Новости за 30.01.2020

A 42-year-old Syrian, held on suspicion of having killed his wife 10 days ago, has confessed to the crime, it was reported on Thursday. Hussein Farouh was said to have relented under police questioning and admitted killing his estranged wife, Ghada Al Nouri, aged 31, found stabbed to death in...

Manchester United have completed the signing of Portuguese midfielder Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon on a 5-1/2 year contract, with an option to extend for a further year, the Premier League club said on Thursday. Sporting had said on Wednesday that United will pay an initial fee of 55 million...

Valentine cookies have gone on sale in McDonalds restaurants and Alpha Mega supermarkets in order to raise money for the building of premises to host families of children hospitalised in Nicosia. Ronald McDonalds House Charities launched a love campaign on Thursday, selling heart shaped biscuits, made by New York Sweets...

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted resolution 2506 on the renewal of the Unficyp mandate for another six months. There were no statements by the Security Council members. The resolution adoption comes after intense behind-the-scenes deliberations initiated by Nicosia which was unhappy with certain references in the draft....

Cypriots have one of the highest life expectancies in the EU, said an official from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies on Thursday. Erica Richardson, a technical officer at the Observatory, who was presenting reports on both the State of Health in the EU and Cyprus at the...

The House watchdog committee will be discussing a list of politically exposed persons (PEPs) with bad debts on March 5 in the presence of central bank (CBC) governor Constantinos Herodotou, it was announced on Thursday. Committee vice chairperson, Akel MP, Irini Charalambides said her party’s position on the issue of...

Greece will step up its campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from Britain and expects to win more support from European peers as Brexit sees British influence wane, the Greek culture minister said. Since independence in 1832, Greece has repeatedly called for the return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) panel of experts met on Thursday to reconsider whether China’s fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak that has now killed 170 people should be declared a global emergency. All the deaths so far have been in China, where the virus originated in an illegal wildlife market in Wuhan city, as...

Images from a powerful new telescope installed on top of a volcano in Hawaii show the surface of the sun in the closest detail yet, revealing features as small as 30km (18 miles) across. They were captured by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which sits...

Former education minister and chairman of the Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC) Ouranios Ioannides died on Thursday, aged 75. Ioannides, who was a Disy MP from 1996 to 1999 when he was appointed education minister in Clerides’ government, was also a sportsman and served on various committees including the COC between...

It is best to visit Neverland with a couple of friends and sit at the tables with the guitar shaped self-service taps for beer. For the full experience, order some food to share. Once again almost tricked by the seemingly closed door and the excellent sound-proofed walls that keep the...

The Volvo XC90 luxury SUV has been named a Car of the Decade by experts at Autotrader, the most recognized third-party car listings brand. It is the only luxury SUV to make the independently-chosen list. According to Autotrader the XC90 that debuted in the 2015 model year is the perfect...

A Cypriot teenager has broken the Guinness World Record with the largest coffee painting in the world. Alex Dzaghigian, an 18-year-old English School student from Nicosia, painted the largest coffee painting in the world this month to commemorate 2,500 years since 300 Spartans fought against the Persian army in Thermopylae....

President Nicos Anastasiades met with Akel leader on Thursday amid a backdrop of fierce criticism from the main opposition party on foreign policy, the match fixing scandal and other current affairs. According to government spokesman Kyriacos Kousios, the meeting with Andros Kyprianou “was in a very friendly atmosphere and there...

South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favor of a law that would see doctors jailed for giving puberty-blocking drugs to transgender children, the latest in a slew of such bills sweeping the United States. The bill, which still has to clear the Senate, would bar doctors in...

The chairman of the football association (CFA) will hold a meeting on Tuesday with the referee association to discuss having foreign referees officiating first division fixtures following fresh claims of match fixing. A CFA announcement effectively confirmed what had been reported recently that it had decided to use foreign referees...

The Cyprus-China Business Association and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) are organizing for the first time in Larnaca, at Radisson Blu Hotel, a gala dinner for the celebration of the Chinese New Year “The Year of the Rat”. The gala dinner will take place on Friday, 7th...

Athienou is hosting a programme teaching traditional dances and a Greek language course to third country nationals as part of an integration project. “It’s important to offer a kind welcome to third-country nationals that are living and working here,” an official at the municipality told the Cyprus Mail on Thursday....

Platres and Omodos is hosting a European conference on the challenges facing mountainous areas of large Mediterranean islands, which is running from 28-31 Janaury. The aim is to share experience and knowledge from other countries with a long tradition in planning and implementing national policies for mountainous regions. Much of...

Name: Common Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) Otherwise known as: Earth Smoke, Beggary, Fumus, Wax Dolls Habitat: An annual member of the Papaveracea family growing up to 70cm in well-drained wasteland and native to Europe. It has erect trailing stems with segmented, stalked, green/grey leaves. The plant displays racemes of pink tubular...

Novak Djokovic once again beat great rival Roger Federer at a Grand Slam on Thursday with a 7-6(1) 6-4 6-3 win to reach the Australian Open final and remain on course for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park. It was the 50th act of one of the greatest rivalries...

Teenager Gregoris Pikis died late on Thursday in Nicosia general after a traffic accident in Limassol a week previously. The parents of the 19-year-old donated his organs which will be transferred to the transplant clinic on Friday. The young man was driving in Trachoni village in January 23 when he...

The U.S. Senate is expected to wrap up the initial phase of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial before turning on Friday to the explosive question of whether to call witnesses such as former national security adviser John Bolton. Republicans who control the Senate said there was a chance the trial...

A Nicosia man has been reported missing from his home since last Friday. Police said Joseb Gelashvili, 48, is described as 1.60m tall with grey hair. When he went missing he was wearing a green T-shirt, jeans and a blue jacket. Whoever has any information as to his whereabouts is...

Three days after Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daugther and seven others perished in a helicopter crash, his wife, Vanessa, broke her silence with an Instagram message saying she was “completely devastated” by their loss. The social media text was posted alongside a recent family photo of...