One of the year's most important cultural events, the exhibition "Le Mont Athos et l' Empire Byzantin, Trésors de la Sainte Montagne" opens on 9 April 2009 at the Petit Palais in Paris and will run until July 5th 2009.

A roll-call vote on a bill for introducing absentee voting for eligible Greek voters residing abroad will be held in Parliament on Tuesday, on the first reading (in-principle vote) of the bill, aiming to achieve a two-thirds majority of the 300-member legislature, as required by the Constitution.

The sum of 30 thousand dollars was offered to the municipality of Argostoli in Cephalonia by the Greek-American Ainos Association of New York, in order to contribute to the acquisition of two fire trucks for the town needs.

A series of events on the occasion of its founding is being organized by the Pancretan Federation of Europe on April 25-26 in the German town of Ludwigshafen.

Hundreds of Muslims on Sunday threw rocks at shops owned by Christians and at a police station in Alexandria following the murder of a Muslim by three Christians.