Lies have short legs, even if they are sprinters'. After seven years of investigation and delays, the court found that the sprinters have lied all the time not to be caught with doping. Their coach Christos Tsekos was sentenced to 33 months of probation.

The ambitions of the government are that the labour market reforms and the tightening of the social security funds would save around 6.5 billion by 2015. The plan is good but it is not clear whether it is feasible.

The new campaign against human trafficking using Facebook and the Internet aims to attract people's attention and make them understand that modern slavery is happening here and now and maybe in the neighbouring flat or house of flats there are girls victims of trafficking closed and forced to be prostitutes. But what happens then? Would you dare to call the police? "I would," said the activist Judy Boyle, who held a seminar on trafficking in the Greek-American cultural centre.

The population census in Greece starts today and will last to the 24th of May with the aim to draw conclusions about the social and economic identity of the country.

Are you ready to turn round in the rhythm of tango and enjoy the authentic Argentinean orchestras and dancers? Then come to the first five-day festival of the Argentine culture and the first official European competition for Tango, which will be held in early June in Athens.

The agency lowered the long-term credit rating of the Greek securities to B and to C in the short term, the Ministry of Finance confirmed that the country will be supported again by the Troika.