Archive for 2012
Turkey wants to deviate from the Cyprus negotiating process
Government Spokesman Stephanos Stephanou on Wednesday criticized Turkey, pointing out that it wants to deviate from the negotiating process for the Cyprus solution, as is stated in the UN resolutions.
Speaking to the press following statements made by Turkish Minister …
Nicosia: Men tie up elderly couple and steal their sheep flock
Police are lookin for five young men who tied up and elderly couple at gun point at their farm and made off with their flock of 40 sheep. The incident occurred late on Tuesday evening and was reported by the …
Doctors ‘save man’s life by using alcohol’
UK doctors have saved a man’s life using an unconventional treatment – a shot of neat alcohol into the arteries supplying his heart.
Ronald Aldom, 77, from Portishead near Bristol, had an unusual heart rhythm called ventricular tachychardia that can …
Greece Cup Round Up
The finalist of the last two seasons, Atromitos, suffered a shock exit from the Greek Cup to a second-tier club, as did OFI Crete and Aris over the weekend.
Atromitos had got a 1-1 draw in the first leg at …
Police car fired at in Cyprus
Three Pontian Greeks are in custody after shots were fired at police during a car chase.
The car the three men were travelling in failed to stop for police in the Nicosia district village of Tseri.
During a chase, which …
Man robbed of €7.000 in the centre of Nicosia
A 30-year-old Pakistani man was robbed of €7.000 in the centre of Nicosia on Sunday night.
The man told police he was leaving his Western Union office in Constantinos Paleologos Street with the money in a backpack when two people …
Bleak Christmas for many Cyprus retailers
Makarios Avenue in Nicosia has strung up its Christmas lights but many stores have pulled down their shutters while others are practically empty, reflecting Cyprus‘s poor economic state.
Malls on the outskirts of the capital are still thriving, but …
Chelsea win but Man Utd draw
Chelsea, playing with a swagger missing for much of the season, routed Aston Villa 8-0 on Sunday as Premier League leaders Manchester United wasted the chance to move six points clear after a 1-1 draw at Swansea City.
Chelsea striker …
Floods woman rescued after clinging to tree
In Umberleigh, near Barnstaple in north Devon, a woman was swept away from her car in the early hours of Sunday after becoming stuck in fast-flowing flood water.
A police helicopter found her clinging to branches of a tree – …
Robin Van Persie lucky to be alive
Sir Alex Ferguson says Robin van Persie is “lucky to be alive” after being hit in the head by a ball struck by Ashley Williams in the 1-1 draw with Swansea.
Van Persie was lying on the ground when Williams …
