AEL defeated Karmiotissa by 3-1 and moved to the top of the table, at least until tomorrows games, with nine points. It was a confident performance by AEL who were by far the better team for most of the game. They took the lead through Danilo but their lead lasted...
Manchester United’s season got underway with a shock 3-1 defeat by Crystal Palace as Wilfried Zaha grabbed a late double for the visitors in the Premier League on Saturday although VAR was once again the centre of attention. United looked off the pace early on as Andros Townsend put Palace in front...
France reported 13,498 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over the previous 24 hours, setting another record in daily additional infections since the start of the epidemic. The new cases pushed the cumulative total to 442,194 as the seven-day moving average of daily new infections rose to more than 9,700, compared with a...
In an evenly balanced game Pafos FC and Ethnikos settled for a point each in a 2-2 draw in the fourth round of the football championship. Twice Pafos FC took the lead, once in each half, only to be pegged back by a battling Ethinkos. Pafos FC opened the score...
The match between Nea Salamina and Doxa, which was scheduled to take place on September 21, was postponed after ten players of Nea Salamina tested positive to coronavirus on Saturday. On Friday, a football player of Famagusta’s Nea Salamina who arrived from Angola on September 14 through Portugal and Austria...
Police on Saturday arrested a 26-year-old in Limassol on suspicion of attempting to burn telecommunications masts on two occasions last April. Police said a search of the suspect’s home found evidence that seems to be related to two cases of attempted arson. The man is expected to be brought before...
Belarusian police detained hundreds of protesters in central Minsk on Saturday, a witness said, as around 2,000 people marched through the city demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko step down. Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by mass street protests since Lukashenko claimed a landslide...
The health services on Saturday announced 15 new coronavirus cases, most of which were contacts of previously confirmed cases. The cases were detected from 2,891 tests. The total number of cases since March has reached 1,580. Nine were people who had come into contact with previously confirmed cases, the health...
The president of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou begins a two-day official visit to Cyprus on Monday, her first official visit abroad since assuming her duties in March. Sakellaropoulou will meet with President Nicos Anastasiades, House president, the archbishop and party leaders. At 1050am she will have a tete-a-tete meeting with Anastasiades...
A 22-year-old man was remanded in custody for two days on Saturday in connection with possession of a knife and robbery. The man was arrested by police on Friday after a restaurant employee identified him as being the man who robbed a 63-year-old customer on Tuesday afternoon. The 63-year-old woman...
Colombian playmaker James Rodriguez scored his first Premier League goal and Dominic Calvert-Lewin bagged a hat-trick as Everton thrashed 10-man West Bromwich Albion 5-2 at Goodison Park on Saturday. West Brom started brightly and opened the scoring through Grady Diangana, his first Premier League goal, but when Calvert-Lewin equalised after an intervention...
Part of police efforts to reduce road deaths will mean less tolerance for drivers within cities who exceed the speed limit. Currently, drivers who are 20 per cent above the speed limit are given a pass but under a new proposal this could be reduced to 10 per cent above...
Police reported seven football fans who took part in celebrations in Limassol for breaking health and safety rules aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus, it emerged on Saturday. The fans, along with hundreds of others in Limassol and Nicosia, were celebrating Nicosia side Omonia’s qualification to the Champions...
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said he did not say anything to Gareth Bale before he left to sign for Tottenham Hotspur but insisted he had no personal issue with the Wales forward and praised what he did for the Spanish club. Bale travelled to London on Friday to finalise...
Where do you live and with whom? I have lived in Larnaca for the past eight years due to my job, and I am currently living on my own. What did you have for breakfast? I normally have an apple with yoghurt and peanut butter, or cereal with dried fruit...
Police on Saturday issued an appeal for information on the whereabouts of a 16-year-old Syrian boy who went missing earlier in the day in Larnaca. Ramadan el Mofe has been missing since the early morning of Saturday from his place of residence in the coastal town. He is 1.65m tall,...
Where the wild Atlantic meets the empty African shores, lies Namibia: the world’s second least densely populated country. Named for the Namib Desert, which in turn takes its name from the local word for ‘vast place’, Namibia is an ancient country. Today, it’s a nation that’s doing it best –...
Admissions to the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia increased by 25 per cent in 2020 compared with last year, data from state authorities revealed on Friday. One reason behind the increase was the lockdown imposed in spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, creating a series of problems for the hospital...
A 39-year-old man was remanded in custody for four days on Saturday in Nicosia on suspicion of possession of 50 grammes of cocaine. A woman, also 39, detained for the same case was released without being charged, police said. The pair were arrested on Friday at 6pm after drug squad...
This year marks 60 years since the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus. In the music world, 2020 also marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. And so, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra celebrates both these milestones with two ‘heroic’ works by the great composer: his 3rd Symphony, the...
The government on Saturday rejected claims by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that President Nicos Anastasiades had proposed negotiating a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem in the past. In a written statement, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said there was nothing new in the Turkish foreign minister’s remarks. “He said...
