Новости за 18.10.2017

Bayern Munich eased past Celtic 3-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday to hand coach Jupp Heynckes a victorious return to the competition he won with them in 2013. First-half goals from Thomas Mueller and Joshua Kimmich put them in the driving seat and Mats Hummels grabbed a third in the 51st minute to round […]

Manchester United ground out a 1-0 win at Benfica in Champions League Group A on Wednesday after forward Marcus Rashford scored a bizarre goal which embarrassed the home team’s 18-year-old goalkeeper Mile Svilar. The result left United top of the section with a maximum nine points from three games, three ahead of second-placed Swiss side […]

Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster said on Wednesday that tackling illegal bird trapping was one of the British bases’ top priorities. Lancaster was at the House of Commons to answer questions submitted in writing by a number of MPs on illegal bird trapping within the British bases territory in Cyprus. Responding […]

  State doctors on Wednesday responded positively to Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis’ call to discuss the operation of the new ‘fast-track’ system at the Nicosia hospital’s emergency department (A&E) which is being reassessed after it failed to deliver due to poor planning. Despite his earlier statements that he would not include the state doctors’ union […]

The death of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, a music superstar beloved for songs about culture, small towns and hockey, triggered an outpouring of tributes and grief across Canada on Wednesday. Downie, 53, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2015, died on Tuesday night surrounded by his family, according to a family statement. Weeping openly, Canadian […]

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak said on Wednesday she planned to run in next year’s presidential election, offering liberal voters unhappy with President Vladimir Putin’s rule someone to back, though she has little prospect of winning. Opinion polls show Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for nearly two decades, will comfortably win re-election if, as […]

Twitter plans to toughen its rules on online sexual harassment and impose stronger penalties for misconduct, according to an email it sent to a group of safety advocates, academics and researchers that helps the social media service set its policies. The new rules, which will likely be introduced in the next few weeks, are aimed […]

  Government efforts to make the country a regional education hub has proved successful as the number of foreign students has almost tripled within three years, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday. Kadis told the members of the House education committee that during the 2012-2013 academic year, more than 8,300 foreign students were registered […]

Police are investigating the death of a young man whose body was found on Wednesday afternoon in a park in Lakatamia, in Nicosia, near the Fire Service headquarters. According to the police, there was also blood at the scene, and they are investigating all scenarios. The man was located at around 6.20pm at the Pedieos […]

The pilots of an Air Berlin flight that performed a fly-past during the insolvent carrier’s last long-haul flight to its hub in Duesseldorf have been suspended, the airline said on Wednesday. When coming into land from Miami on Monday morning, the A330 jet flew low across the runway, then pulled up and banked sharply to the left before landing […]

Germany believes a lot has already been achieved in Brexit negotiations and Berlin is upbeat about the prospects of making further progress in the talks, a German government official said on Wednesday. EU leaders will discuss Brexit at a summit on Thursday and Friday, when they will deliver a verdict on progress made in the […]

The Labour Party’s ‘Friends of Cyprus Group’ was launched on Tuesday evening at an event held in the UK parliament, in the presence of the party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn and a number of Labour MPs. The initiative for the creation of the group belongs to Vassilis Mavrou, who said that the aim is to “create closer bonds […]

Two artists, Marianna Constanti and Miriam McConnon Papageorgiou, will come together on Saturday at the Almyra Hotel in Paphos to share their love of letters in the exhibition Voice of Ink. Voice of Ink, which is organised by Almyra Hotel and the Bank of Cyprus, is part of the organisations’ joint efforts to showcase works […]

A bill aimed at stamping out match fixing will be put to the vote in two weeks, chairman of the House education committee said on Wednesday. Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said the bill was discussed for the last time on Wednesday, urging parliament to approve the bill so that the problem could be tackled. Cypriot […]

A prominent lawyer doing time for corruption had nothing to do with the case that led to his prosecution and the court had failed to adequately weigh the conditions in which each one of the offences had been committed, the supreme court heard on Wednesday. Arguing on behalf of Panayiotis Neocleous, defence lawyer Alecos Markides […]

Usain Bolt, the ‘world’s fastest man’, will be putting Formula One title favourite Lewis Hamilton under starter’s orders for what could be a decisive US Grand Prix this weekend. The eight-time Olympic gold medallist sprinter, who retired after the world championships in London last August, has been enlisted to send the field off for the […]

The team investigating the banking scandals is confined to criminal investigation, attorney-general Costas Clerides told the House ethics committee on Wednesday, adding that everything else is already known. In closed session, Clerides briefed the committee in response to mounting criticism that the investigators and the Legal Service are taking far too long to produce results. […]

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottidis said on Wednesday that around 3,000 complaints filed with her office, half of which concern this year, are still pending. Speaking to the House finance committee which discussed her office’s budget for next year, Lottidis said that 131 complaints concern racism and were filed between 2011 and 2017. Another 151 pending complaints […]

  A theatre and performing arts school in Paphos is celebrating five successful years since it was set up and on Sunday evening, five of its students competing in the popular TV show, ‘Greece has got Talent’, were sent through to the next round. Filmed and produced in Greece, the programme is broadcast in Cyprus […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged Catalonia’s leader on Wednesday to “act sensibly” and renounce an independence bid to head off a threat by Madrid to impose direct rule, a prospect that has sent shock waves across the country. Rajoy issued his appeal in the national parliament where he sought to win more political support […]

At least 1,320 underage Dutch girls between the ages of 12 and 17 fall victim to sexual exploitation in the Netherlands each year, a report on human trafficking published on Wednesday showed. That group makes up nearly half of female trafficking victims in the Dutch sex industry, Corinne Dettmeijer, National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human […]

The civil defence said it will be testing emergency sirens next week in Larnaca and Famagusta. The force said it will be testing some sirens in Larnaca starting on Wednesday, October25 until Friday, October 27, between 8am and 3pm. Tests in Famagusta will begin on Tuesday, October 31 until Friday, November 3 between 8am and […]

Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri says he believes that Manchester City are now at the same level as Barcelona and Real Madrid and can go on to win the Champions League this season. City delivered a blistering 20 minutes of attacking football to take a two-goal lead over Napoli at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday but […]

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) on Wednesday named control of the interior ministry as its price for joining a future coalition government following its strong showing in a parliamentary election. The anti-immigrant, anti-Islam FPO won around 26 per cent of votes cast in Sunday’s election. The conservative People’s Party (OVP) won most votes by also […]

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool have been breathtaking and infuriating in equal measure this season, but it all came together on Tuesday as they displayed their devastating attacking prowess in a 7-0 victory against Maribor. As has been the case too often this season, Liverpool’s opening two Champions League draws against Sevilla and Spartak Moscow were characterised […]