Новости за 06.05.2017

Whether you have already celebrated Mother’s Day or if you are about to celebrate it next weekend, a gift for your mother never really has a date and it should be something as unique as a work of art. Giving us the chance to show our mothers how much we really care – or if […]

Hull City’s hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation suffered a body blow after goals from Billy Jones and Jermain Defoe condemned them to a 2-0 home defeat by already axed Sunderland on Saturday. This was their first home defeat under manager Marco Silva. The result left Hull one place above the drop zone in 17th on 34 […]

THE Moufflons came within a whisker of retaining their place in Division 2 of the European Conference when in the dying minutes of the game, and with four men down through exhaustion and injury, the visitors facing a defeat by 27-22, scored a converted try and left the field at Paphos winners by 27-29. A […]

An 85-year-old Nepali man attempting to become the oldest to climb Mount Everest died at the base camp on Saturday, a hiking official said, the second climber to die in a week while preparing to climb the world’s highest mountain. Min Bahadur Sherchan was on way to the 8,850-metre (29,035 feet) Everest Summit to claim […]

The UN secretary-general, concerned by the state of the peace talks, has put forward “some ideas” which his Cyprus envoy, Espen Barth Eide, will put to the two leaders after he returns to Cyprus on Monday. Eide, who briefed the UN chief, Antonio Guterres, in New York on Friday said they had a “thorough, strategic discussion” […]

Manchester City strengthened their Premier League top-four aspirations with a 5-0 thrashing of a woeful Crystal Palace side at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. City never looked back after David Silva’s 50th goal for the club in the second minute although it was not until the second half that the floodgates opened with Vincent Kompany, Kevin de […]

The feature film Boy on the Bridge by local director Petros Charalambous will be screened tonight at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol as part of the Cyprus Film Days Festival, before its run at K Cineplex. This coming-of-age drama, which is Charalambous’ first feature film, is based on the novel The Land of The Golden […]

Being in the minority in parliament means that the government cannot implement any radical ideas and reforms, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday, adding that this was why it could not be accused of electioneering. Speaking at the opening of the industrial museum of the Limassol chamber of commerce and industry, Anastasiades said he hoped […]

ELIUD Kipchoge ran the quickest recorded marathon on Saturday, crossing the line at the Monza Formula One track in two hours and 25 seconds but missing out on an ambitious attempt to break the two-hour barrier. The 32-year-old’s time smashed the official mark of 2:02:57 set by fellow Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in Berlin in 2014 […]

RUSSIA, Turkey and Iran agreed in a memorandum signed on Thursday to establish four separate de-escalation zones in Syria for at least six months, according to a text detailing the agreement published by the Russian foreign ministry on Saturday. The largest de-escalation zone includes Idlib province and adjoining districts of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces. […]

  Around 600 people in Cyprus suffer from thalassaemia and 16 per cent of Cypriots are carriers, putting them among the highest percentage in the world, according to the Cyprus-based Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF). In an announcement to mark World Thalassaemia Day on Monday, May 8 the group highlighted Cyprus’ role as a pioneer in […]

Taliban militants captured a district just outside the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, officials said, pointing to renewed pickup in fighting after the insurgents announced their annual spring offensive last week. Mahfouz Akbari, a police spokesman for eastern Afghanistan, said security forces had pulled out of Qala-i-Zal district, west of Kunduz city, on […]

    Panayiotis Kleovoulou, a Limassol-based lawyer associated with far-right political movements, was arrested on Saturday in connection with an attack by some 20 black-clad and hooded men against a gathering of left-wing organisations at Limassol’s technical university the previous night. Early on Saturday, warrants for the arrest of Kleovoulou, 57, and Antonis Pieridis, 52, […]

The retirement of Britain’s Prince Philip from public life led world headlines on Thursday, but his most devout and remote followers have only just heard the news. A tribe in Vanuatu was shocked and dismayed to discover on Saturday that the man they pray to as the son of an ancestral local mountain god will […]

Where do you live? I live in Panthea in Mesa Yeitonia, Limassol. Best childhood memory? Visiting Movie World at the Gold Coast Australia in the early nineties. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? Epsilon at the Limassol Marina. My favourite dish is crunchy miso […]

A Paphos based artist has issued an open call for old or new handwritten letters to be sent to her which will be used as part of a public art installation. She needs hundreds more to reach her 1,000 or so target. Miriam McConnon, a visual artist, said that people wishing to participate in the […]

Two men were arrested at Paphos airport on Friday for carrying 28 kilos of untaxed tobacco in their luggage, police said. According to a police report, a 61-year-old man from Larnaca who was attempting to leave Cyprus was found carrying 22.5 kilos of tobacco, packaged in bags of 50 grams. A 53-year-old man, also from […]

A 46-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Saturday morning in connection with the abduction of four-year-old Marie Eleni Grimsrud on April 27, police announced. According to a police report, the man was arrested following new evidence implicating him. Two Cypriot men and a Dutch woman remain in custody as they are thought to have […]

By Jon Herskovitz A white Texas police officer turned himself in on Friday to face a charge of murder in the shooting death of a black 15-year-old boy who was in a car moving away from the officer when the policeman opened fire, authorities said. Former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver, 37, turned himself […]

Parliament on Friday approved a law regulating employee movement in the wider public sector. The bill was one of five submitted by the government aiming at reforming the civil service. The other four were rejected by parliament. On Friday, 40 of the present MPs voted in favour of the bill that basically incorporates semi- governmental […]

Two Relegation Group games take place today in the Cyprus Football Championship featuring teams that, given their current league standings, will remain in the top flight for next season as well. Group leaders Ermis Aradippou take on second-placed Nea Salamina while the second game involves the next two teams in the table, Ethnikos Achnas and […]

The Cyprus national rugby side face Croatia on Saturday at the Paphiacos Stadium, with only a win enough to stave off relegation. The Moufflons have crashed from their glorious pinnacle of six years unbeaten, when they set a world record of 24 straight wins, to their current position of propping up the European Conference South […]

AUDITOR-GENERAL Odysseas Michaelides, intoxicated by the positive publicity he has enjoyed, decided to censure and publicly embarrass another minister – the fourth since his appointment. After the ministers of interior, finance and education, he has decided communications and works minister Marios Demetriades has to be put in his place for interfering in the terms of […]

A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country’s next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen. Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League title hopes suffered a crushing blow as their nine-match winning run ended in a 1-0 defeat at West Ham United on Friday. Manuel Lanzini’s scrappy 65th-minute effort decided a derby that Tottenham had largely dominated without ever reaching the levels that had raised hopes of a first title since 1961. Tottenham […]