A 76-year-old homeless Thessaloniki man was found dead in his car, in which he had been living for the past several years, police said on Monday.

Homeless people and activists have occupied an arts and cultural building in central Athens to shelter the homeless from the extreme cold weather currently been experienced in Athens..

On Thursday evening Anti-deportation campaigners rallied in Peckham to condemn the mass deportation of Nigerians scheduled later that night (26 January 2012).

Award-winning film director Theo Angelopoulos was laid to rest at the First Athens Cemetery on Friday afternoon, in the presence of friends, relatives, associates and ordinary citizens.

Award-winning director Theo Angelopoulos died at the age of 76 in an Athens hospital on Tuesday, hours after a motorbike ran him over while he was filming a movie on location on the country’s debt crisis.

In the last days, protests were held in various cities of Romania against the health bill that has been submitted by the government. Extensive privatization of the entire health sector will be enforced with this new law. By Sunday, January 15th, 2012, the social protests climaxed. In Bucharest it came up to street clashes that lasted for several hours.Police and gendarmerie inflicted severe injuries to demonstrators.

As Greeks brace themselves for the most frugal Christmas in recent memory, they cannot ignore the tales of desperation making headlines almost daily and the small colonies of homeless people lining central streets of Athens.

since last night.LIVE broadcast from the occupied building in Athens -the place issuing the electricity disconnection orders

We will rebuild. We will power this movement, now and in the future.Our work continues, in this space, and beyond..

The fear of 'contagion' shouldn't be just about the euro – this Greek resistance could spread across Europe