Новости за 18.11.2017

Paul Pogba scored one and created another on his return from a two month injury layoff to lead Manchester United to a 4-1 win over Newcastle United at Old Trafford on Saturday as they maintained their 100 percent home record. With Zlatan Ibrahimovic also making his return in a cameo substitute appearance and Argentine defender […]

Manchester City enjoyed another satisfying afternoon in the Premier League, brushing off Leicester City 2-0 for their 16th consecutive win in all competitions and seeing one of their closest pursuers Tottenham Hotspur lose ground. Mauricio Pochettino’s side went down 2-0 at Arsenal whose performance rebuffed the notion that the balance of power has permanently shifted […]

England, helped by TMO, see off Australia 30-6 * TMO decisions hurt Wallabies * Three late tries lift England to record win (Adds detail, quotes) By Mitch Phillips LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – England battled to a fifth successive win over Australia when they triumphed 30-6 at a sodden Twickenham on Saturday but they had […]

The Achord Community Choir will perform together with the Cyprus Brass Band and Harmony Singers, Paphos, next Saturday to raise funds for local charities. Just before the Christmas rush and the season for Christmas caroling, the choir – together with their singing guests – will perform their annual concert at the Sunshine Taverna, Curium Beach, […]

Belgium’s David Goffin pulled off a huge shock to beat six-time champion Roger Federer 2-6 6-3 6-4 in the semi-finals of the ATP Finals on Saturday. Few gave the willowy world number eight a prayer against the Swiss favourite, especially having lost all six previous meetings, but he staged a remarkable comeback after being outclassed […]

Winter weather is on the way with rain and storms expected on the island from Sunday night, lasting into the beginning of next week, the met office said on Saturday. According to the met office, Sunday is expected to be partly cloudy with isolated showers, with rain and local storms developing later in the day. […]

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party will meet on Sunday to dismiss President Robert Mugabe and reinstate the vice-president he dismissed, Emmerson Mnangagwa, two party sources told Reuters on Saturday. The sources said a party central committee meeting scheduled for 10:30 a.m. (0830 GMT) would also dismiss 93-year-old Mugabe’s preferred successor, his wife Grace, from her role […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will discuss energy issues, economy, education and culture with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is due on the island on Monday on an official visit, he said on Saturday. This will be the first ever official visit of an Egyptian President to the island, Anastasiades said, “despite the close relations […]

Malcolm Young, who founded the Australian rock band AC/DC along with his brother Angus, has died at age 64 after suffering from dementia for several years, the band said on its Facebook page on Saturday. Malcolm Young was a songwriter, backing vocalist and rhythm guitarist for AC/DC, a hard rock and heavy metal band that […]

Scottish Labour elected Richard Leonard as its new leader on Saturday, cementing the control of Jeremy Corbyn over Britain’s opposition Labour Party north of the English border and – supporters hope – priming it to regain the political impetus. Winning in left-leaning Scotland is key to a Labour bid to unseat conservative Theresa May as […]

A 49-year-old Russian man who was arrested on Friday afternoon in connection with the murder of a 51-year-old Bulgarian, whose decomposing body was found stabbed in the chest in his Larnaca apartment, was remanded on Saturday for eight days. The 49-year-old had reportedly had a physical altercation last week with Daniel Nicolov from Bulgaria, who […]

Shkodran Mustafi and Alexis Sanchez earned Arsenal a convincing 2-0 Premier League win over Tottenham Hotspur in the north London derby at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday. Mustafi opened the scoring with a superb 36th-minute header and Sanchez doubled the advantage five minutes later with a close-range strike. The result lifted Arsenal to fifth place […]

Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, said on Saturday he would clarify his position when he returns to Beirut next week. Hariri’s resignation on Nov. 4 threw Lebanon into political crisis and put it centre-stage in the Middle East’s overarching rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and its […]

Zimbabweans celebrating the expected fall of President Robert Mugabe began marching towards his residence in the capital Harare on Saturday, live television pictures showed, as the country prepared to oust its leader of the last 37 years. Earlier in the day tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital singing, dancing and […]

Even in modern times, the arts are still seen to be for the elite, the academics and the eccentric. This is why Dancecyprus, in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre, are getting ready to show us a world of dance that is accessible for everyone through the dance performance Elliot on the Planet of Dance. Elliot […]

Stronger action is needed to protect children from sexual exploitation online, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Stella Kyriakides said on Saturday, highlighting a new set of guidelines, due next year, that Council of Europe member states will be asked to abide by. In her message to mark the European […]

Diko leader and presidential candidate Nikolas Papadopoulos announced on Saturday that, if elected, he would introduce the policy of planting a tree for every newborn. Papadopoulos, who took part in a tree planting event at a park in Dasoupolis, Nicosia organised by the Green Party and the Strovolos municipality, said his proposed policy is aimed […]

Where do you live? Limassol with my wonderful daughter, the most perfect human being ever born Best childhood memory? Being elected president of the school and having a three-day party about it ???? Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? Any vegetarian restaurant ???? Would […]

Chris Coleman has stepped down as Wales manager, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) said, and is set to take over at Championship side Sunderland. Coleman has agreed to lead Sunderland who were relegated to England’s second tier from the Premier League this year, British media reported. “We are extremely disappointed to see Chris’ tenure […]

Apoel beat arch-rivals Omonia 3-1 in the opening game of Round 12 of the Cyprus football championship on Friday night. In a barren and fairly balanced first half, Apoel opened the scoring against the run of play in the 66th minute through Ghayas Zahid, and the same player doubled his tally when he fired past […]

A female passenger who arrived at Larnaca airport on Friday evening from Moldova was arrested after customs located 52 packs of 200 cigarettes each in her luggage for which no taxes had been paid. The cigarette packs, customs said, did not bear the health warnings in Greek and Turkish, meaning that tax amounting to €1,800 […]

Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans flooded the streets of Harare on Saturday, singing, dancing and hugging soldiers in an extraordinary outpouring of elation at the expected fall of President Robert Mugabe, their leader of the last 37 years. Mugabe, the only ruler Zimbabwe has known since independence from Britain in 1980, has been holed up […]

A 23-year-old man is in critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital after the motorcycle he was riding was hit on Friday afternoon by a car near Pera Chorio industrial area in the Nicosia district. According to police, the accident occurred at around 5.30pm when a car driven by a 53-year-old man on Limassol Avenue […]

Saudi Arabia has summoned its ambassador in Germany home for consultations over comments allegedly made by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel during a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. The Saudi ministry said the government would deliver a protest note to Germany’s ambassador in Riyadh over what it said […]

The Rialto Theatre in Limassol and the Thoc building in Nicosia will both present a screening of the play Yerma from the National Theatre Live series on Tuesday. Yerma, played by Billie Piper, is a childless woman who is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical […]