Новости за 25.12.2015

By Maria Gregoriou Limassol continues its screened performances from the MET theatre with the Rialto theatre screening the opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Wozart next Sunday. Nicosia will also be screening live performances as of January, when THOC will show performances from the National Theatre, with its first screening of Jane Eyre on […]

By Philip Pullella Pope Francis urged the world in his Christmas message on Friday to unite to end atrocities by Islamist militants that he said were causing immense suffering in many countries. Security was tight at the Vatican as Francis, marking the third Christmas since his election in 2013, read his traditional Christmas Day “Urbi […]

By Maria Gregoriou The week is filled with lots of Greek singers coming over to spread Greek Christmas cheer. Among all the Greek acts is our own Anna Vissi – well not so local anymore, but still with a Cypriot heart – who will sing at the THOC new theatre building in Nicosia on Tuesday […]

As many as 100 people were killed by an explosion at a gas plant in southeastern Nigeria, a local journalist at the scene said on Friday. “I saw around 100 charred corpses,” David Onwuchekwa said. An official at the state relief agency NEMA did not confirm the toll, saying the agency’s workers were still assessing […]

By Krishna N. Das and James Mackenzie Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a surprise stopover at Pakistan to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on Friday, in what will be an Indian’s premier’s first visit to the arch rival in more than a decade. Modi and Sharif resumed high-level contacts with a brief conversation […]

By Maria Gregoriou Get ready to experience The Nutcracker like you have never seen it before in an alternative Christmas version of the ballet by Konstantinos Rigos. Nutcracker: The Dark Side flashes forward from the time when Clara was a little girl crying over the broken nutcracker to look into the broken memories she hides […]

By Ian Simpson Recovery crews and utility workers began cleaning up widespread damage on Thursday left by severe storms that spawned tornadoes across six states in the U.S. South and Midwest, killing at least 14 people and destroying scores of homes. Emergency declarations were issued in Mississippi and Tennessee, the two states hardest hit by […]

By Bejay Browne ORGANISERS of the Gift of Love – Solidarity appeal have exceeded their target this year. The appeal sees the public fill hundreds of shoeboxes with Christmas gifts and raise cash for needy children and their families in Paphos. Dikla Smith, one of the organisers, told the Cyprus Mail: “We have been overwhelmed […]

By Andrew Gant I’m just listening to Jingle Bells. In Oxford Street. In Chinese. English Christmas songs and carols turn up in some surprising places. They come from some surprising places, too – certainly, not all of them began life with their seasonal associations attached. Some were born to Christmas, some have achieved Christmas, and […]

By Richard Godwin I DON’T want a lot for Christmas. Not even snow. But there’s one thing that would come in handy, over and above a directional coffee-maker or a copper pineapple or a Skate-and-Sing Elsa doll. What I would really is for someone to rip a fissure in the fabric of space-time and grant […]

By Quentin Letts For one busy evening, churches in Britain have swirled with the aroma of candle wax, mulled wine and hot chorister. Something else, too. Amid the Chanel No 5 and the designer-handbag leather of the yummy mummies shimmered the neglected protoplasm of middle-class religiosity. Some church regulars resent this annual invasion of opportunistic […]

By Elias Hazou THE raid three weeks ago on a local law firm, which counts the Hermitage Fund among its clients, was unrelated to the Magnitsky case, according to police. On November 30, Cypriot police officers of the Financial Crime Unit, along with two senior Russian interior ministry officials searched the Nicosia offices of a […]

AT LEAST Archbishop Chrysostomos was touched by the Christmas spirit, announcing on Wednesday that the Church would offer baptism for the children of poor families free of charge. All a family has to do is apply to the Archbishopric and “we can baptise for free all children, but also provide anything a christening ceremony needs,” […]