Новости за 26.12.2019

Chelsea 0 Southampton 2 Goals from Michael Obafemi and Nathan Redmond earned Southampton a surprise 2-0 win at Chelsea in the Premier League on Thursday. Obafemi broke the deadlock with his first goal of the season, bursting inside from the right and curling into the top corner after a tight opening half...

A far-right religious group in Brazil has claimed responsibility for a Christmas Eve fire-bombing attack on the offices of a comedy troupe that produced a Netflix special depicting Jesus as gay. A group identifying itself as “Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family” said in a video circulated on social...

A video was doing the rounds on social media on Thursday of a car being tossed around in heavy seas off Limassol, an incident which happened on Wednesday, according to reports. According to a 24news, police sources said there had been a driver in the car when it went into...

Plastic bottles contribute greatly to plastic pollution. That’s why I always applaud places such as Swimming Birds for offering free drinking water in a glass jug. The welcoming café-bar opened last month by two women whose friendship and love for coffee brought them together in Palia Elektriki street next to...

U.S. stock indexes were set to open near record highs on Thursday and the S&P 500 was on course for its best year since 2013 on optimism over an imminent U.S.-China trade deal. Traders returned from the Christmas break to Beijing’s reaffirmation that it was in close contact with Washington...

Palestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel, factions in the strip said on Thursday, in a sign of a lasting detente between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas along the volatile frontier. For nearly 20 months, Palestinians have held weekly demonstrations dubbed the “Great...

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a block on access to online encyclopaedia Wikipedia within Turkey is a violation of freedom of expression, a lawyer representing the organisation and various media reports said. The ruling opens the way for the lifting of the block on the website, which...

Three avalanches hit the Austrian ski resort of Ankogel and one the Swiss resort of Andermatt on Thursday, injuring at least two people and prompting major rescue operations, police said. After a large avalanche spilled onto the piste at the Andermatt ski resort, two people with minor injuries were pulled...

Name: Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) Also known as: May lily Habitat: A perennial member of the Liliaceae, growing from a tangled rhizome to about 25cm in deciduous woodland and meadows in Europe. The plant has two spear-shaped dark green leaves growing on the same stem and produces a...

Obviously, there are no permanent dwellings at the North Pole itself but at any given moment there are more than a few explorers trekking northwards, and scientists beavering away in research stations. The first group are generally hardier. Pen Hadow, Arctic explorer, advocate, adventurer and guide is the only person...

China, Iran and Russia will hold joint naval drills starting on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Sea of Oman, China’s defence ministry said on Thursday，amid heightened tension in the region between Iran and the United States. China will send the Xining, a guided missile destroyer, to the drills, which...

Turkey will send troops to Libya at the request of Tripoli as soon as next month, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, putting the north African country’s conflict at the centre of wider regional frictions. Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) has been fending off a months-long offensive...

A 19-year-old has been arrested in Paphos on suspicion of causing grievous harm to a 21-year-old during a row on Christmas morning. According to police, a 21-year-old Greek Cypriot resident of Paphos reported that he was attacked by a younger man on Ayios Antonios Street at 4:30am on Christmas Day...

Communities across Asia commemorated the more than 230,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of one of the world’s most deadly disasters. On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off northern Sumatra island triggered a tsunami with waves as high...

Isolated storms that caused extensive damage in some areas over the past two days, especially in Paphos are set to continue into the weekend, the met office said, issuing a yellow warning until 4pm today. They said total rainfall could exceed 50 mm over a six-hour period, mainly in the...

Isolated storms that caused extensive damage in some areas over the past two days, especially in Paphos are set to continue into the weekend, the met office said, issuing a yellow warning until 4pm today. They said total rainfall could exceed 50 mm over a six-hour period, mainly in the...