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A disastrous first half for Olympiakos gave Sporting Lisbon the chance to conquer Piraeus with a 3-2 score on Tuesday on the opening night of the Champions League group stage. The result means that in a group with Barcelona and Juventus, Olympiakos is the favorite to finish fourth right from day 1.

Summer might be officially over, but that does not seem to perturb sexy Greek actress Athina Oikonomakou, who took some time to escape to, no, not her favourite Mykonos, but to Lisbon in Portugal. The beautiful Athina kept her legions of followers on Instagram up to date, as she posted photos of her sojourn.

Greek champions Olympiakos were drawn in Group D and will face Italian giants Juventus, Spanish Barcelona and Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon.

According to the Post Office Travel Money City Costs Barometer 2017, Athens is among the cheapest European cities to spend a weekend.
The cost of a weekend stay in Athens amounted to 210 euros, the survey found. This cost included airline tickets, drinks, a two-night hotel stay, dinner for two and city travel among other things.

Today is the International Youth Day. It has been marked in Bulgaria since 2007. Its idea is to draw public attention to various youth issues.

The city hosting this year's events in Bulgaria is Varna, 2017 European Youth Capital.

A senior government official has denied reports that Turkey will end its protest against the Eurovision song contest and return to the competition in 2018. 

"There is no such a thing at this moment," Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ told journalists in Ankara on Aug 7.

Two people died after a small plane landed on a beach near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the news agencies reported.

European holidaymakers jetting off to popular summer destinations are experiencing long queues at airports after the introduction of tighter security checks, Financial Times reports.

Airline passengers have faced queues of up to four hours at European airports, including Palma de Mallorca, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan and Paris-Orly.

Portuguese Television and the European Broadcasting Union chose Lisbon to host Eurovision 2018, reported BGNES.

The organizers announced that the semi-finals will be held on May 8 and 10 and the final of the competition on May 12.

Portugal became the host country of the song contest, thanks to the victory of Salvador Sobral at Eurovision 2017 in Kiev.

Portuguese international Pepe has signed for Beşiktaş, the Turkish champion announced on July 4, bringing an end to 10 incident-packed years with Spanish giant Real Madrid.

The 34-year-old Brazilian-born defender Kepler Laveran Lima Ferreira joined Real from Porto in 2007 for 30 million euros ($34 million), winning the La Liga title in his first campaign.