Новости за 21.09.2019

A Bernardo Silva hat-trick helped Manchester City to secure the joint second-biggest Premier League victory in history with an 8-0 thrashing of a bewildered Watford at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. The champions, responding to their first league defeat since January at Norwich City last weekend, blew Watford away by...

INTERIOR minister Constantinos Petrides pledged his ministry’s support for the work conducted by the addiction prevention and support NGO Kenthea during its annual general assembly on Saturday and said the government will cover more than half of the operation costs this year. Petrides highlighted the importance of the Kenthea prevention...

MEMBERS of the port and marine police accompanied nine disabled persons in an underwater dive on Saturday during a seabed clean-up on a Limassol beach. The event was organised by the national paralympic committee and the professional association of diving instructors (PADI), members of which joined the dive to assist...

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took his third successive Formula One pole position on Saturday with Mercedes’ world champion Lewis Hamilton joining the youngster on the front row for the Singapore Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who was fastest after the first flying laps in the final session of qualifying, made mistakes...

James Maddison scored a brilliant winner to help Leicester City come from behind and beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday in a match dominated by VAR drama. The Video Assistant Referee was heavily involved early on after Wilfred Ndidi had bundled the ball into the net, only for...

Turkey is ready to act on its southern border with Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said, after warning that it could take unilateral steps if the U.S. does not establish a “safe zone” in northeast Syria this month. “Our preparations along our borders are complete,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul on...

Where do you live? I live alone in the beautiful city of Vienna in Austria, where I have incredible friends. Best childhood memory? A game with my father, where I would stand at one side of the room and my father would stand at the other side of the room....

THE island’s main motorsport event next week will include an asphalt road special stage in the heart of the capital, which although fascinating for dedicated fans and spectators, will cause further ire to the general public, already furious with the never-ending road works dogging Nicosia. Although the start and finish...

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades departed for London on Saturday, from where he will continue to New York on Sunday to hold a number of meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly. Throughout the week, he is scheduled to meet with heads of state, lobby groups, representatives of the...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got his first day out of the spotlight on Saturday after being hammered for images showing him in blackface, which have threatened to derail his re-election campaign. Trudeau, 47, was in eastern Canada when pictures first emerged on Wednesday showing him in brown makeup at...

PAPHOS police on Friday night clamped down on bars playing loud music without the necessary permits, charging owners of 14 bars located around Kennedy square, along the popular Ayiou Antoniou ‘party strip’ and the Coral Bay tourist area. Police said the move was part of its campaign targeting noise pollution...

Rating agency Moody’s changed the outlook for the Cypriot economy to positive from stable, citing the reduction of the sovereign exposure to event risks stemming from the banking sector and the improving fiscal strength beating previous expectations. However, Moody’s affirmed Cyprus’ long-term rating to Ba2, two notches below investment-grade, and...

Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday denounced renewed U.S. sanctions against its central bank as an attempt to deny ordinary Iranians access to food and medicine, and said the move was a sign of U.S. desperation. The United States on Friday imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran, some aimed...

During summer, strong male hands used to harvest salt crystals from the evaporated lakes; according to legend, Saint Lazarus created the salt-water pools in a fit of rage Feathery pink clouds on the horizon, less than two kilometres from Larnaca airport. Denser and denser. Flamingos! The birds have come to...

The Omonia v Apollon clash stands out in the fourth round of the Cyprus football championship this weekend, while in the other games AEL take on Doxa Katokopias, Anorthosis entertain Pafos FC and Ethnikos are at home to Nea Salamina. The final game of the round will take place on...

Frank Lampard’s young Chelsea side face a major test of their progress when they face Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Sunday. Last week’s impressive 5-2 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers showed Chelsea’s potential with striker Tammy Abraham grabbing a hat-trick and two other academy products in Mason...

We attended the protest against climate change by hundreds of students that took place on September 20 (part of a string of such protests in 150 countries all over the world), and talked to some of the participants. Their passion was clear, and the banners they carried were excellent –...

“The role and supervisory responsibilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission have expanded in recent years” The Chairwoman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), Mrs Demetra Kalogerou, stressed the importance of continuous improvement and modernisation of CySEC’s facilities and infrastructure, during the inauguration of CySEC’s new offices on...

JUSTICE Minister Giorgos Savvides on Friday called on the House transport committee to speedily move forward with its article-by-article discussion of the package of seven bills seeking to impose heavier fines for traffic offences, expressing his concerns for the surge in road deaths in recent weeks. “We believe that an...

INDEED it was a tragic irony, as the technical chamber Etek put it on Thursday, that a disabled pensioner in an electric wheelchair was killed by a car on the eve of mobility week, a time when the authorities encourage people to walk and cycle on city streets. As the...