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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has congratulated Greece’s national soccer team after its second round exit at the World Cup in Brazil and his government has pledged to build a new training center for the team.

“All Greeks are proud of our national team,” Samaras said in a brief message after Greece lost to Costa Rica on penalties. “Congratulations to all the boys.”

By Lina Giannarou

Odysseas Hatzopoulos, 73, founder of Kaktos editions, died in an Athens hospital on Friday.

Born in Athens in 1941, Hatzopoulos founded Kaktos in 1975. The publishing house specialized in translations of works by ancient Greek authors.

His funeral will take place at the capital's Third Cemetery located in Nikaia, southwest of Athens, on Tuesday at 4.30 p.m.

The First European Youth Entrepreneurship Conference opens on Thursday in the City of Athens’s Technopolis cultural complex in Gazi, organized by the Youth Entrepreneurship association, the municipality’s initiative for business start-ups, InnovAthens, and the Dutch Embassy’s incubator for new enterprises in Greece, Orange Grove.

The event concludes on Saturday.

About 50 people were detained late Tuesday during a protest near the residence of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia, reports said.

Demonstrators, described as members of anti-establishment groups, were protesting confinement conditions inside the country's maximum security prisons, reports said.

A new campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles has been launched by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna V. Vardinoyiannis. The campaign is based on an initiative by the Elpida Association and the Melina Mercouri Foundation.

The City of Athens is opening public air-conditioned spaces to citizens due to a heat wave expected to hit the capital on Wednesday and Thursday. Several public spaces will be available to citizens in the areas of Aghios Pavlos, Koukaki, Neos Kosmos, Kato Petralona and Ambelokipi on both days.

Traffic police will be closing off sections of the road network in central Athens on Sunday afternoon to clear the way for participants in the 4-kilometer "Live Well" race, which kicks off at Syntagma Square at 7 p.m.

The event is open to all members of the public, whether they want to run it, walk it, or ride their bicycles.

 Onassis center app offers fresh perspective on historical Athenian neighborhood

By Nikos Vatopoulos

After walking around for about an hour, mobile phone in hand and earphones plugged in, I was acutely aware of the fact that the Athenian neighborhood of Neos Cosmos was nothing like I had thought, even though I had been pretty sure I knew the district quite well.

A 19-year-old woman was arrested Friday on suspicion that she gave birth to a baby girl found abandoned on the rooftop of a house in the central Athens neighborhood of Patissia on Thursday. Police said they arrested her on the basis of medical tests suggesting she is the mother.