Новости за 10.07.2017

Novak Djokovic’s fourth round match against France’s Adrian Mannarino was postponed until Tuesday after the marathon battle between Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller concluded late on Monday. Djokovic was due to follow Nadal on Court Number One but the Spaniard’s defeat to Muller lasted four hours 47 minutes and made it impossible for the Serb’s […]

Rafael Nadal’s challenge for a third Wimbledon crown ended in heart-breaking fashion as relentless Luxembourger Gilles Muller won a nerve-jangling fourth-round classic 6-3 6-4 3-6 4-6 15-13 on Monday. The 31-year-old Nadal fought back from two sets down and saved four match points in a 135-minute minute fifth set in which he successfully served to […]

Canada’s Milos Raonic survived a marathon fourth round workout against rising German star Alexander Zverev on Monday, knocking out some pundits’ outside bet for this year’s title 4-6 7-5 4-6 7-5 6-1. Seeded sixth and runner-up last year to Andy Murray, Raonic kept his cool on the crunch points, taking five of eight opportunities to […]

Evergreen Roger Federer kept his quest for a record eighth Wimbledon crown on track on Monday, dispatching Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6-2 6-4 in a match-up of classic styles that had the purists purring. The Bulgarian 13th seed, nicknamed ‘Baby Fed’ when he was a junior on the basis of a single-handed backhand as silkily smooth […]

Former finalist Tomas Berdych reached the last eight at Wimbledon after coming through a brutal five set tussle with Austrian Dominic Thiem on Monday. Berdych, who lost to Rafa Nadal in the 2010 final, came through 6-3 6-7(1) 6-3 3-6 6-3 in a two-hour-and-52 minute encounter on Court Three against the world number eight. The […]

By Emmelia Georgiou On Friday, a musical tribute to singers Dimos Moutsi and Loukianos Kilaidonis will be held at Technopolis 20 garden in Paphos. The tribute will be given by musicians Sotiris Karageorgis, Evagoras Karageorgis and Stelios Cacoyiannis. Sotiris Karageorgis is a known musician, teacher and composer. Through years in the field of choral and […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday the Greek Cypriot side was ready to negotiate a solution within the parameters set by the UN Secretary-General if: the Treaty of Guarantee and the Treaty of Alliance are terminated from Day 1, including the right intervention; an effective mechanism is found for implementing and monitoring the implementation of […]

Lawmakers have postponed until September a vote on an EU harmonising bill through which the state would levy 19 per cent VAT on building and development plots. The legislation concerns the imposition of VAT on land sales for commercial property transactions. On acceding to the EU in 2004, Cyprus was granted a derogation from the […]

The House labour committee has finished discussing a bill providing for the creation of a new inspection service at the labour ministry aimed at clamping down on undeclared employment and other irregularities. A plenum will vote on the bill next week. The inspection service, which will be tasked with making sure there are no violations of the almost 30 laws relating […]

Defending champion Andy Murray eased into the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the 10th successive year with a 7-6(1) 6-4 6-4 victory over Benoit Paire on Monday. Murray was not at his best against Paire and his faltering serve was frequently exploited by the 46th-ranked Frenchman, who caused the Briton trouble without being able to inflict any […]

Tourism in Paphos during August will largely comprise southern European and Cypriot visitors, head of the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) district office said on Monday, with hotels 93-95 per cent full. This month the hotels in Paphos are 97 per cent full. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Thanos Michaelides said that although so far, […]

Manchester United have signed Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton on a five-year contract, the Premier League club said on Monday. British media reported that the fee for the 24-year-old is about £75 million, making him the Old Trafford club’s second most expensive signing after last year’s world-record deal for France midfielder Paul Pogba. “Romelu […]

Wayne Rooney will play across the front line for Everton, his manager Ronald Koeman said on Monday when the 31-year-old made his official return to the club after 13 years with Manchester United. Rooney trained with his new team mates at their Finch Farm centre earlier in the day before addressing the cameras with Koeman […]

By Emmelia Georgiou The Persians by ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus is the earliest surviving work of Ancient Greek drama and the only one based on historical events. It centres around the defeat of Persian arrogance and the triumph of the Greek spirit, adopting a special narrative form. In this play, Xerxes invites the god’s enmity […]

Lofty Croat Marin Cilic demolished Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2 6-2 6-2 at Wimbledon on Monday, doing the damage on distant Court 12 with his pounding serve and thumping forehand. The 28-year-old seventh seed has reached the quarter-finals this year almost under the radar with straight-set victories over solid opponents Philipp Kohlschreiber, Florian Mayer and Steve […]

The exclusion of a child from sexual education programs in schools would be a violation of its rights, Child Protection Commissioner Leda Koursoumba said on Monday, after a group of parents sent a letter to Education Minister Ionas Nicolaou, claiming that they should have the right to exclude their children from these programs if they […]

Simona Halep sent new mum Victoria Azarenka packing 7-6(3) 6-2 in the fourth round on Monday as a litany of second-set errors put paid to the Belarussian’s dreams of a fairytale Wimbledon comeback. Azarenka, playing in her second tournament after the birth of her son Leo in December, out-hit and out-thought the second-seeded Romanian for […]

A 65-year-old Russian tourist died suddenly on Monday while at the beach in Protaras, police said. The man was on shore and collapsed at around 10:15am at the Yianna Marie beach in Protaras. An ambulance was called to the scene where he was taken to a nearby clinic and pronounced dead, police told the Cyprus […]

Johanna Konta became the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals since Jo Durie in 1984 when she beat Caroline Garcia of France 7-6 (3) 4-6 6-4 on Monday. Konta had previously won only one match in five Wimbledon appearances but now suddenly finds herself with a realistic chance of winning it and becoming […]

Akel leader Andros Kyprianou travelled to Athens on Monday to discuss with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the next steps as to the Cyprus problem, following the collapse last week of the talks in Switzerland. The two men are to meet on Monday evening in Tsipras’ office, at Maximos Mansion. Kyprianou said prior to his […]

A wharf in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro used as a marketplace for African slaves has been declared a United Nations heritage site to preserve evidence of “one of the most brutal episodes in the history of humankind”. The UN’s cultural organisation Unesco said up to 900,000 enslaved Africans are believed to have landed […]

By Preston Wilder Something quite shocking happens about two-thirds of the way through Spider-Man: Homecoming: “It’s not working out. I’m gonna need the suit back,” says Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) to impulsive young Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man), effectively casting him out of the Avengers. It’s shocking to see such a durable superhero come so […]

Greece is eyeing the creation by mid-2018 of a state development bank that would lend to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to aid the recovery from its long economic crisis, government officials said on Monday. SMEs account for more than 85 per cent of companies in Greece, according to some assessments, meaning they are a […]

Experience triumphed over youth on Wimbledon’s Centre Court on Monday as Venus Williams downed Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2 in a fourth-round battle of the baseliners. Facing each other across the net for the first time, the oldest and youngest players left in the singles draw slugged it out in a quickfire contest that […]

Top seed Angelique Kerber was dumped out of the last-16 of Wimbledon by Garbine Muguruza on Monday, as the world number one’s woeful run against top-ranked opposition continued. Muguruza’s 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory marked the ninth consecutive time Kerber has failed to beat a top-20 opponent. She last achieved that feat in 2016. Monday’s match […]