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Question mark over China deal Government says ‘no blemish’ on procedures that were followed By Stefanos Evripidou

HE POTENTIAL multi-million euro deal between the government and a Chinese investor to lease the old Larnaca airport for 50 years was brought into serious question yesterday, following revelations that the president’s top diplomat and his wife were personally involved. Local daily Politis yesterday published a front-page report claiming that the director of President Demetris Christofias’ diplomatic office at the Presidential Palace, Marios Ieronymides, was directly involved in negotiations with the Cyprus-registered Far Eastern Phoenix (FEP) to turn the old airport into a commercial centre. It transpired yesterday that his involvement was based on “friendship” with the Chinese businessman behind the company, Yang Qi. Allegations about his wife also playing a prominent role in the setting up and running of the Chinese-interest company raised further questions regarding issues of transparency and conflict of interest. Before moving to the Pal-

ace, Ieronymides was Cypriot ambassador to China. Politis published a photograph of him hosting a dinner for visiting Cypriot parliamentarians in Beijing last January. What makes the photo interesting is the presence of Yang Qi and Ieronymides’ wife, Tatiana. The latter’s presence would not normally raise eyebrows but for the fact that, according to Politis, she served as co-director of FEP, along with Yang Qi, for three years: from its inception in April 2009 until March 2012. Tatiana Ieronymides resigned from her post as director six days before FEP signed an agreement with Hermes Airports for a 19year lease of the old airport. She was replaced by an employee of a law ﬁrm in Cyprus. The paper reported that her husband, ambassador Ieronymides, took part in negotiations between Hermes and FEP, and was present on the long night of March 22 when the two parties ﬁnally reached a deal, signing on the dotted line for a 19year lease.

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An activist from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) bathes in a bathtub of tomato sauce ‘to symbolise bloodshed’ at Bastille Square in Paris, to denounce the European Commission’s plans to push to the end of 2013 the ban on the cosmetic industry’s use of ingredients tested on animals (AFP)

Ancient amulets belonging to toddlers found on Yeronisos By George Psyllides ARCHEOLOGISTS digging a small island off Cyprus’ western coast have discovered amulets bearing male names, believed to have been worn by male toddlers over 2,000 years ago, it was announced yesterday. The artefacts were found on the island

of Yeronisos, or Holy Island, near Peyia, an important place of pilgrimage during the later Hellenistic period - 325-58 BC when worshippers crossed the waters to pray at its sanctuary of the god Apollo. “A series of small amulets that may have been worn by toddler boys brought to Yeronisos to mark their transitional time of weaning have been recovered,” the department of antiquities said. “One

recently discovered amulet is inscribed with the male names Minas, written along the side, and Diophantes, written on the bottom. These may represent the names of boys who wore the talisman during special ceremonies on Yeronisos.” A shell also recovered from the site bears the male

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TODAY: Mainly hot and sunny, with a chance of afternoon showers inland and over the mountains. Temperatures will reach 39C inland, 35C in the south and east, 33C in the west and 30C over higher ground OUTLOOK: Becoming a little more settled YESTERDAY:

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THE CYPRUS Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) yesterday told investors claiming to have been misled by banks that they will be compensated only if they can prove they were defrauded, reports said. Investors will have to show that they were not in a position to know of the risks and were ill-advised, providing dates and names and evidence of conversations, CyBC reported. Anyone who invests and has the technical or professional

know-how to understand investment policy will not be compensated, CySEC told a delegation of angry investors – who have formed a group trying to get their capital back. The group also met with the ﬁnance ministry’s Director of Finance Andreas Trokkos. The investors feel they have been tricked into buying bank securities or converting securities into useless shares. The investors say they were depositors given advice by untrained staff giving them the impression they would have a stable, safe income from investing their savings into high risk securities.

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Trokkos reportedly told investors yesterday the proposed solution was “valid”, state broadcaster CyBC said. However, Trokkos had previously told investors that foreign technocrats recommended a write-down or converting the securities to shares. The central bank is investigating whether people were properly advised or not. The investors hope the central bank will give them necessary ammunition to prove they were defrauded. An investigation by CySEC said that banks followed the law by distributing prospectuses enumerating risks.

Ancient toddlers’ amulets found on Yeronisos (continued from front page) names Chariton, Thrasayis, Nikkon and Hereas. “These are perhaps the names of boys who participated in the weaning rituals,” the department said. Other shells found on Yeronisos preserve the writing exercises of children practicing their Greek letters. “These suggest that a school for boys may have been part of the sanctuary.” That these amulets were made on Yeronisos is suggested by the discovery, this season, of an unﬁnished charm, not yet pierced for suspension and not yet engraved with designs. In the north side of the island, archaeologists unearthed a circular platform, which they believe was used for dancing – an integral part of the boys’ education and a means of pleasing Apollo – the Olympian god of music and song, prophecy and oracles. Late Hellenistic pottery excavated this season includes drinking cups, bowls, and juglets. The excavation was undertaken by the New York University Yeronisos Island Expedition, under the direction of Professor Joan Breton Connelly. NYU started exploring the island in June 1990, at around the same time as it was ofﬁcially declared an ancient monument. For more information www. yeronisos.org www.nyu.edu/ projects/yeronisos/home2. html

Yeronisos island off the coast of Peyia: a treasure trove of ancient history

Footballers’ gripe over foreign players is ‘borderline racist’ By George Psyllides

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When the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Popular Bank stopped paying interest and blocked off access to investors’ capital, a number of incensed people complained. In mid-July the furious investors had their ﬁrst meeting to discuss future actions. The banks need a bailout but the state cannot afford to help them and itself requested an EU bailout. The investors have proposed they retrieve their capital by converting securities into ﬁve-year bonds with a 5.0 per cent interest rate and the option to retrieve 20 per cent each year.

CYPRUS’ football authorities yesterday questioned the intention of the island’s player association (PASP), which threatened the national team with a boycott if three recently naturalised foreign nationals were called to the squad. The football association (CFA) said PASP’s reaction was borderline racist and urged it to withdraw the measure “if it was truly interested in the welfare of Cypriot footballers and the national team.” PASP said on Tuesday they had

nothing against their three colleagues but they were concerned about the future of local players who have become a rare sight in Cypriot stadiums in recent years. “The (PASP) announcement touches the boundary of racism and creates reasonable questions as to the true intentions of PASP,” a CFA statement said. The CFA warned that with its action, PASP may drag its members into committing disciplinary offences, indirectly hurting the clubs they play for. CFA said they had discussed the matter with PASP a while ago with the players

expressing no disagreement whatsoever since they were not mass naturalisations. The same position was kept by PASP before the House Interior Committee. The CFA said it believed the enrichment of the national team with some quality players would not only help the team in achieving its goals but also help improve Cypriot footballers. It is not the ﬁrst time foreign players – who have been playing for several years on the island – have been naturalised, although there had not been any public reaction previously. Most Cypriot teams currently rely on foreign players – mainly EU nationals.

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One million passengers through airports this month By Natalie Hami DESPITE THE financial crisis people still appear to be travelling in their droves with over one million passengers expected to use the island’s airports this month, according to Hermes spokesman Adamos Aspris. “From August 1st to the 31st, around 730,000 people will use Larnaca airport and around 300,000 will use Paphos airport,” said Aspris yesterday. Aspris said for the whole of August, over 4,500 flights would arrive and depart from Larnaca airport, while more than 1,700 would arrive and depart from Paphos. Around 1,600 of the total flights will be chartered. “We have entered the month of August which you know well is the month with the greatest passenger traffic at Cyprus’ airports,” said Aspris, adding that figures were around one per cent higher than last year. “Around six per cent of traffic for August comes from destinations such as Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden,” he added. Aspris pointed out that there was an increase in passengers

Winter flights suspended as Paphos gets four more By Natalie Hami

Larnaca airport expects to deal with 730,000 people before the end of the month on a yearly basis from certain countries such as a 26 per cent increase from Russia. Small markets such as Italy have shown a 100 per cent increase, 14 per cent from Germany, 13 per cent from Norway and 13 per cent from Sweden. In an effort to boost tourism and promote Cyprus as a popular tourist destination

the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) recently reorganised its ofﬁces abroad. One of the reasons behind it was the fact that tourism has become increasingly competitive with the need to attract new markets. New routes have also been introduced, including charter ﬂights to Amman and Lebanon, as well

as an increase in ﬂights to and from Brussels due to the presidency. In terms of outgoing tourism Greek islands such as Crete, Chania and Heraklion still prove to be the most popular choices for Cypriots. Popular destinations in the rest of Europe for Cypriots in the summer are Barcelona, Bologna and Venice.

Explore the island with new iPhone app By Poly Pantelides A NEW free iPhone application allows travellers in Cyprus to visit the island independently, sharing their experience on social networking sites and getting discounts and offers by playing a game. The “Treasure Hunt” encourages people to hunt treasures - museums, villages, landmarks – earning points by going places and possibly winning prizes or a two-person stay for three nights at a local hotel. Due to be available next week for the iPhone and iPad in English, Greek, and Russian, Treasure Hunt lets people share their experience on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter. It is the contemporary version of the tourist with hat, camera and guide book. A hat and iPhone will do: snap a photo

and share it on Facebook, log in your location, check out a restaurant and ﬁddle around with your toy as you are waiting for the bus. The application includes four businesses and ten locations in Paphos, from the well-known Petra tou Romiou where the goddess of love Aphrodite emerged to the less visited ancient village of Lemba. In Lemba, people can stop and check out a pottery business. But they will not be taken there in busloads and be pushed to buy. Instead, they can check out the public bus network via Treasure Hunt and ﬁnd out how they can get somewhere independently, perhaps the temple of Aphrodite at Kouklia or the Tombs of the Kings. Treasure Hunt “brings the end-consumer in direct contact with the tourist product,” said Petros Mavros of Avantless Tourism consultants who came up with the concept. Businesses

that sign up will need to offer tourists something back: a souvenir or a discount, Mavros said. The makers of Treasure Hunt think the future is bright: more local cities and locations are streamlined for future versions and there is already interest from four different locations abroad. “Tourism is rapidly changing, and Cyprus can now lay claim to having created a world’s ﬁrst in electronic tourism which combines education, entertainment, and full-on instant promotion for each town and city,” said the co-founder of Cocoon Creation that developed and designed the application, Michalis Strouthos. By 2013 android and blackberry users will also be able to download Treasure Hunt. Download the free application on the iTunes App Store or by visiting www.pafostreasurehunt.com .

LOW-COST Ryanair yesterday finally confirmed that it would be suspending flights to and from Larnaca for the winter period starting in November. It said they would resume for summer 2013. The summer season usually begins on March 30. The move to suspend came following weeks of unsuccessful negotiations with the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) to keep the four Larnaca flights running. Since 2010 Ryanair has been flying to four secondary European airports from Larnaca; Dusseldorf Weeze, Barcelona Girona, Bologna and Brussels Charleroi, and set up a hub in Paphos earlier this year from where it operates 15 destinations. The airline announced yesterday that while it was pulling out of Larnaca for the winter, it would be adding four new destinations to and from Paphos over the winter period; Chania Crete, London Stansted, Milan Bergamo and Thessalonica. Our Larnaca flights programme will be discontinued by the end of summer, namely from November,” said Maria Macken, Ryanair’s sales manager for the Cypriot market. “This is mainly due to a combination of reasons such as increases in fuel prices and the traditional need to maintain low fares during the winter season. There is

still, however, enough time for passengers to take advantage of the low fares offered by Ryanair for the 15 summer routes from Paphos and the four routes from Larnaca,” she added. Last year the Larnaca flights ran all through the winter. To compensate for the hike in the price of fuel, Ryanair asked the Cypriot authorities to double the incentives it receives for the ‘promotion’ of its flights to Cyprus. But last week, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said it did not have the money. CTO chairman Alekos Oroundiotis was contacted yesterday but did not want to comment. Speculation and confusion about what move Ryanair was going to make, has hung in the air for weeks but nothing definite was announced until yesterday. Despite an email confirmation from Ryanair to the Cyprus Mail late last week, flights to Barcelona Girona could still be booked throughout the winter from their website. Yesterday they were still available into December even though the airline has issued its official announcement that they would stop from November. Flights to Bologna have already been blanked on the Ryanair website, and Brussels and Dusseldorf appear to have some flights available into the first week of November as of yesterday.

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Home Is Cyprus in distress? No, the flag’s just upside down By Stefanos Evripidou WHILE CYPRIOTS around the world celebrated the country’s first ever Olympic medal courtesy of sailor Pavlos Kontides, Cyprus’ honorary consulate in Slovenia was flying the flag upside down, a traditional signal of distress, particularly in shipping although it is rarely used any more. A member of the UK-based Cypriot Student Front took a photograph of the upside-down Cyprus flag in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Tuesday, the day after Kontides won a silver medal in the men’s laser competition. The Cyprus Mail called the Cypriot ambassador in Slovenia, Costas Leontiou, who runs a small embassy in Ljubljana, to search for any signs of distress. “What I can state categorically is that we’re not talking about the flag outside the embassy, though it might possibly be the one outside the honorary consulate,” he said. Sure enough, 20 minutes later, Leontiou called back, reporting that his suspicions had been confirmed. On receiving the alert from the paper, the Cypriot ambassador sent his chauffeur to the capital’s centre where he was able to confirm that the consu-

late truly was flying the flag upside down. Leontiou said he had some “harsh words” with the Slovenian national and requested that the flag be put the right way up immediately. In the past, American and British ships used the upside-down flag as a symbol of distress the high seas. More recently, it can also be used as a form of protest by the country’s citizens. The Cypriot embassy was set up relatively recently ahead of Slovenia taking over the EU presidency in 2008. Before that, the honorary consulate run by a Slovenian national handled all consul affairs. After the embassy opened, the foreign ministry decided to keep the consulate open. Leontiou noted that it was not uncommon to keep consulates open even after an embassy has been set up, as consuls often have good contacts and local knowledge. However, the decision to keep both a consulate and embassy open is usually taken for large countries that have a wide range of dealings with Cyprus, particularly in the fields of business and tourism. Slovenia has a population of two million.

The upside-down Cyprus ﬂag at the Cypriot consulate in Ljubljana

Two police officers among seven people arrested for loansharking By George Psyllides POLICE yesterday arrested seven people – including two of their own – in connection with a single case of threat-enforced loan-sharking in which a Nicosia man was required to pay between 10 and 20 per cent interest per month. It appears the man was caught in a vicious circle of borrowing from one suspect to pay the other while in the meantime threatened and asked to transfer property to repay his dues. Two of the suspects who loaned the man money at extortionate interest rates were police ofﬁcers who are

Court hears that one of the officers threatened the complainant to stop him from going to authorities now facing a disciplinary investigation – beyond the criminal case they are implicated in. The Nicosia district court remanded the ofﬁcers and one other suspect in custody for four days. The other three will spend three days in custody. Police said three other people are sought in connection with the case. The seven were arrested after the Nicosia man reported to police late in July that he had been forced to resort to usury to cover

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certain emergencies. It started in September 2010, the court heard, when he borrowed the ﬁrst €10,000 from one of the suspects with a 10 per cent interest rate per month. To repay his debt, the complainant borrowed money from one of the two cops, trapping himself in a vicious circle with the dues piling up. In June this year, the ﬁrst lender demanded the man transfer his car or immovable property to the lender’s name if he did not pay

his dues by July. The man had borrowed a total of €29,000 from the first suspect and has so far paid him €35,380 back and should have paid another €15,000 by the end of last month to settle his debt. It was a similar situation with the five other suspects, police told the court. Police said the man has to pay €31,000 to the first cop by the end of this month to settle his debt. That is on top of the €32,900 already paid on an initial loan of

€21,500. The man said he was under tremendous pressure from the cop to sign a paper accepting the debt and when he asked for an extension he was refused. When he said he would go to the police, the cop threatened “that he also has his own people,” the court heard. The second cop also lent the man money – €15,000. The man so far paid €26,800 and owes another €27,250. Police told the court that the second cop is working

with one of the other suspects who owns a company involved with usury. The court heard that the second cop had threatened the man in a bid to prevent him from going to the authorities. “If you do such a thing and something happens with my job, you should disappear from Cyprus; you and your family,” the suspect said according to police. Police also told the court that in the days between the complaint and their arrest, two of the suspects – they did not name – called the man and warned him not to pursue the matter further. One call was made to the man’s wife, the court heard.

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Question mark over China deal for old airport Top priority for Hermes is to conclude negotiations between Chinese investor and government as soon as possible (Continued from front page) However, the Chinese-interest company sought to extend that deal for a further 31 years to justify the large investment needed to turn the old airport into a commercial centre with a showroom and bonded facilities for Chinese companies to display their products. Finalisation of the 50-year agreement has hit a number of snags, with the state only recently giving the potential Chinese investors a final proposal with a list of preconditions for reaching agreement. The government and Attorney-general reportedly had concerns on the financial viability of the company and the legality of extending the 19-year deal between Hermes and FEP for a further 31 years in a separate deal between the state and FEP. According to Politis, 49.9 per cent of the shares in FEP are owned by Yang Qi, while the remaining 50.1 per cent are held in trust by Montrago Nominees Ltd. Until yesterday, the interests behind Montrago were not publicly known. In response, Hermes Airports spokesman Adamos Aspris yesterday read out a statement on the presence of Ieronymides at the signing of the agreement with FEP last March. “Hermes Airports wishes to state unequivocally that Marios Ieronymides was there as a friend of the Chinese businessman Yang Qi and not as a representative of the president or the state, something which he clarified to us in advance.” Aspris said the priority for Hermes was to conclude negotiations between the Chinese investor and government as soon as possible so the project can finally be brought to fruition “and create the conditions for the country to gain significant benefits”.

Communications minister Efthymios Flourentzos yesterday insisted that all the proper procedures have been followed to the letter, adding that Ieronymides has no institutional role in the negotiations. “We categorically state there is no blemish on procedures followed so far by the government” as regards the proposed Chinese investment, he said. “All relevant procedures were followed to the letter” from the start, he added. “Ambassador Marios Ieronymides who is mentioned in the report did not have, neither could he have, any institutional or other role, or any participation in the government’s handling of this specific issue,” he said. Flourentzou himself has been handling the negotiations, following a decision of the ministerial committee set up to look into the matter, he noted. The “only important issue” Politis raised was the question of who are the real shareholders behind FEP, something which the government sought to clarify. According to the minister, this was clarified last May by the company’s lawyers handling the project, noting that the remaining 50.1 per cent of shares also belong to the Chinese businessman Yang Qi. “All procedures followed so far were in accordance with the law and the government was in constant consultation with the Attorney-general,” he said. In addition, any final decision on the potential project will be sent to the Republic’s Legal Service for advice, he added. Quizzed further on state broadcaster CyBC last night, Flourentzos acknowledged that he was not made aware of the role played by Ieronymides and his wife in the Chineseinterest company until last

week, following clarifications sought by the government. When the company submitted further details on the project on the government’s request, the ministry discovered that Ieronymides’ wife had been the co-director for three years. “We sought clarifications to find out about this issue and who is this woman? We knew the name but didn’t know her,” said Flourentzos. “This is an issue we will take into account as part of the evaluation of the proposal submitted. But I think many are rushing to draw conclusions,” he added. The minister was unable to comment on whether an investigation will be launched into the revelations. The opposition parties yesterday roundly slammed the government for a lack of transparency over the affair. Main opposition DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades said: “Evidently, a much-trumpeted investment has fallen victim to personal interests at the presidential palace.” EDEK demanded a full investigation into the allegations while DIKO said the report confirms that state institutions and political systems are facing a serious credibility problem. The Greens and EVROKO also sought clarifications and greater transparency. Ruling AKEL released a statement saying the investment is being handled properly and above board by the government. “On the contrary, the government has been accused of delaying decision-making because it complies with the relevant legal procedures, is in constant contact with the legal service and has as its only goal to serve public interest,” said AKEL.

Turkish Cypriots mark Tylliria bombing AROUND 1,600 Turkish Cypriots were transported by bus to the north western enclave of Kokkina yesterday to celebrate the bombing of Tylliria by the Turkish air force in August 1964. Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu who arrived by helicopter said the battle at Kokkina 48 years ago was without doubt the most critical turn in the struggle of the Turkish Cypriots since Cyprus passed into the hands of the British in 1878. In his speech, Eroglu said it will become clear very soon after next February’s presidential elections whether a peace solution can be achieved, noting that a timeframe must be imposed for any new round of negotiations. “If not, then we have our own steps to take,” he said. The majority of Turkish Cypriots, including

Eroglu’s predecessor Mehmet Ali Talat, arrived in 74 buses via the Limnitis crossing; others arrived for the celebrations in small boats and on Turkish warships departing from occupied Kyrenia. The Kokkina battle in 1964 is burnt in the memory of Greek Cypriots in the area who experienced the full effects of napalm bombs dropped by the Turkish air force. Costas Michaelides, Kato Pyrgos’ village leader, described the day as a tragic one. He called for the opening of a checkpoint through the Turkish army-controlled Kokkina enclave to provide quicker access for local residents to the Limnitis checkpoint. “We hope one day the suffering of the people of Tylliria will end and these celebrations too, because they only bring shame on our community.”

Former president Glafcos Clerides was discharged from Evangelistria hospital yesterday. Clerides, 93, was admitted with a leg infection last Sunday. His doctor Iosif Kasios said that he is doing well and will continue his medication at home

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Cyprus scores bottom on waste Only 11 points overall on EU list By Natalie Hami CYPRUS has scored a mere 11 points in an EU Commission report on the waste management performance of member states. The report shows major differences between member states on the implementation of EU waste legislation, concentrating mainly on municipal waste. According to the report Cyprus scored zero on the majority of criteria such as the amount of municipal waste recovered, the existence of a pay-as-you-throw system (PAYT) for municipal waste, the compliance of existing landﬁlls for non-hazardous waste and the existence of restrictions for the disposal of municipal waste into landﬁlls. Other countries that scored very few points were Roma-

Out of the 104 dumps islandwide, only one complies with the EU directive for landﬁlls nia with the same score as Cyprus, Latvia with 14 points and Italy with 15. However managing to accumulate even less points was Greece with three points, Bulgaria had eight points and Lithua-

nia and Malta nine. Scoring the most points were countries such as Austria and the Netherlands with 39 points. Cyprus is one of the member states, according to the report, which shows the

highest landfill rates within the EU27 along with Greece, Malta, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Romania. Currently the main environmental threat from biodegradable waste is the production of methane from waste decomposing in landfills, which accounted for some three per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-15 in 1995. The Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) obliges member states to reduce the

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POLICE are looking for Muluye Belay Mihret, a domestic worker from Ethiopia, who has been missing since Monday. According to police, she was reported missing by the 33-year-old tourist she works for and was staying with at a house in Limassol. She is described as around 1.60m in height, medium build, with short black hair. Anyone who has information on her whereabouts should call their nearest police station, Limassol CID or the Citizen’s Line on 1460.

amount of biodegradable municipal waste that they landfill to 35 per cent of 1995 levels by 2016 which will significantly reduce this problem. The report also pointed out that out of the 104 landfills around the island for non-hazardous waste, apparently only one complies with the EU directive for landfills, which aims at reducing the negative effects on the environment. In terms of implementing certain legislation the report

shows that there are major discrepancies in the implementation and application of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), which ‘defines the basic principles of environmentally sound management of waste.’ The island, among other countries such as Bulgaria and Greece also does not have a Waste Prevention Programme or a Waste Management Programme. However, Cyprus has had no infringement procedures against it for the WFD and the Landfill Directive. On a positive note, the report revealed that Cyprus received an average or good scoring on average recycling rate, a considerable increase of recycling of municipal waste and had no infringements or court cases issued against it. According to Environment Commissioner Charalambous Theopemptou, there is an EU Directive that points us towards the collection of organic waste and composting as well as recommending the separate collection of plastic, metal, wood and clothes. “For example if someone has a plastic bucket it cannot be taken and recycled by Green Dot because they only take packaging items so there has to be a way to recycle it,” said Theopemptou. “Even the recycling of clothes is done privately,” he said. He also stressed how tragic the waste of wood was, especially in the case of wooden palettes that could easily be used as fire wood.

Language NGO call for help CYPRIOT international NGO Language Transfer (LT), which offers free downloadable language courses is seeking ﬁnancial assistance to keep the programme going. The project’s aim is to make courses in Greek, Turkish and the local dialects of these languages with The Thinking Method free for download. LT is also planning various bicommunal language activities once the courses are released, and also further courses such as Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Western Armenian, to highlight the pluralism of Cyprus. “Language Transfer has worked with very limited resources since its establishment in early 2011 and the courses, whilst proving extremely popular, have been released slowly

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due to this problem,” said an announcement. “For this reason, and because we know how users want to see LT move forward, we have just launched our crowd sourcing campaign www.indiegogo.com/ languagetransfer. We are aiming to raise $15,000 for the purchase of equipment and the completion of LT’s most popular courses in order to put us ﬁrmly on the map and ensure LT’s self-sustainability” It said that after a generous donation from web giant RapidShare of $5,000, LT was well on the way to fulﬁlling its target. “But we still need help”. Language Transfer operates both locally and internationally, and is becoming an established authority on language learning across the globe. LT has travelled to various countries from Argentina to Egypt to talk on the project and the methodology. LT aims to unite people through language whilst promoting and fostering pluralism, make the experience of language learning pleasurable and freely available and maintain a culturally objective dialogue. For information: Mihalis Eleftheriou, Founder and Director, info@languagetransfer.org

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Britain

‘We haven’t broken contract,’ says PM

In its quarterly inﬂation report, the Bank of England slashed its growth forecast for 2012 to around zero from 0.8 per cent in its May report (EPA)

Zero-growth forecast for British economy By David Milliken and Olesya Dmitracova THE Bank of England slashed its outlook for British economic growth to zero for this year, as eurozone “storm clouds” cast a long shadow and scars from the world’s ﬁnancial crisis appear deeper than previously thought. Governor Mervyn King said there was no urgent need to print more money, and even less of a case to cut interest rates, but in a marked contrast to the past, he warned that the economy would grow at sub-par speed for at least the next three years. King’s bleak message will do nothing for Britain’s increasingly strained coalition governing parties, which need an economic recovery well ahead of 2015 elections to justify

BoE governor says no urgent need for further stimulus an austerity plan to erase a record budget deﬁcit which is attracting growing criticism. “We are navigating rough waters, and storm clouds continue to roll in from the euro area,” King told a Wednesday news conference to present the central bank’s latest forecasts. “Unlike the Olympians who have thrilled us over the past fortnight, our economy has not yet reached full ﬁtness. But it is slowly healing,” he said. Sterling strengthened and British government bonds underperformed German debt as markets had expected King to appear more open

to further government bond purchases or to a cut to interest rates below their record low of 0.5 per cent. The BoE resumed its asset buying last month, launching a four-month, £50-billion ($78billion) programme with newly created money to keep a lid on borrowing costs and pump more cash into the economy. Since then, ﬁgures have shown Britain’s recession has deepened, with little sign of a hoped-for bounce in activity in July or a boost from the Olympic Games the country is hosting. “If the Bank’s view on the economy comes to pass, the Chancellor (ﬁnance minister)

faces a very rough road with the public finances as he tries to cut the deficit,” said Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors business lobby. Many economists are still betting on another dose of quantitative easing asset purchases later this year. “The Inflation Report clearly leaves the door wide open for the Bank of England to act again, we suspect that the MPC will wait until November before delivering another £50 billion dosage of QE,” said Howard Archer from IHS Global Insight. Government spending cuts, the drag from Europe, bad weather and one-off factors including an extended break for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations have all weighed on demand.

Man arrested following grandmother’s ‘waterboarding’ ordeal A 31-YEAR-old man was arrested yesterday following a burglary where a grandmother was “waterboarded” inside her own home. Francoise Jansen described the terrifying ordeal, which took place in St George’s Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, as “sheer hell”

and said she thought she was going to die at the hands of the two masked burglars who broke into her home. The 73-year-old widow told how she was also doused in boiling water by the intruders who held her captive for several hours and threatened to

Manet painting saved for UK A PORTRAIT by French painter Edouard Manet has been saved for the UK after an eight-month campaign raised almost £8 million to buy it. The oil painting, Portrait Of Mademoiselle Claus, was sold to a foreign buyer last year for £28.35 million but the government put an export bar on it and under the terms of its sale it was made available to a British public institution for just over a quarter of its market value. The campaign raised the £7.83 million needed to buy it for its new home at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

cut off her ﬁngers. Surrey Police said they had arrested the man from Brookwood, Surrey, in connection with an aggravated burglary. A force spokesman said the man remained in police custody and that inquiries into the incident were ongoing.

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DAVID Cameron said yesterday that he had a “fundamental disagreement” with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg over the government’s constitutional reforms, but insisted it would not stop them working together in coalition. The Prime Minister rejected Clegg’s claim that the Conservatives had broken the coalition “contract” by failing to support House of Lords reform, forcing the Liberal Democrat leader to abandon his plans for a mainly-elected upper chamber. Interviewed on LBC 97.3 radio, Cameron insisted the only deal had been for the Tories to allow a referendum on AV voting for parliamentary elections in return for Lib Dem backing for a redrawing of the parliamentary boundaries. “There’s a fundamental disagreement here in that I profoundly believe that the link was between the AV referendum that we promised to deliver and the boundary changes that I think are right because you should have equal-sized seats across the country,” he said. “Now Nick takes a different view, he’s entitled to do that, but as I say, this disagreement is not going to get in the way of getting on with what re-

PM David Cameron ally matters, which is getting people back to work, getting our economy moving, getting investment in Britain.” Despite Clegg’s warning that the Lib Dems would now line up with Labour to oppose the boundary changes - which experts believe could be worth an extra 20 seats to the Tories at the next general election - Cameron made clear that he would ﬁght to push them through when they come back to the Commons next year. “We’ve got a lot of water to ﬂow under the bridge between now and then,” he said. “People listening to this programme would love us to cut the size of the House of Commons, stop spending so much money on politics and have a fair system where all the seats are the same size.”

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World

Philippines rushes aid to flood-hit Manila

Volunteers bag relief goods for ﬂood victims in Bulacan, north of Manila yesterday (AFP)

WORLD TODAY Japanese PM secures tax compromise JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshihko Noda clinched yesterday an eleventh hour compromise with the opposition, saving a hard-fought deal on a contentious sales tax increase in return for a pledge to hold a general election “soon”. A ﬁnal upper house vote on the tax plan had, until recently, seemed a formality after Noda reached an agreement with two main opposition parties in June and secured its smooth passage in the lower house. But Noda’s sliding ratings, caused in part by his embrace of unpopular causes such as the tax increase and nuclear reactor restarts, emboldened the opposition, which made a clear commitment to early polls the price for backing the tax bill.

Pakistan top court order PAKISTAN Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf was ordered on Wednesday to appear before the Supreme Court this month over his failure to comply with orders to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. The move, another twist in a long-running standoff between the government and the judiciary, could lead to further political instability in Pakistan. Two months ago, Ashraf’s predecessor, Yusuf Raza Gilani, was found guilty of contempt over the same issue and disqualiﬁed from holding the post of prime minister. “(Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf) shall appear in person on the next date of hearing,” the court said. The court adjourned proceedings until August 27.

HEAVY rains pounded the Philippine capital yesterday, prompting a new danger alert as emergency workers rushed food, water and clothes to almost one million people through streets turned into rivers after 11 straight days of monsoon downpour. About 60 per cent of Manila, a metropolis of about 12 million people, remained inundated, Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster agency, told Reuters. Danger to the population was compounded by an early Wednesday evening one-hour downpour of 54.7 mm (2.15 inches), just shy of a record one-hour soaking of 56.58 mm in September 2009 that inundated the capital, killing more than 700 people and causing $1 billion worth of property damage. The weather bureau issued a new weather alert as the downpour hit, only hours after lifting an earlier warning. But many people have refused to leave ﬂooded homes, fearing a loss of valu-

ables and livelihoods, Ramos said. “We’re also asking people living along swollen riverbanks to evacuate,” Ramos said. “If there is a need for us to force them to leave their homes, we will do that for their own safety.” Nineteen people were reported killed since Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 72 since steady rains started when Typhoon Saola hit northern portions of the main Luzon island in late July. Financial markets reopened after being shut on Tuesday, but schools and many businesses shut for a second day. Some public ofﬁces suspended operations on Wednesday afternoon. Jesse Robredo, the interior secretary, said the government has started drawing up plans to permanently relocate residents along riverbanks and coastal areas to reduce property and human losses during the rest of the typhoon and monsoon season. The national disaster agency said on

Wednesday morning that at least 850,000 people were stranded or displaced, many seeking relief at crowded temporary shelter areas. “We were hoping to go home because it’s difficult here. The sleeping conditions are not comfortable, and it’s not easy to get food,” Joyce Anne Diri, a mother of three, told Reuters at a temporary shelter in flooded Marikina City in the eastern part of the capital. The seasonal monsoon rains in the Philippines gathered strength this year from Typhoon Saola and as tropical storm Haikui travelled through the Philippine Sea this week. But the rains should dissipate by Thursday, the weather bureau said, as Haikui made landfall in China. The combination of constant rains and an overflowing lake that fed into the Pasig River, a tidal estuary swollen well beyond flood crest, was made worse as the high tide pushed in more water from the western ocean bay.

Belarus embassy staff exit Sweden in toy drop spat Withdrawal of staff over democracy stunt worsens diplomatic rift with EU By Richard Balmforth and Mia Stanley BELARUS said yesterday it was withdrawing its remaining embassy staff from Sweden over a pro-democracy stunt involving an air drop of teddy bears on its territory and gave Sweden until the end of the month to pull its diplomats out of Minsk. Though a foreign ministry statement said Belarus was not severing relations with the Nordic country, the move marked an escalation in the dispute and looked certain to worsen the already strained relations with the European Union. Belarus expelled Sweden’s ambassador on August 3 following the July 4 escapade in which about 800 toy bears bearing pro-democracy messages were parachuted into the hardline former Soviet republic from a light aircraft chartered by a Swedish public relations ﬁrm. The incident was a humiliation for President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been

in power since 1994 and is on poor terms with the West because of his harsh policies towards members of the political opposition. The Belarussian ambassador to Stockholm was also withdrawn.

‘FORCED’ DECISION The foreign ministry said Minsk was pulling out its remaining embassy staff because Sweden had aggravated the situation by expelling two more diplomats and had refused to allow a new Belarussian ambassador to take up his post. “In this connection, the Belarussian side has been forced to take the decision to withdraw its embassy in Sweden and bring back all its (embassy) staff to Belarus,” the statement said. “At the same time ... the Swedish side is asked to withdraw its embassy from the Republic of Belarus before August 30,” it said. In Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said in a Twitter comment:

“Lukashenko is now throwing all Swedish diplomats out of Belarus. His fear of human rights reaching new heights.” It took Belarus more than three weeks to conﬁrm the teddy bear incident after it happened. Lukashenko subsequently sacked his air defence chief and head of the border guards and reprimanded the state security agency for lapses in vigilance. He told the incoming border guards chief not to hesitate to use weapons to stop any future air intrusions from abroad. In a statement on Tuesday on its website www.kgb. by, the Belarussian KGB state security service said two men, Anton Suryapin and Sergei Basharimov, had been detained on suspicion of complicity in the July 4 “illegal intrusion”. The Swedish plane dropped the toy bears near the town of Ivenets and near the capital Minsk, each carrying a message urging the Belarussian leadership to show greater respect for human rights.

An employee rearranges the national ﬂag of Sweden at the Swedish embassy in Minsk yesterday (AFP)

‘South Africa could help in Iran nuke standoff’

Clinton visiting the 94-yearold Mandela (AFP)

SOUTH Africa’s next generation of leaders should pay tribute to the legacy of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, by promoting democratic values around the world, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday. She also called on South Africa, which voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons programme from 1989, to use its long-standing links with Tehran to persuade Iran to reconsider its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons. Clinton, speaking two days after visiting the 94-year-old Mandela, said

South Africa’s legacy of peacefully overturning apartheid brought with it responsibilities. “Few countries on this continent can carry as much weight or be such effective partners and leaders as South Africa,” Clinton told university students in Cape Town, in a speech billed as the centrepiece of an 11-day Africa tour. “You are a democratic power with the opportunity to inﬂuence Africa and the world.” Clinton’s speech was a strong call for South Africa to do more on everything from promoting economic develop-

ment to solving global challenges, such as Syria’s bloody crisis or the impasse over Iran’s nuclear programme. “As the ﬁrst country to voluntarily give up nuclear weapons, South Africa speaks with rare authority,” Clinton said. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has had close ties with the Islamic leaders of Iran as well as with Western powers trying to put pressure on Tehran to end what they suspect is a drive to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.

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World

Egypt hits militants in Sinai to Israeli approval Action follows killing of 16 border guards By Yusri Mohamed EGYPTIAN aircraft struck at targets near the border with Israel yesterday and troops raided villages as a crackdown began on Islamic militants blamed for a deadly attack on Egyptian border police, army officials and witnesses said. Israel, urging Egypt to deal with a growing threat on its southern flank, voiced approval of the security sweep, the biggest military assault in the area since their 1973 war. The air strikes around the town of Sheikh Zuwaid, 10 km (6 miles) from the Palestinianruled Gaza Strip, followed clashes overnight between armed men and security forces at several checkpoints in the north of Egypt’s Sinai region. Gunmen killed 16 border guards on Sunday in the bloodiest attack on security forces in Sinai since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979. The attackers stormed through the border into Israel but they were killed by Israeli fire. The militants, sworn to destroy Israel, have stepped up their actions on the isolated desert frontier since an uprising toppled Egypt’s autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak last year.

Egyptian security forces stand by their armoured personnel carriers ahead of a military operation in the northern Sinai peninsula yesterday (AFP) The new president, Mohamed Mursi, a more moderate Islamist who took ofﬁce in June, tried to allay Israeli concerns with promises to bring the region back under government control. But Mursi has also brought Egypt closer to the Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza,

making this a delicate time in relations between the Jewish state and the Arab power. The militant strongholds are in northern Sinai. Red Sea resorts further south are popular with foreign tourists and a lifeline for Egypt’s struggling economy. The Egyptian army, which

kept peace with Israel throughout the Mubarak years and still has broad sway over national security, promised retribution after Sunday’s attacks and brought in 500 extra soldiers and police. But there was no crackdown until Tuesday night after armed men opened ﬁre

on several checkpoints in alArish town, the security and administrative centre for northern Sinai. Gunmen also attacked checkpoints in Rafah, Egypt’s entry point into the Gaza Strip that borders both Israel and Egypt. On Wednesday morning, witnesses in Sheikh Zuwaid said two military planes flew over the area and they heard explosions. Other people near the town said they saw three cars bombed. Egypt’s military leadership said ground and air forces had begun to restore stability in Sinai. “The forces were able to execute the plan successfully. The forces will continue the plan and calls on tribes and families of Sinai to cooperate in the restoration of security,” it said. Troops entered al-Toumah village, 20 km (15 miles) to the south, acting on information that militants were staying there, army commanders in Sinai told Reuters. One said 20 militants were killed. A villager said he saw military helicopters chasing vehicles out of al-Toumah and heard rocket fire. The men in the cars fired back with machine guns, he said. An army general in al-Toumah said helicopters destroyed three vans in which militants tried to escape. The military response focused on Shaikh Zuwaid, a mud-brick settlement that relies heavily on profits from smuggling goods and people through tunnels into Gaza since the Palestinian territory was cut off from Israel. Egypt said the gunmen behind Sunday’s attack arrived via the tunnels and it began work to seal them off on Tuesday.

Rebels pushed back in Aleppo TROOPS loyal to President Bashar al-Assad assaulted rebel strongholds in Aleppo yesterday in one of their biggest ground attacks since rebels seized chunks of Syria’s biggest city three weeks ago. Assad must win the battle for Aleppo if he is to reassert his authority nationwide, although diverting military forces for an offensive to regain control there has already allowed rebels to seize large swathes of countryside in the north. Aleppo, at the heart of Syria’s failing economy, has taken a fearful pounding since the 17-month-old uprising against Assad finally took hold in a city that had stayed mostly aloof. “We have retreated, get out of here,” a lone rebel fighter yelled at Reuters journalists as they arrived in Aleppo’s Salaheddine district. Nearby checkpoints that had been manned by rebel fighters for the last week had disappeared. Syrian state television said government forces had pushed into Salaheddine, killing most of the rebels there, and had entered other parts of the city in a new offensive. It said dozens of “terrorists” were killed in the central district of Bab alHadeed, close to Aleppo’s ancient citadel, and Bab alNayrab in the southeast. But a rebel spokesman in Salaheddine, the southern gateway to Aleppo, denied Assad’s troops had taken full control. “Syrian forces are positioned on one side of Salaheddine but they haven’t entered and clashes are continuing,” Abu Mohammed said.

Son of Bo Xilai sends statement to murder trial - CNN Texas puts to death mentally impaired inmate BO Guagua, the son of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai has broken his silence and submitted a witness statement to the murder trial of his mother, CNN said yesterday, citing an email from the young man. Bo Guagua’s mother, Gu Kailai, goes on trial today in one of the most politically sensitive cases in China in decades, accused of murdering a British businessman. Many ordinary Chinese see the charge as part of an attempt to ruin Bo Xilai politically. Gu, and a Bo family aide, have been charged with murdering Neil Heywood, a former family friend who lived in China and had helped get Guagua into Harrow,

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an exclusive British boarding school, and then into Oxford University. The trial is being held in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei. “As I was cited as a motivating factor for the crimes accused of my mother, I have already submitted my witness statement,” Guagua told CNN in an email. “I hope that my mother will have the opportunity to review them,” he added. “I have faith that facts will speak for themselves.” CNN said he did not elaborate. Guagua graduated this year from Harvard’s Kennedy School and is believed to be still in the United States.

A TEXAS man convicted of killing a police informant has been executed after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments that he was too mentally impaired to qualify for the death penalty. Marvin Wilson, 54, was pronounced dead 14 minutes after his lethal injection began at the state prison in Huntsville. Wilson’s lawyers argued that he should have been ineligible for capital punishment because of his low IQ. In their appeal to the court, his lawyers pointed to a psychological test conducted in 2004 that pegged Wilson’s IQ at 61, below the generally accepted minimum competency standard of 70.

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But lower courts agreed with state lawyers who argued that Wilson’s claim was based on a single test that may have been faulty and that his mental impairment claim was not supported by other tests and assessments of him over the years. The Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution less t han two hours before his lethal injection began. Lead defence lawyer Lee Kovarsky said he was “gravely disappointed and saddened” by the ruling, calling it “outrageous that the state of Texas continues to utilise unscientiﬁc guidelines ... to determine which citizens with intellectual disability are exempt from execution”.

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Business Anger over NY’s StanChart attack

Hopes of China pickup maintain Rio spending

THE Treasury Department and Federal Reserve were blindsided and angered by New York's banking regulator's decision to launch an explosive attack on Standard Chartered Plc over $250 billion in alleged money laundering transactions tied to Iran, sources familiar with the situation said. By going it alone through the order he issued on Monday, Benjamin Lawsky, head of the recently created New York State Department of Financial Services, also complicates talks between the Treasury and London-based Standard Chartered to settle claims over the transactions, several of the sources said. Lawsky's stunning move, which included releasing details of the bank's alleged defiance of US sanctions against Iran, is rewriting the playbook on how foreign banks settle cases involving the processing of shadowy funds tied to sanctioned countries. In the past, such cases have usually been settled through negotiation with public shaming kept to a minimum. In his order, Lawsky said Standard Chartered's dealings exposed the US banking system to terrorists, drug traffickers and corrupt states. But the upset expressed by some federal officials, who were given virtually no notice of the New York move, may provide ammunition for Standard Chartered to portray the allegations as coming from a relatively new and over-zealous regulator. But, given the content of the order - which described Standard Chartered as a "rogue institution" that "schemed" with the Iranian government and hid from law enforcement officials some 60,000 secret transactions over nearly 10 years the bank may need to come up with a strong defence.

Global miner's underlying H1 earnings fall 34 pct GLOBAL miner Rio Tinto stuck to its $16-billion spending plans, despite first-half profit falling by a third, predicting a modest pick up in the Chinese economy later this year that should stimulate demand for iron ore. The world's second-largest iron ore producer yesterday joined rival mining majors Anglo-American and Vale in reporting earnings battered by commodity price drops and stubbornly high costs. Rio said underlying profit fell 34 per cent to $5.2 billion, as a sharp drop in iron ore prices, weakness in aluminium and lower copper volumes took their toll. That was above market expectations of a sharper drop to $4.9 billion. Prices for steelmaking ingredient iron ore have tumbled this year from 2011 highs, with benchmark prices touching their lowest in two-and-a-half years last week as demand from China, the world's largest consumer of the commodity, eases. Like its peers, Rio is juggling bumper capital expenditure plans with volatile markets and an uncertain outlook. But while some rivals have begun to signal they could cut back, the min-

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sticking to a growth forecast of around 8 per cent for China this year as the impact of measures to revive the economy would start to ﬁlter through. China's economy grew by an annual 7.6 per cent in the second quarter, the slowest pace in three years. "We are seeing, and some of our customers would be anticipating that, as we move towards the latter part of the year, there would be some pickup in demand," he said. The rosy outlook and aboveforecast numbers helped Rio's shares, trading up 2.7 per

cent at 1230 GMT at £32.14, outperforming a 0.7 per cent rise in the sector. Rio added to optimism with what it said were signs that stiﬂing cost pressures on miners were starting to cool, echoing Australia's Fortescue, which said severe skills shortages in mining hotspots were also easing. "Cash costs took 7 or 8 per cent of earnings which is quite a hit - not unexpected, but it just shows you the cost pressures that these guys are under," RBC analyst Des Kilalea said. Rio committed in June to

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ing hopes of further policy easing by the Federal Reserve. Last week's signal by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi that it may ease borrowing costs for Spain and Italy provided further support. But the Bank of England on Wednesday gave no hint of future action at home despite slashing its growth forecast, prompting investors to shed riskier assets such as stocks. "Sentiment is still broadly cautious - people realise there are still a lot of hurdles to be overcome.

But investors can't ignore potential stimulus from central banks and what impact that's had on stock markets in the past," said Keith Bowman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. The UK central bank said it did not expect Britain's recession-hit economy to see much growth at all this year despite all its efforts to pump in cash, but it remained equivocal on whether further measures were likely. Investors had hoped the Bank of England would point to an easing

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THE Greek and Italian governments have agreed to back the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which could improve the project's chances of winning a long contest to become the means of reducing Europe's reliance on Russia by bringing in Azeri gas. Greek Deputy Energy Minister Makis Papageorgiou and his Italian counterpart reached a "close cooperation

agreement" to jointly support the pipeline that would run through their countries, the Greek ministry said in a statement. Greece and Italy were in talks with the government of Albania, which is also part of the route, over the pipeline. TAP is one of two potential pipelines short-listed by the Azeri Shah Deniz 2 gas consortium, led by BP and Statoil,

to carry 16 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year to Turkey and the European Union. "Athens and Rome have decided to back the project after Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz 2 consortium chose TAP to transport gas to western Europe. Nabucco West remains an alternative route through the Balkans," a spokesman for the Italian foreign ministry said.

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Opinion

Politicians are always quick to criticise but slow to do anything REPORTS that the man suspected of raping a 10-year-old boy last week was out on bail, awaiting trial on charges of attempted child abuse that allegedly took place last year, caused public outrage. If he had been remanded in custody until his trial, the Palestinian boy would have been spared the devastatingly traumatic experience he suffered last week, it was pointed out. People, understandably, asked why a suspected paedophile that had done time for manslaughter had been granted bail, and slammed the judge’s decision. Police also said that the granting of bail was up to the judge who had the final decision on the matter. But did the prosecution object to bail being granted? If it had, then the judge’s decision would indeed be difficult to defend. How could a suspect who had a criminal record and was facing charges of attempting sexually abusing two minors not be considered a danger to society? True, the charges against him had not been proved, but on the other hand, he had spent seven years in prison for manslaughter and was suspected of committing a sexual offence. This should have been adequate justification for not granting bail. Perhaps the law forced the judge into taking this decision. Judges are not helped by the huge delays of the courts in the administering justice. The suspect may have had to wait a year or two before going to trial and the judge may have considered this too long a time to keep him behind bars. Judges also have to operate within the law which sets a maximum sentence of two years for attempted sexual abuse of minors. In 2007, a teacher found guilty of fondling two minors was sentenced to 13 months in prison, sparking public outrage. It was explained that the maximum sentence for such an offence was two years, the House Legal Affairs Committee chairman, Ionas Nicolaou pointing out that the law was antiquated. But has anything been done since then to modernise the law and ensure tougher sentences for paedophiles? No. Cyprus has not even ratified the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, which it signed in 2007. This is not a show of tolerance to paedophiles, but an indication of the slowness with which the executive and the legislature move. The politicians publicly criticise the antiquated laws when a case of sexual abuse is reported, but do nothing subsequently to modernise the law and make provisions for tougher sentences. Will the latest case spur them into action or will they forget the matter as soon public anger has died down? We hope not, because tough prison sentences, without parole, are the best way to deal with child sex abusers. We can also introduce a sex offenders’ register, but as a psychiatrist said, “the only thing that can stop paedophiles is punishment.”

Iran on backburner F

OR ALL its recent tough talk, Israel looks highly unlikely to launch an attack against Iran ahead of US presidential elections in November, hoping that Washington will ultimately do the heavy lifting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a blunt, public message to US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that time was running out to tackle Iran and that US policies to curtail its nuclear programme had so far failed. An uptick of Israeli rhetoric this summer has fuelled speculation that Netanyahu is poised to follow through on a long-standing threat to attack Iran and destroy nuclear sites that many believe are geared towards creating an atomic bomb. Iran says its nuclear programme is peaceful and it would retaliate if attacked. Washington also believes Iran is seeking the ability to make a bomb and says it reserves the right to use force to prevent it, but has urged Israel to allow time for tough new US and EU economic sanctions imposed this year to have an effect. An array of analysts in Israel see an Israeli strike in coming months as unlikely, pointing to the huge difficulties posed by military action coupled with the political intricacies of defying Washington in the run-up to the US vote. An Israeli official told Reuters Netanyahu’s inner council, comprising the coalition’s eight top ministers, had not discussed Iran in detail since last year, suggesting there was nothing imminent in the works. “The octet hasn’t held a proper discussion of Iran for months - since October, as far as I can recall,” said the official, who had been briefed on the closed-door sessions. “It’s possible that, since then, Iran came up during other sessions, but I wouldn’t count those as serious discussions. You can’t make any concrete decisions or policy advances in an hour-long chat on the sidelines of a different agenda.” In addition, the official said the octet remained split on the issue, while Israel’s top military and intelligence echelon were “entirely against” launching a unilateral strike on distant and well-fortified Iranian targets that would pose an unprecedented challenge to their forces. Government spokesman Mark Regev declined to comment on the octet discussions. “This is a confidential forum,” he said. Netanyahu said this week

Analysis Crispin Balmer that media reports about toplevel opposition from past and present security chiefs was “harmful”, while analysts said their reluctance could stay his hand. “It is very, very difficult to see a situation where a prime minister will go against the advice not just of the former heads of (spy agencies) Mossad and Shin Bet, but most of the military commanders,” said Uzi Rabi, director of the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern studies in Tel Aviv. Conceivably these internal divisions prompted Netanyahu to be particularly outspoken alongside Panetta on Monday, looking to drown out the naysayers with his uncompromising language. “Neither sanctions nor diplomacy has yet had any impact on Iran’s nuclear weapons programme,” he said, effectively writing off all efforts by President Barack Obama to influence Iran. Panetta appeared caught offguard by Netanyahu’s remarks, which came after two days of talks aimed at reassuring Israel that Washington was determined to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Despite the tone of Netanyahu’s comments, concerns over an imminent Israeli strike have eased in US defence circles since early in the year. American officials also still do not believe that Iran has made the decision to build a nuclear weapon. Whether or not Iran has actually decided to build a bomb, Israel, widely seen as the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, does not want Tehran to possess the capability to do so, a prospect it views as an existential threat. It says Iran’s nuclear programme must be halted before Tehran is able to defend it well enough to make a military response impossible, a deadline it says is approaching quickly as Iran disperses its capabilities in better-protected sites. With a less potent air force than the Americans have at their disposal, Israel’s window of opportunity for a damaging strike is more limited, experts say, hence the speculation that the Jewish state must act soon if it wants to be effective. But not everyone buys into that. “I believe we have time. I support the American assessment

ON THIS DAY AUGUST 9 1930 Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States killing 39,000 people outright.

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that in four months time, or in half a year it won’t be too late,” said retired Brigadier General Uzi Eilam, senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). “In any case, I don’t believe that Israel should be the only one to lead military action against Iran. It would be much better for the United States to lead it.” Top-level Israeli officials have repeatedly questioned the notion that economic sanctions alone might influence Iran, noting that the only time Tehran halted work was shortly after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, when it feared attack. It later resumed activities as the US military got progressively bogged down in the Iraq insurgency. “We need a strong and credible military threat coupled with the sanctions to have a chance to change that situation,” Netanyahu said on Sunday. By extension, Israel will only remain credible if it shows it is ready to follow through on threats. Amongst those warning against complacency is the ex-Mossad head Efraim Halevy. “If I were Iranian, I would be very worried about the next 12 weeks,” he told Israel Radio on Thursday. A recent stream of top-level US officials to Israel, including Panetta and national security adviser Tom Donilon, suggests

Washington is eager for firsthand information on its plans, and equally eager to prevent a flare-up before November. The elections pose both a challenge and a potential opportunity to Netanyahu. Speaking in May, one senior Israeli figure with close ties to the leadership said he thought the prime minister had decided to attack and saw the run-up to the election as an advantage, believing Obama would be bounced into supporting Netanyahu’s actions under pressure from a largely pro-Israel electorate. The subsequent consequences of war, including a likely surge in oil prices, could yet impact the outcome of the US ballot, with voters already deeply concerned about the economy. That could help Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney, who is ideologically much closer to Netanyahu than the Democratic leader. But would Israel, which is so dependent on US support, risk making such an impact on US domestic politics? Ephraim Kam, deputy director of Tel Aviv university’s INSS, believes Netanyahu will hold off. “It would not be healthy for Israeli-US relations to carry out such a significant attack that might influence the election. So my guess is they won’t do it before early November, because it might embarrass the US administration,” he said. (R)

WHAT THE MAIL SAID 25 years ago Sunday August 9, 1987 More than 300,000 people have ﬂed Athens for island and mountain resorts to escape new midsummer heat-wave forecast to hit Greece in the next two days. A sweltering 10-day heat-wave killed more than 1,000 people in July in what the Greek press described as a national tragedy.

1965

35 years ago Tuesday August 9, 1977

Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the ﬁrst and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

Thousands of Greek Cypriots and representatives of countries paid their last respects to Archbishop Makarios at his funeral service yesterday. Church bells tolled, guns thundered a last salute and Archbishop Chrysostomos hailed the dead President as a great leader. The body of the Archbishop was later taken to a ﬁnal resting place in the Troodos Mountains at a spot chosen by Makarios himself.

1969

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Iran insists its nuclear programme is not weapons related

Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the ﬁrst President of the United States to resign from ofﬁce. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

45 years ago Wednesday August 9, 1967 Swedish UN troops last night arranged a ceaseﬁre at Larnaca after an exchange of sporadic shooting between a National Guard post near the Salt Lake and Turkish Cypriots off Artemis road. A report that a Swedish soldier was wounded in the exchange was categorically denied by a UN spokesman.

Thursday, August 9, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Showbiz

A Chorus Line composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68

Madonna urges Russia to free Pussy Riot

Streisand: He was a true musical genius

By Alissa de Carbonnel

By Christine Kearney MARVIN Hamlisch, the award-winning composer of A Chorus Line and The Way We Were, has died suddenly at the age of 68, prompting warm tributes from Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, former US ﬁrst lady Nancy Reagan and dozens of stage and screen stars. Hamlisch, the musical force behind The Sting and numerous other movies and Broadway shows, died in Los Angeles on Monday, a family spokesman said. He collapsed following what was called “a brief illness”. Details were not made public. Streisand, a friend of 45 years and star of romantic movie The Way We Were, said she was “devastated” by his death and recalled how he had played at her 1998 wedding. “When I think of him now, it was his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humour that made him a delight to be around ... He was a true musical genius but above all that, he was a beautiful human being. I will truly miss him,” she added in a statement. Hamlisch, who was working until days before his death, earned the rare distinction of winning Emmy, Grammy,

Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch (C) accepts the Academy Award for Music at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. Hamlisch earned acclaim and popularity for dozens of motion picture scores including The Way We Were Oscar and Tony awards. Minnelli said she had been friends with Hamlisch since the age of 13 and recalled he arranged her ﬁrst and second albums. “I have lost my ﬁrst lifelong best friend, and sadly we have lost a splendid, splendid talent,” the singer and actress said in a statement. In a 2010 interview Hamlisch told Broadway World that in writing The Way We Were he was trying to match “a very yin-yang sort of movie.” He explained: “I wanted to write something that was uplifting and positive; on the

other hand, there is a tremendous amount of bittersweetness to that ﬁlm - and bittersweet romance - so it’s a real duality. And that’s why I think the song - though it’s in the major mode - is quite sad,” he said. The New York City-born composer, raised by Jewish parents and showing an early ability to mimic music as a young child, started out his professional career as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl, beginning a long history of working with Streisand. He said Streisand “has the best voice there is”. His collaborations includ-

ed musical director and arranger of Streisand’s 1994 US concert tour, for which he won two Emmy Awards, and writing the score for Streisand’s 1996 film, The Mirror has Two Faces, for which Hamlisch earned an Oscar nomination for Streisand and Bryan Adams’ duet, I’ve Finally Found Someone. His other film scores included Sophie’s Choice and Ordinary People and he cowrote the ballad Nobody Does It Better for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. Nancy Reagan on Tuesday recalled Hamlisch as a fre-

quent entertainer at White House parties in the 1980s, and how he wrote a 77th birthday song for her late husband, former US President Ronald Reagan. Hamlisch was “a dear friend and I am truly stunned by his death at such a young age ... I don’t think you could ever ﬁnd a more contemporary and talented musician,” Reagan said in a statement. Actress Debra Messing, star of the TV shows Smash and Will & Grace, said on Twitter; “The GREAT Marvin Hamlisch passed away... What a loss. What a talent. What contributions.”

Brigitte Nielsen: There Katy Perry ‘pees in buckets’ backstage is ‘no cause for alarm’ BRIGITTE Nielsen says there is ‘no cause for alarm’ after shocking pictures emerged over the weekend of her drinking vodka in a park. However the star, who has openly battled an addiction to alcohol, wants her fans and friends to know she appreciates their concern. She told website RadarOnline: “I would like to thank all my fans as well as my friends from the Hollywood community for the heartwarming calls and emails about those unfortunate and dramatic pictures. “Looking at the pictures I can understand the level of worrying, but I can assure everyone that there is no cause for alarm. I have been on the road working non-stop for such a long time, fulﬁlling my professional commitments, shooting shows around the world with all the pressure that comes with it.”

VODKA DRINKING The 49-year-old actress was pictured over the weekend drinking directly from a bottle of Popov vodka and also from an unlabeled mini bottle. She chain smoked cigarettes and later stumbled to the grass where she appeared to pass out. She said: “That combined with major health issues in my family drove me to the unfortunate circumstances that you can see on the pictures. At that moment in time, I felt like I needed a moment to myself, in a park. The vodka came about as a desperate move to try to release some pressure and is under no circumstances an indication of how I lead my life on a day to day basis.”

The singer admits she gets very nervous before performing

KATY Perry ‘pees in buckets’ before she goes on stage. The Firework hitmaker - who is believed to be dating John Mayer - admits her glamorous image on stage is a far cry from her performance preparations, which include nerveinduced nausea. She is quoted by The Sun newspaper as saying: “You walk on stage feeling like Mary Poppins but really you’ve just had your skin zipped, peed in a bucket and been dry-heaving over the trash can.” Katy, 27, has previously admitted her pre-performance preparations include skipping in front of a mirror. The brunette - whose divorce from ex-husband Russell Brand was finalised last month - loves to squeeze her curvaceous figure into skimpy outfits so she tests them for potential wardrobe malfunctions before committing to wearing them on stage. “It’s key to my outfits otherwise everybody gets more of a show.”

POP singer Madonna donned the trademark balaclava worn by punk band Pussy Riot during a concert in Moscow to demand Russia free three group members on trial for bursting into a Russian Orthodox church and singing a protest against Vladimir Putin. The US singer also stripped to a black bra to show the band’s name written on her back in support of Pussy Riot’s protest in Moscow’s main cathedral against close links between the president and the clergy. “I know there are many sides to every story, and I mean no disrespect to the church or the government, but I think that these three girls - Masha, Katya, Nadya - I think that they have done something courageous,” Madonna said to loud cheers from the crowd at Moscow’s Olympiysky Stadium on Tuesday night. “I pray for their freedom,” she said. Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, could face up to three years in jail for storming the altar of Christ the Saviour Cathedral on February 21 and belting out a “punk prayer” calling on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin, who has been in power since 2000. The group members hide their identity by wearing coloured balaclavas during protests. Madonna put on a black balaclava at one point during the concert as a show of support. Echoing comments she made in an interview with Reuters before the concert, she made clear she believed the women had already “paid the price” after spending ﬁve months in custody since their arrest. “I know that everyone in this auditorium, if you are here as my fan, feels they have the right to be free,” she said. The singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and actor, who has often courted controversy during her career and sang songs including Like a Prayer and Like a Virgin, joined other international performers such as Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More and Franz Ferdinand by commenting on the trial. The case is seen by the opposition as part of a wider crackdown on dissent by Putin following the biggest protests since he rose to power in 2000, including toughening rules governing the internet and increasing ﬁnes for protestors. Pussy Riot’s stunt took aim at both Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who backed him in this year’s presidential campaign. But the case has also angered many Russians, including some believers, who see the reaction of the state and church as disproportionate. The three women could be sentenced this week.

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, August 9, 2012

Science

The fear of genetically modified athletes

What is certain, from scientiﬁc studies and from surveys of elite sports people, is that it is technically feasible to use genetic modiﬁcation to improve sporting performance

THERE have been "marathon mice", "Schwarzenegger mice" and dogs whose wasted muscles were repaired with injected substances that switch off key genes. It may not be long before we get the first genetically modified athlete. Some fear the use of gene therapy to improve athleticism is already a reality. But since sports authorities' drug testing methods still lack the sophistication needed to pick up gene doping, its status remains unclear. What is certain, from scientific studies and from surveys of elite sports people, is that it is technically feasible to use genetic modification to improve sporting performance, and that some athletes are prepared to risk their lives if they could be guaranteed to win gold medals. Officially, UK Anti-Doping, the body which oversees the control of performance enhancing drugs in Britain, says genetic manipulation as a form of performance enhancement "is currently a theoretical rather than a proven issue". But Andy Parkinson, UKAD's chief executive said: "I wouldn't be surprised if someone out there is trying to do it, and I think that's very worrying." The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says it is ploughing "significant"

money and resources into research into ﬁnding ways to detect the genetic enhancement of athletes. Gene doping - in which DNA is introduced into the body using an inactivated virus or by other means - could alter a person's genetic make-up and improve athletic performance by increasing muscle growth, blood production, endurance, oxygen dispersal or pain perception. Since it cannot be detected, no one really knows whether athletes are using it or not.

'GENE DOPING' Chris Cooper, a professor of sports and exercise science at Essex University and author of a book called Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat thinks it is "hugely unlikely anyone is gene doping" and says the focus should be on people who use well-known performance enhancers like anabolic steroids and blood doping. However, emails that surfaced during a trial of a German track and field coach Thomas Springstein in 2006 showed that people behind some athletes were at least thinking about genetic modification as a way forward. Scientists who lead the field in devel-

oping gene therapy techniques in laboratory animals have also reported being inundated with enquiries from sports people keen to know more. "There are animal models which show efficacy and the possibility of this being technically feasible for an athlete to do," said Andy Miah, a bioethicist and director of the Creative Futures Institute at the University of the West of Scotland. The drug mentioned in the 2006 German court case was Repoxygen - a gene therapy developed by the British biotech Oxford Biomedica as a treatment for severe anemia. The company has since pulled the plug on developing the product as it seemed unlikely to be profitable as a medicine. Yet an email written by coach Springstein to a Dutch doctor suggested some in the sports world were already keen. "New Repoxygen is hard to get," Springstein wrote. "Please give me new instructions soon so that I can order the product before Christmas." Repoxygen is based on a direct injection of an inactivated virus carrying the gene for EPO, or erythropoietin, a hormone beloved by athletic dopers seeking to artificially boost their red blood cells and aerobic capacity.

Mars rover Curiosity sends back its first colour image

Predicted solar storm a looming danger

Photo proves that rover's key tool is functioning

OVER the next two years, as the sun reaches a peak in its 10-year activity cycle, scientists say there is a heightened risk that a whopping solar storm could knock out the power grids, satellites and communications on which we all rely. "Governments are taking it very seriously," says Mike Hapgood, a space weather specialist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. "These things may be very rare but when they happen, the consequences can be catastrophic." Hapgood said that solar storms are increasingly being put on the national risk registers used for disaster planning, alongside other rare but devastating events like tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. The statistics support this, he said. There is a roughly 12 per cent chance of a major solar storm every decade, making them a one-in-a-hundred-year event. The last major one was over 150 years ago. The threat comes from the magnetically-charged plasma which the sun belches out in so-called coronal mass ejections. Like vast bubbles bursting off the sun's surface, they send millions of tonnes of gas racing through space that can engulf the earth with as little as one to three days warning. The geomagnetic storms they stoke can induce strong currents in national power grids that literally melt the expensive transformers that form the cornerstones of the system. "We have a way to go before we reach the point where the market accepts that this is a universal problem and gives the advantage to the guys who make a virtue of their ability to deal with space weather," said Hapgood.

By Irene Klotz NASA's newly-landed Mars science rover, Curiosity, snapped the first colour image of its surroundings while an orbiting sister probe photographed litter left behind during the rover's daring door-die descent to the surface, scientists said on Tuesday. Curiosity's colour image, taken with a dust cover still on the camera lens, shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, a vast basin where the nuclear-powered, six-wheeled rover touched down Sunday night after flying through space for more than eight months. The picture proved that one of the rover's key instruments, a camera known as the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, was in good working order affixed to the end of Curiosity's robot arm. Designed to take magnified, close-up images of rocks and other objects, or wide shots of landscapes, the camera currently remains stowed on the rover's deck. But once in full operation, scientists can use it to capture fine details with a resolution as high as 13.9 microns per pixel - several times finer than the width of a human hair. "It works. It's awesome. Can't wait to open it and see what else we can see," Curios-

An image taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover - its main science target, the 3.4 mile high Mount Sharp ity scientist Ken Edgett told reporters on Tuesday. The latest images were relayed to Earth during the rover's first full day on the Red Planet, following a descent through the Martian atmosphere and touchdown on Sunday night that NASA hailed as the most elaborate and challenging ever in robotic spaceflight. The $2.5 billion project is NASA's first astrobiology mission since the Viking probes of the 1970s, and the landing came as a much-welcome success for a space agency beleaguered by science budg-

et cuts and the recent cancellation of its 30-year-old space shuttle programme. The primary mission of Curiosity, touted as the ﬁrst fullyequipped mobile laboratory ever sent to another world, is to search for evidence that the planet most similar to Earth now harbours, or once hosted, the key ingredients necessary for the evolution of microbial life. But mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California plan to put the rover and its instruments through several weeks of thorough checks and trial op-

erations before gradually beginning science exploration in earnest. They want to be sure the carsized vehicle and its sensitive components came through the tricky, jarring ﬁnal leg of Curiosity's 352 million-mile (566 million-km) journey to Mars without damage. Encased in a protective capsule, the rover blasted into the Martian sky at 17 times the speed of sound and slowed itself using friction from steering through the thin atmosphere. Closer to the ground, the vessel was slowed further by

a giant, supersonic parachute before a jet backpack and ﬂying "sky crane" took over to deliver Curiosity the last mile to the surface at 10:32 p.m. PDT on Sunday (1:32 a.m. EDT on Monday/0532 GMT on Monday). A day later, NASA's sharpeyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter surveyed the scene from a vantage point 186 miles (300 km) above the planet and found Curiosity's approach to Gale Crater littered with discarded equipment used to position the rover near a towering mountain rising from the crater ﬂoor.

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listings Tomorrow Music Hot Nuts Rock’n’Roll the Chas & Dave way. Augsut 10. Frog & Toad, Coral Bay, Paphos. Showtime 9pm. €5.95 including choice of meals. Reservations essential - Tel: 26-343876 Mysterion Live Music festival with DJ STR followed by classic rock band. August 10. Galata Square, Nicosia. 8pm. Free Entrance - Food and drinks on sale Master Tempo Well-known rap group from Greece perform live. August 10. Waves Club, Georgiou A 1004, Limassol. 11.30pm. €20/25. A strict door policy will be implemented Tel: 99-109191 Dave Mothersole Legend and pioneer of UK’s Deep house and tech-house scene on the decks. August 10. Mare Lounge Club, Makenzy Beach, Larnaca. 10pm. €12/15. Tel: 99775266

Theatre My Friend, Lefterakis Theatro Skala presents the Greek theatrical comedy by Alekos Sakellarios. August 10-12. Larnaca Medieval Fort, Kamil Kenan. 9pm. In Greek. €7/12. Tel: 24-652800

Other Events SummerLand Festival 2012 Two days full of electronic dance music. There will be a stand on the festival ground where you can buy all kinds of official SummerLand merchandise and part of the money raised will go towards to raising funds for the anti-HIV cause of Dance4Life . August 10-11. Finikoudes Promenade, Athinon Avenue, Larnaca. 4pm. €40/60. Tel: 70-088007

Ongoing Dance Sixth Euro-Mediterranean Traditional Dance Festival Five countries showcase their traditional and folklore dances and costumes. August 7-10. Ayia Gyla and

Zakaki, Limassol. 7.30pm or 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 25-878744/25-340784

Exhibition Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria Exhibition dedicated to ancient findings. Until August 12. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob Mill, Limassol. 5pm-9pm daily except Mondays. Tel: 25-342123 Dimitris Mihlis Solo painting exhibition. Until August 30. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Nicosia International Airport Solo photography exhibition by Andreas Efstathiou. Until August 30. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Twice a Stranger Multimedia exhibition about forced migration and population exchange. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street,

Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4.30pm. Tel: 22-661475/ 22-671997 I will follow you to the end of the world - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 Diaspora Exhibition by visual artist Nkos Kourossis. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977 Summer Breeze Group mixed media exhibition. Until September 15. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-30000/150

Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org Nicosia: Topographies of Memory: From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace – using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in the area. Until September 30. Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open MondaySunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740. www.home4cooperation.info/www.ahdr.info Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and it relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising

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the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until December 30 (Closed between July 30-August 21). Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis, Nicosia. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac.org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until December 30. Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou, Nicosia. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316 AnThrOPOS: Faces of Cyprus through the Ages An exhibition that explores the human form as it is represented in the art of Cyprus from the Neolithic period until today, focusing specifically on depictions of the human face. Until January 18. The Cyprus Museum 1 Special Exhibition Hall, Museum Street, Nicosia. Tel.: 22-865854. www.mcw.gov.cy

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Ayia Napa youth will rock you!

Brace yourselves, rockers and metalheads alike: the island’s most prominent rock and metal festival is hitting Napa’s shores for the third consecutive year, and hitting it rough. Organised by the Ayia Napa Youth Council, it’s dubbed as “a festival for the youth, by the youth and for whoever feels young”. Founded in 2010, the Youth Festival developed as a way of engaging young people in modern culture and helping them realise that they may acquire their own stage presence or role in the crowd. After announcing details about the event’s maiden ﬂight on Facebook, over 2000 people joined the page. “The reception we have had from Greece and Cyprus is amazing”, acknowledged the organisers on their page on the popular social networking site. Artists and music groups from all over the island contacted the council to perform or even help to organise certain festival constituents and activities. The bands lined up will undoubtedly blow up the stage; there are a minimum of 20 conﬁrmed groups rounded up from Malta, Greece and Cyprus. Renowned acts such as Colorblind from Malta, folk metal band MethyS0s from

Cyprus, Nightstalker from Greece and Greek rock idol Vasilis Papaconstantinou are just a few of the acts. The festival in previous years has hosted names OFt the likes of Sabaton, Rotting Christ and Stratovarius. This year, the panel in charge has confirmed that there will be stands for band merchandise, at a usual 10-15 euros per T-shirt. It’s going to be a bustling weekend at the Ayia Napa stadium as apart from musical acts on stage, the vibrant youth buzz can partake in other parallel activities from Supercross races, skateboard tournaments and car drifts. “The entire youth of Cyprus will lend a dynamic presence in Ayia Napa,” assure the organisers on the festival website www.ayianapites.com. Even an artsy and more mellow part of the local youth has a place at the festival, as they can duel between themselves at planned chess tournaments and stimulate crowd interest by contributing to graffiti walls. Conveniently, Napa’s first international beer festival is on the way and will emerge as a compadre to the events. Lagers and draughts from over 20 different countries will be brought to the Stadium. What better way to kick off a

warm late summer’s night? Over 4000 attendees are expected to liven up the venue each of the nights, as opposed to last year’s 7,000. Unsurprisingly, due to limited funding for the event, purse strings have been tightened and it is no longer free entry. Tickets are now selling for €20 a night, which is indubitably a bargain, considering what you are paying for. Approximately a quarter of ticket proceeds are going to charitable causes and the organisers are hoping to break even. It is signiﬁcant to note that all efforts were

made voluntarily and funded primarily by the municipality. So: strap on your seatbelts and ﬁnd yourselves a ride; for the last weekend of August, Napa is the place to be. Third Ayia Napa Youth Festival Largest rock/metal festival in Cyprus featuring live bands, exhibits, beer festival and more. August 24-25. Ayia Napa Municipal Stadium. 5pm. €25 two day pass/ €20 a night. Tickets are available at SoEasy Stores across Cyprus. Tel: 23-816307 By Elias Melas

NIGHTLIFE Get down and ‘Dirty’ this weekend, along with Gemini at Guaba Beach Bar From the people that brought you the ﬁrst Dubstep VS Drum & Bass party; Dirty Basslines alongside Limassol’s legendary Guaba Bar bring you the next spectacular event. Celebrating one year of Dirty events, Dirty Basslines presents Gemini for the ﬁrst time in Cyprus. At only 22 years of age, Thomas Slinger, the man behind Gemini, is taking the UK electronic music scene by storm with his delicate composition and original style. Every once in a while someone comes along and rocks a new ‘style’ of dubstep/ electro that’s unique and successful, demonstrating that the genre isn’t stagnating and still has a lot

of room for growth. This young Brit has literally skyrocketed to the forefront of the bass music scene with incredible talent and skill. Not only is he a classicallytrained musician, who

but can play the piano and sing, s no weakhe also seems to have n nesses when it comes to his production abilities. And to top all that, the kid has been hailed as an amazing amazin DJ. His 2011 debut EP Blue scored big with crit critics and danceﬂoor worldwide. worldwi Furthermore, Gemin Gemini has already been headhu headhunted to remix tracks by Nicole Scherzinger, P-Diddy, P-D Willow Smith, Smith Jamiroquai, Kel Kelis and Hadouken. Hadouke If you’ve you’v ever seen see one of o his videos,

it’s hard to believe that the young man in the video is Gemini, but with a passion for intense and melodic tunes, this baby-faced producer has a promising future ahead of him. Dirty Basslines was formed in 2011 and is made up of five individuals who share a love for electronic music and the desire to promote the dubstep and drum&bass scene in Cyprus. Their first Dubstep VS Drum & Bass party took place in Limassol with their resident DJs and Breezer. Two weeks after their first party, Dirty Basslines were asked to join Breakbeats for an event at Guaba (No.22 in DJMAG Top

100 clubs) at the beginning of September 2011, leaving crowds wanting more. Since then they’ve put together several events which have proved to be very popular with the general public. Their next venture with Gemini is guaranteed to be a wild one, and the best thing about it is it’s all for free, so get stuck into all the mayhem this Saturday and enjoy the ride. Gemini Celebrating one year of DIRTY events, Dirty Basslines presents, for the first time in Cyprus, British electronic music producer and DJ, Gemini August 11. Guaba Beach Bar, Amathous Avenue, Agios Tychonas, Limassol. 4pm. Free

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INDIA’S SOL A villager dries a cloth under an electric pole powered by solar energy

By Jo Winterbottom WORKERS downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of aged kerosene lamps and adults struggled to carry out the most basic of household chores. The arrival of solar power last year has changed all that. On a humid evening, fans whirr, children sit crosslegged to study their Hindi and mother-of-seven Sunderbai is delighted people can actually see what they are eating and drinking. “When it was dark, we used to drink water with insects

Children watch television powered by solar energy at Meerwada village of Guna district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh

in, but now we can see insects, so we filter it and then drink,” said the 30-year-old, whose flame-orange sari and gold nose ring are small defiances in a life close to the poverty line. Meerwada, on a dirt track rutted by rains and outside the reach of the national grid, struck lucky when US solar firm SunEdison picked it to test out business models and covered the hefty initial expense of installing hitech solar panels in the heart of the village. But rapidly falling costs and improved access to financing for would-be customers could encourage the

Covering initial investment on solar is key as, in a country with around 300 days of sunshine a year, subsequent costs are largely limited to maintenance and repairs spread of such systems down the line, while simpler solar schemes are already making proﬁts in areas where the grid either does not extend or provides only patchy

power. And Asia’s third-largest economy, where just this week hundreds of millions were left without electricity in one of the world’s worst blackouts, needs all the help it can get in easing the strain on its overburdened power infrastructure. The country’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) hopes solar systems that bypass the national grid will account for just under one per cent of total installed capacity by 2022. Still a mere ﬂicker, but that 4,000-megawatt (MW) goal would be way up from 80 MW now when so-called off-grid solar systems are still out of reach for most of the country’s rural poor. Large-scale solar facilities that directly feed the grid, such as those at an over 600 MW solar park recently launched with great fanfare in Gujarat, have been gaining traction for some time. But potential growth in off-grid solar power offers a ray of hope to the around 40 per cent of India’s 1.2 billion population that the renewable power ministry estimates lack access to energy. People like those in the village just 200 metres away from Meerwada, who rely on a hand

Life in the remote Indian vi grind to a standstill as pump for water and cook by torchlight as hungry goats creep up on them out of the gloom. Covering initial investment on solar is key as, in a country with around 300 days of sunshine a year, subsequent costs are largely limited to maintenance and repairs. “The high up-front capital cost is one of the adoption barriers (for solar projects),” said Krister Aanesen, associate principal at McKinsey & Company’s renewable energy division. “Although diesel is more expensive on a full-cost basis, you defer cash outlay for the fuel ... the cash outlays are different and that’s one of the key challenges.” Small-scale direct current

(DC) systems from Karnataka in the south to Assam in the north-east have already cleared that hurdle, supplying simple lights and mobile phone chargers at 100-200 rupees ($1.80-$3.60)

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A boy charges his mobile phone from an electric board powered by solar energy inside his house at Meerwada village

llage of Meerwada used to s darkness descended per month per light – prices that typically allow installers to cover their initial costs in time. Private company Mera Gao Power ﬁts roof-top solar panels and then transmission to

other houses who pay about 40 rupees to connect, with costs thereafter about 25 rupees per week, said Nikhil Jaisinghani, one of the ﬁrm’s founders. That means it should currently take about 12 months to repay panel installation expenses of about $2,500 for 100 houses, though the cost is set to fall. Initial expenses are far more onerous on more comprehensive mini-grids like the one in Meerwada, which includes a room full of batteries that can store enough electricity to provide roundthe-clock supply to the village and which has recently started powering water pumps. California-based SunEdison reckons it cost $100,000-

$125,000 to build the 14 kilowatt (KW) plant in Meerwada, an expense that would have demanded fees way too high for the 400 or so villagers, whose per capita income is about $250 a year. The ﬁrm expects initial capital costs to come down enough to make alternating current (AC) systems affordable in villages like Meerwada in a few years, with improving technology and ﬁerce competition reducing hardware costs, while enhanced battery storage driven by the auto industry’s push on electric cars is also helping. SunEdison, which sells solar power plants and services worldwide to commercial, government and utility customers, has over 50 MW of interconnected solar electricity in India, with projects ranging from small rooftop installations to part of the Gujarat solar park. “Three years ago, the panel price was $2.60 per watt. Today it is 75 cents a watt. I don’t think it will halve in the next few years but I clearly see 50 cents a watt by 2014/15,” said Ahmad Chatila, president and chief executive of MEMC Electronic, SunEdison’s parent company. In the meantime, the government is offering 30 per cent of the project cost and in some cases low-interest loans for solar power systems under its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission policy launched in 2010. But that still means systems are beyond the reach of many poor, rural customers, so some solar companies are putting up the 20 per cent

deposits on loans required by banks or acting as guarantors for customers who are outside the conventional banking system. Back in Meerwada, which lies in central India’s Madhya Pradesh, the villagers have added an unexpected ingredient to the cost equation – frugality. Lights even now are turned on only when darkness falls and fans target the youngest children and the elderly, saving on power use. Only the village leader, Sampat Bai, has been able to afford a television but it’s open to all and her bare-

Lights even now are turned on only when darkness falls and fans target the youngest children and the elderly, saving on power use walled main room is crowded when the latest epic dramas come on screen and the children have ﬁnished their homework. Manorbai, a 30-something mother who is now making more money by working at

night to mend and sew on her vintage black-and-gold foot-pedal sewing machine, has a simple message on the future. “Our village has power and other villages should too,” she said.

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FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large ﬂat screen TV’s + projector, ﬁts 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

BUSINESS TO RENT FOR RENT : SHOP 180sqm’s in Tala - Paphos, main road. Available now. Rent negotiable. Call 26652409

WANTED TO RENT WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy, 22455072, 99089083.

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES **************************** FOR SALE Mercedes SLK 230. Full MOT, low mileage, automatic, burgundy colour. Genuine reason for sale. Offer price €10,000 Call 99951393. *****************************

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**************************** MINI 1, 2005, red, manual, all specs, radio/cd/ac, MOT / tax, 20,000 miles from new, price : €7000 call 99096902 – Polis

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA **************************** ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT; 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite; bathroom, laundry room, fully ﬁtted kitchen, large sitting/ dining room, everyday room, two large verandas, guest w/c, c/h, a/c, broadband internet/TV/satellite connection, covered parking. Furnished/ unfurnished (€1,200/€1,000) 22312255, 99557457.

FOR RENT Location: Prevezis 13 Nicosia (near Cleopatra Hotel). Flat: 2 bed rooms - 90 sq m (the ﬂat is in a new building in the centre and can also

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FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys, being leather, cruise control, front and rear parking sesonrs, lights-rain sensors, wind deﬂector, 45000 km, excellent condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122.

Office furniture and equipment. Excellent quality, new condition. Modern Hi-Tech design. Including 2 work stations, conference room, Manager Desk, cupboards, Switchboard and more.. Must See!!! Tel: 25817684

TO LET NICOSIA be used as an office). For info tel: 99763804 Andreas Panayi FOR RENT 3-bedroom luxury apartment over 200 sq.m. Very spacious living area extending to a large veranda overlooking the green of the river area. Bathrooms all marble (one ensuite), modern kitchen. Fully air-conditioned, with underfloor heating, garage for 2 cars and large store. Situated in the exclusive gated development of J&P Glastonos, one of the oldest classy residential areas of Nicosia. Call 99630320 ***************************** TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT (113 sq. metres) on Second floor (No lift) in Aglandja, (Nicosia). Fitted kitchen: fridge, gas cooker, built-in electric oven. Bedrooms: built- in bookcases Dining-room: dining-table with 8 chairs Sitting-room: Two 3-seater sofas, One 2-seater sofa and One Armchair with coffee table. Bathroom c/w toilet Guest’s toilet For further info: 99342225 Mrs Philippou *****************************

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FOR RENT : 2 bed-room flat in Nikis Ave in Nicosia, 80 m. Very good conditions. Excellent for office or flat. €525. 3 bed-room flat with some furnitures in Nicosia near Central Bank, 140 m. Completely renovated like new. €650. Mob : 99460860 **************************** LUXURY UPPER HOUSE 180 sq.m at Ayios Dometios. Furnished, 3 bedrooms, laundry room, w/m, s/h c/h, fully air-conditioned, 5 ceiling funs, walled kitchen, refrigerator, curtains, parking place. Tel.99443412 **************************** HOUSE FOR RENT: 5 bedroom detached house, French ambassador and American heart institute area, easy access to city centre, schools, hospitals, all amenities and motorway, in quiet cul-de-sac, on high ground with views of Nicosia and Pentadaktylos. 3 Baths, garage for 2 cars with automatic doors, bbq, fireplace, oil central heating, airconditioning, fully furnished. €2000 Pm, tel 99 621914 ***************************** 3 BEDROOM FLAT completely renovated in Strovolos. 135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. € 650/ month Call 99 330 908. ***************************** LYCAVITOS 300sq.m., 3 bdrm office lux. €1500, Dasoupolis 2 bdrm., wooden floors modern design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm f/f., modern furniture, luxury €1000, Hilton 2 bdrm., wooden floors, modern building €850, Mak/ssa whole floor flat with/

without furniture €1200, villas Mak/ssa-Strovolos with pool and garden. Costas Markides Tel: 22378898/99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16. ***************************** FLATS FOR RENT studio strovolos 250,1 bdrm ag.antonios 380,kennedy furnished 440,engomi 490 Ag.andreas 490,dasoupolis 450.makarios av.500,strovolos 400 2bdrm furnished lykavitos 600 acropolis just built 650,anthoupolis 430 3bdrm acropolis 300,engomi 500,Hilton furnished 600 4bdrm ag.andreas fully equipped 800. POSPORIDES ESTATES 99474839 99646822 REG.338 ***************************** ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382 ***************************** TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3

TO LET NICOSIA bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom. Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website). 2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 4 bedr + separate office space + maid’s room luxury detached house, split level, big open space sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, swimming pool, big verandas, 2 covered parking, in a very quiet area near Lidl – Latsia €2500 (H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxry detached house with 1 bedr flat in the basement, floor heating with gass a/c units, big kitchen with electrical appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms, big garden with small pebbles, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R), (photos in the website). 5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with separate maid’s room, central heating, a/c, separate office room, sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room opening to the big garden with grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General flooring shop – Makedonitissa €3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website). 6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central

TO LET NICOSIA heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big storage room, solid parquet floor in the bedrooms, 2 covered parking, swimming pool, garden with trees, veranda with bbq area, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting and dining areas, very near to English School, off Athalassas Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R), (photos on the website). 9. 3 bedr ground floor semi detached house in very good condition with storage heaters, 5a/c,2wc, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room, big front veranda, 2 covered parking in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega - Parissinos €550 (H3PA2001-R), (photos in the website). 10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main

TO LET NICOSIA bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, - Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website). 12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website). 13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered park-

TO LET NICOSIA ing, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500 (H3STI012-R), (photos in the website). 16. 3 bedr + office space +separate maid’s room detached luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area with parquet floor, TV room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area and fitted cooker and oven, 4 wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and yard, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood in the centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. - €1400 (H4MAK0003-R), (photos in the website). 17. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company. 1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date. 2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized. 5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012. Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website). 18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA website). 21. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website).

19. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

22. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

20. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with ﬁre place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training ﬁeld. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the

23. 4 bedr luxury detached house with expensive finishes, office space, separate maid’s room, 3 of the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, floor heating, full air condition, white marble floor all the house, fire place, lighting fixtures, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small garden,2 covered parking’s in a nice neighbourhood with expensive houses near KEMA building – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com **************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website). 2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website). 3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heat-

TO LET NICOSIA ers, full a/c, office space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in the website). 6. 1 bedr luxury fully furnished apartment, 60sq.m, with 2 a/c for hot and cold, spacious, covered parking, on a small building near Alpha Mega supermarket – Dasoupolis €450 (A1DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near traffic lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, ice view off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre €460 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website). 9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure sys-

TO LET NICOSIA tem, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website). 10. 2 bedr new luxury finished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet neighborhood – Aglantzia €650 (A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the website) 11. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, storage heaters, 2 a/c, cooker, oven, dishwasher, washing machine/dryer, refrigerator in the kitchen,2 wc, 1 bathroom, blinds, big covered veranda, storage room, parking, big common SWIMMING pool. Price includes common expenses – Latsia €500 (A1LAT0004-R), (photos in the website). 12. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website). 13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big sep-

TO LET NICOSIA arate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighborhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr apartment, 140sq.m,central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, covered parking off Kennedy and Markora street walking distance to the centre – Nicosia Centre €550 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) & luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre €1100 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely furnished and equipped, big covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton, off Makarios Avenue close to the centre – Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the website)

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17. Brand new quality finished 2 storey Penthouse apartment with cozy nicely modern fully furnished apartment, 150sq.m unique design, a/c for hot and cold in all the flat, 2wc, big verandas around the flat, private elevator with lock for the flat , in the centre of Makedonitissa of 28th October street – €1200 (A2MAK0004-R), (photos in the website).

20. 3 bedr new luxury finished penthouse floor apartment, 240sq.m, big sitting and dining area(can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), big separate kitchen with cooker, oven, microwave, laundry room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, storage heaters, full a/c, blinds on all windows, pressure system, covered parking, big covered veranda, off Iphigenia’s street near Ministry of Education on a small building with 7 flats only. Available in September – Acropolis €1300 (A3ACS0019-R), (photos in the website).

18. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the website) 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – Engomi €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighborhood next to a playground, near Central ofﬁces of Cyta and Laiki Head quarters – Dasoupolis €600 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood. Available in August – Nicosia Center €1400

TO LET NICOSIA (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website). 23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr quality apartment, 165sq.m+ big covered verandah, separate floor heating, full a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solid parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag. Andreas - AVAILABLE in AUGUST– Nicosia Center €1450 (A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the website). 24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €620 (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos in the website). 25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near Eng-

TO LET NICOSIA lish School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st of AUGUST – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website). 26. 3 bed brand new luxury finished apartment in a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms(one en suite), expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, double glazed windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure system, solar heater, central satellite antenna, 2 covered parkings, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda traffic lights walking distance to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R), (photos in the website). 27. 3 big bedrs +office space luxury penthouse floor apartment, renovated, central heating independent, full a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solar heater, pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining areas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast area, very nice view of the old city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on a small building in the centre of Nicosia near the Museum and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200 (A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.

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com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM ﬂat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103

LIMASSOL ***************************** FIRST FLOOR HOUSE FOR RENT in Potamos Germasogia. 1 bedroom A/C, full furnished. Parking available large veranda. Call 96717537 ***************************** FOR RENT one bedroom furnished ﬂat in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price €450 (included common expenses). Tel: 99406415 Andreas, fax: 25582963

FOR RENT IN LIMASSOL furnished studio with small verandah, air condition (hot/cold), in the tourist area, opposite the sea, on “Lordos Beach Garden”, 2nd ﬂoor. Rent €250 per month. Information Tel. 25378504. 4 BEDROOM recently renovated whole ﬂoor apartment of 200sqm.. Fully Furnished. Opposite sea, swimming pool, tennis court, and security gate. 3 new bathrooms, new kitchen with stainless steel appliances. 2 Covered parkings. Price € 1500/month. Call 99 330 908

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3 bedrooms in Omonia furnished /unfurnished, fire place in sitting room, main sitting room, kitchen, bathroom, utility, shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms. Covered parking. Price €650. Tel 95 116808 VERY SPACIOUS LUXURY BUNGALOW HOUSE situated in the village of Palodeia, ideal for its proximity to the Heritage school and only 5 miles to Limassol town centre with shops and banks close by. Accommodation comprises of an open plan sitting room/dining area, fully fitted and equipped kitchen, 1 master bedroom with en-suite, 3 large bedrooms, a separate wc/bathroom and an office room. A/c & c/h throughout. In front of the house is a car port for 2 cars but has additional space for another 3 or 4 cars. Price €1250.00pm. Viewing available after 23/8/12 please contact Yiannakis Georgiou 99451011. ***************************** OFFICE FOR RENT OPPOSITE SEA WITH amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103

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Advertiser TO LET LARNACA LARNACA PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, ensuite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 PHINIKOUDES PROMENADE one bdr apt on the 4th floor, F/F, a/c. In the most exclusive area on the sea front of the city centre. A panoramic view of the Marina and the sea. Situated right on the sea. Makes life a holiday all year round. For long term rent only €380. Tel: 99222197, 99541828. FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 **************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool. Beautifully furnished throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District.

TO LET LARNACA Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357) 24815104 2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District. Please call us for a free valuation. Tel.(00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – largest range of properties. Over 200 rental properties in the Larnaca district at the most competitive rates! Flexible contracts available. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM – VILLA FOR RENT Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with a good-sized rear garden & Communal pool, located in the village of Oroklini. Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357) 24815104 CALL 24 815 104 TO ENQUIRE OR ARRANGE A VIEWING – NO OBLIGATION OR FEES. VIEW OUR FULL RANGE OF OVER 200 PROPERTIES BY VISITING WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM UPDATED DAILY. LANDLORDS ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FREE AND GET WORLD WIDE ADVERTISING – NO TENANT NO FEE ! ****************************

PAPHOS 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of Kato Paphos, the

TO LET PAPHOS property is situated in a quiet, private complex, next to archeological site overlooking the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933 AGIOS NEOPHYTOS, TALA, 2 bedroom house, with a/c, split units, private parking, beautiful garden, very quiet area, with sea views. Rent is negotiable, Tel : 96570227 6 BEDROOM, LUXURY DETACHED VILLA in Chlorakas, for rent. Breathtaking, unobscured sea and mountain views. Close to all amenities, located in a cul de sac in Melanos area with a private road. 6 bed, 2 bathrooms (+2en suite), utility room, outdoor storage, Jacuzzi, private pool, fully A/C, ﬁtted kitchen, large verandas and landscaped gardens. Long term let or sale by owner, call 99414920 **************************** FOR RENT 2bed townhouse 3 km from Paphos centre in small project of 4 units, large swimming pool available, free wiﬁ Large green areas around, sea and mountain views €350 per month .Please call 99439891. **************************** UNIVERSAL AREA, 1 bedroom, furnished apartment, off street parking, quiet area, euro 250 per month, plus electricity, no other charges. Tel : 96523557 **************************** FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos

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Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** CHLORAKA, 2 bedroom apartment, only 5 years old, fully furnished with a/c, lovely, large patio area in rear €300 per month, + communal charges please call Malcolm on: 99127031 - no agents **************************** FOR RENT new ground ﬂoor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. Inf. Mob 99548855 **************************** For your consideration

3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must see!

beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and ﬁnishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, inﬁnity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 ***************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 **************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACTOFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE

1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. In a quiet cul-de-sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets. 2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea.

4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top ﬂoor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe. Fully furnished with all appliances. Lift to all ﬂoors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location. Call Val on 99166563 Or Liz on 96703403 **************************** UNIVERSAL AREA, 2 bedroom modern furnished town house, communal pool Euro 450 per month Tel 99387842 ***************************** ANAVARGOS, 3 bedroom detached house, low maintenance garden, communal pool, very close to international school, Unfurnished or furnished, euro 550 per month Tel: 99239262 **************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS taking sea views. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Large storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street parking. A beautiful home. 3. KAMARES €675 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished though can be furnished if desired. Includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months. Outdoor storage facilities, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters. 4. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Guest wc. Beautifully furnished with quality modern furniture. Separate modern fitted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea views. Fully enclosed garden with storage shed, covered barbeque area and private pool offering lovely views. 5. PEYIA €700 rental price includes pool cleaning. Unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Spacious kitchen & living area. Enclosed garden with well & private pool offering sea views. Covered verandas, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a quiet residential area. 6. PEYIA €750 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villas is furnished with modern furniture, includ-

TO LET PAPHOS ing satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. a spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking. 7. KOILI €800 brand new modern detached 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa. High quality fixtures & fittings. Spacious living area with real fireplace, plus underfloor heating throughout. Enclosed garden with private pool. Total plot size 600 sq meters, covered area 220 sq metres. Available unfurnished. Pets allowed. 8. MESOGI €1250 stunning detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villa. One bedroom & ensuite on ground floor. Spacious kitchen with separate utility room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fireplace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool. Gated entrance with undercover parking. Situated on a private road. Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net **************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. KAMARES - TALA – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished luxury bungalow set on an elevated plot on this prestigious development. Open plan living area

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Nicosia ........................22 802 020 Limassol ......................25 805 050 Larnaca .......................24 804 040 Paphos ........................26 806 060 Famagusta ..................23 803 030

Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

Drug Law Enforcement Unit ......................................... 1498 (Confidential Information) Rescue Co-ordination Centre ............................. 1441 (Immediate Response Service for Aeronautical or Maritime Accident & Incidents) Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679 Forest Fires ..................... 1407

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

TO LET PAPHOS with feature fireplace, dining area. Separate kitchen with D/W etc. Separate utilty room with access to side garden. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Large verandah overlooking the pool. Sep storage room, covered parking and additional store. Swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 600.00 a month or sensible offers only 2. TRIMITHOUSA 3 bed 2. bath unfurnished apartment/house set in quiet location with views. Open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Large balcony, offstreet parking. Euros 400.00 a month. 3. KATHIKAS – 3 bed,2 bath unfurnished stone bungalow with no immediate neighbours.. Open plan living area with fireplace with log burner.. Fitted kitchen, utility room. 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Family bathroom. Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very quiet area. Euros 600.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. Euros 425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. Euros 800.00 per month. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, balcony, shutters, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 400.00 a montn or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal. 7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up

TO LET PAPHOS to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars. Euros 1500.00 per month or offers. 8. POLEMI – 4 bed 2.5 bath massive unfurnished apartment with own entrance in large landscaped gardens. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Huge fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.4 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom. Pretty landscaped gardens, shared pool and off street parking. Quiet rural property.. Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email: - inforentals@aol. com **************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

FOR SALE NICOSIA FOR SALE IS A BUILDING WITH 4 FLATS, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 euro. negotiable Call: 99 330 908 *************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quiet area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 negotiable Call: 99 330 908 *************************** FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596.

LIMASSOL *************************** 2 BEDROOM FLAT located in Germasoyia with partial sea views, 85sqm less than 10 years old with title deeds Price € 135.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0361 ***************************

AYIA NAPA LUXURY VILLA with pool & BBQ Close to Nissi Beach, 5 minutes walk, Sleeps 8. Available 20/8 up to 20/9, SPECIAL PRICE For more info see owner’s direct UK, prop. No CY2141 or call 99775861

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA FOR SALE, single storey 3-bdrm house, double garage, storeroom, s/pool, nice garden, built on 1800 sq. m. of land located in Pera-Chorio (Nissou), 17 Km. south of Nicosia. Owner is returning to base. Tel. 22 523 399 / 96 799 267 FLAT FOR SALE: 2 BEDROOM FLAT with title deeds, 110 sqm, fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, eu 119,000. Tel 99 621914 ***************************

SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed flat on beach road; light, airy with balcony. New flooring, a/c units, lift 2nd floor, windows 3 sides, own car space. TITLE DEEDS. €115,000. Tel 99178141 www.homesinternational.info (Les Bois) ***************************

LARNACA JUST ON SEA luxurious two story villa, four en-suite bedrooms, steam baths, roof garden, for sale, at Pervolia beach, 8 kilometres from Larnaca. Asking price €1,499,000. Call 00357 97790619. AMAZING SEASIDE WATERFRONT BEACH APARTMENT - Immaculate and spacious open-plan living, 2 double bdrms, fantastic sea views, big veranda and parking in exclusive location only 6 minutes to Larnaca airport. This excellent invest-

FOR SALE LARNACA ment property is available immediately with title deeds. For viewing telephone 99890128. NEAR MARONI Coastline Larnaca 2 bdrm bungalow on large plot Wrap around veranda with sea & mountain views, Large lounge/ dining room, Large Kitchen, Full C/H Provision for a/c All furniture & car included €295,000 99147929 ***************************

PAPHOS *************************** UNIVERSAL AREA, 1 bedroom apartment with title deeds, c/p, communal pool in small complex of 8, under cover parking, roof terrace, store room and large balcony overlooking the pool, the sale also includes celing fans, white goods and furniture , bargain at : euro 69.500, Tel : 99131044 *************************** FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: kissonerga, 3 bedroom flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sqm closed area, ch, ac, covered parking, excellent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees till 31.12.12. Reduced to eu 135,000,or rent eu 450 pm. Tel 99 621914 *************************** 2 PROPERTIES BETWEEN POLIS AND LATSI. 2 bed townhouse, village centre €69,000 and quiet 3/4 bed house overlooking bay. 2 bath, c.h. wood burner, a.c. bedrooms, salt water 9x6 pool set in approx 2.500 sq.mts. €444,000 Tel: 99995531 *************************** TALA, 5 bdrm villa for sale . Title deeds. Sea and mountain view. 5 en-suite double bedrooms. Central heating, a/c, fireplace. Private L shape s/ pool and garden area, patio, with bbq, bar and pergola. Car parking. Plot: 620 sq.m. Covered: 285sqm, €458.000. tel. 99587757. ***************************

AYIA NAPA *************************** AYIA NAPA, rare opportunity, with title deeds, 4 bedroom house, renovated, swimming pool, 300m from best beach, 650 sqm plot. Eu 440,000. Tel 99 621914 *************************** AYIA NAPA, studio for sale, 38 sqm, furnished and fully renovated, with title deed, in licensed complex, 500m from nissi beach, eu 52,000, tel. 99 621914 ***************************

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Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.For information call: 99496541

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CHURCHES ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924 THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!! PAPHIAKOS NEW CHARITYSHOP/T.ROOMS NOW OPEN IN PEYIA. T ROOMS NOW OPEN (next to Peyia Police Station) Volunteers and donations needed please contact Suzanne 99151996 for further information. NOW OPEN !!! BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. BOOK EXCHANGE SHOP TREMITHOUSA Paphiakos Book Exchange Shop, Tremithousa. Special Tuesday sales held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. For more information Tel 99771763/99283467 PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WIH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FEELING THE HEAT? THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS NEEDING WATER AND SHADE. MAKE SURE DOGS ARE NOT LEFT IN CARS THEY BECOME OVENS IN SUMMER!! For further advice or assistance contact the clinic 26953496 or visit the website www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com

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LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr

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Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

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9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month)

Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives. Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm. International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist 4th Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist rd 3 Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala 1st & 3rd Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

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06.45 News (rpt) 08.00 Concert Dedicated To Mikis Theodoraki 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes. 10.10 Reload Summer 12.10 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television. 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.35 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in. 17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) Documentary series featuring people across the world pursuing innovative projects to counter global warming. 17.30 Entehnos Local cultural show. 18.00 News 18.15 Kati Psinetai Celebrities Celebrity special where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals. 20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.00 Diving Women’s 10m Platform - Final. 22.10 Water Polo Women’s Gold Medal Match. 23.20 News 23.35 Basketball Women’s Semiﬁnal. 01.00 Repeats

08.00 To Kokkino Leoforeio (rpt) 09.00 Maya the Bee 09.30 Fireman Sam 09.40 Flipper and Lopaka 10.05 Arthur 10.30 Caillou 11.00 Track & Field Men’s Decathlon - 110m Hurdles, Women’s High Jump Qualification, Men’s Decathlon - Discus Throw and Men’s 4x400m Relay Round 1. 14.00 Rhyth. Gymnastics Individual AllAround - Qual., Rotation 1 and Individual AllAround - Qual., Rotation 2. 16.40 Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events. 17.00 Volleyball Women’s Semifinal #1. 18.30 Cycling BMX: Men’s Quarterfinals. 20.30 News In English 20.40 News In Turkish 20.50 Track & Field Men’s Decathlon - Javelin Throw, Men’s Triple Jump - Final, Women’s 800m - Semifinals, Men’s 800m - Final, Women’s 4x100m Relay - Round 1, Men’s 200m - Final, Women’s Javelin Throw - Final and Men’s Decathlon 1500m. 23.30 Beach Volleyball Men’s Gold Medal Match. 00.30 Olympic News Channel

06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.40 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna

06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) Local talk-show. 08.40 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 09.20 Dennis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more. 12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series, based on a popular US sitcom. 16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stgmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the popular Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities. 18.10 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti (rpt) Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge. 19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series. 20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 22.20 Daddy Cool (rpt) 23.30 Singles (rpt) 00.10 News 00.20 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops. 01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 03.30 Yia Sena (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 10.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Eﬁaltis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00. 18.40 Tropico Latin American telenovela. 19.40 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.30 Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 FBI agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris are assigned to investigate the sudden reappearance of 4,400 people who mysteriously vanished at some point during the previous 50 years. 23.45 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 00.45 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

20.20 News 20.15 News 21.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 22.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.50 House (rpt) First season of medical drama. 23.40 Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) 00.30 News 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Fili Zois (rpt)

CAPITAL

PLUS TV 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia 12.30 Thema Gevsis Cookery show. 13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) 18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) 19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 The Forgotten ‘Designer Jane’. An old friend of Alex’s asks the Forgotten Network to help identify a woman who was killed outside a local charity event. 22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season. ‘The Curious Case of Dean Winchester’. The Winchester brothers discover a witch is running a poker game where the currency is life years instead of money. 23.30 One Tree Hill Second season. ‘What Could Have Been’. Nathan is released from hospital, only to discover his troubles are just beginning. Peyton and Brooke do their best to help by holding a fundraiser. 00.15 LTV Sports News 00.30 Star News 03.00 Repeats

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Kids’ TV Magikos Cosmos I Kori Tou Mistral Deste Tous Mila Mou Prasina (rpt) Greek FILM: Aﬁste Me Na Ziso FILM: The Sheltering Desert Two German geologists escape internment during World War II by staying in the Nambian Desert. Drama, starring Jason Connery. 1992. O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place With News at 18.30. News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Loyal Opposition: Terror In The White House America’s ﬁrst female vice president proves her mettle by vowing to thwart desperate crooks holding the White House incumbent hostage. Thriller, starring Joan Van Ark. 1998. FILM: Sparks: The Price Of Passion A mayor’s career is jeopardised by blackmailing property speculators and the political fall-out from a series of unsolved murders. Drama, starring Victoria Principal. 1990. FILM: The Last Time Romantic comedy drama, starting Michael Keaton. 2006.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Healthcheck 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 Assignment 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Healthcheck 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 Assignment 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Healthcheck 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Wit-

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BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 BFBS Hosts 04.00 BFBS Shufﬂe 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast With Mark Humphries 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Steve Knight 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 20.30 Sitrep 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 Heaven’s Gate

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 18.30 Sitrep 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’clock News 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News,

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PICK OF THE DAY

Real Steel (Novacinema1, 17.40) Maybe it’s just me. Every year, it seems, there’s a family film with an excitable kid, a weary, reluctant mentor and some kind of violent sport which I respond to beyond all expectation (and, perhaps, beyond all reason). Two years ago it wa The Karate Kid, last year it was Real Steel a boisterous hybrid of Rocky, E.T. and all those films (The Champ being perhaps the prototype) where a burned-out has-been is redeemed by the adoration of a young boy. Admittedly there’s not much adoration in the early scenes between Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) and his 11year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo) - and with good reason, because Charlie isn’t much of a father. He’s reckless, irresponsible and notably absent from Max’s life, in fact his only interest in the kid lies in waiving his rights (at a price) so the boy can be adopted by his aunt after the death of his mother. You should spend some time with him, suggests the aunt. “With the kid?” replies Charlie, stunned by the very idea. Charlie is better with robots than kids (or human beings in general) - the film’s premise being that, in the near future, robot boxing has become a massive sport. This is a kind of communal, liveaction videogame where giant robots fight each other while handlers operate them by remote-

control - and Charlie is one such handler, once a champion but now fallen on hard times. His life is a mess, but he gets a chance at redemption when he teams up with Max plus a broken-down robot called Atom (he looks a bit like the robot in The Iron Giant) who’s able to copy people’s movements, making him quasi-human. The title makes it sound like the robot’s going to talk or something, but in fact the hunk of steel never becomes ‘real’. This isn’t sci-fi, it’s a scrappy boxing movie with some bone-crunching - or steel-crunching - action scenes and amusing byplay between Charlie and the hyperactive kid (“People love that kid thing. How old are you, 9, 10?” riffs our hero airily, getting Max onstage with Atom). There’s no reason why it should work, then again there’s no reason why it shouldn’t: Hollywood’s always been good at exuberant crowd-pleasers, it’s just that they usually ruin them with incoherent action (hello, Transformers) or excessive sentimentality. Real Steel does bog down for a moment, when Charlie (inevitably) apologises for being a bad dad, but only for a moment: this is great formula fun with a nifty premise and a shameless climax, and I mostly loved it. But maybe it’s just me. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE

The Social Network (Novacinema4, 21.00) A masterpiece? Maybe - though more in the fi rst hour, when Jesse Eisenberg rules the screen as arrogant, socially awkward Mark Zuckerberg (who creates a social networking site he calls “Facemash”, and later “The Facebook”), than in the second hour when Zuckerberg recedes and Justin Timberlake takes over as fast-talking Sean Parker. It’s deliberate, of course, showing how Facebook spun away from its creator (or co-creator), but the fi lm is at its best in those early scenes, when the speed and fluidity of David Fincher’s direction blend with the witty dialogue and Eisenberg’s performance though it’s not really ‘about’ Facebook, even then. Andrew Garfield (a.k.a. Spider-Man) is the friend he falls out with - and any irony involving Facebook ‘friends’ vs. real-life friends is entirely intentional. Made in 2010.

American History X (LTV3, 22.00) Why is this fi lm so popular? Can it be because so many people are fascinated by anything neo-Nazi? It’s currently No. 36 on the all-time Top 250 at the Internet Movie Database with 365,000 people having voted it among the best fi lms ever - yet it’s really just a glorified music video, crude, superficial and fairly enjoyable. Edward Norton is our hero, a teenage white supremacist who sees the error of his ways and tries to prevent his hero-worshipping younger brother (Edward Furlong) from following in his footsteps - and Norton does his best, but the style is hysterical. Characters are reduced to splashy symbols, choirs emote on the soundtrack and director Tony Kaye uses slow-motion as if unaware that anyone’s ever used it before. Mostly in black and white, both literally and metaphorically. Made in 1998.

Yo, Tambien (Novacinema1, 22.00) Yo, Tambien! How ya doin’, my man? Actually there’s no-one called Tambien in this Spanish drama, and the title means ‘Me Too’ - doubtless referring to Daniel (Pablo Pineda), a young man who has Down’s Syndrome but wants to be just like everyone else. He becomes the ﬁ rst European with Down’s to graduate from university, gets a job then embarks on a romance with Laura (Lola Duenas), “a neurotic but ‘normal’ co-worker”, thereby “proving that everyone is equal in their need for, and ability to feel, love,” as per the synopsis. Sounds very earnest and the trailer doesn’t really help, alternating slushy romantic montages with raw emotion (“I’m not a child! I’m a man!”) and bits of special pleading (“You make me feel normal”; “Why do you want to be normal?”). Still, it won awards at various festivals. In Spanish; made in 2009.

The Social Network (Novacinema4, 21.00)

Old Dogs (LTV, 21.00) 07:00 Baboons With Bill Bailey 07:25 Crocodile Hunter 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Natural Born Hunters 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Orangutan Island 11:55 Animal Cops Houston 12:50 Escape To Chimp Eden 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Baboons With Bill Bailey 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Pandamonium 17:25 Bad Dog 18:20 Cats 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Orangutan Island 20:10 Monkey Life 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Whale Wars 22:55 Venom Hunter With Donald Schultz 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 00:45 I’m Alive 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Whale Wars 03:30 Venom Hunter With Donald Schultz 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Monkey Life 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 Escape To Chimp Eden

01:20 Ideal 01:50 Coast 02:55 Eastenders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Casualty 04:45 The Weakest Link 05:30 My Family 06:00 Coast 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too 08:15 Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too 09:30 My Family 10:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 Eastenders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 Bleak House 14:05 My Family 14:35 Last Of The Summer Wine 15:05 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 15:35 Eastenders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Casualty 17:25 Bleak House 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Eastenders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Monarch Of The Glen 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Ideal 22:00 India With Sanjeev Bhaskar 22:50 Supernova 23:20 The Old Guys 23:50 New Tricks 00:40 Twenty Twelve

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Rides 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? 21:05 Sons Of Guns 22:00 Nothing Personal 22:55 American Chopper 23:50 American Loggers 00:45 Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero 01:40 Sons Of Guns 02:40 Nothing Personal 03:40 American Chopper 04:40 American Loggers 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 05:30 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 11:30 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 12:45 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 19:00 Handball: Summer Olympic Games London 20:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 23:30 Handball: Summer Olympic Games London 00:30 Olympic Games: Together To London 01:00 Diving: Summer Olympic Games

London 02:00 Football: Summer Olympic Games London 03:00 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 Terriers 09:25 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:10 The Amazing Race 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 Terriers 14:05 Criminal Minds 14:50 Falling Skies 15:35 The Chicago Code 16:20 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds 21:00 Falling Skies 21:45 Camelot 22:40 Terriers 23:25 Falling Skies 00:10 Camelot 01:05 The Amazing Race 01:50 Family Guy 02:40 Lost 03:25 The Life & Times Of Tim 03:55 How I Met Your Mother 04:45 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Decoded 09:00 Battle 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Lock N’ Load 13:00 Top Shot 14:00 Battle 15:00 Decoded 16:00 Lock N’ Load 17:00 Top Shot 18:00 Battle 19:00 Decoded 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Ice Road Truckers 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Ice Road Truckers 04:00 Decoded 05:00 Battle 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Oh, God! 09:30 Last Song 11:30 Hollywood Buzz 12:00 Other Boleyn Girl 14:00 Double Jeopardy 16:00 Friends 17:00 Serious Man 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Old Dogs 23:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 00:35 Hustler TV 02:30 Too Big To Fail 04:15 Lost In Space 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 ScoobyDoo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, KaiLan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Ben 10 17:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Pre-

mier League 19:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 20:00 Planet Speed 20:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 2009 International Speed Pool Challenge 22:30 Geisco Pba Team Shootout 23:00 Boxing Ringside 00:30 Grand American Series 2012 01:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 02:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 04:00 Best Basket League OPAP Games Of The Season 06:00 PGA Tour Classic Films

07:15 House M.D. 08:00 United States Of Tara 08:30 Borgias 10:25 Trust Me 11:10 Hawaii Five-0 12:45 Supernatural 13:30 House M.D. 14:15 Borgias 16:05 Friends 16:30 V I 17:15 Mentalist 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 21:00 Two And A Half Men 21:30 Harry’s Law 23:05 True Blood 00:05 And Soon The Darkness 01:45 Straight Time 03:50 Friends 04:15 V I 05:00 Mentalist 06:30 Desperate Housewives

07:15 Batman Begins 09:45 All The President’s Men 12:05 Action Zone 12:45 Crimson Wing : Mystery Of The Flamingos 14:15 Flirting With Flamenco 16:00 Alice In Wonderland (2010) 18:00 Peut-Etre 20:00 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past 22:00 American History X 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li 05:45 Action Zone 06:15 Protocol

05:40 Choose 07:05 Cine News 07:45 Rumor Has It... 09:20 The Longest Yard 11:15 Spotlight On 11:50 X-Men: First Class 14:10 Kung Fu Panda 15:40 The Eagle 17:40 Real Steel 19:50 I Ypograﬁ 22:00 Yo, Tambien 23:50 Bloodworth 01:40 Edge Of Love 03:30 Cine News 04:05 Con Air

06:25 Hitch 08:25 Cine News 09:25 Never Let Me Go 11:10 The Romantics 12:50 Cine News 13:45 Duplex 15:20 Largo Winch 2: The Burma Conspiracy 17:20 Hollywood 1 On1 17:55 Barney’s Version 20:10 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 22:00 Unstoppable 23:45 He Got Game 02:10 Cine News 02:55 Shoot’em Up 04:20 The Expendables

20:20 Monsters 22:00 Ncis Enemies Foreign 23:00 The Fighter 01:00 School Girls 02:40 Jade, Secretaire De Lux

19:20 From Time To Time 21:00 The Social Network 23:05 Goodbye Lover

21:00 Operation Petticoat 23:00 Two For The Road

01:30 Morning Drive 02:30 Pipe Dream - The Match 03:00 USGA U.S. Women’s Amateur Rd. 1 from Cleveland , OH 05:00 MLB: Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers 08:00 Tour of Utah Highlights 09:00 Golf Central International LIVE From The PGA Championship 10:00 MLB: Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers 13:00 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Steel City National 13:30 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Pala Raceway National 14:00 Race Freaks 15:00 USGA U.S. Women’s Amateur Rd. 1 from Cleveland , OH 17:00 MLB: Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers 20:00 MLB: Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays 23:00 Tour of Utah 01:00 MLB: Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays

07:00 Globe Trekker 09:00 Flavours Of Chile 09:30 Flavours Of Peru 10:00 Life’s A Trip 10:30 Photoxplorers 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Nomad’s Land 14:00 4real 14:30 Essential 15:00 Globe Trekker 16:30 Travel Today 17:00 Flavours Of Greece 18:00 Life’s A Trip 18:30 Photoxplorers 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Departures 21:00 Out Of Country 21:30 Travel Today 22:00 Nomad’s Land 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 01:00 Departures 02:00 Out Of Country 02:30 Travel Today 03:00 Nomad’s Land 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06.00 Come Fly With Me 07.45 High Society 09.30 The Twenty-Fifth Hour 11.25 What’s Up, Doc? 12.55 Catlow 14.35 Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? 16.05 Lassie Come Home 17.35 Moonﬂeet 19.00 The Yellow RollsRoyce 21.00 Heart of Darkness 22.45 Pennies From Heaven 00.30 The Postman Always Rings Twice 02.20 Two Weeks In Another Town 04.05 The Sandpiper

Thursday, August 9, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

CRYPTIC 2156

HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

24 ous region (5) 15 Top palindrome (7) 16 Revolutionary centre? (7) 18 Encourage thespians here in London (5) 20 The Parisian unwell in the

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city (5) 22 Penny ended up containing her intense longing (3)

Answers to crossword 2155 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Helicopter; 7 Andante; 8 Let on; 10 Tester; 12 Beaten; 13 Remit; 14 Fork; 16 Dean; 17 Sewer; 19 Cachet; 20 Tingle; 23 Dhoti; 24 Oppress; 25 Ingredient. Down – 1 Hades; 2 Linger; 3 Chef; 4 Pallet; 5 Entitle; 6 Pasty-faced; 9 No-nonsense; 11 Relet; 12 Bidet; 15 Raccoon; 17 Senior; 18 Ripple; 21 Ghent; 22 Bold. QUICK: Across – 1 Bafﬂingly; 7 Vatican; 8 Gated; 10 Rankle; 12 Belief; 13 Exalt; 14 Hour; 16 Perm; 17 Colon; 19 Radial; 20 Market; 23 Error; 24 Boudoir; 25 Bottleneck. Down – 1 Baton; 2 Fickle; 3 Lynx; 4 Nugget; 5 Lattice; 6 Overcharge; 9 Defamatory; 11 Extol; 12 Bloom; 15 Undergo; 17 Carrot; 18 Nature; 21 Knock; 22 Oboe.

Rating EASY

2 Got idea about producing a bloomer (7) 3 A tax on a coral-reef (5) 4 Unclear part of a good impression (3) 5 Question family of pantomime coachmaker (7) 6 One under weight needs oxygen (5) 7 Where pupils are prepared to act (5,6) 8 Taking exception to the questioning (11) 12 Bet it could be a mountain-

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1 We run until we drop in this race (3-3-5) 9 Did not walk round at the round-up (5) 10 Gigantic old elephant (7) 11 Companion unwilling for the most part to be a sailor (7) 13 Boy, we hear, will genuflect (5) 14 Red, Yellow or Black (3) 15 Hooded bird? (5) 16 View area round cathedral (3) 17 The card to beat (5) 19 Counting and recounting (7) 21 Be there longer than the welcome period (7) 23 Many at port with cargo (5) 24 Charge on income? (8,3)

PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Venus forges a quite stunning angle to Neptune. However, neither planet is located in very friendly areas of your Solar Horoscope, so how will this pan out for you? Well, an apparently low key conversation with someone can provide a lot of reassurance. You may be surprised of just how supportive they are. The exchange of kindnesses is key.

You can be an intensely proud person, even if you often disguise this under a polished and charming exterior. Yet it may prove a little harder to mask your true feelings today, but then why should you? The issue is that someone may seem to get beyond your defences but the question is who. The trick is not to get into pointless debates and arguments.

Think back to two months ago. Something which happened then could ﬁnally get resolved, especially around a legal or contractual matter. In fact, if this was in any way about ﬁnances, a welcome improvement in your fortunes can now follow. If this doesn’t happen right away, keep going because a windfall can emerge any time over the next four weeks.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Do I sense a collective sigh in you and other Bulls now that Mercury has ended its rewind? If so, it wouldn’t be a surprise and with Venus now highlighting your social interaction on an everyday basis for the next four weeks, you can feel more at ease, and much less defensive than you have of late. Also things you have bottled out, can just ease out.

Someone is set to have quite an impact upon you. This person may have a rather hard to pinpoint persona but that can make them all the more intriguing. This doesn’t have to be a love attraction, it may be through a shared love of culture, history or philosophy. But whoever you connect with now, the more they break the mould, the better for you.

It may be time to let bygones be bygones. Even if you only recently you couldn’t see a way forwards, there really may be nothing more to be gained by trying to unpick an issue, especially in a relationship. If you can agree to disagree, a very worthy thing to do, it may be best for you both. Look to salute one another’s strengths and move on.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Your imagination is often fertile. You are the zodiac sign of ideas, so something is often percolating away at the back of your mind. But now you can add a little more to this and that is embracing your emotions and melding these with your personal expression. Books or ﬁlms which are sentimental may draw you or you may listen to your most loved songs.

Can you hear the thundering of the hooves on the horizon? Fanciful, well maybe. But Mars in your sign is fast closing on Saturn, that’s been the cause of some consternation for you. Mars is going to stiffen your resolve, especially where you feel you’re needing to tough it out. But your ruler Venus also reminds you that grace is your greatest asset.

Seek to untangle any tie which has gone awry due to a misunderstanding. With Mars growing in power in your situation there could be a tendency to want to escape anything which isn’t free running, but few relationships are without the odd hiccup. Rather than cut and run, look to better understand the other person’s viewpoint. It can unpick this.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You may have been battling a very subtle, but no less potent sense of loss in recent months. This period may have even seen some relationships under strain, with you feeling less ﬂuent around speaking or writing. Now you can almost feel a palpable shift. You are intact, if a little wiser, but your joie de vivre can certainly return, and how!

A mixture of ﬁnesse and quiet authority can take you far. You don’t often lack in the latter, but a deft touch can be as effective as a more forceful one, especially in all worldly matters, where sometimes we have to interact with people we wouldn’t choose to be friends with. The Moon also encourages you to carefully watch how others are feeling.

Things can just seem to go better from now. You can feel less irritable and in turn this will attract better responses to you. If you are single, the arrival of the slinky Venus in your sector of love and joys, can do wonders for your sense of attractiveness, and see some interesting invites head your way. If you yearn to revive your romantic life, a good time to do so.

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, August 9, 2012

Sport Ferdinand offers to help Bolt fulfil his Man United dream Jamaican: people think I am joking but I am very accomplished MANCHESTER United defender Rio Ferdinand has offered Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt help in getting a trial with the Premier League football club. Ferdinand told the 100 metres gold medallist he would put in a good word with manager Alex Ferguson after Bolt said he would jump at the chance of playing for one of the most famous clubs in the world. “@usainbolt if you want that trial at Man Utd shout me, I’ll speak to the boss!! Well done in 100m, waiting for you to smash the 200m now!” the former England captain tweeted. Bolt, the fastest man in the world, knows the United players after he took part in a sprint through Manchester’s streets a few years ago and helped then-Manchester player Cristiano Ronaldo with his sprint training. “People think I am joking when I say that I would like to play for Manchester United,” British media quoted Bolt as saying. “But if Alex Ferguson called me up and said, ‘OK, let’s do this, come and have a trial and see if you are good enough’ it would be impossible for me to say ‘no’. “I would not take up the

Baghdatis beaten by Cilic at Toronto Masters By Nemanja Bjedov

Give me a chance, Fergie! the world’s fastest man visited the Manchester United training ground in 2009 challenge if I didn’t think I was good enough. I am a very accomplished player and know I could make a difference. I would be the fastest player in the team - but I can play as well.” Bolt warned Ferguson he will have to be quick though as the sprinter is only in Britain “for a few more days”. “If Alex Ferguson wants to give me a call he knows where I am,” the Jamaican

was quoted as saying. He retweeted Ferdinand’s offer, and replied: “After the Olympics we work on that... lol..thanks man.” Ferdinand followed up his invite by tweeting: “We’ll put you upfront, just run behind defences + (Paul) scholes will find you but #CanYouFinish.” Scholes is a veteran United midfielder. Bolt would not be the first

sprinter to look to try another professional sport. Britain’s Dwain Chambers, who competed at the London Games in the 100 metres, tried to relaunch his career in American football in 2006 following a two-year athletics ban for failing a drugs test. Another British sprinter at the London Olympics switched the other way. Adam Gemili, who also competed in the 100 metres, turned to ath-

letics after playing for English fourth tier football side Dagenham & Redbridge. One United player, however, has jokingly suggested Bolt should stick to his day job. “He’d obviously add a bit of speed to the team! But they are different sports. I think he’s best staying on the track!” England striker Wayne Rooney was quoted as saying on Manchester United’s website.

APOEL, Omonia, Anorthosis gear up for Europa clashes By Nemanja Bjedov

No way through: Omonia held mighty Red Star to a goalless draw in Belgrade last week

ANORTHOSIS are in charge of their Europa League third qualifying round tie against Dila Gori of Georgia, while APOEL and Omonia have nervy second legs in store for them this evening against Aalesunds and Red Star Belgrade respectively. “We had a tough game in Georgia and now we must focus on finishing the job on the pitch,” said Anorthosis manager Ronny Levy. “I was satisfied with the way we played in the first leg but I’m sure there is room for improvement,” added the Israeli, whose team hold a 1-0 first leg advantage ahead of the match at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca at 8pm. APOEL’s game against

Aalesunds will kick off in the Norwegian coastal city at the same time, where the Nicosia giants need to protect a slender 2-1 victory earned last Thursday in Nicosia in order to progress. “The artificial pitch is definitely something new to us but I am fully confident in our coach and players and I believe that it will not affect them. We are definitely a better team than them, but unfortunately we did not manage to get a clear advantage after the first game in Cyprus,” said APOEL vicepresident Antis Polydorou. Omonia, the third Cypriot representative in the Europa League, will take on Serbian powerhouse Red Star Belgrade at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia at 7pm. “After the 0-0 in Belgrade we expect a difficult game

in Nicosia,” stated Red Star manager Robert Prosinecki. “We analysed the way Omonia play and I believe that we are prepared for them better this time. Unlike in Belgrade they will have to open up and chase victory and this should leave us more space in midfield, so we will try to utilise that by dominating play in the middle of the pitch,” he added. Omonia’s Portuguese midfielder Bruno Aguiar wants his side to make history by reaching the group stage for the first time: “I think it will be a good game. It is a good opportunity for us. All the players expect a lot from this game as we are aware that Omonia have never reached the group stage in any of the European competitions. We are concentrated and I hope that we have what it takes.”

MARCOS Baghdatis yesterday crashed out of the prestigious Toronto Masters to Croatia’s Marin Cilic, losing their second round encounter 7-5, 6-3. The Cypriot started the match well as he broke Cilic in the third service game to take a 2-1 lead. However, the Croat broke back immediately and then kept his serve intact to push himself ahead 3-2. Both players then held serve until the 12th game when Cilic converted his third break point of the set to clinch the opener 7-5. Baghdatis fired eight aces in the first set and won 82 percent of the points on his first serve but that was not enough to stop the 23-yearold world number 15. Cilic then built on his momentum at the start of the second set and broke the Cypriot once again in the second game, while comfortably protecting his serve on two occasions to jump out to a 3-0 lead. Baghdatis did not give up though and he tried hard to get back into the match, but the towering Croat didn’t make any serious mistakes on his way to a straight sets win. Cilic will take on fifthseeded Serbian Janko Tipsarevic next, who beat Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 7-6, 6-4 in his second round encounter, while Baghdatis travels to Cincinnati where he will take part in another Masters Series tournament - the Western & Southern Open. The Cypriot, who is currently ranked 45, had his best result in Cincinnati in 2010 when he lost in the semi-finals to Roger Federer, after previously beating Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals. At last season’s edition of the event he was eliminated in the first round by American James Blake.

Cyprus star Marcos Baghdatis lost in the second round

Thursday, August 9, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Olympic Games

Brazil move a step closer to elusive football gold medal

Kangaroo condoms get a hop on organisers

Five-time World Cup winners have been trying to win title for 60 years

By Belinda Goldsmith

By Mike Collett BRAZIL’S’ dream of winning an elusive Olympic football gold came a step closer when they thrashed South Korea 3-0 in the semi-finals at Old Trafford. The victory sets up a title decider against Mexico at Wembley Stadium on Saturday after the Mexicans beat Japan 3-1 in their last four clash. Brazil, whose obsession with winning gold is matched by few other countries, won with second-half goals from forward Leandro Damiao, now tournament top scorer with six, after a 38th minute opener from Romulo in front of a 69,389 crowd. Damiao said: “I’m so happy, we have made a huge effort to reach the final. We are here to win the gold medal – it was a tough match but we are a great team. We are Brazil – we are here for the gold.” Defender Rafael, who plays for Manchester United, added: “It was an amazing feeling to be playing for Brazil on my home ground. “We were confident, the coach was confident – and the final will be different to every other match we have played.” The pre-tournament favourites, who have been trying to win the Olympic title for 60 years, coming closest with silver in 1984 and 1988, have now won all five games at the London Olympics scoring three goals in each with a tally of 15 to 5. South Korea caused them

The Samba Boys thrashed South Korea in the semi-ﬁnals to set up a title clash with Mexico, who beat Japan problems at the start and had an early penalty claim turned down when Juan Jesus’s foot clumsily connected with Ji Dong-won’s face in the six-yard box but, apart from a few chances from Ji, they never really threatened. Korea now face Japan in what is likely to be a lively battle for the bronze medal at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium tomorrow at 9.45pm while Brazil will hope to be crowned Olympic champions at last against Mexico on Saturday at 5pm.

The Koreans, who squeezed into the semis after beating hosts Britain on penalties, defended stubbornly until the 38th minute, showing why they had only conceded two goals all tournament. But Korea lost the ball on the halfway line to Neymar and Brazil, who became more imperious as the game wore on, broke away with the playmaker feeding Oscar, who glided past a line of hapless defenders before ﬁnding Romulo on his right. He planted the ball into

a near-post gap with goalkeeper Lee Bum-young arriving too late to get a hand or leg to it. Damiao capitalised on more good work by Neymar to make it 2-0 after 57 minutes and the game was settled seven minutes later when the forward took advantage of more poor Korean defending for his second and Brazil’s third goal. Brazil, who ﬁrst competed in the Olympics football tournament in 1952, also have two bronze medals

from 1996 and 2008. Their resolve to win gold in London was strengthened after arch-rivals Argentina failed to qualify for the ﬁnals having won the previous two Olympics tournaments. Mano Menezes’s young side, who are expected to form the backbone of the team at the World Cup in Brazil in two years time, now have the perfect stage at Wembley – which Menezes has described as “the temple of football” – to end their long wait.

Self-belief helps Pearson emulate Freeman’s heroics By Nick Mulvenney

Sally Pearon’s 100m hurdles win gave Australia their ﬁrst track gold since Cathy Freeman’s emotional win 12 years ago

SALLY Pearson fulﬁlled a dream that was inspired 12 years ago when Cathy Freeman won 400 metres gold in front of more than 100,000 screaming Australians at the Sydney Olympics. A dozen years and a lot of hard work later Pearson won the 100 metres hurdles title at the London Games, appropriately handing Australia their ﬁrst track gold medal since Freeman’s emotional win. Runner-up at the Beijing Games four years ago and world champion in Daegu last year, this was the crowning achievement for the 25-yearold Queenslander. “I’ve wanted this ever since I saw Cathy Freeman win gold at the Sydney Olympics,” Pearson told reporters. “I thought ‘how do I do that? how do I become the best athlete in the world?’” “Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself,

especially over the last four years. “After I won the silver in Beijing, I knew I had the talent and self-belief to be the best in the world. “This is everything I have ever wanted and more.” Pearson has enjoyed a dominant two years in which she lost just once in each season, beaten in Brussels at the end of 2011 and losing to Kellie Wells in her last race before the London Games. The Australian’s self-belief never wavered. “I wasn’t having a good day in the ofﬁce in London and it was very hard knowing I had won so many races and Kellie got me on the line,” she said. “At the same time I knew that my preparation was fantastic and I knew that one race couldn’t stop me from winning an Olympic gold medal.” When Beijing Olympic champion Dawn Harper ran a personal best of 12.46 seconds in the semi-ﬁnals on Tuesday, it

only strengthened Pearson’s resolve and she ran her own season’s best time (12.39) in her heat. Even when she was pushed all the way to the line by Wells and Harper in the final, she said she never really thought she had lost. “I had a little panic for a moment that I hadn’t won it but I knew in my heart I had and it was just a matter of confirming it on the screen,” she said. Pearson, who finished in an Olympic record time of 12.35 to beat Harper by two hundredths of a second, said even the teeming London rain had not bothered her. There had also been no thought at all about bettering Yordanka Donkova’s 24-yearold world record of 12.21. Her familiar grim “race face” now replaced by a wide smile, Pearson once again summed up her philosophy. “It’s just really belief for me, it’s just believing in yourself,” she concluded. “Giving it crack, knowing that you can do it.”

OLYMPIC organisers are investigating how a bucket of Australian-tagged condoms found its way into the athletes’ village without official consent. Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan tweeted a photograph from the athletes’ village of a container of condoms with a placard reading “Kangaroos condoms, for the gland downunder” with the picture of a boxing kangaroo. She joked that the container seemed to back up rumours that the athletes’ village becomes a hot bed of activity as thousands of competitors complete their events and celebrate after years of working to get to the Olympics. “Haha, the rumours are true. Olympic village,” tweeted Buchanan, whose BMX contest began yesterday. Barcelona started the trend of supplying free condoms to athletes when the Spanish city held the Olympics in 1992, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) endorsing the move to help AIDS awareness and prevention. The handouts came with health information. The London Olympic organisers, LOCOG, have provided 150,000 free condoms in dispensers for the 10,800 athletes at the Games. They are supplied by Durex, part of British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser, which paid for the supply rights. A LOCOG spokeswoman said they were trying to find out who distributed the socalled Kangaroo condoms, with the container shown to hold condoms from Durex rivals Ansell, an Australian company and Pasante, a private British company. She said athletes and officials were allowed to bring products into the village for their personal use. “We will look into this and ask that they are not handed out to other athletes because Durex are our supplier,” said the spokeswoman. Organisers tightly control which brands can be promoted at the Games, striking sponsorship deals with a limited number of companies and trying to stop non-sponsors from getting free publicity on the back of the Olympics. A spokeswoman for Ansell said her company knew nothing about the issue and it could well be a prank. A Durex spokeswoman said Durex was “proud to be supplying free condoms for the Olympics Games” but declined to elaborate further. The number of condoms supplied at London tops the 100,000 made available to athletes in Beijing four years ago. In Sydney in 2000, organisers took delight in having to order 20,000 more condoms after the initial allocation of 70,000 ran out.

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, August 9, 2012

Olympic Games

Korean ‘Mowgli’ is king of the Greco jungle By Peter Grifﬁths

Kim Hyeonwoo’s (top) bruising route to the ﬁnal owed more to the Rocky ﬁlms than Disney

A SOUTH Korean wrestler nicknamed ‘Mowgli’ won gold in the Greco-Roman wrestling at the London Games, overcoming a badly swollen eye that left him struggling to see properly. Kim Hyeonwoo, 23, beat Hungary’s Tamas Lorincz in the 66kg ﬁnal, the third lightest category in one of the world’s oldest and most physical sports. With his mop of black hair

and winning smile, he bears more than a passing resemblance to the little boy raised by wolves in the Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories, The Jungle Book. “In my high school, I used to run around in my bare feet, so my friends gave the nickname of Mowgli,” he said. “I’m very happy with that, even though my foreign friends in the (wrestling) ﬁghts keep calling me Mowgli, Mowgli.” Kim’s bruising route to the ﬁnal owed more to the Rocky

films than Disney, however. He suffered a nasty blow to the right eye in the first qualifying round and it had closed by the time he reached the final. “I couldn’t open the eye, I couldn’t see,” he said. “The swelling got bigger and bigger as I went on.” After winning the final, Kim knelt on the wrestling mat and kissed his country’s flag as a packed arena cheered. There was more success for Iran when Ghasem Rezaei won the Greco-Roman heavyweight class, taking his

Salimi crowned the strongest Iran claim one-two in ultimate test of strength By William James

IN BRIEF

IRAN’S Behdad Salimikordasiabi won gold in the headline event of the London Olympic weightlifting competition to claim the title of strongest man at the Games. His fellow countryman Sajjad Anoushiravani Hamlabad took the silver to seal a onetwo that delighted a crowed packed with Iranian supporters and asserted the country’s dominance in the Games’ ultimate test of strength. “In Iran I know they’re all partying in the street already,” Salimi said smiling and holding a permanently ringing mobile phone in one hand. There was a party atmosphere in the ExCel arena too where dozens of Iranian ﬂags were unfurled while whistles blew and air horns parped to the beat of the chant ‘Ir-an, Ir-an’. After receiving their medals, the lifters left the platform to embrace friends in the crowd accompanied by the hugely popular two-time Olympic champion Hossein Rezazadeh, now president of the country’s weightlifting federation. The 22-year-old world and Olympic champion, known as ‘Salimi’, took victory with two lifts to spare when the

Behdad Salimikordasiabi’s winning total of 455kg comprised a 208kg lift in the snatch round and a 247kg clean and jerk

challenge of Russia’s Ruslan Albegov faded. “I represented the last opportunity for the Russian team. I tried the best I could,” Albegov said, reﬂecting on a disappointing weightlifting competition that returned ﬁve silver medals and a bronze, but no gold, from their 10-strong squad. The winning total of 455kg comprised a 208kg lift in the snatch round and a 247kg clean and jerk. That put him 6kg ahead of silver medallist, training partner and fellow countryman Anoushiravani who

joined him on the platform at the end of the competition to hoist an Iranian flag. Salimi was tied with Russia’s Albegov at the halfway stage after both completed snatch lifts of 208kg, but the Iranian was too strong in the clean and jerk discipline where his first lift proved enough to beat off the rest of the field. The crowd roared their approval as Salimi then attempted a 264kg clean and jerk that would have taken the world record from Rezazadeh, who was cheering on from the technical area by

the stage. However the lift proved too much and after failing his ﬁrst of two possible attempts, with gold already secured, he unbuckled his belt and remained on the platform to lap up the applause of a crowd featuring a large and noisy Iranian contingent. Salimi later told reporters that a lengthy gap between lifts had allowed his body to go cold and affected his ability to make the lift. “My ﬁrst goal was to get the gold medal. I came here to get the gold medal and maybe in the future I will go for

the record,” he said. Beijing Olympic champion Matthias Steiner did not ﬁnish the event after receiving a blow to the head from the falling bar when his arms buckled on a 196kg snatch attempt. Germany’s Steiner left the stage on his feet, raising a hand to acknowledge the cheers of the crowd. “He is OK but was not able to continue with the competition for medical reasons. I do not think it is very serious, but the doctors are checking him over,” said Germany’s Olympic mission chief Michael Vesper.

country’s wrestling gold tally to three. The Iranian, who only managed 16th place in Beijing four years ago, beat Russia’s Rustam Totrov in the ﬁnal of the 96kg weight class. Jubilant Iranian supporters roared and waved their nation’s ﬂags as Rezaei kissed and hugged his coach in celebration. “To see all the Iranians inside the stadium and back home, to bring smiles to their faces is the happiest moment of my life,” said Rezaei.

Red-faced Austrians bemoan drought WINTER can’t come soon enough for Austrian sports fans lamenting a summer Olympics that has yet to produce a single medal for their country. Austria is used to raking in winter Olympic golds in Alpine skiing, its traditional strength, but still has not failed to win a summer medal since 1964. “With no medals, Austria faces the biggest Olympics bust in history. Embarrassing: at the moment we are limping behind the washout of Tokyo in 1964,” the Oesterreich tabloid moaned, resorting to comparing the number of fourth-, fifth- and sixthplace finishes the country produced nearly half a century ago. After the men’s 49er sailors won the medal race but narrowly missed overall bronze yesterday, Austrian hopes boil down to the final of the women’s pair canoe sprint today, which features world champions Yvonne Schuring and Viktoria Schwarz. Norbert Darabos, the minister for sport, has promised action. “I am going to put support of sports on a completely new footing,” he said. “The self-satisfaction of certain athletes here in London bothers me,” he added. “It is great when some athletes declare how beautiful life in the Olympic village is, but athletic success has to be the priority.”

‘Lazarus’ Makhloufi feted to win 1,500 metres

Attar becomes first Saudi female track Olympian

China’s men complete table tennis title sweep

FROM the moment Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi was controversially reinstated into Tuesday’s Olympic 1,500 metres final, reporters began boning up on a man upon whom fate had clearly shone its divine light. So, against the odds but, paradoxically, to nobody’s great surprise, the 24-year-old duly roared to victory in the traditional blue riband 1,500m event of the Games with American Leonel Manzano and Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider trailing in his wake. Makhloufi described his reinstatement as “the will of God”, when in fact it was the will of the IAAF who were persuaded that the Algerian had been suffering from a mystery injury when he dropped out of his 800m heat on Monday.

SARAH Attar became the ﬁrst female track and ﬁeld athlete to represent Saudi Arabia at an Olympics when she competed in the 800 metres heats yesterday. The 19-year-old, who wore a white head cover, a longsleeved green top and black leggings and sported luminous green running spikes, received a generous ovation from a capacity crowd at the Olympic stadium as she trailed in last of the eight runners. “It’s an incredible experience,” Attar, who has dual US citizenship and is a student at Pepperdine University in LA, said. “It is the hugest honour to be here to represent the women of Saudi Arabia.”

CHINA completed a clean sweep of table tennis at the Olympics as their men’s team took gold by beating South Korea 3-0 in the best-of-ﬁve contest. Ma Long and Zhang Jike won their individual ties before the latter and Wang Hao earned victory in the doubles. China have now taken gold in the men’s and women’s individual events as well as the men’s and women’s team events. Germany, who won silver in Beijing four years ago, claimed bronze this time around after beating Hong Kong 3-1.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

32 APOEL, Omonia and Anorthosis ready for Europa League clashes 29

Sport

Brazil move nearer to elusive football gold medal 30

IOC PRESIDENT JACQUES ROGGE SAYS LONDON HAS DELIVERED ‘A VERY GOOD GAMES’

AEL one step closer to Champions League Partizan Belgrade 0 AEL 1 AEL win 2-0 on aggregate By Nemanja Bjedov

Third time lucky: Allyson Felix of the US blew away a high-quality ﬁeld to win the women’s 200 metres after two straight silvers in Beijing and Athens

Felix ends heartache A

LLYSON Felix was able to put the disappointment of two consecutive silver medals in the women’s 200 metres behind her as she claimed the gold medal she so desired in last night’s eagerly-awaited sprint showdown. Felix took silver in the event in Athens and Beijing, but led from start to finish to run a time of 21.88, finishing ahead of Shelly-Ann FraserPryce and Carmelita Jeter. The race was billed as Jamaica versus the USA with defending champion Veronica Campbell Brown and 100 metres gold medalist FraserPryce in the Jamaican corner. Meanwhile world 100 metre champion Jeter, 400 metres champion Sanya Richards Ross and Felix, who took silver in Beijing and was second in last year’s World Championships, were representing the USA. Campbell Brown had beaten Felix in the last two Olympics and was looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win gold in the same event in three consecutive Games. As it was she only briefly threatened before dropping off the pace after coming off the bend. Felix looked like a woman

Medals Table Country China United States Great Britain South Korea Russia France

Gold 35 34 22 12 11 8

Silver 22 22 13 6 19 9

with a mission throughout the race, while Fraser-Pryce proved she has been working on her stamina as she was able to hold off Jeter in the last 50 metres. Earlier in the evening, Usain Bolt edged ever nearer to the legendary status he craves after cruising into the 200 metres ﬁnal with contemptuous ease. While many would already consider the Jamaican superstar a legend for winning triple gold in Beijing and defending his 100m title on Sunday, Bolt himself insists he also has to retain his 200m title. And the 25-year-old looks an increasingly certain bet to do just that, effectively winning his semi-ﬁnal before halfway and almost jogging down the home straight to win in 20.18 seconds.

Bronze 19 25 13 6 22 11

Total 76 81 48 24 52 28

Team-mate Yohan Blake was the fastest qualifier after also slowing down markedly in winning the opening semifinal in 20.01 seconds, but Bolt has no doubts he will put his training partner in his place once again tonight. “No doubt whatsoever,” Bolt said. “I’m ready, this is my favourite event, so I’m looking forward to it.” Once again the main stadium was packed with enthusiastic crowds yesterday and mostly sold-out Olympic venues have underlined how the Games have caught the imagination of a public spurred on by Britain’s best gold medal haul for 104 years. The women’s football final between the United States and Japan at Wembley today is set to break the Olympic attendance record with

a crowd of at least 83,000, beating the previous benchmark of 76,489 in 1996 in Athens, Georgia. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said he was satisfied with the way the Games had gone. “All in all I would say these are very good Games and I am a very happy man,” he told reporters after being asked whether London had delivered on its promises. “I think everybody is very happy. I will have attended all sports by the end of the Games, the federations are very happy about the venues. Everybody is really ecstatic about the Olympic village.” Belgian Rogge, a former Olympic yachtsman, said broadcasters had reported increased ratings while the success of the home team, with Britain enjoying their best medal haul since 1908, was also a very important factor. The opening ceremony attracted an estimated global TV audience of 900 million people, with US broadcaster NBC notching up record viewing figures across the Atlantic. Rogge has so far visited 22 of the 26 sports with the remainder on his schedule for the final four days. “There is also the success

of the home team and that is very important,” he said. London won the right to host the Olympics in 2005 with the promise of delivering Olympic Games that would revamp part of the city’s once run-down East End. A day after winning the Olympics, however, the capital was hit by deadly bombing attacks that instantly raised security concerns. The sharp economic downturn from 2008 onwards further squeezed the budget with costs soaring to over 9.3 billion pounds, more than three times the initial estimate. Organisers opted to use several existing venues while also constructing some temporary ones in an effort to rein in costs. Legacy remained a constant slogan in their preparations but they have still to ﬁnalise the future use and ownership of the Olympic stadium after the 16-day sports extravaganza. The Games end with a closing ceremony on Sunday at the main stadium which will celebrate British music. George Michael, Muse and Ed Sheeran are conﬁrmed to perform, while Adele, Madness, The Who and Elbow are all rumoured to be taking part.

CYPRUS champions AEL last night advanced to the play-off round of the UEFA Champions League after beating Partizan 1-0 in the second leg of their third qualifying round tie to complete a 2-0 aggregate victory in Belgrade. After a mistake by Partizan goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic when he tried to catch a ball that was going out for a goal-kick, the Spanish referee awarded the visitors a corner. Dede delivered the ball into the middle of the penalty area only for Stojkovic to punch it out. However, the ball went straight onto the head of one of AEL’s players who sent it back into the area and, fortunately for the Cypriots, it reached Dosa Junior who was in a perfect position to calmly slot home from close range after 23 minutes. Five minutes later, Carlos Clos Gómez sent off AEL’s Portuguese midﬁelder Jorge Monteiro for a second bookable offense, but the home team failed to take advantage of their numerical advantage and were unable to create any opportunities in the remaining 17 minutes of the half. Partizan manager Vladimir Vermezovic tried to change things during the interval as 17-year-old Nikola Ninkovic replaced the experienced Stefan Babovic in the middle of the park. Unfortunately for the Serbian side, Ninkovic failed to make an impact on the game and Vermezovic then took off club captain Sasa Ilic and introduced another forward in Libyan international Mohammad Za’abia. Za’abia actually went closest to scoring for the Serbians, but his long-range effort ﬂew just outside Mathias Degra’s right-hand post twenty minutes from time. Partizan never looked capable of getting the result they needed as Pambos Christodoulou’s men knew exactly what was required to send AEL one step closer to the group stage of Europe’s most prestigious club competition.