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Ingredients: 4 cloves of garlic- grated or minced ???? 1 tbsp Olive Oil 1 cucumber ???? 1 tbsp lemon juice or white vinegar ???? 500g Greek yoghurt 3 tbsp freshly chopped mint or dill Salt ???? Method: 1) Crush the garlic into the oil with a pinch of salt, and...

Witness the extraordinary journey of the meteor that caused the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, in an immersive VR experience that will leave you awestruck from beginning to end. Ride with the asteroid as it barrels towards Earth, become part of its devastating impact as it breaches the planet’s...

Militsa Popas Kleopas and her late husband, Popas Kleopas, were well known to all Famagustans. Now 95, Kleopas was 49 when she left Famagusta, on Wednesday, August 14, 1974. She took with her only some food and clothes but no valuables as she intended to return within a few days....

Valtteri Bottas won an action-packed Austrian Grand Prix for champions Mercedes on Sunday as Formula One started its delayed season with plenty of drama, if no spectators, in a race with only 11 finishers. Charles Leclerc finished a surprise second for Ferrari with McLaren’s Lando Norris celebrating a first podium...

Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on list of 21 ‘safe’ countries from where asylum applications will be rejected By Elias Hazou In mid-June Interior Minister Nicos Nouris unveiled sweeping new policies aimed at containing and managing the influx of asylum seekers. The two-pronged strategy, it is claimed, will halt the island’s...

Recycling is not a recent development in the lives of Cypriot citizens. But it seems that the various campaigns, information, educational programmes and a general effort to create a culture around recycling have been unsuccessful on the island. This realisation also stems from the latest report of the European Commission,...

One new case of coronavirus was detected on Sunday, the ministry of health side, from a total of 1,445 tests. This brings the total number of cases in Cyprus to 1,003. The new case is a person who was to be admitted to a reception centre for refugees, who has...

The Department of Meteorology on Sunday afternoon issued a yellow weather warning for extreme high temperatures on Monday. The warning is valid from 1pm on Monday until 5pm. The maximum temperature is expected to rise to around 41C inland and to around 33C on Troodos. Vulnerable people e.g. the elderly...

Gardening with Patricia Jordan During these next couple of hot months I like to get out in the garden very early in the morning to do any jobs that need to be done – usually seed collecting, weeding, dead heading and cutting back growth. It’s a lovely fresh time of...

By Alistair Smout People in England appear to have broadly behaved themselves as pubs reopened this weekend, Britain’s health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday after the latest step towards a return to normality from the coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people flocked to pubs, restaurants and bars around England on...

By Simon Evans John Egan grabbed an 80th-minute equaliser as Sheffield United earned a 1-1 draw at Burnley in the Premier League on Sunday after James Tarkowski had given the home side a first-half lead. The result, at a windy and cold Turf Moor, leaves both teams still in contention...

With a Tweet President of Diko Nikolas Papadopoulos said President Nicos Anastasiades could not stand for a third term even if he wanted to. Papsdopoulos was responding after Anastasiades said in an interview published in Kathemerini on Sunday that he wanted to be clear he would not be standing for...

A 63-year-old man involved in a case of forged payments worth millions of euro on Sunday had his remand renewed for a further five days. He is the husband of a 49-year-old woman also being held on remand who is the accountant of a group of companies. The man was...

Dogs React To Being Adopted and Rescued | In honor of National Animal Shelter and Rescue Appreciation Week, we put together some of our favorite shelter rescue videos and ways you can help these great organizations. A big thank you to all the animal shelters for the work they do...

““Agony VI”, which Diamantis painted a year later, in 1969, evokes a different visual climate. In this strongly expressionist work, the dominant position is held by the expressive power of the landscape, which is upgraded by acquiring primary importance in the composition. Unlike most of Diamantis’ works in which the...

Paphos police on Sunday appealed to motorbike users to wear helmets for their own safety. Speaking after the death of a motorcyclist in Paphos early on Sunday morning, CID Paphos spokesman Michalis Ioannou said “we are making for one more time an appeal to motorcyclists to wear a helmet”. Shortly...

By Igor Ilic Croatia held an election on Sunday at a time of rising coronavirus infections and a sharp economic downturn from the pandemic, with the outcome likely to lead to political negotiations to form a new government. The ruling centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has had a slight advantage...

By Simon Evans Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is confident the club will win their appeal against a two-year UEFA ban from European football. City’s appeal against the ban was heard last month at the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) and a decision is expected by July 13. European...

By Alan Baldwin The top three finishers in Sunday’s season-opening Austrian Formula One Grand Prix will have towels and water delivered to them by remote-controlled trolley before they can get their hands on any champagne. They must also wear facemasks before stepping up onto socially-distanced individual rostrums placed in front...

By Nicholas Karides When the American physicist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn identified the notion of the Paradigm Shift in the early 1960s, he described it as a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices within a scientific discipline. Such a shift, Kuhn asserted, occurs when the...

Any changes to the way the Audit Service is run as suggested by Akel are not only not needed but could take the service in the wrong direction, the service said in an announcement on Sunday. General secretary of Akel Andros Kyprianou had suggested the service be remodelled to be...

Memorials were held at various churches around the island on Sunday morning for those who lost their lives following the explosion at the naval base in Mari on July 11, 2011. The sacrifice of the 13 people who lost their lives at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base caused “unbearable pain...

Joint US Cypriot citizen Valerie Michaels describes the tortuous process of her repatriation on June 16 month from the United States to Cyprus amidst coronavirus precautions For family reasons, I left Cyprus for the US on February 23, planning to return on March 21. By then, Cyprus required negative tests...

By George Koumoullis That the teaching of religious education is schools is anachronistic, is plain not only to intellectuals but also to enlightened church leaders – in Greece at least – as well as several theologians. Now, a high school pupil has shaken things up, pointing out this anachronism in...

A 21-year-old was arrested on Saturday night for driving at 187 km/hr on the highway near Kofinou. According to the police he was stopped in an area where the speed limit is 100km/hr. The 21-year-old was arrested and taken to the police station where he was charged in writing to...