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Results from the US Open Men’s Singles matches on Wednesday: Round 1 33-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) beat Tim Smyczek (U.S.) 6-1 6-4 6-4 Viktor Troicki (Serbia) beat Norbert Gombos (Slovakia) 3-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-3 Taylor Fritz (U.S.) beat Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 6-4 6-4 6-3 Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) beat 27-Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay) 7-5 7-6(3) […]

Marcos Baghdatis has been beaten in the first round of the US Open, the Cypriot losing 6-4 6-4 6-3 to American 19-year-old Taylor Fritz. In a match postponed from Tuesday due to rain, Baghdatis, ranked 83 in the world, had no answer to the world 108 and exited the tournament without much of a fight. […]

Nick Kyrgios could not shake off a shoulder pain or cope with his frustration as he slumped to a 6-3 1-6 6-4 6-1 defeat by fellow Australian John Millman in the US Open first round on Wednesday. The 14th seed had treatment at the beginning of the third set after levelling at 1-1, but the […]

An easyJet flight from Scotland to Cyprus had to be diverted to Poland following a passenger incident, the airline said on Wednesday. Sources told the Cyprus Mail the incident concerned two passengers who must have been drunk. Easyjet announced on its website that the Edinburgh to Paphos flight EZY6945 had to make an unscheduled landing […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday that the documents he sent to various people, including journalists, last week were not really confidential, but were graded as such by himself because they were exclusively for the use of the recipients. Speaking on the side lines of a fire service event, Anastasiades said he will issue a […]

The huge increase in football transfer fees is both dangerous for the game and risks alienating fans, Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness said on Wednesday. The world transfer record was shattered this month when Brazil’s Neymar moved from Barcelona to Paris St Germain in a deal worth 222 million euros, more than double the previous highest price […]

A delegation from the Cyprus Alliance for Rare Disorders on Wednesday presented President Nicos Anastasiades with suggestions on how to integrate the singularities of rare diseases into the health sector reform. In statements after the meeting, Androula Eleftheriou, president of the organisation, said they had an extremely constructive meeting. “We thanked and congratulated the President […]

Tottenham Hotspur completed their third signing of the transfer window when defender Juan Foyth joined the Premier League club from Argentina’s Estudiantes on Wednesday. Spurs said the 19-year-old, reportedly a target for Paris St Germain, had signed a five-year deal. Last week they signed Colombia central defender Davinson Sanchez from Ajax Amsterdam for a club […]

Paphos will become home to five pianos which will be moved around over a period of five days as of today. Anyone can play them and at one of these locations – Makarios Avenue – a group of professional piano players will join in. As part of the Five Pianos, Five Days, Five Places event, […]

Princes William and Harry paid a quiet tribute to their mother Princess Diana on Wednesday, a day before the 20th anniversary of her death that has reignited interest in one of the world’s most famous women. Diana’s two sons met representatives of the charities she supported in a public garden at Kensington Palace, their home […]

Egypt is pushing to educate people in rural areas on birth control and family planning in a bid to slow a population growth rate that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said poses a threat to national development. The country is already the most populous in the Arab world with 93 million citizens and is set to […]

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is looking into the opening of Dherynia beach close to the fenced-off town of Varosha in Famagusta but only to Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals. Following a letter from the National Federation of Cypriots to Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, the FCO responded, saying it was aware of the […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has sent a letter to the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker saying that the north’s harmonisation with the EU acquis should move ahead without interruption. The letter was in response to a one sent to the leaders by Juncker after the talks in Crans-Montana collapsed last month. In […]

Unfazed by a slander suit filed against him, Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos launched a fresh attack against businessman Nicos Shacolas, accusing him of operating a department store in Paphos illegally. Apart from receiving preferential treatment in being granted large parcels of Turkish Cypriot property, Phedonos accused Shacolas of using a building in Paphos as a […]

  The prosecution in the trial of former police deputy chief Andreas Kyriacou, dismissed for allegedly leaking classified internal police documents, on Wednesday was granted until September 20 to furnish the defence with earlier internal probes that found no evidence of the identity of the person behind the leaks. In the last hearing in July, […]

Bank workers’ union Etyk said on Wednesday that the rejection by the finance minister of its demands for complete compensation of provident funds for losses suffered in the banking crisis, confirms that it is being unfairly treated. The cabinet’s decision in July to compensate funds for 75 per cent of their losses with a cap […]

US President Donald Trump’s criticism of journalists amounts to an attack on the freedom of the press and could provoke violence against reporters, the United Nations’ human rights chief said on Wednesday. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said Trump had also made worrying remarks about women, Mexicans and Muslims and went on to question the president’s approach […]

More than 20,000 revellers threw 160 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other in Spain on Wednesday in an epic, annual food fight known as the “Tomatina”. Amid higher security measures after the recent Islamist attacks in Catalonia, partygoers from Spain and abroad gathered for the messy battle in the town of Bunol in eastern […]

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims began the annual haj pilgrimage on Wednesday, donning traditional white garments and heading to a tent camp outside the holy city of Mecca in an itinerary retracing the route Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago. Nearly 2 million worshippers, from nearly every country, arrived in Saudi Arabia this week for […]

Around 3,100 undeclared workers have been registered with the social insurance department in the past month, ahead of Sunday’s deadline to declare them, senior inspector at the labour relations services Andreas Apostolou said on Wednesday. Employers who fail to report their illegal workers by September 3 will be fined €500 for each of them, going […]

The family of the late former defence minister Costas Papacostas, who died in 2015 while serving a five-year jail term for manslaughter over the 2011 Mari blast, has sued the Republic and the attorney-general over the conditions of his detention and death, it emerged on Wednesday. Papacostas, the only government official convicted over the state’s […]

Ryanair is launching a new Paphos route to Dublin, with a twice-weekly service commencing in April 2018, the first of its summer 2018 routes. Tickets will go on sale on the Ryanair.com website in September. According to an announcement on Wednesday, Ryanair has also instituted customer improvements including 20 Air Europa routes from Madrid,  connecting […]

Arsenal have turned down a notional offer of 50 million pounds for Chilean forward Alexis Sanchez from Premier League rivals Manchester City, the London club said on Tuesday. English newspapers had linked Sanchez with a move to Pep Guardiola’s side in exchange for England forward Raheem Sterling. “No formal bid but fair to say that […]

Spain’s prime minister challenged lawmakers to table a no confidence vote in his government as he answered questions over alleged illegal financing of his conservative People’s Party. Mariano Rajoy defended his record on fighting corruption during testy exchanges with lawmakers at the hearing on Wednesday, called at a politically delicate time when he no longer […]

Name: Cowslips (Primula veris) Otherwise known as: Paigle Habitat: A herbaceous perennial member of the Primulaceae family, growing to about 30cm in meadows and open woodland in Europe and West Asia. The leaves, which are wrinkled, hairy and oblong, are arranged in a rosette from which springs up to 30 long-stemmed, deep yellow flowers, all […]