Новости за 28.10.2017

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel seized his 50th Formula One pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix on Saturday with title rival Lewis Hamilton third on the grid and poised for a fourth world championship. The German will now be the favourite to win Sunday’s race, barring any recurrence of Ferrari’s recent reliability problems, but he also […]

Eden Hazard’s second-half strike proved enough for champions Chelsea to eke out a 1-0 Premier League victory at struggling Bournemouth on Saturday. The Belgian, Chelsea’s main threat throughout, punished poor home defending six minutes after the break when he lashed a shot past Asmir Begovic for his third goal in his last three games for […]

By Evie Andreou The attorney-general has ruled that parents should have no say as to the content of sexual education modules taught in state schools, nor do they have the right to request that their children be exempt, an education ministry official has said. The ministry requested the opinion of the attorney-general earlier in the […]

Winter Time kicks in at 4am on Sunday when clocks will turn back an hour for daylight saving. The time change that marks the end of the Summer Time takes place each year on the last Sunday of October. Daylight is observed by all EU countries. Winter Time will be in effect until March 26, […]

K Cineplex in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos will invite Shakespeare fans to a screening of the play All’s Well That Ends Well on Friday at 7pm. The performance, starring Janie Dee, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Ellie Piercy, Same Crane and directed by John Dove, was filmed at The Globe in London and re-tells the comedy […]

Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden struck twice as England came from behind to thrash European champions Spain 5-2 and clinch their maiden Under-17 World Cup title in Kolkata, India on Saturday. After Morgan Gibbs-White nearly put England ahead early on, Spain took the lead as Barcelona’s Sergio Gomez beat the offside trap to tap in […]

Manchester City continued their superb start to the season with a 3-2 win at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday which kept them five points clear at the top of the Premier League. Leroy Sane put City ahead after 10 minutes with a left-foot shot into the corner of the net for his eighth goal of […]

Minor league Salford City’s goalkeeper Max Crocombe was shown a red card against Bradford Park Avenue on Saturday after urinating on the pitch during the closing stages of the match. New Zealander Crocombe, 24, was dismissed in the 87th minute of the National League North clash at Horsfall Stadium which Salford still won 2-1. “We […]

Police have again requested the authorities in the north hand over one of the prime suspects for the murder of George Law,22, the British tourist who was stabbed in August 2016 in Ayia Napa. The two suspects – Mehmet Akpinar, 23, and Sali Musa Ahmet, 44 – had crossed to the north after the incident […]

Bombs killed at least seven people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said. “So far at least seven people including soldiers and civilians died,” Mohamed Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters. Police said earlier a suicide car bomb had been rammed into a hotel and a former government building had been attacked It was […]

A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday and then armed militants stormed the building, police said. Major Abdullahi Aden, a police officer told Reuters the car bomb exploded at the gate of Nasahablod Two hotel. “They are fighting inside. So far we do not have casualty figures,” […]

Venus Williams rallied from the disappointment of losing a tight first set to blast her way past Caroline Garcia 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 and set up a WTA Finals title showdown against Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday. The evergreen American has enjoyed a brilliant campaign, reaching two grand slam finals in 2017, and the 37-year-old American was […]

Sacked Catalonian president Carles Puigdemont on Saturday called for peaceful “democratic opposition” to the central government’s takeover of the region following its unilateral declaration of independence from Spain. Puigdemont, whose regional government was dismissed by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday, accused Madrid of “premeditated aggression” against the will of the Catalans. Rajoy removed […]

Substitute Anthony Martial’s 81st minute strike gave Manchester United a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Saturday to keep them in touch with Premier League leaders Manchester City. After last week’s surprise defeat at Huddersfield Town, Jose Mourinho’s team could ill afford another slip-up but they found it hard to break down […]

An extradition procedure is to begin on Saturday for a 61-year-old woman wanted in Israel for a case concerning child abduction who was arrested on Friday at the Larnaca airport before leaving the country. According to the police, the woman had arrived at Larnaca airport early afternoon to catch a flight to Israel. During passport […]

An extradition procedure is to begin on Saturday for a 61-year-old woman who is wanted in Israel for a case concerning child abduction who was arrested on Friday at the Larnaca airport before leaving the country. According to the police, the woman had arrived at Larnaca airport early afternoon to catch a flight to Israel. […]

The Animattikon Project will not only showcase short animation films, it will also bring music into the mix with a performance by Stelios Hadjicosta to get the project rolling. Hadjicosta will open the three-day festival with ten of his original songs, which he has written over the last decade. These songs will take form with […]

Catalonia’s police force told its officers to remain neutral in the struggle over the region’s fight for independence from Spain, a step towards averting possible conflict as the Madrid government starts to impose control on Saturday. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dismissed the Catalan government, took over the administration and called a new election after […]

CYPRUS-based Cobalt Air announced that it has carried 740,000 passengers in the first 16 months of its operation. The air carrier’s ground operations manager, Nikos Petrou, said at an event organised by the company in Larnaca, that the airline sells around 2,500 tickets per day. Cobalt has a six-aircraft fleet and flies to 17 destinations, […]

A 39-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Saturday after attacking a nurse in an ambulance that was transferring him to the Paphos general hospital. Police said that an ambulance was called in at around 3am to pick up a 39-year-old man who was drunk, from a street in Paphos. After picking him […]

Dr. George Kyriakides, the first transplant expert in Cyprus died on Saturday at the age of 74, after years of battling with illness. Kyriakides had been the head of the Paraskevaidion Transplant Centre, and the first doctor to perform a kidney transplant in Cyprus in 1986. During his service at the Paraskevaideion, Kyriakides saw Cyprus become […]

Dr. George Kyriakides, the first transplant expert in Cyprus died on Saturday at the age of 74, after years of battling with illness. Kyriakides had been the head of the Paraskevaidion Transplant Centre, and the first doctor to perform a kidney transplant in Cyprus in 1986. During his service at the Paraskevaideion, Kyriakides saw Cyprus become […]

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appointed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as acting prime minister on Saturday while he travels abroad after a citizenship crisis ousted his deputy and cost his government its parliamentary majority. Turnbull had been scheduled to fly to Israel on Friday for a week-long visit but was unable to leave without an […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that he could not imagine United States ever accepting a nuclear North Korea, warning that its rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs would undermine, not strengthen, its security. Mattis has been at pains during his week-long trip to Asia to stress that diplomacy is America’s preferred course, […]

Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo reminded Lewis Hamilton that he has a fight on his hands to win the Mexican Grand Prix however inevitable the Mercedes’s driver’s fourth world championship may be. Hamilton is on the brink of becoming Britain’s first four-time world champion but he wants to do it with a victory on Sunday. He […]