A penalty in the second minute of added time by Mara gave Liberec the win against Apoel in the playoffs for the group stages of the Europa League. This was the fifth time that Apoel had reached this stage and failed to progress. Marinos Ouzounides sprung a couple of minor...
Police on Thursday arrested two men, after catching them red-handed with around 6kg of cannabis which they were transporting on their motorcycles. Acting on a tip, police in Larnaca stopped the two men for a check. Officers then found bags containing cannabis, stashed inside the motorcycle engines’ compartments. The two...
The old rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will be finally renewed in the upcoming Champions League season, as Barcelona and Juventus have been drawn together in Group G of the most important European football competition, along with Dynamo Kyiv and Ferencvaros. Both teams have endured relatively hard times...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has been forced to cancel all large-scale events at her Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle homes for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the palace said on Thursday. “A variety of possibilities were examined to see if it was possible for investitures to...
When it comes to comedy, timing is everything. Knowing when to deliver a joke, how to read the crowd and when throw in a punch line is crucial to get the laughs going. One Greek comedian has his brand-new show built around timing and it is even the title of...
NATO allies Greece and Turkey have set up a mechanism to avoid accidental clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, part of efforts to defuse a dispute over energy resources in the region. Germany is leading a diplomatic push for broader dialogue and EU leaders are meeting...
Cyprus came under enormous pressure from its EU partners at a summit on Thursday that looked set to go well into the evening, to drop its demand for sanctions on Turkey in return for a quid pro quo vote on Belarus sought by the majority of member states. It was...
Seventeen new cases of Covid-19 were announced Thursday, including six persons connected to football clubs, bringing the tally so far to 1,772. The positives came from a total of 2,454 tests islandwide. Five were detected through contact tracing. Two of these persons were contacts from the family environment of the...
In-form Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin has earned his first call-up to the senior England squad while Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood were dropped for disciplinary reasons. England host a friendly with Wales on Oct. 8 before Nations League matches at home to Belgium and Denmark. Calvert-Lewin has scored eight goals...
The European Union launched a legal case against the United Kingdom on Thursday for undercutting their earlier divorce deal and a senior UK minister said differences remained in talks on a post-Brexit trade agreement. Controversy over the UK’s new Internal Market Bill has thrown the tortuous Brexit process into a fresh crisis while...
Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Thursday called on drivers to conform with traffic laws, the first day hefty new fines for violations went into effect. “We are all concerned about traffic accidents, we want to limit the amount of deaths and injuries, and there is one very simple way of...
The coronavirus has upped stress levels for people around the world. If it has also caused you debt, it is important to acknowledge the problem and not to blame yourself says BRENDAN MCGRATH In November 2018, Moody’s credit rating agency reported that Cyprus had a high level of household debt...
Britain is to tighten rules about which subjects foreign students can study at its universities in a move to prevent the theft of intellectual property by Chinese students, the Times newspaper reported on Thursday. Under Britain’s Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS), postgraduate applicants from abroad already require security vetting to...
Red Bull Racing spent 237.3 million pounds ($304.84 million) in finishing third in Formula One last season and recognised ‘adaptions’ would be needed to meet a $145 million cost cap coming in for 2021. The Honda-powered team, one of two owned by the Austrian energy drink company, reported a profit...
By Sarah Coyne When your well-travelled friend comes from Nicosia to Paphos and suggests a restaurant you have never heard of that is just five minutes from where you live it is a bit embarrassing. I had never heard of Filiotis by the Sea, but when she explained where it...
With a framed Joe Biden poster in the background, Amazon.com Inc’s Jay Carney made no secret of his long history with the presidential candidate while speaking at a virtual policy roundtable during August’s Democratic party convention. Carney, who is Amazon’s public policy and communications chief, touted the hundreds of thousands...
Though peace is a priority, Cyprus is ready to defend itself against any aggressive or predatory behaviour by any other country, Acting President Demetris Syllouris said on Thursday after the military parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the island’s independence from British rule. House Speaker Syllouris took the salute...
A man suspected of aiding in the importation of 72 kg of cannabis found at the Limassol port last May was arrested in France and is being brought back to Cyprus, police said on Thursday. The man arrested on a European arrest warrant is the sixth suspect in the case....
Police on Thursday said there was heavy traffic on the Nicosia to Troodos road, urging drivers to especially careful. The traffic is between Akaki and Astromeritis. Drivers are urged to be especially careful, patients and keep safety distances from the vehicles ahead of them.
All of the people of Cyprus have the right to live in harmony and co-create in conditions of stability and peace, security, prosperity and progress, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday in his address to mark the 60th anniversary of Cyprus’ independence. The Cyprus problem and Turkey’s illegal activities off...
More than 7,500 finance jobs and a trillion pounds in assets have already left Britain for the European Union as banks prepare for full-blown hard Brexit in January, EY consultants said on Thursday. Banks, insurers and asset managers have opened new or expanded existing hubs in the EU to continue...
The hot weather is set to continue into October with temperatures, after a slight drop, expected to rise again over the weekend and into next week reaching higher than seasonal levels. According to the met office, temperatures on Thursday are expected to rise to 32 degrees Celsius inland, on the...
Name: Green Wormwood (Artemisia cina) Otherwise known as: Wormseed; Old Woman; Polin Habitat: A perennial member of the Compositaea family growing to 1.25m in barren soil and native to southern Europe, north Africa and the Levant. It has highly pungent, deeply-indented grey foliage covered in fine hairs and displays small...
