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Giorgos and Maria, after the dragon-slaying saint and the mother of Christ, are the most popular names in Greece, representing 8.8 and 8.3 percent, respectively, of the country's male and female populations, data released on Tuesday by ELSTAT showed.

The Athens municipal council has appointed Giorgos Broulias as the caretaker mayor of the Greek capital after the resignation last week by Giorgos Kaminis so he can run in the European Parliament elections later in the month on the ticket of Movement for Change (KINAL).

Is a strong friendship between two former soccer players enough to make one of them heed the other's call and travel to work together on the other side of the world?

The Elly cinema will be screening Steve Krikris's critically acclaimed new film, "The Waiter," with English subtitles on Wednesday, April 10, at 5.50, 8 and 10.10 p.m.

A verse from Giorgos Seferis's poem "Thrush" - "...the statues are no longer fragments. We are" - perfectly captures the essence of "Broken History," a new collection of works by artist Pavlos Samios that recently went on show at the Greek capital's Byzantine and Christian Museum.

The United States was a "true mediator" between Athens and its international creditors at the peak of the Greek crisis and helped prevent the country's ouster from the eurozone on several occasions, Kathimerini's Washington correspondent, Katerina Sokou, said during a panel discussion on the subject of "The US Role in the Greek Debt Crisis."

The Athens Concert Hall pays tribute to Giorgos Mouzakis (1922-2005), a prominent Greek trumpet player and composer who penned more than 2,000 tunes for stage and screen, including some of the most memorable songs of the Greek revue in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen will visit Athens on January 29 to participate in a joint meeting of the Greek Parliament's committees on european affairs, production and trade and economics.

Katainen, who is Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, will speak at a session titled "The future of Europe: Challenges and opportunities."

Two respected local talents, actress/singer Kariofyllia Karabeti and vocalist Manolis Mitsias, join forces at the Parnassos Literary Society for a series of concerts of emblematic Greek poetry that has been set to music, including poems by Sappho, Dionysis Solomos, Giorgos Seferis, Odysseas Elytis and Yiannis Ritsos. Performances start at 9.30 p.m. and admission costs 10-30 euros.

Greece's Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos has criticized Turkish airspace violations in the Aegean Sea, while condemning the seizure of ethnic Greek minority properties in southern Albania.