‘No home, no bathroom, no life’: grim future for Athens homeless

ATHENS: On a bench beneath a fluttering Greek flag in front of an Orthodox church, two homeless men are philosophizing about the financial crisis that has devastated their country and helped push them onto the streets.

“What can I say about the situation?” asks 45-year-old Andreas, who was a builder before the construction work dried up and who has been sleeping rough in Athens for six months.