and smacking the other three times across the face.

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Greece to hold new election, markets tank

Derek Gatopoulos, Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:38am

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece is headed for another month of political paralysis ahead of new elections in mid-June, after party leaders on Tuesday failed to reach an agreement to build a coalition government.

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A cinema burns in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Riots engulfed central Athens and at least 10 buildings went up in flames in mass protests late Sunday as lawmakers prepared for a historic parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures demanded to keep the country solvent and within the eurozone. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Greece surveys riot damage after austerity vote

Elena Becatoros The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 3:07pm

ATHENS, Greece -- Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy.

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Protesters pass by a burning cinema in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Riots engulfed central Athens and at least 10 buildings went up in flames in mass protests late Sunday as lawmakers prepared for a historic parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures demanded to keep the country solvent and within the eurozone. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Riots rage in Greece

Staff Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:34am

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's Parliament passed an austerity and debt-relief bill on Monday as rioters in Athens looted shops and set buildings on fire.

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Greek Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos, speaks during a news conference on the 2012 budget in Athens, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Greece's finance minister says a new debt deal and bond writedown to be agreed by banks will make Greece's national debt "totally sustainable." (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece rules out fresh austerity measures

Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 11:06am

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece predicted Friday that its budget deficit will fall sharply next year and insisted that no fresh austerity measures will be needed to plug a hole in this year's finances.

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(PETROS GIANNAKOURI/The Associated Press) This Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 file photo shows Greece’s Conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras addressing conservative members of parliament in Athens. Greece’s prime minister struggled Saturday Nov. 5, 2011 to form a temporary coalition government, faced with opposition calls for immediate elections that have extended a political deadlock in the debt-shackled country. George Papandreou has agreed to step aside if necessary to help his Socialist party hammer out a four-month coalition he says is vital to securing a new debt deal worth an additional euro130 billion ($179 billion). But his offer was snubbed hours later by opposition leader Antonis Samaras. “We have not asked for any place in his government. All we want is for Mr. Papandreou to resign, because he has become dangerous for the country,” Samaras said in a televised address. “We insisted on immediate elections.”

Greek premier struggles to end political deadlock

Demetris Nellas, Derek Gatopoulos The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 3:38pm

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister struggled Saturday to form a temporary coalition government in the near-bankrupt country, extending a political deadlock threatening billions in international rescue funds.

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(LEE JIN-MAN/The Associated Press) A currency trader reacts at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. A wave of selling swept across Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece’s prime minister said he would call a national vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue that nation’s economy.

Asia stocks down as Greek vote plan rocks markets

Pamela Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 10:15am

BANGKOK — Global market turmoil continued Wednesday as fears intensified that Greece might reject an austerity plan and default on its massive debts.

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(THANASSIS STAVRAKIS/The Associated Press) Protesters, dressed as prisoners gather during an event to protest against austerity measures outside the Greek parliament in Athens, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Lawmakers in Greece’s ruling Socialist party revolted Tuesday over their prime minister’s surprise decision to hold a referendum on a European debt deal, threatening the very survival of his embattled government.

Greece’s Papandreou heading to EU showdown

Derek Gatopoulos, Elena Becatoros The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 10:05am

ATHENS, Greece — Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will try to win over irate European leaders later Wednesday, hours after persuading his cabinet to back a hugely-controversial referendum on the debt-crippled country’s latest rescue package.

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US stock futures fall on planned Greek rescue vote

Matthew Craft The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 7:36am

NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures are sharply lower Tuesday on worries that a planned Greek referendum on the country’s rescue package could scuttle a broad plan to resolve Europe’s debt crisis.

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Stocks slide as IBM, French debt weigh on markets

David K. Randall The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:13am

NEW YORK — Stocks slid in early trading Tuesday after disappointing corporate earnings reports and concerns that France and Germany may not reach an agreement to provide additional support for Greece.

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(RICHARD DREW/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 4, 2011 photo, traders Stephen Guilfoyle, left, and Richard Deviccaro, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks in Europe recouped some recent losses on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, on hopes that European policymakers were thrashing out a plan to shore up the banking sector, which has been damaged by fears of a Greek debt default.

US stock futures turn mixed, European markets up

David K. Randall The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 7:22am

NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures were little changed a half hour before the market opened Wednesday.

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(VINCENT YU/The Associated Press) A trader reacts at Hong Kong’s Stock Exchange in Hong Kong Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. Stocks took another battering Monday after Greece admitted it won’t meet its deficit reduction targets, raising renewed fears that the country will not get crucial bailout loans it needs to avoid a default. The losses in Europe followed a big retreat in Asia, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng leading the way lower with a 4.4 percent decline to 16,822.15.

Asian stock markets lower on Greek default fears

Pamela Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:47am

BANGKOK — Asian stocks extended a sell-off Tuesday, dogged by signs Europe’s debt problems are getting grimmer even as officials promised more help for Greece at the epicenter of the crisis.

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(THANASSIS STAVRAKIS/The Associated Press) European Union’s flag flies as the temple of Parthenon atop of the Acropolis hill is seen, background, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. The leaders of Greece, France and Germany will seek ways to contain the spiraling debt crisis and prevent it from further roiling global financial markets in a teleconference on Wednesday evening.

Top EU official seeks closer policy union

Don Melvin The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 7:47am

BRUSSELS — A senior EU official called for closer political and financial unification in Europe, as fractures emerged Wednesday among leaders on how to solve Greece’s debt crisis.

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