Новости за 27.11.2016

MANCHESTER UNITED 1 WEST HAM UNITED 1 Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was sent off for the second time in a month at Old Trafford on Sunday and was left more frustrated by a 1-1 draw with West Ham United that left his side further off the Premier League pace. Mourinho, who had been sent […]

ARSENAL 3 BOURNEMOUTH 1 Nov 27 (Reuters) – Two goals from Alexis Sanchez and another from Theo Walcott ended Bournemouth’s brave resistance at the Emirates stadium as Arsenal won 3-1 to stay in touch with the Premier League leaders on Sunday. The visitors, for whom Jack Wilshere was ineligible against his parent club, endured a […]

Germany’s Nico Rosberg celebrated his first Formula One world championship on Sunday after finishing runner-up in a tense Abu Dhabi Grand Prix won by Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton amid accusations of ‘dirty tricks’. After all the suspense and expectation, Hamilton chalked up his 10th win of the season, and fourth in a row, but […]

Israeli authorities have expressed their deep gratitude for Cyprus’ help in extinguishing the wildfires raging in the country over the last few days, which were placed under control on Sunday, the Cyprus civil defence’s Olivia Michaelidou told the Cyprus News Agency. Cyprus’ contribution to the fire-fighting effort included comprised 45 firemen, 24 civil-defence rescuers, and […]

The state will contribute €2 million to AEK Larnaca football club, towards covering part of the expansion cost of its new ‘AEK Arena’ football grounds, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. Speaking at the pitch’s official inauguration ceremony, Anastasiades said the new grounds “will be home to so much excitement on the stands, sweat on […]

A blast ripped through a street in the northern Syrian town of al-Rai on Sunday in what was believed to be an Islamic State suicide bombing and 12 wounded, mostly children, were brought to a hospital in nearby Turkey, security and hospital sources said. Turkey’s army had earlier said IS militants fired a rocket into […]

Police are clamping down on perpetrators of animal abuse, according to police spokesman Andreas Angelides, who said on Sunday that a 65-year-old man was charged with killing a dog in Limassol. The incident was reported to police on Satuday by a citizen, who found the injured dog under a car, while a man was standing […]

German airline Lufthansa said it had made a new offer to try to break the deadlock in a long-running pay dispute with its pilots who have been on strike since Wednesday. This week’s walkout — the 14th since early 2014 — has already grounded some 2,600 planes and affected more than 315,000 passengers. Lufthansa has […]

Islamic State militants have fired a rocket in northern Syria that caused symptoms of “chemical gas” exposure in 22 Syrian rebels, state media cited Turkey’s military as saying on Sunday. The attack targeted Turkey-backed rebels who have for days been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab, a major goal in Ankara’s “Euphrates Shield” operation […]

German pilots union VC should resume talks with Lufthansa to find a compromise over a long-running pay dispute rather than repeatedly going on strike, a board member at the airline told a German weekly. Lufthansa cancelled nearly 2,800 flights during a four-day strike from Wednesday that affected more than 350,000 passengers, the 14th walkout in […]

A 32-year-old man was remanded for five days on Sunday in connection with complaints filed by two women, 23 and 25, who told police that, in Facebook and Skype chats, he promised them a hefty sum of money if they agreed to send him nude pictures of themselves, which he would use to promote their […]

By Julien Pretot World champions New Zealand were often on the back foot but a clinical three-try performance helped them beat a wasteful French side 24-19 in their final autumn test at the Stade de France on Saturday. Flyhalf Beauden Barrett scored a try and kicked nine points, to add to Israel Dagg and Charlie […]

By Amlan Chakraborty Cheteshwar Pujara maintained his consistency with the bat, hitting a patient unbeaten 51 as he and skipper Virat Kohli guided India to 148 for two at tea on the second day of the third test against England on Sunday. Pujara, who struck a century in each of the previous two tests against […]

By Saud Mehsud Six Pakistani workers from a Polish oil and gas surveying company have been kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan, military sources told Reuters, years after a Polish engineer from the same company was beheaded by Pakistani militants. The six Geofizyka Krakow workers were snatched on Saturday afternoon from their vehicles on a road near […]

A 31-year-old man was admitted to Limassol general hospital with head injuries on Sunday morning, following a fight he and his friends had with another group inside a night-club, a police statement said. According to the statement, the man was found injured in the street near the club, from which both groups had been ejected […]

A 75-year-old businessman told police on Sunday that his house in Kili, Paphos, had been broken into and €150.000 in cash stolen. According to the man, the burglary took place between 3:45pm and 10pm Saturday. Paphos CID men rushed to the scene and found that the burglars entered the house by prying the kitchen door […]

A 28-year-old man was injured on Saturday night when he crashed the car he was driving into a parked pick-up truck in Limassol, a police statement said. According to the statement, around 11:30pm Saturday the man, while driving his car in Kostis Palamas street in Limassol, crashed into a pick-up truck, which had been parked […]

A week ago, we made a video asking Greek Cypriots in Nicosia if they felt they could trust the Turkish side. In the days since that video, much has changed. The two leaders have returned from Mont Pelerin, and the talks on the Cyprus problem seem to have broken down (at least temporarily). Despite the […]

MINI has just announced the all-new MINI John Cooper Works Rally which MINI Motorsport will enter in next year’s Dakar Rally. The car is based on the new MINI Countryman and during the development many key areas were extensively reworked when compared to the former cross-country rally car. Priority was given to aerodynamics, thermal management […]

MAZDA revealed the all-new CX-5 last week in the run-up to the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. It’s a completely redesigned edition of the compact SUV that in 2012 kicked-off a generation of critically acclaimed cars featuring the company’s lightweight SKYACTIV Technology and award-winning KODO – Soul of Motion designs. The Japanese car maker has […]

Public debate on the Cyprus problem has always tended to go off on tangents, generating platitudes about principles, obsessing over theoretical points of little value and inspiring mindless grandstanding, while conveniently ignoring the substance which, supposedly, is securing a settlement. This lack of focus could be fashioned by a reluctance to achieve the main objective […]

TRICKY NICKY appeared to have over-estimated his powers as a negotiator in Mont Pelerin Mark II where he thought he could push Mustafa to give a little bit more but his old buddy was not having it. According to our guys, last Sunday Nik had encountered a cold and tough Mustafa, who had changed approach. […]

By Aydin Calik A heated dispute has erupted in northern Cyprus over a new energy agreement with Turkey – just as talks to reunify the island have reached a critical moment. The deal aims to provide the north with cheaper, cleaner electricity via an undersea cable, but critics in the north fear it will increase […]

By Annette Chrysostomou   Are your children extremely bored at school but love learning and are extremely bright? Exceptional students and their parents have until December 4 to register for the exams that might enable them to get a scholarship for a three-week stay in Anatolia College’s Centre for Talented Youth (CTY) in Greece next […]

By Loucas Charalambous   FROM WHAT has become known so far regarding events in Mont Pelerin, it emerges that in the first phase of the talks which ended on November 11 two things had been agreed: first, the three criteria for territory, and second, that the territory under the control of the Turkish Cypriot constituent […]