The film "Lobster" by Yorgos Lanthimos has been nominated in four categories in the European Film Awards - Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Actor, Best European Screenwriter.

More than 43,000 people run in the 33d Athens Classic Marathon on Sunday the 42,195 km of the classical route from the famous tomb to Panathenaic Stadium, of the first Olympics in modern times, following the same distance that messenger Fidippides covered after the homonymous battle against the Persians in 490 BC