As Greeks prepare to have a say on their country's future, Ben Wright looks at the referendum and what the result will mean.

Piled high with rubbish congealing in the summer heat, municipal dustbin R21 on Athens' Sofokleous St does not look or smell like a treasure trove.

Her critics call her the villain of the Greek drama, a taskmaster forcing a bankrupt nation to its knees.

The Greek Government is playing a dangerous game of chicken with the European creditors they owe a lot of money to.

Flight Centre says it has been contacted by Kiwis customers worried about access to cash while holidaying in Greece.

Mark Lister on the Greece financial crisis and putting it all in perspective.

Prime Minister John Key says the Greek situation underlined his view that the biggest risk to New Zealand's economic growth came from overseas markets.

While Tsipras' decision to hold a ballot increased the risk of Greece exiting the euro, evidence of contagion elsewhere was limited.

It's a tricky enough situation already, buried under financial jargon with regular breaking developments. And now it's even more confusing.

Currency traders will be on tenterhooks this week as the Greek sovereign debt crisis goes from bad to worse, with more downward pressure likely to come on the Kiwi dollar.

The message for anyone trying the cashpoint at the National Bank of Greece in central Athens was curt and to the point.

It is crunch time for Greece. Again. Yes, you've heard that before, probably many times since the country's debt crisis first blew up around 2009.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he will call a referendum on the outcome of the negotiations with international creditors.

Eurozone leaders hope to finally seal a bailout deal this week to save Greece from default and a possible exit from the euro, but Germany has warned more hard work is needed.

European leaders will meet tomorrow to see if they should give Greece more credit to stave off bankruptcy or cast it into the wilderness.

Pacific Investment Management Co Chief Executive Officer Douglas Hodge says investors have had three years to prepare.

Greece lurched closer to an exit from the euro as a meeting of finance officials to reach a deal over aid dissolved in acrimony, forcing leaders to call for an emergency summit for Tuesday.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras escalated his defiance towards the country's official creditors, with a pointed attack on the International Monetary Fund.

Of the many wonders to behold in Greece, Matt Derr has found a gem: local wine at $3 a glass.

Greece will be unable to find the 1.6 billion ($2.4 billion) sum it is due to hand the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next month, one of the country's ministers has admitted.

That Apple should buy Greece with all the useless cash it has on hand is just a joke that won't go away.

Like a spoilt child and an angry parent locked in an experiment of tough love, Greece and its creditors are embroiled once more in a tug-of-war.

This image of a Greek soldier who singlehandedly saved 20 migrants on the coast of Rhodes after their boat hit rocks defined a week of tragedy.

Countries that default on their IMF obligations often experience widespread disruption to their cross-border financial relations.

Anti-austerity protesters seeking to spoil the inauguration of the ECB's new HQ in Frankfurt left a trail of destruction across the city.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won four more months to sell his policy program to creditors while keeping domestic voters on board.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras began the task of selling domestically a provisional deal with eurozone partners to extend bailout funds after securing a reprieve.