Новости за 21.01.2017

MANCHESTER CITY 2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 Second-placed Tottenham Hotspur rode their luck to battle back and earn an unlikely 2-2 Premier League draw at Manchester City on Saturday after mistakes by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris had left them two goals down. After City dominated the first half without scoring they netted twice within 10 minutes of […]

Dance is a form of expression but also a channel to relieve stress and learn more about ourselves. Not all dancers are equal, some are more structured than others and some let you go with the flow. The Chakra dance lets you get into contact with your own energy so you can release emotions and […]

Liverpool’s defensive gremlins returned again as their Premier League title ambitions suffered a painful body blow in a 3-2 home defeat by relegation battlers Swansea City on Saturday. Manchester United also dropped precious points in their top-four push, although Wayne Rooney celebrated breaking Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time scoring record for the club with a superb […]

Order of play on the main showcourts on day seven of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday (play begins at 0000 GMT; prefix denotes seeding): ROD LAVER ARENA 24-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) v 8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) Mona Barthel (Germany) v 13-Venus Williams (U.S.) 1-Andy Murray (Britain) v Mischa Zverev (Germany) Not before 0800: 17-Roger […]

New US first lady Melania Trump channeled style icon Jacqueline Kennedy on Friday but the Inauguration Day fashion headlines were stolen by a military-style coat worn by one of her husband’s aides. Trump, 46, the White House’s first former model, chose American designer Ralph Lauren’s baby blue cropped jacket with cowl neckline and matching dress […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet US President Donald Trump but preparations for the possible meeting may take months, not weeks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by TASS news agency. Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday after winning the presidential contest against […]

In an embarrassing mistake the ministry of agriculture has reportedly sought to export citrus fruits to pariah state North Korea instead of South Korea. According to the daily Phileleftheros, an agriculture ministry department, following a request by the association of producers and exporters of citrus and grapes to establish contacts in South Korea and Japan […]

After very positive reviews, lots of smiling faces and the continuation of the thirst for storytelling, Theatro Dentro in Nicosia is continuing its performances of a musical version of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Steadfast Tin Soldier in January. The story, which teaches kids and adults all about the power of love, is accompanied […]

Thousands of women took to the streets of European capitals to join ‘sister marches’ in Asia against newly installed US President Donald Trump ahead of a major rally in Washington expected to draw nearly a quarter of a million people. Waving banners with slogans like “Special relationship, just say no” and “Nasty women unite,” the […]

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen urged European voters to follow the example of Americans and the British and “wake up” in 2017 at a meeting of far-right leaders. Le Pen told several hundred supporters in the German city of Koblenz that Britons’ vote last year to leave the European Union would set in train […]

A 25-year-old Romanian woman and a 20-year-old man from Bangladesh were remanded on Saturday for six days for their alleged involvement in a sham marriage involving an 18-year-old woman also from Romania. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the two suspects were arrested after the 18-year-old woman reported to the police that she had been […]

  President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were briefed separately on Saturday by their chief negotiators on the results of the working group of technocrats on security and guarantees held earlier in the week in Switzerland. Chief negotiator for the Greek Cypriot side, Andreas Mavroyiannis, briefed the president over the results of the […]

  The government has dismissed recent media reports claiming that Russia was working against a settlement, with President Nicos Anastasiades sending a message to media outlets to refrain from making what was described as false assessments. In statements to state broadcaster CyBC on Friday night, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said that Cyprus maintains good relations […]

Diego Costa is available for selection for Premier League leaders Chelsea’s home match against Hull City after recovering from a back injury, manager Antonio Conte has said. The Spain striker’s future at Stamford Bridge has been subject to intense speculation after he missed last weekend’s 3-0 win at champions Leicester City. Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian […]

Rafa Nadal held off a fierce challenge from one of the hottest prospects in the game when he outlasted German teenager Alexander Zverev 4-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 to reach the last 16 of the Australian Open on Saturday. The Spaniard, champion here in 2009, needed to be at his resilient best to come out […]

Britain’s Johanna Konta powered into the fourth round of the Australian Open for the second year in a row on Saturday, comfortably seeing off former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-1 on Margaret Court Arena. Konta, who is yet to drop a set in the tournament, broke the Dane midway through the first set […]

Three government bills aiming to combat corruption in the police force were submitted to parliament this week, but the sweeping powers they bestow on investigators are likely to spark heated debate. The first bill calls for the creation of an ‘internal affairs’ unit within the police, armed with a host of powers bound to generate […]

A 37-year-old woman was arrested on Friday night at Larnaca airport in connection with internet fraud and theft. According to reports, the 37-year-old foreign national had allegedly launched a website for the sale of products to Asian countries, but she was pocketing the money buyers were paying. Buyers were asked to send the money to […]

A number of items worth around €580 were reported stolen on Friday night from a house in Paphos. The theft was reported by a retired police officer who had observed suspicious movements a few minutes after midnight in the house next door that belongs to a relative of his. The man reported he saw two […]

Police on Saturday announced that due to frost, the Prodromos-Troodos road is open only to vehicles with snow chains and with four-wheel drive. The following roads are open to all vehicles, but remain slippery: Karvounas-Troodos Platres-Troodos Drivers are urged to be very careful, keep safety distance from the vehicle ahead, and drive at low speed.

By Gulsen Solaker and Tuvan Gumrukcu The Turkish parliament has backed a plan to strengthen the powers of the presidency, paving the way for a referendum on the issue in spring which, if passed, could allow President Tayyip Erdogan to stay in office until 2029. Erdogan says the reform will provide stability in the European […]

    By Jonathan Landay and Scott Malone Black-clad activists among hundreds of demonstrators protesting Donald Trump’s swearing-in on Friday clashed with police a few blocks from the White House, in an outburst of violence rare for an inauguration. At least 217 people were arrested in the melees, police said. The burst of civil disorder followed […]

By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton President Donald Trump directed government agencies on Friday to freeze regulations and take steps to weaken Obamacare, using his first hours in the White House to make good on a campaign promise to start dismantling his predecessor’s healthcare law. Heading into the Oval Office shortly after the conclusion of his inaugural […]

Theatro Ena in Nicosia must be in a spooky and frightening mood at the moment as, along with its performances of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the stage is now getting ready to host another scary character, that of a vampire. The comedy Valentine, The Quintessential Vampire by Peter Brammer, tells the tale of a […]

Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said on Saturday. The two men and two women were extracted from the shattered ruins of Hotel Rigopiano overnight after hours of painstaking […]