Athens cleans up after night of riots

ATHENS -- Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and rubble was swept from the streets of central Athens on Monday after a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy.

More than 110 buildings were destroyed or damaged, 50 of them burned, police said. They included nine national heritage buildings, mostly in the neoclassical style.

Smoke still rose from the remains of a landmark 1870 building that had housed one of the capital's most loved cinemas, the Attikon, since 1916. Late Monday about 100 people held a candlelight protest outside the gutted structure.

More than 170 people were hurt in the rioting. Police arrested 79 people, including a 14-year-old, and detained a further 92. -- AP