Новости за 19.04.2017

Kylian Mbappe and Radamel Falcao struck early as Monaco reached the Champions League semi-finals with a 3-1 home win over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday that sealed a 6-3 aggregate victory. French prodigy Mbappe and Colombia striker Falcao scored in the third and 17th minutes before Marco Reus gave the visitors hope with a 48th-minute goal, […]

Barcelona’s hopes of staging another sensational Champions League comeback fell flat against a hardened Juventus side who held the Catalans to a 0-0 draw on Wednesday at the Camp Nou to reach the semi-finals 3-0 on aggregate. The Italian champions barely gave Barca a glimmer of hope of repeating their historic turnaround against Paris St […]

Apoel scraped through to the semi-finals of the Cyprus Cup on the away goals rule following a 1-1 draw in Limassol against AEL on Wednesday evening. The first leg in Nicosia two weeks ago ended in a goalless draw. Apoel’s progess to the last four was all the more impressive as they had to play […]

Tennis superstar Serena Williams on Wednesday appeared to suggest she is pregnant, posting a photo of herself in a bathing suit on the social media site Snapchat with the caption “20 weeks.” The 35-year-old, who will return to the No.1 ranking in the world next week, later deleted the photo. A representative for Williams declined […]

Turkey’s electoral authority rejected appeals to annul the referendum granting President Tayyip Erdogan wide new powers, but the main opposition CHP party said it will maintain its legal challenge to a vote it has said was deeply flawed. Sunday’s referendum endorsed by a narrow margin the largest overhaul of Turkey’s political system since the founding […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday extended condolences on behalf of Cyprus for the death of four Greek military officers in a helicopter crash in northern Greece. “It is with great sadness that I was informed of the loss of Greek army officers, who lost their life in the line of duty,” the president said in […]

At least 11 people were killed and 20 are missing after a landslide hit several neighborhoods in Manizales, Colombia, the government said on Wednesday, the second deadly landslide in the country this month. Recent heavy rains have endangered residents in dozens of provincial towns, where makeshift construction on the slopes of the Andes makes neighborhoods […]

World number one Andy Murray overcame a dreadful start to beat Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller 7-5 7-5 and reach the Monte Carlo Masters third round as he made his return from a five-week injury layoff on Wednesday. The Briton, who had a first-round bye, had not played competitive tennis since injuring his elbow in March and […]

Striker Harry Kane has half an eye on retaining the Premier League’s ‘Golden Boot’ as a confident Tottenham Hotspur focus on delivering a league and FA Cup double. Spurs, who have won their last eight games in all competitions, face league leaders Chelsea in Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. At an individual level Kane, […]

Birdlife Cyprus condemned on Wednesday an Easter custom from Omodos where some residents shoot birds flying over the rooftops. Cyprus has many beautiful Easter traditions, the group said, but many birds are the victims “of a particular custom in a particular village that is far from ‘beautiful’”. “The village in question is Omodos, picturesque and […]

Despite previous disavowals, the government is now open to proposals toward providing restitution to the depositors of now-defunct Laiki Bank who lost their uninsured savings when the bank went under in 2013, it emerged on Wednesday. In a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Palace, also attended by Finance minister Harris Georgiades, the […]

Both K Cineplex in Nicosia, Larnaca and Paphos and the Rialto theatre in Limassol will present a screening of the opera Eugene Onegin as performed on the Metropolitan Opera stage on Saturday. The novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin was first presented as an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1897 and this is the […]

Centrist Emmanuel Macron clung on to his status as favourite to win France’s presidential election in a four-way race that is too close to call, as the camp of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ramped up its eurosceptic rhetoric in a row with Brussels. A closely-watched Cevipof opinion poll published on Wednesday showed frontrunners Macron […]

  A group of 13 Serbian children and their adult chaperones were denied entry to the Republic at Larnaca airport on Monday, after police realised they were heading to Turkish-held northern Cyprus, the Serbian foreign ministry said on Wednesday. A statement by the Serbian ministry on Wednesday confirmed earlier reports from the north, stating that […]

Activist groups in the north were to protest on Wednesday afternoon over the fatal stabbing on Tuesday of a 25-year-old woman by her husband. The killing took place on Tuesday morning in a central Famagusta road in the north, when a 42-year-old man stabbed his wife following an argument in a cafe. According to media […]

Prime Minister Theresa May won parliament’s backing for an early election on Wednesday, a vote she said would strengthen her hand in divorce talks with the European Union and help heal divisions in Britain. May surprised allies and opponents on Tuesday when she announced her plan to bring forward an election that was not due […]

Verily, Alphabet Inc’s life sciences business, said it was launching a four-year study with about 10,000 participants to understand how people transition from beinghealthy to becoming sick, and to identify additional risk factors for diseases. Verily is partnering with Duke University and Stanford Medicine in the United States to enroll participants from varying backgrounds at […]

A skateboarding dog, which his owner claims taught himself, has gone viral after stunning onlookers in a London park. French bulldog Eric was spotted riding the board in a skate bowl in Hackney’s Clissold Park on Tuesday. Footage of the incident was posted online by book critic Imogen Russell Williams, 35, who said she was […]

A Turkish naval military exercise within Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone and Nicosia’s flight information region (FIR) took place on Wednesday morning. Ankara issued on Monday two marine advisories or Navtex for large areas west and southwest of Paphos for exercises, as well as for an area a few nautical miles off the coast of Larnaca. The areas […]

President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker will discuss the Cyprus issue with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings later in the week, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the EC’s chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas, Juncker, along with several members of the […]

Egypt has unveiled a massive granite statue of Ramses II, the most powerful and celebrated of the ancient Pharaohs, after completing its restoration. Standing 11 metres tall and weighing 75 tonnes, the statue was presented in a floodlit ceremony at the Luxor Temple on the banks of the Nile on Tuesday evening. When the statue […]

THE elderly brother and sister who died in a fire at their house in Vouni on Tuesday were most probably unconscious but alive when they were burnt to death, police said on Wednesday. The two charred bodies found in a burning house in the Vouni area, near Limassol on Tuesday morning are believed to be […]

By Stephanie Nebehay The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Western countries and drug companies pledged fresh support on Wednesday to wipe out diseases that blind, disable and disfigure millions of poor in tropical areas each year and urged new donors to join the fight. Some 1.5 billion people, mainly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, […]

Their youth long gone, members of Japan’s generation of “parasite singles” face a precarious future, wondering how to survive once the parents many depended on for years pass away. Some 4.5 million Japanese aged between 35 and 54 were living with their parents in 2016, according to a researcher at the Statistical Research and Training […]

The Poseidon consortium’s ambitious €215 million project to build and run the new Paphos marina was finally rejected on Wednesday, leaving runner up Pafilia construction company in with a chance to take on the project. The marina management committee has now asked Pafilia to provide evidence that they can fund the construction and running of […]