Новости за 23.09.2017

Manchester City ran riot in the second half at the Etihad to thrash Crystal Palace 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday, while Manchester United made hard work of their 1-0 win at Southampton. City were second best for much of the first half but Leroy Sane’s goal just before halftime gave them the momentum to go […]

The day after Diego Costa flew to Atletico Madrid after sealing his £58m move, his replacement, Alvaro Morata, scored a hat-trick in Chelsea’s 4-0 rout of Stoke City to mark the dawning of a new era at the champions. The hat-trick was the first by a Chelsea player in the Premier League since Costa’s in September 2014, […]

Usually the thought of hearing voices in our heads can be a scary thing, but not when it comes to an event the European City of Culture Pafos2017 has planned. The unique event, co-organised with the embassy of Switzerland in Cyprus, is Remote Paphos – a tailor-made creation in which all those involved are given […]

By Bejay Browne Dasoudi Park in central Paphos is a shady, safely enclosed space with a popular cafe, a playground area and a small amphitheatre. It should be a gem, but parents say the park is a disgrace and in urgent need of a massive tidy up and new playground equipment. It has got so […]

Tottenham Hotspur secured a 3-2 victory at West Ham United on Saturday, having survived a late comeback from their London rivals and played the last 20 minutes with 10 men. The result never appeared in doubt as Spurs dominated early on and the pressure told as Harry Kane headed the visitors into a 34th-minute lead, […]

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck southeast of the town of Matías Romero in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. Slight quake tremors were felt, and seismic alarms sounded on Saturday in Mexico City, which earlier this week was hit by the country’s most deadly earthquake in decades. That 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed more […]

A 19-year-old Swedish man was killed early on Saturday after falling from the third floor of an apartment building in Limassol while reportedly trying to access his flat. Police have ruled out foul play in the 3.40am incident. Officers were told that the man, a permanent resident, was with a compatriot in the hall of […]

The Old Vinegar House and the Centre of Performing Arts MITOS will give another taste of what the Yard.Residency.17 has come up with during the seventh residency organised by the art centre tomorrow. Under the name The Ice Cream Van, performers Loukia Pieridou, Sylvain Chevet, Dramaturgy- Louisa Borg-Costanzi Potts, Mentor- Diomedes Koufteros will use the […]

TURKEY said on Saturday it would take security and other steps in response to a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region that it called a “terrible mistake”, as a Kurdish delegation was in Baghdad for talks on the crisis. The Turkish parliament was to convene later on Saturday to vote on extending a mandate that […]

  GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel, poised to win a fourth term in Sunday’s election, urged supporters on Saturday to keep fighting for votes with a third of the electorate still undecided. Merkel’s call was echoed by her centre-left challenger Martin Schulz of the Social Democrats, now in an unwieldy “grand coalition” with her conservatives. Merkel […]

DEFENDING champion Caroline Wozniacki crushed new world number one Garbine Muguruza 6-2 6-0 on Saturday to advance to the final of the Pan Pacific Open as the Dane remained on course for a third title at the Tokyo tournament. The third seed rallied from a set down to win her previous two matches but the […]

A 54-year-old Russian tourist died while swimming in the sea off the Venus hotel in Paphos, police said on Saturday. His wife said he had entered the water at around 11am and 20 minutes later she saw him floating apparently unconscious. The man was pulled out and rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead […]

Team Europe swept the singles matches at the inaugural Laver Cup on Friday before Australian Nick Kyrgios and American Jack Sock took down top-ranked Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych in the doubles to salvage a point for Team World. The Europeans, the clear favourites with five of the world’s top seven players, jumped ahead 3-1 […]

China’s earthquake administration said on Saturday it had detected a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion”, raising fears the isolated state had conducted another nuclear bomb test weeks after its last one. An official at South Korea’s meteorological agency said they were analyzing the tremor, which they put at magnitude […]

A recent, unofficial figure, quoted by animal welfare group Cat Paws, estimates that there are 1.5 million cats in Cyprus, i.e. more cats than people. Most of them are stray cats, having to fend for themselves on the streets. Many humans are unsympathetic to their plight – but some try to help, even when it […]

The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt have expressed support to Nicosia’s efforts for a Cyprus settlement “without outdated security arrangements”. During a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly the minister also agreed that the presence of the peacekeeping mission on the island is indispensable. In a Joint […]

A bomb explosion early on Saturday damaged a car belonging to a 57-year-old Limassol woman, police said. The blast was recorded at 6.38am. The car, which was used by the woman’s son, 30, was parked outside her home in the Omonia area. A second unexploded device was found on the veranda. It appears that the […]

These athletes were very successful, and they fought their own demons to get to the top.

A search was underway off the coast of Limassol on Saturday to locate a fisherman reported missing by his family last night. Police said they received a notification regarding a missing man, 67, at around 8pm on Friday. A patrol boat was dispatched to the area where it found the fisherman’s boat but no signs […]

What do you fear? What makes you tremble with the feeling and has the subject of that fear changed with time? Getting us thinking about our fears and how fear is perceived in today’s society, will be the performance of the play Fear Industry tonight at the Almyra hotel in Paphos. The English, 32-act play, […]

China said on Saturday it will ban exports of some petroleum products to North Korea, as well as imports of textiles from the isolated North, in line with a United Nations Security Council resolution passed after Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test. The announcement from Beijing came at the end of a week that saw tensions ratchet […]

Hurricane Maria, the second major storm to ravage the Caribbean in a month, skirted past the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday, leaving devastation in its wake that included fresh flooding on Puerto Rico two days after pummeling the U.S. island territory. Maria, which ranked as the most powerful hurricane to strike Puerto Rico in […]

The side that cannot stop scoring goals hosts one that has forgotten what it feels like to see the net bulge when leaders Manchester City face rock bottom Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday. Pep Guardiola’s City slickers look like the real deal this season and 11 of the 16 league goals they have scored in five Premier […]

The Limassol derby between AEL and Apollon is the highlight for the fifth round of the Football Championship, while another fixture that will attract attention is the Nea Salamina and AEK clash. Limassol will be a divided city come Saturday night as its two big teams AEL and Apollon will meet for the first time […]

The Mayor of Polis Chrysochous has hit back at critics of a newly built four storey hotel in Latchi, saying that such buildings are welcome in the area and will create new jobs and encourage tourism. A recent statement from the Green Party, aghast that the hotel that has ‘sprung up almost overnight’, heaped criticism […]