Yorgos Lanthimos’ "Dogtooth" is an Oscar nomination in the foreign films category. The last time a Greek film raced to the Oscars was back in 1977 when "Ifigeniya" directed by Michalis Kakoyiannis was nominated. This year's awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on 27 February when we will keep our fingers crossed for Lanthimos to reach the finals and receive the golden statuette.

The trial against the sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterina Thanou and their coach Christos Tsekos finally has begun last Friday after seven years, seven continuances and one break.

The State Minister Haris Pampoukis sent a letter to the Executive Director of Siemens Hellas Panagiotis Ksinis to inform him that Greece intends to bring to trial the German giant for illegal activities of the company.

They made it a camp and went on hunger strike. University buildings in Greece are inviolable; the police can not intervene without a formal request from the university authorities. They have only suspended academic activities for now until further notice.

Medicines were only 7% of the health care costs of the government but the had not seen the Minister to slave away for the remaining 93% which he lacks.

Drugs and petty dealers, pimps, prostitutes and groups of illegal languish immigrants rule today on Omonia Square which has become a ghetto and where there are thefts and robberies every day.

Today the defendants gave up the protection of defenders and of the daily ration after the court had not fulfilled their requests.