Новости за 11.08.2018

Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed away wins on the opening Saturday of the Premier League season while promoted Fulham and Cardiff City were given quick reminders of the tough task they face on their returns to the top flight. Goals from N’Golo Kante, Jorginho (penalty) and Pedro gave Chelsea an impressive 3-0 win at Huddersfield […]

A French theme park has trained six rooks to pick up cigarette butts and other rubbish dropped by visitors in return for food. Christophe Gaborit, the head of falconry at the Puy de Fou park in western France, hand-reared the six rooks and trained them to collect garbage by offering a treat for each piece […]

Police charged a man in the deaths of four people, including two police officers, and identified the civilians killed in a shooting on Friday in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton. Police charged Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48, with four counts of first degree murder, according to a statement on Saturday. They identified the civilian victims […]

Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday. A militant wearing a suicide vest was prevented from approaching a church in Qalyubiyah, a governorate north of Cairo, and detonated the vest about 250 metres from the church, killing himself but no one […]

Albert Einstein said “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.” Since the late 1990s beekeepers around the world have noticed that bees have begun to disappear, which means a decline in food production worldwide. So, to help us love bees and understand how […]

Jan Vertonghen and Dele Alli were on target as Tottenham Hotspur began their Premier League campaign with an entertaining 2-1 victory over Newcastle United on Saturday. All three goals came in a frantic opening 20 minutes on Tyneside with Vertonghen and Alli heading goals for the north London team, who finished third last season, either […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said it was wrong of the United States to try to bring Turkey into line with threats, a day after President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Turkish metal imports as the row between the two Nato allies deepened. The two governments have been at odds over a wide range […]

Political parties on Saturday sought to shift the blame for the early release from jail of disgraced deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou on to the parole board, which had granted his request after parliament unanimously approved a law changing the criteria. There was outrage on Friday after it transpired that Erotokritou, who was jailed for three-and-a-half […]

Four new cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said, as authorities prepare to deploy an experimental treatment. The latest confirmed cases near the town of Mangina in Congo’s North Kivu province bring the total for the current outbreak to 21, the ministry said in a […]

Limassol police have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of stealing cash from a betting shop. Police said an unknown man had gone into the betting shop in Limassol on Thursday and asked the employee to change €10 bills with larger ones, giving her €700. As soon as he got the larger bills, the man […]

The fire service scrambled on Saturday and managed to bring under control a blaze in an area between Avdimou and Prastio in Limassol before it spread. The fire service used four engines, two small airplanes and two helicopters to put out the fire, which burned around one hectare of dry grass, wild shrub, and carob […]

Limassol police booked 109 motorists for various traffic code violations during a 12-hour crackdown aiming at preventing fatal and serious traffic incidents, it was announced on Saturday. According to police, during the crackdown that started on Friday afternoon and ended early on Saturday morning, officers, focusing mainly on the coastal area, booked 47 drivers for […]

Not got plans yet for Wednesday but know they have to involve the beach and some electrifying music? Look no further because you will find all this and more at the Oceania Beach Bar and Restaurant on Lady’s Mile in Limassol. The party mood will be pumping curtesy of leading Romanian female techno DJ Nusha. […]

Police announced this week that new traffic safety provisions have come into effect regarding child seats and seat belts, introducing rules in the use of measures for children travelling in taxis and buses. Vehicles with a maximum of eight seats and vehicles carrying loads not exceeding 12 tonnes, which have seat belts for every seat, […]

Environmental organisation ‘Let’s make Cyprus green’ is planning its biggest event in its seven-month existence, a beach clean-up of the Karnayio area between the old and new ports of Limassol. In the words of the organisation’s founder, Eleni Kazelas, Karnayio is “probably the dirtiest beach in Limassol” was described in the media this month as […]

Where do you live? In Nicosia, in Lykavitos Best childhood memory? Summers in Droushia and Prodromos Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? Evroulla’s in Nicosia and Aptaliko in Patras, Greece. I don’t like fake fast food. What did you have for breakfast? Coffee and […]

An airline mechanic stole an airplane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport on Friday and was chased by two US military jets before crashing on a nearby sparsely populated island, the local sheriff said. There was no indication that the incident was an act of terror, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter. No passengers were […]

Syrian state media said on Saturday air defences had confronted a “hostile target” breaching the country’s air space west of the capital Damascus in the early hours of the morning. State news agency SANA, quoting its correspondent, said there were reports of “air defences confronting a hostile target breaching the skies above the area of […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there was no meeting planned with US officials including his counterpart Mike Pompeo at the United Nations General Assembly, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Saturday. Asked about the likelihood of a meeting with US officials, including Pompeo, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, […]

A boat carrying 10 people, including five children, from Syria was intercepted by marine police early on Saturday off the coast of Protaras, in Famagusta. Police said a patrol boat was dispatched at 1.40am after a “suspicious vessel” was located off Protaras. Officers approached the vessel, which was carrying 10 people, three men, two women, […]

The Greek band Melisses seems to come over to our island a lot, especially when there is something to celebrate. The band was the live performance on the night that H&M opened and the boys also entertained us when McDonalds celebrated 20 years on the island. Now they will help celebrate the holiday period with […]

Arsenal fans heading to their clash with Manchester City on Sunday will do so with a sense of excitement and a little trepidation as new manager Unai Emery begins the post-Arsene Wenger era with the toughest of all opening matches. Last season’s runaway champions provide the opposition at the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal begin a […]

THE OWNERS of shops along Limassol’s Misiaouli and Kavazoglu Street are once again threatening action, in an attempt to stop the municipality’s re-design and modernisation plans for the road. It is the familiar argument that their businesses would be destroyed if the road is modernised because there would be no parking spaces outside their shops. […]

By Annette Chrysostomou On August 19 a record of 329 flights or 61,000 passengers will travel to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports, it was reported on Friday. “The peak of passenger traffic for Larnaca airport will be Sunday August 19 with 253 flights corresponding to 47,000 air seats, while for Paphos it is Wednesday […]

By Stelios Orphanides THE Athenian victory over Sparta in the sea battle of Arginusae in 406 BC was decisive. It could also have allowed Athens to emerge victorious from the Peloponnesian war which stretched for almost three decades. After all, the Spartan fleet of 120 warships was literally scattered with the Athenians, who fielded a […]