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Car park skeleton is vilified Richard III

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HIRTEEN days before the presidential elections, which he is not contesting, President Demetris Christofias yesterday appointed a deputy Central Bank governor – a position reserved by the constitution for Turkish Cypriots which has been vacant for the past 50 years – sparking a storm of controversy.

Christofias said the appointment of senior director Spyros Stavrinakis was necessary due to the Central Bank’s increasing obligations, rejecting suggestions it that it was politically motivated.

It was a rather unexpected appointment, with information of the government’s intentions only reaching the public domain late on Saturday evening.

Presidential frontrunner, DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, said the appointment was unconstitutional, unacceptable and that he would revoke it if elected this month.

But Christofias said the move had been necessary.

He said Stavrinakis was not a leftist but a “conscientious Central Bank official” whom Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades found necessary to have by his side.

Stavrinakis, who has been with the Central Bank for the past 35 years, thanked the president for entrusting him with the position and warned that the island’s troubles were still ahead. “The challenges faced by Cyprus’ financial system are unprecedented and historical and probably the biggest since 1974,” he said.

Stavrinakis, who had been

sidelined by the previous governor, Athanasios Orphanides, was upgraded as soon as Demetriades took over last year. He will now hold a position that no other governor or administration deemed necessary to fill in the past 50 years. The deputy attorney general and deputy auditor general positions have also been filled in the past using the same law.

This was made possible by invoking the law of necessity, passed after the Turkish Cypriots abandoned parliament and their positions in the government in 1960s, basically to enable the state to function properly even if certain acts conflicted with the constitution.

Article 118 of the Constitution, drafted in 1960, states: “The President and Vice-President of the Republic shall jointly appoint two capable and suitable persons as Governor and deputy Governor of the Bank of Issue, in compliance with the rule that the Governor and deputy Governor shall not hail from the same community.”

The article goes on to say that the same applies in the event the Bank of Issue is converted to a Central Bank.

Asked about this yesterday, Attorney-general Petros Clerides provided an ambiguous answer: he said the law of necessity could be invoked to legitimise the appointment of a deputy Governor, or it could not. This was because appointments are by nature “political,” Clerides added, and as such it is more a question of “the workings of democracy.”

In his opinion, such matters

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Spyros Stavrinakis leaves the presidential palace yesterday after being sworn in by President Demetris Christofias citing the law of necessity (Christos Theodorides)

A KING of England who was cut down on the battlefield during one of the country’s bloodiest periods was buried under a modern-day car park, say academics.

Following a long wait it was yesterday announced the remains of a man buried on the site in Leicester are those of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III. After suffering at least two fatal head wounds, tests on his skull and body showed evidence he was brutally hacked, presumably by the victors, after falling and dying on the battlefield in 1485.

Reviled in the history books and by William Shakespeare, for his perceived weakness and hunch back, archaeologists found evidence of a man with curvature of the spine and a slender, almost feminine frame.

Following extensive tests, Richard Buckley, dig project leader, said: “It is the academic conclusion that beyond reasonable doubt, the individual exhumed at Grey Friars in September 2011 is King Richard III the last Plantagenet king of England.”

The remains, which had lain almost totally undisturbed less than a metre below ground for more than 500 years, will be interred in the city’s cathedral.

The find has provoked many academics to call for a revision of Richard’s achievements.

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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 5 1917

25 years ago, Thursday February 5, 1988

After seven years of revolution and civil upheaval, Mexican President Venustiano Carranza proclaims the modern Mexican constitution.

The committee of Relatives of Missing Persons has expressed strong resentment about reports that Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal told Greek Premier Andreas Papandreou in Davos that “there are no missing persons”.

1974 Patty Hearst, the daughter of millionaire American publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped.

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35 years ago, Sunday February 5, 1978 Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash yesterday reacted strongly to a statement by President Kyprianou implying that some of the 2000 Greek Cypriots missing since the Turkish invasion may still be alive. Kyprianou, who on Friday was made honorary chairman of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Persons, had said “We have hopes that some of them may be alive”. Denktash yesterday insisted no Greek Cypriots were being held hostage.

1996 In Britain, the first genetically modified food goes on sale.

2003 US secretary of state Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council, putting forward America’s case that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

45 years ago, Monday February 5, 1968 With only 10 days to go before nomination day for the presidential elections, the opposition is yet undecided as to whether it will put forward a nominee to challenge President Makarios. A meeting of representatives of the Enosis Fighters Front which criticiSes Makarios was held at the Nicosia Hilton yesterday, but no firm decision was taken on the matter.

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New cancer cases reach 3,000 a year

By Peter Stevenson THERE are around 3,000 new cases of cancer a year in Cyprus, Health Minister Androulla Agrotou revealed yesterday in a speech to mark World Cancer Day. According to the minister, cancer has become an epidemic with one in three Europeans likely to develop the disease at some stage of their lives.

“Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in Europe and has increased on a global scale,” she said. “In some countries it is now the first cause of death, surpassing cardiovascular diseases,” she added.

She revealed that the Council of Europe had decided in June 2008 to take measures

Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in Europe with one in three people developing the disease in an attempt to reduce the number of cancer incidents with the ministry of health one of the first ministries which acted immediately, following the council’s decisions. It developed a complete strategic plan, based on prevention, treatment, relief and research.

“This is the first time, through the National Committee, which was created by the cabinet, that Cyprus is giving an organised answer on the subject of cancer,” she said. “Last year, head of the Committee, Dr

Adamos Adamou, issued an action plan against cancer,” she added. “The committee worked hard and systematically in reaching many goals, with the ministry developing exceptional health treatment programmes based on healthy lifestyle choices,” she continued. “At the same time, the programme to promote health in different communities has been wholeheartedly accepted by the public,” she concluded.

She went on to explain that the screening process for breast cancer was being con-

tinually improved with the introduction of a hi-tech digital mammography machine.

“Cypriot women today are in a privileged position compared to many others in Europe,” she said.

Speaking about the digital mammography method she mentioned that it enables better visualisation and even the smallest changes in the morphology of the breast can be seen with the additional advantage of less radiation exposure to women.

“Each medical centre has been given the new technol-

ogy of tomosynthesis,” she said. “Which is the possibility for realistic tumour imaging in thin slices through digital media, to enable a detailed study of the separation from the surrounding tissue,” she added.

Agrotou revealed that a new test will be undertaken, starting from the Larnaca district, in an attempt to find people who could possibly be suffering from cancer of the colon. “The programme follows European guidelines and offers free stool sample examinations, in order to de-

tect blood which is not visible to the naked eye, to men and women aged between 50 and 69,” she said. “In cases of positive results, citizens will be offered a free colonoscopy and a biopsy of the sample,” she added.

On the subject of treatment, the minister said that the health ministry had all of the modern treatments and techniques available, so patients would not feel deprived in comparison with other European citizens.

She ended her speech by revealing that the action plan had prioritised the creation of two centres, one to help the prevention of breast cancer and the other to prevent any gastrointestinal cancer, which are the two most common cancers.

‘Lack of communication’ led to confusion over miscarriage at hospital

By Peter Stevenson A SERIES of misunderstandings was responsible for a pregnant woman being told by hospital staff that she had suffered a miscarriage when she hadn’t, Health Minister Androulla Agrotou said yesterday.

Maria Stylianou, 26, who was in her eighth week of pregnancy, lodged a complaint recently after she believed she was told by doctors at the Makarios Hospital that she had had a miscarriage.

“She (the doctor) was absolute about what she was saying,” Stylianou told Sigma television at the time. “She announced it was a miscarriage.”

Stylianou said she left the hospital distraught but was later convinced to visit a private gynaecologist who ascertained there was nothing wrong with the embryo.

Agrotou yesterday revealed the results of an investigation carried out by an experienced gynaecologist.

According to the report, an ultrasound which was carried out on January 21, 2013 on the pregnant woman, showed an endometrial gestational sac without foetal elements.

As the ultrasound was unable to display foetal data or to show any heart function as expected in a seven-week pregnancy the woman was instructed to take a large amount of a chorionic hormone over the next 48 hours.

She was told to come back two days later when the effects of the hormone would give the doctors a clearer picture.

The report said the doctors involved had given assurances that at no point did they recommend that the woman terminate her pregnancy despite their concerns at the ultrasound scans.

The gynaecologist who compiled the report said that although a heartbeat can be found in a six to seven week old foetus, it is often misdiagnosed, and that the absence of a heartbeat does not necessarily mean there has been a miscarriage.

In response to the question, why was a heartbeat not found at the Makarios Hospital on the same day that one was found at a private clinic, the gynaecologist answered that the private doctor the woman visited was an ultrasound specialist and had hitech equipment.

The report reached two conclusions. The first concluded

Health Minister Androulla Agrotou yesterday revealed the results of an investigation by an experienced gynaecologist that the doctors who examined the pregnant woman did not express themselves correctly or were not clear in their diagnosis, resulting in the patient misunderstanding the situation and becoming upset. The report suggested they could have asked the woman to come back for testing in 48 hours without revealing their concerns.

The second conclusion stated that the doctors had little experience with ultrasound, and that the equipment used was slightly dated. The report said that the hospital

does have newer equipment and the doctors could have referred the woman to a more experienced colleague.

“We express our sympathy towards the woman, and the whole issue will be examined by medical services and the public health service, which has been instructed to take measures to prevent similar incidents,” Agrotou said.

“There was a miscommunication with the woman, resulting in her getting upset and although the Makarios Hospital has the capabilities to carry out an ultrasound through an

experienced doctor, it didn’t happen,” she added. Agrotou said that the doctors would have been held responsible if the examinations they had carried out were not the appropriate ones.

“What the doctors wanted to ascertain was if the sac was empty,” Georgiou said. “It’s a fact that between the sixth and seventh week of pregnancy there is a possibility that a heartbeat might not be found,” she concluded.

Agrotou also said she had ordered an investigation into the recent case of a dead foe-

tus which was disposed of as medical waste at Limassol General Hospital instead of being sent to the morgue for burial.

A pregnant woman visited the hospital because she had stopped feeling her baby move. The foetus had died at 21 weeks, and the woman had an operation to have it removed.

Under regulations a foetus less than 20-weeksd old would be disposed of as medical waste. Agrotou said an investigating officer would be assigned today at the latest.

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AG says probe to start into DISY boss’ law firm

CYPRUS TODAY Spate of burglaries A SPATE of burglaries over the weekend has seen Limassol police step-up its investigations after around €78,800 in cash and jewellery in total was stolen in three separate incidents.

The first incident was reported by a 47-year-old woman who told police that between 5.10pm and 7.15pm on Saturday her house was burgled and the contents of her safe were taken. Some €1,000 in cash and jewellery worth €36,900 were stolen.

The second incident was reported to police by a 53year-old woman who said that between 9pm on Saturday and 1am on Sunday, someone broke into her flat and took various items of jewellery and €4,000 in cash, totalling around €23,650.

The third incident was reported by a 60-year-old woman who said that between 7pm and 9pm on Saturday her house was burgled and the amount of €18,250 in jewellery was taken.

The investigation has been requested by Anastasiades after allegations were made about firm’s ‘dodgy dealings’

By Elias Hazou ATTORNEY- GENERAL Petros Clerides said yesterday the unit for combating money laundering (MOKAS) would probe allegations of dodgy financial dealings implicating the law firm of presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades.

The investigation is being launched at the request of Anastasiades, the top law enforcement official clarified.

Clerides said Anastasiades had contacted both he and MOKAS, supplying the latter with documentation to help with the investigation.

Two investigators from MOKAS would be appointed to look into the allegations, said Clerides, adding that the findings should be in by February 17 – the date of the first round of elections – as also requested by Anastasiades.

Responding to newsmen’s questions, Clerides hinted the findings would be made public.

Earlier in the day, Anastasiades’ election HQ released a statement saying they had asked authorities

to investigate the allegations.

The request was deliberately made to clear Anastasiades’ name, the statement said.

It was obvious the claims were part of a mudslinging campaign in light of the elections, it added.

The statement was issued after AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou prodded Anastasiades to come clean on the media reports.

“DISY and his cohorts daily pretend to be incorruptible, caretakers of the Constitution and flagbearers of transparency and meritocracy,” Kyprianou said.

“Yet not a word about the loan dealings concluded by Mr Anastasiades’ law firm.

Why is that? Does it not bother them, especially at a time when Cyprus is unjustifiably being accused of engaging in money laundering?”

The matter came to the fore after Greek website ‘Pandora’s Box’, which deals in investigative journalism, linked Anastasiades’ law firm to allegedly suspicious dealings, among them with Russia’s Sobinbank.

The website said two

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Army exercise Anastasiades on the campaign trail: he wants probe finished before elections Cyprus-registered companies with a share capital of a few thousand euro somehow managed to get loans worth millions from the bank. Anastasiades’ law office acted as nominee shareholders for these companies.

It went on to ask why Anastasiades would have dealings with a Russian bank with a tainted track record.

In September 2000, citing US court papers, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported that Sobinbank was at the heart of a massive money laundering scheme in which Russian businessmen and mobsters illegally funnelled about $7 billion through accounts at the Bank of New York Co. Inc. Responding, Nicos Chr. Anastasiades & Partners said the initial loan agreement with the Russian bank was concluded with Consulco Ltd, a Cyprusregistered company that had no link to their own law firm.

The deal for the €9.9 million loan was signed on 29

October 2007 by Consulco Ltd acting on behalf of Evalesco Holdings Ltd, the sole shareholders of the foreign company which secured the loan.

On 14 November of the same year, Evalesco Holdings Ltd asked Anastasiades’ law firm to transfer its shares (by trust) to Compaservus (Nominees) Ltd and Mareplex Services Ltd, companies owned by the Anastasiades law office.

Thus the loan deal predated the contentious transfer of Evalesco’s shares to companies controlled by the Anastasiades law firm.

Moreover, the assets of the foreign company that got the loan are “15 times” the size of the actual loan, the law firm pointed out.

Another allegation by the Greek website concerned the sale of the shares of a Cyprus-registered company - Makra Investments Ltd - for US$50m whereas its initial share capital was worth a few thousand euro.

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was registered by the Anastasiades’ law firm and ultimately owned by a firm of which the shareholders were Anastasiades’ wife and Anastasiades’ two partners in the law firm.

Makra was founded in November 2003 as an offshore company.

In an evidently loaded comment, the website observed that the deal went through around the time of the referendum on the Annan Plan.

Hitting back, the Anastasiades law office said Makra Investment Ltd’s shares were transferred to auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers on February 5, 2004.

A month later, on March 12, and on the instructions of PriceWaterhouse Coopers, some US$50m worth of Makra’s shares were sold via Compaservus in its capacity as escrow agents for Makra.

Calling the allegations “malicious” and “guided,” Anastasiades’ law firm threatened to sue the website should it pursue the story.

RESIDENTS in the Akrotiri and Episkopi areas have been warned they may experience inconveniences on roads close to the British Bases after a military exercise began yesterday and will continue until February 18. They have also been warned not to be alarmed by the sounds of any explosions which might be heard.

“Please do not be concerned if explosions are heard in the local area. This occasionally happens when certain atmospheric conditions prevail,” it concluded.

Woman dies A 69-YEAR-OLD woman who tumbled down the steps outside a church in Lakatamia on Friday night succumbed to her injuries early on Sunday. Under circumstances which are being looked into by police the woman, slipped and fell hitting her head. She was taken to Nicosia General Hospital where she remained in the Intensive Care Unit overnight. She passed away at 9am on Sunday, police said.

Notice for the Attention of Mr Ian Jeffrey Bailey born 9th February 1967 I, Mrs Lesley Bailey, born 8th November 1966 hereby give notice to Mr Ian Jeffrey Bailey that a petition for divorce has been issued at the Southend County Court, England, case number SS11D00274.

Mr Ian Jeffrey Bailey should contact Southend County Court at the contact details below to request a copy of the petition and accompanying documentation. Service should then be acknowledged.

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Home Protesters block off chemical factories in Nisou area, citing health concerns THE RESIDENTS of Pera-Chorio Nisou closed off two chemical factories on Sunday, found within the village’s residential area, which are supposedly responsible for serious health problems being experienced by many villagers.

The demonstrations began on Sunday and continued yesterday with residents closing-off the entrance to the factories which produce chlorine and paint.

“It is time for the residents to take action to protect their own health,” Green Party MP Giorgos Perdikis said. Perdikis who was present at both Sunday and Monday’s demonstrations told reporters he believed that it was time for the people of the village to stand against the threat to their health and to their quality of life.

“According to the recent Ombudswoman’s report, government departments did not manage to protect the residents from the factories’ illegal actions and

Residents started protesting on Sunday and plan to continue

they have every right to protect themselves and their health,” he added. Perdikis explained that in the recent Ombudswoman’s report, there were many omissions by government departments which allowed the unchecked operation of the two chemical factories within the village’s residential area, resulting in an increase in cancer cases in the area.

The residents have said they would continue their demonstrations with a possible indefinite closing off of the factories unless their demands for the government to shut them down and move them to an industrial area are met.

Perdikis revealed that a plot of land has been assigned to relocate the chlorine factory but without financial help from the government it would be impossible to build a new factory there.

Local students and organised members of the community all took part in the demonstrations.

(Christos Theodorides)

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Eight proposals for interim gas supply received Supply should begin no later than early 2015 and up until September 2018

By Elias Hazou THE Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA) has received eight proposals from companies interested in supplying the island with limited quantities of natural gas.

The deadline for the submission of proposals was yesterday.

Cyprus is seeking to secure short-term supplies of the fuel not exceeding 1.2 billion cubic metres per year as a stop-gap solution until such time as it can bring ashore its own gas.

Under the terms of the call for expression of interest, actual supply of gas should begin no later than early 2015 and up until September 2018.

Having initially received 17 expressions of interest, DEFA shortlisted 14 companies that met the minimum criteria.

In January of this year, DEFA sent these companies the tender documents so that they would submit their proposals by February 4.

Negotiations leading to the selection of a supplier are expected to take some weeks.

DEFA reiterated yesterday that the details of the bids

were bound by a confidentiality agreement between itself and the interested parties.

In addition to supplying the fuel, interested parties must also make all infrastructure arrangements.

In terms of technology the tender is open-ended: liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), or any other technology.

The top criteria are time and cost.

DEFA has said it reserves the right not to conclude any deal should it decide that the price of electricity generated by natural gas will be higher than that currently produced from diesel.

Commerce Minister Neo-

clis Sylikiotis explained earlier that the approximate date of January 2015 - by which the island should generate power from natural gas - was set for two reasons.

The first was to allow time for the necessary receiving infrastructures to be built and go online.

Secondly, the EAC has undertaken to begin electricity production from natural gas by 2015 as a condition for qualifying for a €130m loan from the European Investment Bank.

Last year the bank agreed to finance the EAC for the construction of unit 5 at the Vassilikos power plant to boost electricity supply on the island.

PUBLICATION THE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE RULE 195 RULE 32 AR. N. 176/90 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS PROBATE JURISDICTION

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IN THE MATTER OF KEITH WILLIAM UPHILL, LATE OF PAPHOS Passport No. 500189900, DECEASED Notice is given hereby that, after the expiration of 8 days from the present publication, an application, will be lodged in the Principal Probate Registry of Paphos, for the of the will of the KEITH WILLIAM UPHILL late of Paphos If you have any objection you may within the above date lodge a caveat to the above Registry.

STELIOS A. SIVITANIDES Executor of the will and Administrator of the Estate of the above deseased.

Public Authority of Housing Welfare Invitation Pre-Qualifying International Companies To Participate in Tenders Announced by The Public Authority of Housing Welfare (PAHW) The Public Authority of Housing Welfare (PAHW) Of Kuwait invites local and International companies (on the condition of having an official contract with a certified Kuwaiti partner or agent) that are willing to pre-qualify at the PAHW to participate in announced tenders for executing City Housing Projects; Infra-structure applicants must meet the following conditions: 1. Basic probative company documents and papers should be clear, valid, recently dated.

2. Qualification documents and all other documents should be presented in Arabic for local companies, and foreign companies should present their documents and all other papers in Arabic or English.

3. For foreign companies all their submittal must be attested by their competent authority and Kuwait embassy of the respective country.

4. Companies applying for pre-qualification should meet all the conditions stated in the general tenders’ law.

5. The companies applying for pre-qualification should fall into one of these categories: a.

Local contactors classified in the first category specialized in executing road and buildings works (based on the latest ranking of the centralized tenders committee) b. International contractors specialized in roads and buildings works.

Participating companies can obtain a CD that contains the contact forms and qualification documents from the PAHW located in: (South Al-Surrah, third floor, Documents contracts department-qualification of contractors) with a free of (2000 KWD/CD) two thousand Kuwaiti Dinars nonrefundable, starting Sunday 2/Dec/2012 during working hours (from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm).

Please note that the deadline for submitting a completed qualification documents and that is on Monday 4/Mar/2013 at 1:00 pm sharp.

The companies that have been qualified by the PAHW and their qualification is 3 years overdue are required to renew their data based on their own qualification documents, which will be provided to them on a CD for a nonrefundable fee of (200 KWD/CD) two hundred Kuwaiti Dinars.

Note that, PAHW will not consider qualifying any company that submits its qualification documents or incomplete documentations after the deadline. Furthermore, PAHW will not consider these company names in participating in future tenders.

After the Approval of the authority’s entity on the qualified companies list, an announcement will appear in the official gazette (Al-Kuwait Al-Youm) with qualified companies’ names.

For inquiries please contact us through the following address: E-mail: pahw@housing.gov.kw The Authority’s official website: http://www.housing.gov.kw/tenders2013.aspx

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Home Banks support mediating committee in bond dispute

EU has Cyprus leverage, but will it use it?

So far no one has linked a Cyprus bailout to a diplomatic settlement on the island

By Paul Taylor FOR THE first time since Cyprus joined the European Union nearly a decade ago, its partners have financial leverage to press for a settlement of the island’s almost 40-year division.

Yet there is no sign that Brussels is preparing to use its advantage to achieve a reunification that narrowly eluded negotiators when Cyprus joined the EU in 2004.

Indeed the most powerful member states, Germany and France, may be content to see the frozen Cyprus conflict fester rather than deal with the potential consequences of a resolution that would bring Turkey closer to EU membership.

Nicosia desperately needs around €17 billion from its euro zone partners, equivalent to a whole year’s economic output.

That amounts to €19,722 for every man, woman and child in the government-controlled part of the island.

This ought to give Brussels a crowbar to pry the Greek Cypriots into co-operating with the Turkish Cypriots on a loose bi-zonal federation of the kind proposed by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2004.

At the time, the Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the Annan plan, encouraged

by Turkey.

Safe in the knowledge that they would be admitted to the EU even if they spurned the reunification blueprint, the Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan plan in a referendum a week before they entered the Union.

EU officials and especially Guenter Verheugen, the bloc’s enlargement commissioner at the time, felt betrayed. “The understanding was quite clear when we gave Turkey candidate status in 1999 and even clearer when we concluded nego-

tiations with Cyprus in 2002: the Greek Cypriots would not allow the peace plan to fail, and if it failed due to the Turkish Cypriots, then Cyprus could join,” Verheugen told Reuters in an interview.

“We came very close. The problem was that in the end, we didn’t have any leverage over the Greek Cypriots any more since they knew they would join anyway,” said Verheugen, now honorary professor of European governance at the Europe University in Frankfurt-an-derOder in Germany.

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‘Sceptics say it suits Berlin and Paris just fine to keep the Cyprus problem in longterm stalemate, because that prevents Turkey advancing towards the EU’s door’ February 17 presidential election, conservative Nicos Anastasiades, voted for the Annan plan. The United Nations is reviewing the state of play in the talks and UN special representative Alexander Downer is expected back on the island in March.

Yet some EU diplomats say

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it would be politically dangerous to apply diplomatic pressure by exploiting Cyprus’s economic plight. Any linkage could backfire and benefit hardline nationalists on both sides, they warn.

Sceptics say it suits Berlin and Paris just fine to keep the Cyprus problem in longterm stalemate, because that prevents Turkey advancing towards the EU’s door.

“Europe itself is divided on the Cyprus issue. There are several countries that have no interest whatsoever in solving the problem because Turkish accession would be moved forward,” said a former mediator on the island, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is still involved in diplomacy.

The United States used to be actively engaged in trying to settle the Cyprus dispute, which it saw as a potential flashpoint for instability in the eastern Mediterranean.

But US interest in twisting arms seems to have waned since Cyprus found large amounts of natural gas beneath its waters and began working co-operatively with Israel, Washington’s biggest regional ally, to tap the offshore wealth.

The seabed bonanza may eventually help Nicosia out of its bailout problems.

One way of paying off rescue loans may be to borrow against future gas revenues due to start flowing in 2019.

At that point, any incentive to reach a settlement with the Turkish Cypriots may evaporate in a haze of gas.

So if European countries want to wield some influence, it’s now or never. While Brussels may temporarily have more leverage over the Greek Cypriots, its sway over Turkey has shrunk, and the Turkish Cypriots elected hardliner Dervis Eroglu in 2010. He favours independence for the ‘TRNC’. “Turkey is in no way as willing to compromise as it was in 2004,” the former mediator said.

This is partly because few

‘Europe itself is divided on the Cyprus issue’ Turks believe the EU will ever admit their country, and hence two-thirds now oppose membership, but also because Ankara has been so economically successful in the last decade that it has much less need to join the bloc.

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan says the EU accession process has helped Turkey to implement democratic and economic reforms and strengthen the rule of law, underpinning a decade-long economic boom in which GDP per capita has tripled.

“EU membership is a strategic target for us,” Babacan told reporters in Davos, Switzerland. “We have been working for this target since 1959... It seems we are still

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going to take a long time to reach it, if it (ever) happens.”

While the EU process had been very effective in drawing in investment, full membership “is less of a target for us now because some of the things being done in the EU we don’t agree with too much,” Babacan said, citing what he called choking labour market regulation.

So far no one has linked a Cyprus bailout to a diplomatic settlement, meaning that possibly the last chance of a Cyprus settlement may go begging for lack of European interest.

(Additional reporting by Michele Kambas in Nicosia) See page 11

THE island’s two big banks seem to support a proposal to appoint a mediating committee to look into allegations that people were misled into buying high-yield bonds, effectively losing their money after a write-down of Greece’s debt caused Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Popular’s huge losses.

Phivos Mavrovouniotis, the head of the association of investors said the banks backed a proposal to have a foreign mediator who, along with Cypriot judges, would examine individual cases.

BoC and Popular stopped paying interest for the high yield securities after a Greek sovereign debt write-down in late 2011, but many investors claim they were not told this was a possibility.

Last year, the securities and exchange commission (CySEC) said banks followed regulations by listing the risks, but allowed for the possibility that people were not informed by those selling the product. According to a leaked Central Bank probe, it appears the banks tended to stress to investors the benefits of a high yield but downplayed, or omitted mentioning, the risks.

BoC has proposed paying investors a premium to mitigate the loss – details will be announced in the next few days.

“There will be a big loss (based on the banks’ proposals) to the bond holders so each one will have the right to go to the arbitration committee,” Mavrovouniotis said.

“The Bank of Cyprus, as they told us, is prepared to pay compensation” if the committee finds an investor had been mislead. Last week, dozens of angry investors stormed the BoC HQ in protest.

Building permits A DECREASE of 3.5 per cent was recorded in the number of building permits between January and November 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.

According to the Statistical Services. the number of building permits authorised by municipal and district authorities during November 2012 stood at 554.

The total value of the permits reached €148.3m, and the total area 143,800 square metres. The permits provide for the construction of 565 dwelling units. During January– November 2012, 6,701 building permits were issued, registering a decrease of 3.5 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2011.

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Fury over new deputy at CB Anastasiades said he would revoke the appointment if he was elected president (continued from front page) “should not be viewed in the narrow light of constitutional provisions.” Anastasiades meanwhile described the appointment as unacceptable and said he would revoke it if elected president.

“What is happening 13 days before the departure of the current administration is inconceivable especially when we are talking about a position that remained vacant for a full 50 years,” Anastasiades said.

He said the issue was “clearly political,” adding that the law of necessity was only applied when a service could not function.

Reports suggested the appointment was made to pre-empt a similar move by Anastasiades, who, it has been rumoured, was planning to put his man there if elected.

“This is absurd,” Anastasiades said. “If I had

such plans I would have said it in public.”

Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said the appointment was legal and he also denied Stavrinakis was an Akelite.

“Mr Stavrinakis is not AKEL. For many years he has been a director in the Central Bank, he is very knowledgeable of procedures and a very good associate of the Central Bank Governor,” Stefanou said.

He added that the appointment was made in consultation with the Central Bank.

The Central Bank said Stavrinakis was an excellent technocrat with many years experience and “under the current conditions there could not have been a better choice for this office.”

The Central Bank of Cyprus was the only eurozone regulator that did not have a deputy governor. (see editorial page 13)

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Russia ready to ‘soften’ loan terms

By George Psyllides RUSSIA said yesterday it was considering extending the maturity of a €2.5 billion loan to help Cyprus manage its debt crisis, rather than offering a new loan.

“We are ready for softening (of the terms)... Restructuring of the debt is possible and we’ll see about the rates.”

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said.

Hit by its exposure to Greece and shut out of international financial markets for nearly two years, Cyprus asked Russia last month to extend the five-year loan that Moscow provided Nicosia in 2011.

Last year Cyprus also asked Russia for a new €5 billion loan. “We are more looking into the second option (extension),” Siluanov told journalists.

He also reiterated Moscow’s position that the island would still need additional financial aid from Europe. “Our concessions will not solve the problem of Cyprus,” Siluanov said.

Last week, Cypriot Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said he expected Russia to extend the maturity of the existing loan to 2022 from 2016. A draft memorandum of understanding between Cyprus and the EU and IMF says the island could need up to €10 billion to recapitalise its banks, undermined by an EU-sanctioned write-down of Greek government debt in early 2012.

A company tasked with assessing the recapitalisation needs of Cypriot banks ahead of the bailout delivered its final report on Saturday.

Details were not made public, but reports suggested the total amount PIMCO came up with was around €10 billion, something Cyprus was trying to avoid.

The government and the Central Bank have been trying to convince PIMCO since a preliminary report came out in December.

“Unfortunately the differences between the two sides remain,” Shiarly said. “A new discussion will follow until a common and final position

is found.” The minister said PIMCO promotes the worsecase scenario in the case of Cyprus’ bailout. “It is really adverse and very far from baseline scenario,” Shiarly said.

The baseline scenario provides for €7.0 billion.

On top of the €10 billion the government needs up to €7.5 billion for its own budget.

On that basis, Cyprus’ total bailout, including fiscal requirements, could reach €17 billion to €17.5 billion, equivalent to the island’s annual economic output.

Cyprus fears that a bailout on that scale could push its debt to unsustainable levels and prompt additional austerity measures, including privatisations of public companies.

To make things worse, some euro one member states, notably Germany, have expressed unease at the island’s close business ties with Russia, and questioned its commitment to fighting money laundering.

Cyprus says it has all the safeguards in place.

Annual hoteliers conference to focus on change RAPID changes in the tourism industry worldwide, new prospects for Cyprus, and increasingly intense competition will be in focus next week at the annual Cyprus Hotels Association (PASYXE) conference in Nicosia.

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Car park skeleton is vilified Richard III Remains Drinking: Paul Gascoigne identified Alcoholic through a Gascoigne’s living 17th life in danger, generation says agent descendant

By Mark Meadows and Martyn Herman FORMER England midfielder Paul Gascoigne needs immediate help as his life is in danger because of alcoholism, his agent said on Sunday.

The 45-year-old, who became a national hero thanks to his performances and tears as England reached the 1990 World Cup semi-finals, started shaking uncontrollably at a charity event last week and footage has appeared in the UK media.

“He won’t thank me for saying it but he immediately needs to get help,” agent Terry Baker told BBC radio.

“Whatever’s happened to him in the five or six weeks since I saw him before Christmas he is not as well as he has been. His life is always in danger because he is an alcoholic. Maybe no one can save him - I don’t know. I really don’t know.”

The former Tottenham Hotspur, Rangers and Lazio player was treated for mental illness twice in 2008 and has long battled alcoholism since his playing career.

Baker said his breakdown at the charity event came after a friend had died in a medical facility while holding Gascoigne’s hand.

Players’ union chief Gordon Taylor warned yesterday that Gascoigne now needs 24-hour attention “He sounds as if he needs almost a 24-hour watching brief at the moment,” PFA boss Taylor told BBC Radio 5 live.

“It seems as if he needs somebody with him all the time just to make sure that he’s looked after and is not going to do anything silly.”

(Continued from front page) Philippa Langley, of the Richard III Society, said: “The men who knew him said he was ‘the most famous prince of best memory’.

“When he fell he was stripped naked and his scoliosis (curved spine) became known and was used to denigrate him.

“Today, we find the idea of using physical disability against a person as abhorrent. Let this now be a break from the Tudor medieval mindset.”

DNA recovered from the remains, radio-carbon dating, battlefield wounds found on the skeleton, and the link between what was found during the dig and what was mentioned in documentary sources from the period, combined to allow Leicester University academics to conclude the identity was “beyond reasonable doubt”.

Richard was cut down at the decisive and bloody Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses and leaving Henry VII as the new king and first of the Tudor dynasty.

At the time it was recorded that Richard was buried in Grey Friars, a friary in the city, following the battle. The church was demolished during the Reformation in the 16th Century and over the following centuries its exact location was forgotten.

Despite this, a team of enthusiasts and historians traced the likely site of the friary.

In August 2012, an excavation began in a city council car park - the only open space remaining in the likely area -which quickly identified buildings connected to the church.

The bones were found in the first days of the dig. Archaeologists from the University

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Opinion split on Richard’s reputation

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Richard III’s skeleton with its curved spine. Clockwise from bottom left below: Richard’s skull, descendant Michael Ibsen who provided the DNA match, and a portrait of the king

FEW monarchs in history have been so vilified and scrutinised as King Richard III. For centuries historians have put forward varying cases as to whether he should be remembered as a visionary reformer and brilliant administrator, or as an ambitious usurper and ruthless murderer.

Described as “deformed” and “unfinish’d”, jealous, and ambitious hunchback in Shakespeare’s play Richard III, which was first performed in the 1590s, it is difficult to know if the man the playwright said battled on foot and cried out “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”, is a true reflection of the king, or merely an act of creative dramatics.

These days loyal Ricardians battle to repair Richard’s reputation but the traditional view is that Richard, while not as evil as Tudor historians said, was probably responsible for removing his nephews from the royal line.

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of Leicester recovered a body which showed signs of battle injuries including 10 separate wounds, and scoliosis, in tune with unflattering historic accounts of the monarch.

Significant weight was placed on the DNA evidence, linking Richard to a living 17th generation descendant, Michael Ibsen, through the female line of Anne of York.

Genealogical research eventually led to a Canadian woman called Joy Ibsen. She died several years ago but her son, Michael, who now works in London, provided a sample.

The researchers were fortu-

nate as, while the DNA they were looking for was in all Joy Ibsen’s offspring, it is only handed down through the female line and her only daughter has no children. The line was about to stop.

Dr Turi King, project geneticist, said there had been concern DNA in the bones would be too degraded: “The question was could we get a sample of DNA to work with, and I am extremely pleased to tell you that we could.”

Studies of the bones revealed the man was in his late 20s to late 30s - the king was killed when he was 32 - while radio-carbon dating revealed the male died in the second half of the 15th century or the early 16th century, which is consistent with the Wars of the Roses.

Further study showed the remains to be those of a man of 5ft 8in, with what academ-

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ics called an “unusually slender build” for a male.

The male had 10 wounds on his body, with two principal head wounds which were likely to have killed him - one delivered by a sword and the other likely to have come from a long-handled pole arm, thought to be a halberd.

More gruesome was evidence of “humiliation” injuries, including several head wounds - part of the skull was sliced away - a cut to the rib cage and a pelvic wound likely caused by an upward thrust of a weapon through the buttock.

Sir Peter Soulsby, mayor of Leicester, said moves were under way for the remains to be interred in the city cathedral next year.

“The body will be re-interred in the cathedral, in whose shadow his remains have lain for 500 years.”

Under a page headed “Loyal to the truth” on The Richard III Foundation’s website is an extract that reads: “The prime sources of defamation of Richard are superstitious fiction, although this was not understood by some for centuries.”

“By blaming Richard for everything, (Henry) Tudor escaped blame for anything for two hundred years, until people were at last free to pose questions.”

The view from the Tudor side, differs somewhat.

Historian Suzannah Lipscomb wrote in a BBC online article: “It is not surprising that for centuries Richard III has been synonymous with evil tyranny and physical deformity.

“To argue otherwise has been to take on three of history’s greats - Sir Thomas More, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, all of whom argued that Richard had been a man with a crooked back and a crooked life.”

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Britain sets out new law to break up errant banks Chris Huhne: jail likely

Former minister pleads guilty over driving offence FORMER British energy secretary Chris Huhne pleaded guilty yesterday to perverting the course of justice by persuading his then wife in 2003 to accept penalty points on her driving licence for a speeding offence he had committed.

A senior member of the Liberal Democrats, the smaller party in Britain’s ruling coalition, Huhne resigned from his cabinet post in February 2012 when he was charged.

He had remained a member of parliament but said after yesterday’s London court hearing that he would quit his seat.

Huhne remains free on unconditional bail pending his sentencing, which judge Nigel Sweeney said would take place at an unspecified later date. The judge signalled to Huhne that he was likely to face a term in jail.

“You should have no illusions whatsoever as to the sort of sentence that you are likely to receive,” Sweeney told Huhne after he entered a guilty plea.

“Understood?” the judge asked Huhne, who nodded from the glass-walled dock at the back of the coutroom.

At a court hearing a week ago, Huhne had pleaded not guilty to the same offence.

His ex-wife Vicky Pryce, who was charged with the same offence at the same time, had pleaded not guilty at an earlier court hearing.

Outside the court, Huhne said he would be standing down from his parliamentary seat in Eastleigh in southern England.

“Having taken responsibility for something which happened 10 years ago the only proper course of action for me is now to resign my Eastleigh seat in parliament,” Huhne told reporters.

Banks will soon be forced to ring-fence retail operations

By Laura Noonan and Matt Scuffham BRITISH banks that fail to shield their day-to-day banking from risky investment activities will face being broken up, finance minister George Osborne said yesterday.

Britain is shaking up its system of bank regulation following the 2008 financial crisis, when the government poured 65 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money into rescues of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds.

The sector has also come under fire for rigging the Libor global interest rate, misselling insurance, breaking money laundering laws and paying bonuses widely seen as excessive.

Banks were already expected to have to “ring-fence” operations such as standard bank accounts and payments from their riskier investment banking activities, which will hit major players such as Barclays, HSBC, and RBS. But Osborne said he was prepared to go further. “If

a bank flouts the rules, the regulator and the Treasury will have the power to break it up altogether - full separation, not just a ring-fence. In the jargon, we will ‘electrify the ring-fence’,” he said in a speech.

The break-up of banks which fail to keep to the rules was demanded by members of parliament who reviewed government plans late last year.

Under the new rules, the Bank of England will monitor whether banks ensure that risks taken by their investment banking arms do not endanger their retail divisions.

If the central bank finds a breach, the government will make the politically sensitive decision on whether to employ the “nuclear option” of forcing banks to sell one of the two arms.

Osborne said the government could punish directors of failed banks by banning them from the industry.

“I want to see how we can strengthen the sanctions regime for senior bankers - for example, should there be a

PM plea to Taliban over Afghan talks DAVID Cameron issued a direct appeal to the Taliban to enter peaceful talks on the future of Afghanistan after hosting talks at Chequers with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday.

The prime minister said the two leaders had agreed “an unprecedented level of co-operation”.

He said they had agreed to sign up to a strategic partnership between their two countries in the autumn.

At the same time, they also agreed to the opening of an office in the Qatari capital Doha for negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan High Peace Council.

Cameron said the agreement should send a clear message to the Taliban.

“Now is the time for everyone to participate in a peaceful, political process in Afghanistan,” he said.

“This should lead to a future where all Afghans can participate peacefully in that country’s political process.”

Karzai said that they had had a “very frank and open discussion” and echoed Cameron’s appeal to the Taliban to join peace talks.

He said that he hoped relations with Pakistan - which have been strained in the past - could in future be “very close, brotherly and good neighbourly”.

Zardari said that Pakistan would fully support any dialogue with the Taliban.

Lebedev wins local London TV franchise RUSSIAN oligarch Alexander Lebedev won a London-wide television franchise yesterday, beating four other applicants with a package including programming from the newsroom of his family-backed London Evening Standard newspaper.

The winning bid from ESTV (Evening Standard Television) pledges to deliver rolling live news at peak commuter times from the newspaper’s offices in west London.

British telecoms regulator Ofcom is offering licences for a number of local TV stations, typically covering a single city, using digital TV transmission. The London franchise, which offers an audience of up to four million people, is potentially the

most lucrative.

ESTV said the schedule for its London Live channel would be driven by news and current affairs, drawing on the Lebedev’s newspaper resources, which also include The Independent title.

The channel will also include debates, programming made by London’s diverse communities, coverage of art, cultural and sporting events and entertainment shows.

Lebedev’s links with London date back to when he was a KGB officer based in the city in the late eighties. He made a fortune in banking after returning to Russia, where he owns assets ranging from newspapers to airline stakes.

He bought the Evening Standard in 2009.

George Osborne warning to banks: ‘we will break them up’

presumption that the directors of failed banks do not work in the sector again?” he said.

RBS is expected to be fined for attempted manipulation of Libor this week. Osborne repeated his call for fines to be paid out of money earmarked for bankers’ bonuses, saying it would cause “enormous public anger” if the taxpayer footed the bill.

“The thing that could have potentially been the cause of real public anger this spring (would have been) money from the taxpayer going to pay the RBS Libor fines in America,” he said.

Asked whether there should be resignations at RBS as a result of the bank’s imminent fine for rate rigging, Osborne said it was “quite well known that RBS are thinking about changes” amongst the investment bank’s senior management.

“It is right that those who are responsible - not just those who are directly responsible, but also those who were doing the supervising, must also bear a level of responsibility,” he said.

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Iran’s foreign minister welcomes Biden’s offer of bilateral talks

By Stephen Brown IRANIAN Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said yesterday he saw US VicePresident Joe Biden’s offer this weekend of bilateral dialogue between their two countries as a sign of a change in approach to Tehran by Washington.

Iran is embroiled in a long stand-off with big powers over its nuclear programme. Tehran insists its atomic activity is for peaceful energy only while the United States and other powers suspect it of seeking the capability to build a nuclear weapon.

“As I have said yesterday, I am optimistic, I feel this new administration is really this time seeking to at least divert from its previous traditional approach vis-a-vis my country,” Salehi told the German Council on Foreign Relations.

Salehi, who attended the Munich Security Conference at the weekend where Biden made the offer, said in Berlin that it was still very difficult for Tehran and

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Washington - more than 30 years after they severed relations - to trust each other.

“How do we trust again this new gesture?” he said.

Salehi said he hoped Barack Obama would keep what he said was a promise by the US president to “walk away from wars ... and approaches that bring de-

struction, killings, bloodshed”. He did not elaborate.

Negotiations between Iran and Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany over Tehran’s nuclear activities have been deadlocked since a meeting last June.

European Union officials have accused Iran of dragging its feet in weeks of haggling over the date and venue for new talks.

“I think it is about time both sides really get into engagement because confrontation certainly is not the way,” Salehi said in Berlin, referring to the United States.

“And another thing: this issue of the nuclear file is becoming boring,” added Salehi, a physicist by training who once headed the Iranian atomic energy agency and represented his country at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The European Union said this weekend it had proposed talks in the week of Feb. 24 which could take place in Kazakhstan.

Ahmadinejad: I’m willing to be the first Iranian in space PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit

by Iran’s fledgling space programme, Iranian media reported.

Iran declared last week that it had successfully launched a monkey into space and retrieved it alive, which officials hailed as a major step towards their goal of sending humans into space.

The launch added to Western concerns about Iran’s space programme because the same rocket technology could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.

“I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space

by Iranian scientists,” Ahmadinejad said yesterday, on the sidelines of an exhibition of space achievements in Tehran, according to the Mehr news agency.

Assad urged to respond to exit offer

SYRIAN opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib urged President Bashar al-Assad yesterday to respond to his initiative for dialogue, saying it was aimed at ending the bloodshed and helping “the regime leave peacefully”.

Speaking after meeting senior Russian, US and Iranian officials at the weekend, Alkahtib said none of them had a plan to end the civil war and Syrians must find their own resolution.

“The big powers have no vision ... Only the Syrian people can decide on the solution,” the Syrian National Coalition leader told Al Jazeera Television.

TABOO BROKEN The moderate Islamist preacher announced last week he was prepared to talk to Assad’s representatives. Although he set several conditions, the move broke a taboo on contacts with authorities and dismayed many in opposition ranks who insist on Assad’s departure as a precondition for negotiation.

Alkhatib said it was not “treachery” to seek dialogue to end a conflict in which more than 60,000 people have been killed, 700,000 have been driven from their country and millions more

are homeless and hungry.

“The regime must take a clear stand (on dialogue) and we say we will extend our hand for the interest of people and to help the regime leave peacefully,” he told the Qatar-based channel. “It is now in the hands of the regime.”

Assad announced last month what he said were plans for reconciliation talks to end the violence but - in a speech described by UN Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as narrow and uncompromising - he said there would be no dialogue with people he called traitors or “puppets made by the West”.

Syria’s uprising erupted 22 months ago with largely peaceful protests, escalating into a civil war that pits mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad, who is from Syria’s Alawite minority and whose family has ruled Syria for 42 years.

The violence has divided major powers, with Russia and China blocking UN Security Council draft resolutions backed by the United States, European Union and Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab states that could have led to UN sanctions on Assad. Shi’ite Iran has remained his strongest regional backer.

Alkhatib said that the international deadlock meant that only Syrians could stave off further humanitarian disaster.

“Sending living things into space is the result of Iranian efforts and the dedication of thousands of Iranian scientists.”

Ahmadinejad is known for provocative public comments and it was unclear whether the suggestion was a serious one.

Cambodia in mourning for beloved king

‘The big powers have no vision ... Only the Syrian people can decide’

By Mariam Karouny and Dominic Evans

Ahmadinejad: provocative

Women cry during the cremation ceremony of Cambodia’s late King Norodom Sihanouk

TENS of thousands of Cambodians gathered yesterday to pay their last respects to former King Norodom Sihanouk, a quixotic and muchloved figure who reigned during the country’s struggle for independence but was powerless to prevent decades of war.

Salvoes from an artillery salute shook the crowds that gathered along Phnom Penh’s Tonle Sap River as the embalmed body of the former monarch, who died aged 89 of heart failure on October 15, was cremated in a gold casket by the Royal Palace.

The current King Norodom Sihamoni and Sihanouk’s widow, Queen Monineath, wept during the cremation as Cambodians poured into the capital to mourn the “king father”, as Sihanouk is known.

“This is the most sorrowful moment,” said Pal Ho, 58, a villager from the western province of Pursat, who carried with her six pictures of Sihanouk.

Top Mali Islamist insurgents Key TB vaccine trial fails captured as bombings spread but more are on their way

By Cheikh Diouara and John Irish

By Julie Steenhuysen

TUAREG rebels in northern Mali said yesterday they had captured two senior Islamist insurgents fleeing French air strikes toward the Algerian border, as France pressed ahead with its bombing campaign against al Qaeda’s Saharan desert camps.

Pro-autonomy Tuareg MNLA rebels said one of their patrols seized Mohamed Moussa Ag Mohamed, an Islamist leader who imposed harsh sharia law in the desert town of Timbuktu, and Oumeini Ould Baba Akhmed, believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of a French hostage by the al Qaeda splinter group MUJWA. “We chased an Islamist convoy close to the frontier and arrested the two men the day before yesterday,” Ibrahim Ag Assaleh, spokesman for the MNLA, told Reuters from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. “They have been questioned and sent to Kidal.”

France has deployed 3,500 ground troops, as well as warplanes and armoured vehicles in its three-week-old Operation Serval which has broken the Islamists’ 10-month grip on northern towns. It is now due to gradually hand over to a UN-backed African force of some 8,000 troops.

A HIGHLY anticipated study of the first new tuberculosis vaccine in 90 years showed it offered no added benefit over the current vaccine when it came to protecting babies from TB infections, a disappointing but not entirely unexpected outcome, researchers said yesterday.

The vaccine, known as MVA85A, is the most advanced of more than a dozen TB vaccines now in clinical trials in people, and scientists are poring over the results to learn why the trial failed and how the results can inform future studies.

MVA85A was developed by researchers at the University of Oxford in Britain with support from Aeras, the Wellcome Trust, the European Commission and the Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium, a joint venture between Oxford and Emergent Biosolutions Inc. “Obviously, we all would have liked to see greater protection,” said Dr Ann Ginsberg of Aeras, a non-profit biotech based in Rockville, Maryland and funded in large part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The current TB vaccine, known as Bacille Calmette-Guérin, or BCG, was developed in 1921, and is given routinely to babies in countries with high rates of TB to prevent severe disease.

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World WORLD TODAY Greek police accused of doctoring photos A GREEK prosecutor ordered an investigation yesterday into whether four suspected bank robbers were beaten in custody after police published mug shots that were altered to make their injuries appear less severe.

Rights groups and critics have long accused Greek police of detaining immigrants and other prisoners in shocking conditions.

Photos published in the Greek media of the men, who were aged between 20 and 25 and arrested on Friday, show them bruised and bleeding while being escorted by police.

But mug shots released by the police over the weekend had injuries missing. One had been altered to remove a purple bruise from beneath the suspect’s left eye. In another, black bruises below the suspect’s eyes and cheeks appear to have been erased.

Russia ponders an end to boozy flights RUSSIA may soon crack down to stop boozy flights after a spate of brawls involving drunken passengers.

State television yesterday broadcast amateur footage of several drinksoaked punch-ups after a plane made a forced landing in Uzbekistan on the way to Thailand on Sunday because a Russian had attacked other passengers.

The footage included shots of a man butting a steward during one flight and a fight among passengers queuing for the toilet during another.

A senior member of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said the assembly could soon draw up legislation to ban duty-free liquor and cigarettes being brought on board planes, even in sealed bags.

Iraq bomb kills at least 22 A SUICIDE bomber attacked a governmentbacked militia in Iraq yesterday, killing at least 22 people in an apparent attempt by Sunni insurgents to provoke unrest against Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Dressed in civilian clothes, the bomber infiltrated a meeting of Sahwa tribal fighters and detonated his explosives as they picked up salaries in Taji, a town 20 km north of the capital Baghdad, police said.

EU delay ‘unforgivable’ Erdogan: Turkey should be admitted to the EU without delay TURKISH Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that his country’s halfcentury wait to become part of the European Union was “unforgivable” and it should be admitted without delay.

The country of 74 million launched a formal EU accession bid in 2005, four decades after the first talks, but the process has stalled due to opposition notably from France and Germany, as well as unresolved differences over the division of Cyprus.

Last October, Erdogan said the EU could lose Turkey if it did not grant it membership by 2023, the centenary of the founding of the modern Turkish state. It was the first time he had given an indication of how long Ankara could wait.

Speaking in Prague on the first day of trip to central Europe, Erdogan said Turkey had originally begun talks on integration in 1963.

The fact that the process was still dragging on was a particular slight because millions of Turkish people already live in EU states, he said.

“This delay for Turkey in the process is unforgivable,” Erdogan told a news conference in the Czech capital.

“Our cooperation and soli-

Erdogan: EU must realise that five million Turkish citizens live in the EU

darity with European countries will of course continue, even if they do not accept us. But our wish would be for Europe, even though they have not accepted us, to realise that five million citizens of Turkey live in the EU ... We say: ‘Don’t delay.

Let’s finish it’.”

At the end of last year, Ankara accused the EU of “bigoted attitudes” in a report

Bolshoi ballet chief says he knows who is behind acid attack

By Anastasia Gorelova and Thomas Grove THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s artistic director left hospital yesterday saying he knew in his heart who was behind the acid attack that threatens his sight and the reputation of one of the world’s great theatres.

Sergei Filin, his face scarred and eyes hidden by dark glasses, hinted last month’s attack was linked to his work in the fiercely competitive world of ballet. He said his attacker had looked at him from behind a mask “with fear in his eyes”.

“I fell on my face in the snow and began to rub snow in my face and eyes,” he said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television before his discharge.

“I was in terrible, unbearable pain.”

He said he lay in the empty street in front of his apartment building for 20 minutes after the January 17 attack pressing his face into the snow, until he caught the attention of a security guard who called an ambulance.

Dressed in black, he spoke only briefly to reporters before stepping into an ambulance, his wife Maria clutching his arm. He was due later yesterday to fly to a German clinic, widely reported to be in Aachen.

Filin said the attack was

Filin: Unbearable pain the culmination of weeks of threats and was meant to end his career as one of the more influential artists at the Bolshoi Ballet, an enduring symbol of Russian culture since the era of Catherine the Great.

Filin said his sight, invaluable for the grandiose and carefully scrutinised productions of the Bolshoi Ballet, could be better but that he could still see “fuzzy” objects.

Asked if he knew who had ordered the attack, he said in the television interview: “Every person has an organ called a heart, and my heart knows who did it, and in my soul I have an answer to that question.”

on its application process.

Turkey has closed only one of the 35 policy “chapters” that must be agreed with candidates.

France, Cyprus and the bloc’s executive Commission have blocked all but 13 of those remaining, and Brussels has halted talks

because it says Turkey does not meet EU standards on human rights or freedom of speech or religion.

In December, Germany’s foreign minister said the standstill was unsatisfactory and called for fresh impetus.

France’s new president,

Francois Hollande, has stopped short of endorsing Turkey’s EU candidacy but has said it should be judged on political and economic criteria - a contrast to his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy’s position that Turkey did not form part of Europe.

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Business FTSE 100 down 1.6%, biggest daily fall since November

By Toni Vorobyova

Sydney is now the third most expensive city in the world

Australian boom has come with a price tag Sydney and Melbourne now among most expensive cities

By Belinda Goldsmith THE COST of living the Australian dream has surged with Sydney and Melbourne among the five most expensive cities in the world, outstripping most European and US locations, according to an annual survey released yesterday.

Asia and Australasia account for 11 of the world’s top 20 most expensive cities, with eight from Europe and one from South America, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) worldwide cost of living index found. No North American cities featured in the top 20.

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This compared to a decade ago when there were six Asian cities, 10 European cities and four US cities in the top 20 of the list that calculates living costs in 131 cities in 93 countries and is used by companies for costings when relocating staff.

In the 2013 survey, Tokyo reclaimed the title as the world’s most expensive city.

Currency swings pushed Zurich into the No.1 position last year but government exchange rate controls have driven the Swiss city back to No.7 in the list.

Osaka in Japan was ranked the second most expensive.

Jon Copestake, editor of the EIU Worldwide Cost of Living Index, said one of the most notable changes was the rising costs in Australia, with Sydney third in the list and Melbourne fifth. Sandwiched between them was Oslo in Norway.

“Ten years ago there were no Australian cities in the top 50 most expensive cities and I have not seen this sort of climb with any other cities,” Copestake told Reuters.

“But economic growth has supported inflation and the strength of the Australian dollar against other currencies besides the US dollar has driven up costs. Visitors will certainly feel the difference and people living there will have noticed prices have crept up.”

The survey is based on costs of over 160 items ranging from food and clothing, to domestic help, transport and utilities.

Copestake said the return of Tokyo to top of the list came as no great surprise as the Japanese capital had steep real estate costs and rents, as well as high wages fuelling prices.

Since 1992 Tokyo has been

the top-ranking city in every year bar six when Zurich, Paris and Oslo claimed the No.1 spot.

Also featured in the 2013 top 10 were Singapore, Zurich, Paris, the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and Geneva.

Copestake said fears over economic austerity and the stability of the euro had pushed the index of euro zone cities down in the past year while the inclusion of Caracas was due to artificially high exchange rate controls.

Although no North American cities feature in the top 20, the EIU said the cost of living in New York had risen relative to other places in the United States. It shares 27th position as the most expensive US city with Los Angeles.

The Canadian city of Vancouver remains the most expensive location in North America.

BRITAIN’S top share index suffered its biggest one-day fall in three months yesterday, as growing political uncertainty in continental Europe and a string of analyst downgrades sparked a wave of profit taking from 4-1/2 year highs.

The growing popularity of former premier Silvio Berlusconi ahead of elections in Italy and a corruption scandal in Spain fanned concerns that political instability could undermine the region’s slow progress out of its debt crisis.

Any setback there is also likely to hit Britain, for whom the eurozone is the top trade partner, and whose corporates have already taken hits from problems in Southern Europe.

That, together with the hefty 7 per cent rally in Britain’s FTSE 100 so far in 2013 and the strong performance fuelled by new-month money on Friday, prompted some investors to cash in.

“It’s just a bit of profit-taking today, it’s been coming for a while. We were over-bought and we have seen a few guys

come and look at names that have had big moves,” said Martin Tormey, head of equity trading at Goodbody Stockbrokers.

“I don’t think it’s any more than that ... There is a lot of money sitting on the sidelines and we definitely sense from clients that there is a lot more fear of the market going up than of the market going down.”

The UK blue chip index closed down 100.40 points, or 1.6 per cent, at 6,246.84 points, retreating after posting its highest finish since May 2008 on Friday.

The banking sector, the most directly exposed to euro zone woes through their holdings of sovereign debt, was one of the worst performers, down 2.2 per cent as investors booked profits on a rally of over 10 per cent in early 2013.

Traders said the eurozone jitters - which pushed the yields on 10-year Spanish and Italian government bonds to 2013 peaks - were the main driver for the UK sector, overshadowing plans by British finance minister George Osborne for a new law to break up banks that fail to shield retail operations from risk.

India’s tax dispute with Shell ‘an incorrect interpretation’ ANGLO-DUTCH oil major Royal Dutch Shell’s Indian unit will challenge a claim by the local tax authorities that a share sale to its overseas parent in 2009 was undervalued by $2.7 billion, the latest tax conflict involving a foreign company in India.

Shell India said yesterday that as part of its investment in the country Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd issued 87 million shares to parent Shell Gas BV at 10 rupees apiece in 2009.

Tax authorities have valued those at 183 rupees a share, proposing an adjustment in the value of the deal of 152 billion rupees ($2.7 billion), Shell said.

India has stepped up enforcement of tax collections as it looks to raise revenue to help plug its fiscal deficit.

But the Shell case comes at a time when India is still trying to settle a long-running $2 billion tax dispute with British mobile phone firm Vodafone that has dented foreign investors’ confidence in the country.

Vodafone, the largest corporate investor in India, has repeatedly clashed with Indian authorities over taxes since it bought Hutchison Whampoa’s local mobile business in 2007. While India’s Supreme Court backed Vodafone’s position that it does not owe tax on the acquisition, a subsequent law change enabled India to impose such taxes on mergers retrospectively.

New investment website Italian bank probe widens BRITAIN’S financial regulator yesterday approved for the first time a “crowdfunding” website which allows members of the public to take a direct stake in small unlisted businesses.

Volatile markets, low interest rates and crimped bank lending have boosted the popularity of crowdfunding, which, according to Massolution, a firm specialising in the sector, raised 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) globally in 2011.

Many such websites now offer members of the public small stakes in companies for investments of as little as 10 pounds, and both British and US regulators have warned investors of the risks involved.

There is no Europe-wide regulation in place for crowdfunding websites and the United States is in the process of drafting rules that would govern the sector.

Crowdcube, which has raised 5 million pounds since launching two years ago and has more than 28,000 registered investors, is now regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Prospective Crowdcube investors will have to complete a questionnaire to check they understand the risks involved, co-founder Luke Lang told Reuters, and deposits of up to 85,000 pounds will be reimbursed should Crowdcube collapse. “It gives us a lot of credibility and it gives investors confidence that the FSA have looked at our systems processes and resources and we have passed all of their tests.”

ITALIAN prosecutors called in the former chairman of Monte dei Paschi di Siena yesterday as they pursued their corruption investigation into an opaque series of lossmaking derivatives trades at the bank.

Giuseppe Mussari, who stepped down as Monte Paschi chairman in April last year as the bank’s problems mounted, was driven to the prosecutors’ office in Siena by his lawyer and left without speaking to reporters.

One of his lawyers said his full legal team had not been available and he had sought a new appointment on Thursday with prosecutors, who are investigating a series of bribery and corruption allegations against former managers of the bank.

Giuseppe Mussari A former Dresdner Bank employee, Antonio Rizzo, who has been one of the key witnesses in the case, spoke to financial police yesterday and said he had repeated earlier testimony he had already

given to investigators.

Rizzo’s testimony mentioned a group of former executives within Monte Paschi he said were known as the “5 per cent gang” because of the commissions they were said to take on every deal.

Italy’s third largest bank has been at the centre of a financial and political storm since last month when it revealed that it faced losses of some 720 million euros ($986 million from a series of derivatives and structured finance trades.

The losses, apparently linked to Monte Paschi’s costly acquisition of smaller rival Antonveneta in 2007 have raised questions over the future of the Tuscan bank, which depends on a 3.9 billion euro state loan.

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CB appointment is solely about maintaining AKEL’s influence APPOINTING a deputy governor of the Central Bank was the president’s constitutional right was the stock response by the government and AKEL to the barrage of political criticism against the appointment of Spyros Stavrinakis to the post that had remained empty since the Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the Republic in 1963. In those 50 years, no government had deemed it necessary to fill the post, constitutionally reserved for a Turkish Cypriot.

Yet President Christofias who, for five years in office, never saw the need for a deputy governor, decided, a couple of weeks before he is due to step down, that the Central Bank had to have one to cope with its workload. His spokesman Stefanos Stefanou, who has perfected the skill of defending the indefensible, came up with several practical reasons - emphatically superficial and unconvincing - to justify the appointment.

Stefanou claimed that since Cyprus joined the euro the Central Bank had many more responsibilities and as a consequence the governor’s duties had increased - he had to participate twice a month at meetings of the ECB in Frankfurt. But Cyprus has been a member of the eurozone since 2008 and there was never an issue, because the Central Bank had more than enough senior directors to ease the workload of the governor.

The governor’s responsibilities will multiply from June, when the co-op banks come under the supervision of the Central Bank, said Stefanou, adding that the bank chief also had the re-structuring of the banks to cope with. But the re-structuring of the banks will begin when the memorandum is signed, hopefully at the end of March, and co-op supervision begins in June so Christofias should have had the decency to leave the appointment of a deputygovernor to his successor. Stefanou’s most absurd argument was that the appointment of a deputy would strengthen democratic control and corporate governance.

We, the low-intelligence public, are actually supposed to believe that one AKEL yes-man will exercise democratic control over another AKEL yes-man and that this will strengthen corporate governance. It will ensure the exact opposite, namely the total control of the Central Bank by AKEL for another four years, a very worrying prospect indeed, when we consider how the Demetriades-Stavrinakis pairing exaggerated the banks’ financial needs as per the instructions of the government.

The opening of the deputy’s position will also keep Stavrinakis, due to retire this year, in a well-paid job for another five years, presumably as a reward for loyally serving AKEL. There were plenty of abler, younger technocrats within the Central Bank who could have been given the post, but they did not possess the sole quality the president was looking for - loyalty to AKEL.

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Is Senkaku-Diaoyu another Falklands?

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HINESE survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?

The rocky, uninhabited group of islets in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku Islands by Japan and the Diaoyu Islands by China, are worthless in themselves, and even the ocean and seabed resources around them could not justify a war. Yet both sides sound quite serious, and the media rhetoric about it in China has got downright bellicose.

Historical analogies are never exact, but they can sometimes be quite useful. What would be a good analogy for the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute? The dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the islands that the British call the Falklands and the Argentines call las Malvinas fits the case pretty well.

Worthless islands? Check, unless you think land for grazing sheep is worth a war.

Rich fishing grounds? Check.

Potential oil and gas resources under the seabed? Tick.

Rival historical claims going back to the 19th century or “ancient times”? Check.

A truly foolish war that killed lots of people? Yes, in the case of the Falklands/ Malvinas, but not in the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands.

Not yet.

One other difference: the Falkland Islands have been inhabited by some thousands of English-speaking people of British descent for almost two centuries.

Argentina’s claim relates to a short-lived colony in 1830-33 (which was preceded by somewhat longer-lived French and British colonies in the 1700s). Whereas nobody has ever lived on the Senkakus/Diaoyus.

Curiously, this does not simplify the quarrel. Neither China nor Japan has a particularly persuasive historical claim to the islands, and with no resident population they are wide open to a sudden, non-violent occupation by either country.

That could trigger a real military confrontation between China and Japan, and drag in Japan’s ally, the United States. It was to avert exactly that sort of stunt that the Japanese government bought three of the islands last September. The

The disputed rocky, uninhabited group of islets in the East China Sea ultra-nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, announced that he would use public money to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner, and the Foreign Ministry suspected that he would then land people there to assert Japanese sovereignty more vigorously.

The Chinese would probably respond in kind, and then the fat would be in the fire. But the Japanese government’s thwarting of Ishihara’s plans did not mollify the Chinese.

The commercial change of ownership did not strengthen or weaken either country’s claim of sovereignty, but Beijing saw it as a ne-

et rises every year.) It’s foolish, but it’s getting beyond a joke. Meanwhile, down in the South China Sea, a very similar confrontation has been simmering for years between China, which claims almost the entire sea for itself, and the five other countries (Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan) that maintain overlapping claims over various parts of the sea.

Military manoeuvres are taking place, non-negotiable declarations of sovereignty are being made, and navies are being beefed up.

Once again there are fishing rights at stake in the waters under dispute, and oil and gas reserves are believed to

‘Called the Senkaku Islands by Japan and the Diaoyu Islands by China, the group of unhabited islets are worthless in themselves, and even the ocean and seabed resources around them could not justify a war’ farious Japanese plot, and so the confrontation began to grow. It has got to the point where Japanese business interests in China have been seriously damaged by boycotts and violent protests, and Japan’s defence budget, after ten years of decline, is to go up a bit this year. (China’s defence budg-

exist underneath them.

The United States, because of its military alliance with the Philippines, is also potentially involved in any conflict in this region.

All this nonsense over fish and petrochemical resources that would probably not yield one-tenth of the wealth that would be expended in

even a small local war. Moreover, the oil and gas resources, however big they may be, will remain unexploited so long as the seabed boundaries are in doubt. So the obvious thing to do is to divide the disputed territory evenly between the interested parties, and exploit the resources jointly.

This is what the Russians and the Norwegians did three years ago, after a decadeslong dispute over the seabed between them in the Barents Sea that led to speculations about a war in the Arctic.

The Japanese and the Chinese could obviously do the same thing: no face lost, and everybody makes a profit.

A similar deal between the countries around the South China Sea would be more complicated to negotiate, but would yield even bigger returns. So why don’t they just do it?

Maybe because there are islands involved. Nobody has ever gone to war over a slice of seabed, but actual islands, sticking up out of the water, fall into the category of “sacred national territory, handed down from our forefathers,” over which large quantities of blood can and must be shed.

China will not just invade the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, because it is not run by a drunken and murderous military dictator (as Argentina was when it invaded the Falklands in 1982). But could everybody stumble into a war over this stupid confrontation? Yes, they could.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

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Showbiz

Beyonce reunites Destiny’s Child at Super Bowl show

Zombie love story Warm Bodies heats up weekend

Group’s first public appearance since 2006

WARM BODIES, a romantic comedy featuring a warmhearted zombie, lured teenage girls to the theatre, collecting $20 million in ticket sales in the US and Canada to take the box office title on a weekend dominated

by Super Bowl parties and football watching.

Playing in more than 3,000 theatres, the odd-pairing of a pale-faced zombie with his breathing girlfriend faced little competition among new films and easily mauled last weekend’s winner Hansel and Gretel, an updated version of the classic fairy tale with witch-hunting siblings.

The film collected $9.2 million this weekend, according to studio estimates.

The weekend’s other widely released newcomer, Warner Brothers’ Bullet to the Head, starring 66-year old Sylvester Stallone as a tattooed hitman, collected $4.5 million for sixth place.

Two weeks earlier, another aging action star, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a feeble opening in his own shootem-up, The Last Stand.

Based on a first time novel

by Seattle writer Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies was produced for a little more than $30 million by Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment, the studio that also produced the mega-blockbuster Twilight series.

By Eric Kelsey SINGER Beyonce strutted and shimmied her way through American football’s Super Bowl half-time show and thrilled fans by reuniting with her former Destiny’s Child band mates on Sunday in New Orleans.

Beyonce, wearing a revealing black leather jacket and miniskirt combination, was surrounded by bursts of fire, smoke and silhouettes as she performed at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

More than 100 million television viewers were tuned in to the NFL championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens.

The singer called out to the crowd several times during her first songs, Love on Top, Crazy in Love, End of Time and Baby Boy, to emphasise that she was singing live.

On Thursday, Beyonce admitted she sang along with a pre-recorded track of the national anthem at President Barack Obama’s inauguration last month.

The lip-synching controversy threatened to derail the pop singer’s crafted comeback after giving birth to her first child with rapper and husband Jay-Z in January 2012. Beyonce will also premiere her self-directed

Beyonce (centre) performed four songs before Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, from her former girl group Destiny’s Child, ascended through trap doors in the stage to sing hits Bootylicious and Independent Woman documentary, Life is But a Dream, on HBO on February 16.

During Sunday’s half-time show, the 31-year-old singer stomped and shook her hips and torso while video of Beyonce dancing was projected alongside her to give the appearance of a choreographed routine.

Beyonce rolled through four songs before Kelly Rowland and Michelle Wil-

liams, from her former girl group Destiny’s Child, ascended through trap doors in the stage to sing hits Bootylicious and Independent Woman.

It was the trio’s first public performance since 2006.

Clad in black leather outfits designed by Rubin Singer, they performed three songs, including Beyonce’s hit Single Ladies.

Last month, the group re-

leased Nuclear, its first song in about a decade.

Beyonce finished with Halo from her 2008 album I Am ...

Sasha Fierce.

Last year’s Super Bowl attracted 111.3 million US viewers, the largest audience for a single TV broadcast in the United States.

Before Sunday’s kickoff, singers Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson performed.

Hudson performed Amer-

ica the Beautiful with the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of December’s mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty children and six adults were killed in the massacre.

Keys, wearing a sleeveless maroon dress, played a stripped-down rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at a silver piano atop a small stage at midfield.

Frank Ocean wants Timberlake slams Britney peace with Chris Brown RISING R&B star Frank Ocean said he will not press charges against singer Chris Brown, who he said had “jumped” him last week in a parking lot fracas.

The encounter between Ocean and Brown still could derail Brown’s efforts to remain in compliance with his probation stemming from his 2009 assault against singer Rihanna, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, a legal expert said.

Earlier in the week, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department said Ocean was “desirous of prosecution in this incident,” which occurred on January 27 outside a recording studio in West Hollywood.

Sheriff ’s deputies had cited witnesses as saying Grammywinner Brown, 23, punched Ocean, 25, in the brief altercation.

But Ocean posted a message on www.frankocean.com saying he wanted to move past the incident.

“I’ll choose sanity,” he wrote. “No criminal charges. No civil lawsuit. Forgiveness, albeit difficult, is wisdom. Peace, albeit trite, is what I want in my short life. Peace.”

Brown and Ocean both are nominated in the best urban contemporary album category at the Grammys Awards, which will be announced February 10 in Los Angeles.

On the day of the parking lot incident Ocean had said on Twitter that he “got jumped by chris and a couple guys.”

He also said he cut his finger and Brown was later photographed with a cast on his right hand.

Brown was placed on probation for five years for the assault on Rihanna. He risks having his probation revoked if charges are filed against him.

Moving on: Justin Timberlake is now happily married to actress Jessica Biel

JUSTIN Timberlake allegedly called Britney Spears a “b***h” on stage over the weekend.

The 32-year-old singer - who married his girlfriend of four years Jessica Biel in Italy in October - reportedly blasted his ex-girlfriend for cheating on him in 2002 before singing his hit Cry Me A River, which was written about her, on stage at pre-Super Bowl bash in New Orleans in aid of a children’s charity.

Before performing the Grammy Award-winning track, Justin told the crowd: “Sometimes in life, you think you found the one. But then one day you find out, that she is just some b***h”, according to HollywoodLife.com.

Justin ended his three-year romance with Britney, 31, after she allegedly cheated on him with her then choreographer Wade Robson and the song is about their high profile break-up.

Justin was later joined on stage by Jay-Z at the concert, which was his first full show in five years.

RAVAGED WORLD The film stars 24-year-old British actor Marcus Brewer as the pale, stiff-walking zombie R, one of the few zombies capable of thought in a plague ravaged world.

“We were above expectations going into the holiday weekend,” says David Spitz, Lionsgate’s executive vice president and general sales manager.

Spitz predicted that the film, which he referred to as a “rom-zom-com” would benefit from the upcoming long weekend in the US that coincides with Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day. Benefiting from the buzz following Oscar nominations for each of its four stars, Silver Linings Playbook was third with $8.1 million as it continued to open in more theatres and is now showing at more than 2,600 locations, according to the movie site Hollywood.com Universal’s Pictures’ lowbudget horror film Mama, starring Jessica Chastain, continued its improbable ticket-selling run, with $6.7 million to rank fourth. It grossed more than $58 million in the two weeks since its release.

Also benefiting from its Oscar buzz, the Osama Bin Laden hunt movie Zero Dark Thirty, had ticket sales of $5.3 million and has now surpassed $77 million domestically, according to the box office division of Hollywood. com. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Chastain’s starring role.

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Environment

Coral reefs are on the threshold of erosion

EU needs more electric, hybrid cars to reach carbon goals

Follows concerns that carbon emission turning oceans acidic

THE European Union needs a leap in the number of electric and hybrid cars on the road over the next decade to succeed in cutting auto carbon emissions significantly by 2025, a British consulting firm found.

The study by RicardoAEA will stoke already difficult debate over how to implement a 2020 vehicle emission standard of 95g of carbon dioxide per kilometre (g/km).

The Commission has said it will publish a document later this year on low carbon car standards beyond 2020.

The consultancy, which advises governments and companies, looked at a set of scenarios for 2025 in the study, commissioned by campaign groups Greenpeace and Transport & Environment.

It found that an average of 70 g/km across the bloc could be achieved by 2025 if new car sales were divided roughly equally between hybrid and conventional cars.

The resulting extra manufacturing costs of around €1,615 for a hybrid car could be paid back in less than three years through fuel savings.

The same goal could be reached if new car sales included seven per cent electric vehicles and then only 22 per cent hybrid cars, the study found.

Environmental campaigners want an ambitious goal of 60 g/km for 2025 to be agreed alongside the implementation debate on reaching the 2020 goal. That would give vehicle manufacturers, who say product cycles are between five and seven years, enough time to adapt and prevent Europe from losing any innovative edge.

A 60 g/km target could be achieved if up to 24 per cent of new vehicles were electric, which is “well within the range of credible market projections and scenarios”, the study said.

Hybrid vehicles - part powered by electricity and part by fossil fuels - in 2010 made up around 1 per cent of the EU fleet and electric cars around 0.1 per cent, according to figures from the International Council for Clean Transport.

By Ryan Hooper MANY Caribbean coral reefs have stopped growing or are on the threshold of starting to erode, “alarming” new British evidence has revealed.

Scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered essential calcium carbonate produced and stored by the reefs is significantly below previous levels, It comes after concerns were raised last year that carbon emissions are acidifying oceans at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, raising the prospect of ecological catastrophe in decades to come.

Coral reefs form some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems and provide valuable services to humans and wildlife. However, their ability to maintain their structures and continue to grow depends on the fine balance between the retention and loss of those carbonates.

DECLINE Scientists have long known that reef ecosystems are in decline and that the amount of live coral on reefs is dwindling. But the paper, published in Nature Communications, is the first evidence that these ecological changes are also impacting on the growth potential of reefs themselves.

Professor Chris Perry, who led the research, said: “Our estimates of current rates of reef growth in the Caribbean are extremely alarming.

“Our study goes beyond only examining how much coral there is, to also look at the delicate balance of biological factors which determine whether coral reefs will continue to grow or will erode.

“Our findings clearly show that recent ecological declines are now suppressing the growth potential of reefs in the region, and that this will have major implications for their ability to respond

The knock-on effects of eroding coral reefs can lead to widespread mass extinction of marine species positively to future sea level rises.

“It is most concerning that many coral reefs across the Caribbean have seemingly lost their capacity to produce enough carbonate to continue growing vertically, whilst others are already at a threshold where they may start to erode.”

The research suggests that if these trends continue, reef erosion looks far more likely.

Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that when seawater becomes too acidic, corals and plankton at the bottom of the food chain cannot survive.

The knock-on effects can lead to widespread mass extinction of marine species, and is believed to have done so in the past.

Scientists discovered that

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PLEDGE TO PROTECT GREAT BARRIER REEF THE Australian government has pledged to stop coal port or shipping developments that would cause damage to the Great Barrier Reef as it responded to a deadline amid UN warnings that the reef’s conservation status could be downgraded.

UNESCO warned last June that the World Heritage Site could be listed as “in danger” if there was no evidence of progress

by February 1 on protecting the reef from threats that also include climate change and the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish, which is wearing away the world’s largest living structure. declines in rates of carbonate production were especially evident in shallow water habitats, where many fast-growing branching coral species have been lost.

The study compared modern day rates with those measured in the region over approximately the last 7,000

“The Great Barrier Reef is an iconic Australian environmental asset, the government is absolutely committed to the protection of the reef and our oceans,” said Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke as he released the country’s report to UNESCO. “We will not cut corners or give an inch on protecting it.”

Heralded as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the 2,000km Great Barrier Reef is home to 400 types of coral, 240 species of birds and 1,500 species of fish.

It is worth A$6 billion a year in tourism to the local economy.

years.

In key habitats around the Caribbean, the findings suggested that in waters of around five metres in depth, reef growth rates are reduced by 60 to 70 per cent compared with the regional averages from historical records. In waters of

around 10 metres in depth, the rates are reduced by 25 per cent.

The research suggests these changes have been driven by human disturbance, disease and rising sea temperatures, and are expected to intensify as a result of future climate change.

Decline in numbers of large World seed banks get funds France shops and offices moths seen across the UK to tackle climate, other threats to turn off lights at night NUMBERS of larger moths across the UK have tumbled over years, with three species becoming extinct in the last decade, a report has revealed.

Two-thirds of larger moth species had declined over four decades, and 37 per cent of moths had seen their numbers fall by at least half, according to records stretching between 1968 and 2007.

Conservationists said moths were declining as a result of changes to habitats, in particular more intensive agriculture, and the effects of cli-

mate change, and warned it signalled a “potentially catastrophic” loss of wildlife.

A report by Butterfly Conservation and Rothamsted Research found that the orange upperwing, bordered gothic and Brighton wainscot moths had all become extinct in the last 10 years.

And once common garden species such as the V-moth, garden tiger and spinach moths had seen numbers fall by more than 90 per cent in the 40-year period and were now at risk of extinction.

SCIENTISTS have agreed on a $109 million plan to strengthen the world’s biggest seed banks of crops such as rice and wheat to help protect and develop new varieties resistant to climate change and other threats.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the CGIAR Consortium of agricultural researchers said a five-year plan would help secure storage of more than 700,000 samples of crops at 11 existing gene banks from the Philippines to Belgium.

“This will drive the creation of a real global system” to help safeguard food crops, Cary Fowler, outgoing head of the Bonn-based Trust, said.

The funds will allow the collections to expand, put more information about genetic makeup of seeds on the internet, and enable duplication of more seeds, partly to ensure that conflicts such as those occurring now in Syria or Mali do not wreck collections.

FRENCH shops and office buildings will have to turn off their lights at night to save energy and reduce light pollution, the French environment ministry has said.

From July 1, all non-residential buildings will have to switch off interior lights one hour after the last worker leaves the premises. All exterior and shop window lighting will have to be turned off by 1am.

Local authorities will be able to allow exceptions

for Christmas lighting and other local events.

The new law will save about two terawatt/hours of electricity a year - the equivalent of the annual consumption of 750,000 households, the ministry said.

Environment Minister Delphine Batho said it would also make France a pioneer in Europe in preventing light pollution, which disrupts ecosystems and people’s sleep patterns.

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Smugg ggling, soccer and Packets of cocaine at the headquarters of the Guardia di Finanza police in Gioia Tauro

Customs police officers use x-ray machines to inspect containers at Gioia Tauro

By Steve Scherer

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he semi-professional squad, controlled by the Pesce crime family for years, according to a clan member who turned state’s witness in 2010, found itself placed under judicial control in 2011 and in need of new sponsors.

Though soccer is virtually a religion in Italy, no new backer came forward - for fear of angering the ‘Ndrangheta, a powerful mafia network in Calabria, the region in the ‘toe’ of Italy. Last July, after a dismal season of 24 losses, five draws and just five wins, the Rosarnese team was dismantled.

The demise of the soccer club, which was a small part of €220 million in assets law officers seized from the Pesce clan, illustrates the growing influence of the ‘Ndrangheta.

The group’s economic clout now surpasses that of its more storied Sicilian cousin, the Cosa Nostra, Italy’s top anti-mafia magistrates say.

“Today the Calabrian mafia is a national and an interna-

tional force. It pollutes the economy and is heavily compromising the political system,” said Pierpaolo Romani, national co-ordinator of an association uniting city governments against the mafia and author of the 2012 book Criminal Soccer about the mob’s interest in the sport.

“With a football team, the ‘Ndrangheta expands both its economic reach and its political standing in a community.”

The ‘Ndrangheta has grown rich thanks to a business strategy focused on cocaine.

Just three miles from Rosarno is the huge container port of Gioia Tauro, where almost half of all the cocaine seized by police in Italy last year was found. The harbour, positioned half-way between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, is a key commercial hub and has become the ‘Ndrangheta’s main artery for South American cocaine and other contraband, which it hides in the flow of legal cargo.

The police have had some victories over the ‘Ndrangheta and other mafia groups.

Pesce, for instance, was convicted for racketeering and mafia conspiracy and is serving a 20-year sentence in a high-security prison. He denies any wrongdoing and is appealing the ruling.

Despite such gains, the sums involved in organised crime in Italy, which will vote in a new parliament this month, remain enormous. Taken together, Italy’s main crime groups - the ‘Ndrangheta, the Cosa Nostra, and the Camorra from the southern city of Naples - would have an annual turnover of €116 billion, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That is more than the annual sales of Italy’s biggest company, oil-giant Eni. In a basement on the outskirts of Rome is a nerve-centre in the fight against smuggling: the anti-fraud unit of the national customs agency.

There a team of 15 analysts including computer experts, a mathematician, a statistician and an electrical engineer - occupies a room with 10 large flat screens showing live maps of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Investigators

When police went after mafia boss Francesco ‘The Fat Head’ Pesce in southern Italy, they ended up with more than they bargained for: his local soccer team, Rosarnese

using sophisticated computer analysis and a vast database try to identify high-risk containers heading for Italy.

In particular, the unit monitors ships travelling to Gioia Tauro and passes its information to finance police in Calabria, who combine that data with intelligence gathered through more traditional investigative methods, such as bugged cars, wiretaps or stakeouts. But the odds of finding smuggled drugs in the giant port are stacked against the police.

At the dock more than 1,000 employees load and unload containers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, closing only on Christmas and New Year’s day. At night, floodlights illuminate the 3.2km quay. Pinpointing a few duffle bags of cocaine - the typical shipping method in recent months - among the non-stop cargo shuffle is like trying to find a grain of black sand on a white beach.

The port authority declined to comment on drug smuggling. But investigators say

Bird’s eye view: Gioia Tauro container port

the duffle bags packed with super-pure cocaine weigh about 40-45 kilos each and are light enough to be lifted by one man. They can be tossed into a container in a Central or South American port and removed quickly at Gioia Tauro before customs officials have a chance to intercept them. The containers are easily resealed to leave no trace.

“The containers are Trojan horses,” said Claudio Petrozziello, commander of the province’s finance police, as

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Francesco ‘The Fat Head’ Pesce being arrested

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container carriers whizzed around the dock behind him.

Each duffle bag of cocaine is worth as much as €2.25 million wholesale, and about €9 million on the street. Mostly - the Interior Ministry estimates 90 per cent of the time - the criminal clan’s bag-man, and not the police, gets to the contraband first.

Nevertheless, finance police and customs authorities are having increasing success.

In June 2012, finance police found 17 black Jansport bags containing foil-wrapped

and vacuum-sealed bricks of South American cocaine. The haul was worth more than €38 million wholesale, and at least four times as much on the street. The police are still hunting the smugglers.

In total, the police seized in excess of two tons of cocaine at the port last year, more than double the amount of 2011, according to finance police data.

Daniele Testi, a spokesman for Contship, the container terminal logistics firm at the port, said: “What is happen-

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Brave: Elisabetta Tripodi, the mayor of Rosarno. Below: a child watches Rosarno’s new soccer team in action

Each duffle bag of cocaine is worth as much as ¤2.25 million wholesale, and about ¤9 million on the street ing in Gioia Tauro is what is happening in all the world’s largest ports. Contship continues to believe that the police must do all they can to fight crime. What we are trying to do is make sure that the business runs smoothly, is successful, and continues to provide jobs.”

The police have made inroads in other areas. In 2008 they planted a bug in a Rosarno laundromat and recorded a conversation between Domenico Oppedisano, a crime boss, and another mafia suspect. Oppedisano said there were 250 mobsters in the town of fewer than 15,000 peo-

Gioia Tauro is the largest port in Italy

ple, according to a transcript of the conversation seen by Reuters.

Oppedisano, 82, was later arrested for being the boss of bosses of the ‘Ndrangheta’s estimated 150 clans and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for mafia membership - a crime in Italy.

He denies wrongdoing and is appealing his conviction.

In an attempt to loosen the grip of the Calabrian mob, authorities in Rome dissolved Rosarno’s city council in 2008 because it had been infiltrated by the ‘Ndrangheta. When new mayoral elections were held two years later, Elisabetta Tripodi, who had previously worked as a secretary in city hall, won.

Explaining why she took on such a challenge, Tripodi said: “I did not want Rosarno to be known as a town of racists and mobsters”. As well as being blighted by the mafia, the town’s image had also been tarnished by violent clashes between African migrant workers and locals in January 2010.

Since then, Tripodi has taken an unprecedented stand against the ‘Ndrangheta, going so far as to sue ‘Fat Head’ Pesce, 35, in civil court for damages in the case involving the soccer team and other local businesses. The court awarded the city a €50 million settlement, which is to

be paid from a state fund of confiscated mafia cash.

In retaliation, the ‘Ndrangheta vandalised city property, and Tripodi received a threatening letter.

“These threats convinced us that we were heading down the right path, because it meant that what we were doing was bothersome,” Tripodi said.

She now lives under 24-hour police protection, and when she is in her office in the town hall, she closes a steel door behind her.

“I’ve had bodyguards with me at all times for 14 months.

Everything in my life has changed,” she said, adding that her two sons, 12 and 16 years old, hope that she serves only one term.

Tripodi gets help from antimafia magistrates such as Alessandra Cerreti, who confiscated the soccer team from the Pesce clan, and from the local finance police; but her bravery and altruism stand out.

“The ‘Ndrangheta is an invasive presence in all segments of Calabria’s social and political life,” said Cerreti, who lives in the regional capital Reggio Calabria under 24-hour protection by armed bodyguards.

“There is an army of professionals, businessmen, and even sometimes magistrates and members of law enforcement, who put themselves at

the service of the ‘Ndrangheta out of personal interest.”

Combating those interests is an uphill battle, though Rosarno keeps trying. The failure to find new sponsors for the local soccer club hurt.

The mafia regularly tries to blunt police victories, and often succeeds.

“It is in the ‘Ndrangheta’s interest to demonstrate that a seized asset wastes away in the hands of the state,” said Cerreti. “We put into place a series of initiatives to keep it from happening, but the difficulty is that the ‘Ndrangheta invests rivers of cash in the asset or company, while the state does not have the same resources.”

Nevertheless, on the outskirts of town, the Pope John Paul II stadium now hosts a new amateur soccer team and is an after-school haven for young boys.

“For these kids in Rosarno, soccer is everything,” said Agostino Orlando, sports director of the new club, as his young son clung to his leg.

As he spoke, players in yellow jerseys and black shorts began arriving for a game against a nearby rival. “We’re a new team. We’ve been reborn,” said Orlando.

But the glowing lights of the port in the distance are a reminder that Rosarno, like Italy, still has a long fight ahead.

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films

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Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you head out

Telephone no: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 Rio Limassol: 25871410 Rio Paphos: 26-207000

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at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.15pm and 3.30pm

25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm

871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm

Flight (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm

Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7pm

Gambit (N/A) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 3.30 and 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

House at the End of the Street (15) Rio 6 at 10.25pm

Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.45pm, weekends also at 2.20 and 4pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Life of Pi (K) Rio 5 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3pm

Gambit (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.05pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.05pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek)

Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.15pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55pm Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Sister (mostly in French, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight and Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society.

Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Flight (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.40 and 10.10pm. Tel:

This is 40 (18) Rio 3 at 7.35pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm; Rio 3 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 7pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 2 at 10.30pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 10.05pm. Tel: 25-

An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55pm

Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 5.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm

LARNACA Flight (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Gambit (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.05pm Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 7.55 and 10.15pm Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.10pm, weekends only at 3.20pm Vincere (in Italian, with Greek subtitles) Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society.

Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

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This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.15pm

Gambit (N/A) Rio 7 at 7.45 and 9.45pm

Flight (N/A) Rio 1 at 7.30 and 10pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm This is 40 (18) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 6 at 7.30pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 6 at 10.30pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4pm Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm An… (12) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 10.30pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 3 at 5, 7.30 and 10pm The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), weekdays only at 5.40pm, weekends only at 3pm Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 5 (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

listings Today Exhibition Descendance Group art exhibition. Opens February 5, 7.30pm until March 2. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. Monday- Friday: 10.30am1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-766655

Theatre Spring Awakening THOC presents work by Frank Wedekind, about sexual and spiritual awakening of teenagers. February 5.

Markidio Theatre, Paphos. 8.30pm.

With Greek and English surtitles. €12/6. Tel: 26-932571 Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy. February 5. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959

Tomorrow Music The Zilla Project Four-piece band playing blues/rock and electrifying sounds. February 6.

Blue Bar, Classic Hotel, 94 Rigenis Str, Nicosia. 9.30pm. Tel: 22-664006

Theatre Antigone THOC presents Sophoclean tragedy directed by Despina Gatziou. February 6 until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300 The Elephant Man Theatro Ena presents a play by Bernard Pomerance, translated and directed by Andreas Christodoulides.

February 6-8. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena)..8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

Ongoing Other Events Screenings at the Shoe Factory An extraordinary selection of rare eclectic films. Until March 29.

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str, Nicosia. 8pm. Free. Films shown in original language with English subtitles where applicable. For more information: www.pharosartsfoundation.org

Theatre The Whore from Ohio The central stage of ETHAL presents black comedy by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, directed by Panagiotis Larkou. Until February 5. Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Limassol. Every Tuesday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek Tel: 25-877827 Spring Awakening THOC presents work by Frank Wedekind, about sexual and spiritual awakening of teenagers. Until February 9. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. On specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. The performances on February 8 & 9 will be with Greek and English surtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 Kali-Kantzar & Co A musical directed by Lea Maleni with music by Dimitris Zavros. Until February 10. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 6pm. In Greek. The performances on February 9 and 10 will be with Greek and English surtitles. Tel: 22-864300 The Glass Menagerie The new theatre group Krama presents play by Tennessee Williams. Until February 11. THOC New Stage, Kampou 29, Strovolos, Nicosia. Every Sunday and Monday at 8.30pm. €10/8. In Greek. Tel: 22-480300

Misery Stephen King’s psychological thriller staged by Satiriko Theatre. Every Friday and Saturday. Until February 13. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Wednesday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Nursing Home the Cherubim Theatre Anemona celebrates its tenth anniversary with comedy by Nearchos Ioannou. Until March 17.

Anemona Theater, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031 God of Carnage Dionysos Theater presents multiaward winning comedy by Yasmina Reza directed by George Mouaimis.

Until March 17. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 99-621845 The Switch Theatro Ena presents play by Argiro Toumazou. Until March 28. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia.

Every Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents a theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street,

Nicosia. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Exhibition A Century of Struggle: for Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy Photographic exhibition. Until February 6. Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia.

10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-445332 ...For Another Space and Another Time...

Solo art exhibition by Athina Antoniadou. Until February 9. During the exhibition there will be a series of lecturers and presentations. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009. www.argogallery.org Paraskeva Pappagelli Solo sculpture exhibition. Until February 15. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm.

Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Mindscapes Solo painting exhibition by Thekla Papadopoulou. Until February 28. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Impressions Solo photo exhibition by Sergey Yastrzhembskiy. Until February 28.

For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail

The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-88-90 Phaneromenis Street, Nicosia. Visiting hours: MondaySunday: 10am-7pm. (except on bank holidays). Tel: 22-128157 Social Contract Solo painting exhibition by Avraam Christou. Until February 28. Alpha Gallery, Makarios Avenue & 3 Papanikoli Street, Nicosia. MondaySaturday 10.30 am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm. Tel: 22-751325 / 99-303366. www.art.com.cy Da Vinci Machines – An exhibition of Genius Exhibition displaying more than 60 interactive machines from Da Vinci original drawings, 15 high quality reproduction artworks, giant art panels and rare copies of Leonardo codices. Until February 28. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Vasilissis Street, (Medieval Castle Area), Limassol.

Tel: 25-342123. www.davincimachinescyprus.com Lush Art in Austere Times Fifth edition of group exhibition featuring works at affordable prices.

Until March 1. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Antreas Moyseos Solo photography exhibition. Until March 1. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030

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On The Scene

Flute & piano hog the spotlight

Exhibition Viva la revolucion!

Yesterday marked 21 years since the civil-military rebellion took place in Venezuela under the leadership of the current President Hugo Chavez and a group of patriotic military officers.

To celebrate this turning point in Venezuela’s history, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Nicosia is currently hosting a photo exhibition entitled A Century of Struggle for Bolivarian Democracy at the Melina Merkouri Hall, which will run until tomorrow.

The coup failed but thrust Chavez into the political spotlight for his criticism of the government as “subordinate” to the United States. He has emerged as an iconic figure in the anti-imperialist and social justice movements. More than just a symbol, of course, his contribution and the development of the social revolution in Venezuela deserve close study and examination.

His coup in 1992 came at a time when there was much dissatisfaction with the Venezuelan government, mired by deadly riots over economic reform and broken campaign promises that reinforced the image of a corrupt government serving only the country’s elite.

Though he failed in his coup that year, his speech propelled the young soldier into the nation’s psyche. It both led him to prison for organising the coup and, six years later, to Venezuela’s presidential palace. He won the presidency

through free and fair elections, and has remained in office since.

Chavez’s polemical new policies have affected virtually all aspects of Venezuelan life and are founded on his interpretations of the revered South American “Liberator”, Simón Bolívar. By drawing upon the legacy of Bolívar, Chavez has been successful in exciting the masses and adding a sense of legitimacy to his “revolutionary” movement.

The exhibition will hope to enlighten local crowds to understanding the history of Venezuela. Though a selection of black and white, as well as coloured pictures one can discover and examine the profound causes of Venezuela’s social and political upheaval.

A Century of Struggle: for Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy Photographic exhibition. Until February 6. Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia. 10am1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-445332

This Week Dance Wet n’ wild!

Dancer and choreographer Petros Konnaris will be getting very wet this week in a dance performance that is set to be light-hearted, yet provocative and might even go so far as to leave some audience members feeling a little embarrassed.

Konnaris will present his solo performance over two nights on Thursday and

Classical music-lovers become so accustomed to the usual suspects in the guest soloist spotlight - often from the violinist, pianist and cellist corners of the instrumental family - it can be especially refreshing to hear a different sound take centre stage.

And this Friday, local audiences will get just that when the Pharos Arts Foundation, in coordination with the Australian High Commission come together to present a concert at the Shoe Factory with the flute in the soloist role. Making her Cyprus debut Anna de la Vega will be accompanied by Irina Botan on the piano in a heavily French influenced programme.

The flute, as we know it, has quite humble roots and is the musical foundation for many cultures. As one of the oldest musical instruments of all it is regarded as the first ever wind instrument. Today, flutes produce tones ranging from rich and dark in the lower register, to a clear bird-like quality in the upper register, to breathy, soulful jazz, or rhythmic beat-boxing and extended techniques - the flute is a versatile instrument.

Flutist, De la Vega is enjoying a fast rising international career. With a string of international engagements, principal positions in orchestras across Europe, and a vering talent for discovering lost works, the Australian citing and flautist is an exciting intriguing voice on the classical music scene. overy Her recent discovery erto by of a flute concerto poser, Josef the Czech composer, lose friend and Myslivecek, a close art, made mentor of Mozart, ss the UK. headlines across rformHer Premier performncerto, ance of the concerto, h Chamwith the English ber Orchestra at the n Cadogan Hall in London, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, made ‘Critics’ on’s Choice in London’s ine, and Time0ut magazine, n the BBC was reviewed in e and Gig Music Magazine Magazine.

Friday, in a performance that revolves around the theme of water and specifically playing in water. The idea is that water is used as a game that takes the body down memory lane. A game which allows the body to wallow, bask, enjoy, try, experiment, play, while getting wet.

It’s important to note that the performance contains nudity and entrance is not allowed to people under 17 years old without any adult supervision.

Konnaris graduated from the Dance Department of the University of Nicosia with first class honours and holds a degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Cyprus.

Most recently he participated in the

Romanian pianist Botan began her studies at the Dinu Lipatti music school in Bucharest.. In ded 1996 Irina was awarded a full scholarship to study hin at the Yehudi Menuhin h School. In 2000 she was the recipient of a full scholarship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed her Bachelor and Masters degrees.

De la Vega, together with her piano partner, have just founded the London International Players and will have their inaugural concert on March 27 in London. It is an ensemble born largely of the Menuhin School and IMS Prussia Cove and comprises soloists and chamber musicians from many corners of the world.

Together this duo will present a programme of timbral and stylistic variety, offering listeners a chance to become immersed in the distinctive sounds of French flute music of the early 20th century (including a Polish, German and Australian addition). All of four French composers lived and worked in Paris for a significant portion of their careers and most were associated at some point with the Paris Conservatory - W Widor and Fauré taught there, Fauré also th post of director from 1905 to 1920. held the Also included in the programme is piece by co contemporary Australian composer Nigel E Edwards.

W What makes the music of the French c composers connected is not only a common heritage, but a shared understanding of the special lyrical and pastoral q qualities of the flute sound, together with its capacity for silvery virtuosity and whim.

Flute & Piano Recital The Pharos Arts Foundation presents a recital with one of Australia’s most talented young flautists, Ana de la Vega, who will be joined by Romanian pia pianist Irina Botan. February 8. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €20/15. Tel. 22-6 22-663871/ 70-00-9304. info@pharosartsfoundation.org. www.pharosartsAbove: Romafoundation.org nian pianist Irina Botan and left Australian flautist Ana de la Vega

By Ledha Socratous

DanceWeb Scholarship programme 2012, part of the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna, Austria. He has also performed with the likes of .pelma.lia.haraki, Selas Dance Company, Asomates Dinameis, Omada Pente and more.

His two debuts in 2006 received first prize in the Cypriot Dance Competition. In addition, he also featured in the short film The Escape of the Queen.

Wet A solo performance choreographed & performed

by Petros Konnaris. February 7-8. Casteliotissa Hall, Agiou Marona, Paphos Gate, old Nicosia.

8.30pm. €5. The performance contains nudity.

Entrance is not allowed to people under 17 without adult supervision. Tel: 99-439088

For a full listing of the day’s events see facing page

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Early monrning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

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Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

Cookery show.

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Apo Mera Se Mera

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Entehnos

Current affairs show.

Local cultural show.

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Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

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Ego Ki Esi (rpt) Local comedy series.

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NRG Zone FILM: The Ring

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Presidential Elections 2013 News Repeats 23.45

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Eleftheros Ki Oraios (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

Desperate Housewives

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Seventh season.

‘Flashback’. Susan’s dialysis troubles appear to have come to an end when an old schoolfriend offers her a kidney. However, the organ comes at a price. Meanwhile, a strung-out Zach admits to Mike that he shot Paul, Gabrielle confronts her past in therapy, and Lynette is forced to spend time with her mother’s new husband.

New season of local period drama, based on true events.

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Horror remake, with Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson.

2002. See Pick Of The Day.

Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Kati Psinetai (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Doctor Who (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Cold Blood’. Part two of two.

It is the most important day in Earth’s history, but as humanity faces either the dawn of a new age or the start of its final war, the Doctor cannot interfere - and not taking sides promises to be the Time Lord’s most difficult challenge yet.

Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

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Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Presidential Elections 2013 News Sports News Radio Arvila

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Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

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Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Greek drama series.

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Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Master Chef (rpt) Reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

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Greek Series TBA News Klemmena Oneira Greek drama series.

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Enoha Mystika Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt)

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News Fae To Sokolata Sou Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

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Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Protoselido Eleni

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Morning talk-show, with popular presenter Eleni Menegaki.

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Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To’ Xeres Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites

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News Aspra Balonia FILM: Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery Spenser and his friend Chollo probe the case of a new bride who has been kidnapped by an obsessed admirer.

Mystery drama, starring Joe Mantegna and Marcia Gay Harden.

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News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Althinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

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Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

Local drama series.

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Greek game show testing contestants on their music general knowledge.

Popular Greek satirical show.

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CAPITAL 06.45 08.20 08.50 09.25 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.15 15.20 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

A former CIA agent tries desperately to trace his wife after she goes missing in Paris - and discovers a KGB spy is responsible.

Espionage thriller, with Gene Hackman. 1985.

Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

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Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Presidential Elections 2013 Eleventh Hour (rpt) First and only season.

‘H2O’. Dr Hood travels to a town in Texas where the usually calm inhabitants have begun exhibiting violent behaviour - only to find himself affected by the same affliction.

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Capital Sports Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models S’ Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue News Sports News Igeia & Zoi FILM: Target

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FILM: Nothing To Lose An executive learns his wife is having an affair with his boss and plots revenge with the help of a thief who tried to carjack him. Comedy, starring Martin Lawrence. 1997.

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FILM: Ghetto During World War II, Jews in Lithuania open a theatre to entertain the Nazi occupiers.

War drama, starring Heino Ferch 2006.

Tower Heist (Novacinema1, 22.00)

01:25 The Weakest Link 02:15 As Time Goes By 02:45 EastEnders 03:15 Doctors 03:45 Zen 05:15 Ideal 05:45 As Time Goes By 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Charlie and Lola 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 The Roly Mo Show 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Charlie and Lola 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 The Roly Mo Show 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 Dinnerladies 10:00 As Time Goes By 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Upstairs Downstairs 13:10 Fawlty Towers 13:40 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 14:25 Dinnerladies 14:55 As Time Goes By 15:25 The Weakest Link 16:10 EastEnders 16:40 Doctors 17:10 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 18:00 Dinnerladies 18:30 The Weakest Link 19:15 EastEnders 19:45 Doctors 20:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 21:00 Fawlty Towers 21:30 Come Fly With Me 22:00 Carrie’s War 23:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 00:00 Twenty Twelve 00:30 Freefall

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s

Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Overhaulin’ 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Mythbusters 22:00 You Have Been Warned 23:00 How We Invented The World 00:00 Curiosity 01:55 Mythbusters 02:50 You Have Been Warned 03:50 How We Invented The World 04:50 Curiosity 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Football: Eurogoals 10:00

Ski Jumping: World Cup Czech Republic 10:30 All Sports: Watts 11:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 11:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 13:15 Cycling: Tour Of Qatar 15:00 Snooker: German Masters Berlin 16:15 Luge: World Cup African 17:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup Czech Republic 18:00 Cycling: Tour Of Qatar 19:00 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 20:00 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Czech Republic 21:00 Dutch Open 22:00 Boxing: Ibf Title Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 00:15 Rally European Rally Championship: Inside Erc 00:45 Cycling: Tour Of Qatar 01:45 Cross Country Skiing: World Cup Russia

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Who Do You Think You Are 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Raising Hope 12:25 New Girl 12:50 Glee 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Raising Hope 21:25 New Girl 21:50 Glee 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Raising Hope 23:55 New Girl 00:20 Glee 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Cougar Town 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Masterchef

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Majestic, The 10:45 Brideshead Revisited 13:00 Going The Distance 14:45 Five Days One Summer 16:30 Winning Season, The 18:15 Things That Hang From Trees 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 My Afternoons With Margueritte 22:30 Action Zone 23:00 Witches Of Eastwick,

The Long Green Cloud 22:35 C.S.I. New York 23:20 Strike Back 00:10 Expendables, The (2010) 02:00 Takers 03:45 Friends 04:10 Two And A Half Men 05:00 Closer, The 05:45 Harry’s Law 06:30 Supernatural

The 01:00 Hustler Tv 03:35 Secret Life 05:00 Bleeding, The 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Nba Action 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 Planet Speed 21:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 02:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships 04:00 Winter X-Games Europe 05:00 Barclays

Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Chuck 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Bones 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 2 Broke Girls 11:20 Necessary Roughness 13:00 Supernatural 13:45 Chuck 14:30 Bones 16:05 Friends 16:35 Two And A Half Men 17:25 Closer, The 18:10 Harry’s Law 19:00 Supernatural 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 Big Bang Theory The 21:00 Mentalist The 21:45 Underbelly Nz: Land Of

07:45 Operation: Daybreak 10:00 Beautiful (2009) 12:00 The Fighter 14:00 The King’s Speech 16:00 The Marseille Contract 18:00 Dragonslayer 20:00 50/50 22:00 My Soul To Take 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 An Officer And A Gentleman 06:15 Cleopatra Jones

06:40 Cine News 07:10 Strange Crime 09:00 The Cake Eaters 10:30 Films And Stars 11:00 A Little Bit Of Heaven 12:50 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 14:25 Hollywood 1on1 15:00 tHE Portrait Of A Lady 17:30 The Tempest 19:25 La Chance De Ma Vie 21:00 C.S.I. 22:00 Tower Heist 23:55 The Double 01:35 Cine News 02:05 Xxx 04:10 Le Divorce

06:10 Retreat 07:45 Johnny English Reborn 09:30 Cine News 10:20 Thor 12:20 Puss In Boots 13:55 Nisos 2: To Kinigi Tou Xamenou Thisavrou 15:50 Green Card 17:40 Hollywood Buzz 18:15 The Story

Of Us 19:55 The Color Of Money 23:50 The Skin I Live In 01:50 Bad Teacher 03:25 Black Swan

Pinks All Out Denver 22:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Colorado Avalanche

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06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV When I was 17 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 106:00 MTV Pranked 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 108:00 Only Hits 109:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Wake Brothers 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 23:00 MTV The Inbetweeners 23:30 MTV Beavis & Butthead 0:00 MTV Jersey Shore 1:00 Only Hits 5:00 Pure Local

New Protocol 21:00 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 22:50 Cine News 23:00 How I Met Your Mother 00:20 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

19:00 Footloose 21:00 Bounce 22:55 Welcome To The Sticks 00:50 Hud

01:00 Golf Central International 02:00 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Colorado At Utah 04:00 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Colorado Avalanche 06:30 Sea Master 07:00 Feherty - Don Cheadle 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30

Top 10 – Pebble Beach Moments 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 Vans Downtown Showdown 10:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Colorado Avalanche 13:00 Drag Ace High 13:30 My Ide Ules 14:00 Pinks All Out Denver 15:00 Sea Master 15:30 Kiteboard World Cup 16:00 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Illinois At Michigan 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Aep Vs Alkh 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 21:45

07:00 Yolanda And The Thief 08:45 The Golden Arrow 09:55 The Adventures of Robin Hood11:35 Silk Stockings 13:30 Dodge City 15:15 Telefon 16:55 Key Largo 18:35 Ben-Hur 22:00 Straight Time 00:20 Old Acquaintance 02:10 The Formula04:05 The Man Who Came to Dinner05:55 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Quentin Tarantino 06:25 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Joan Allen

By Preston Wilder

50/50 (LTV3, 20.00) We’ve all heard the phrase ‘serious as cancer’ - but having cancer can be fun as well, at least according to the trailer for this well-reviewed comedy-drama!

Boyish-looking Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a young man diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. “Who found it?” asks his goofy best friend (Seth Rogen). “My cleaning lady found it in the back of my jeans. Who do you think found it?” he replies sarcastically, refusing to let a little thing like cancer ruin his sense of humour.

Seth insists that 50/50 odds aren’t so bad - “If you were a casino game, you’d have the best odds!” - and also claims that having cancer can be a chick-magnet, though obviously not if you just go up to a girl and say

“I have cancer”. All this stuff is in the trailer, which is so upbeat it seems weirdly tasteless; I assume the film finds a better balance between humour and heartbreak (probably about 50/50), but I’ve never actually seen it because ... well, who wants to see a film about a boyish young man who gets cancer? Made in 2011.

The Ring (CyBC2, 21.00) There’s a traumatised generation floating around maybe you’ve seen them in coffee shops, sitting in corners and looking round furtively - folks who saw The Ring at a tender age and never quite got over it.

Some of them managed to dispel the horror of Samara - “Seven days!” - by watching the rash of similar

The Ring

films that followed (Dark Water, Shutter, The Grudge), but The Ring remains special, especially if you never saw the Japanese original (Ringu) which it remakes quite faithfully. Naomi Watts is our heroine, a reporter investigating the urban legend - or is it? - of a videotape that kills people: you watch the tape, then mysteriously die seven days later. Naomi finds out more, indeed she has to (having unwisely watched the tape herself), and what she finds is still creepy even now, when videotapes have gone the way of the horse and carriage. Samara - “Seven days!” - is a child of TV, and TV is a character in its own right, hence the scene where Naomi looks out from her balcony at a block of flats full of idiot-boxes. Seven days! Made in 2002.

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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.

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Stateside; 8 Shoe; 9 Posthaste; 10 Trod; 13 Hosea; 15 Tea-bag; 16 Drachm; 17 Tirade; 19 Impend; 20 Yalta; 21 Tale; 24 Stillness; 25 Ring; 26 Price list. Down – 2 Thou; 3 Ta-ta; 4 Sea-dog; 5 Dotted; 6 Character; 7 Ready-made; 11 Statutory; 12 & 13 Laurel and Hardy; 14 Aroma; 18 Easter; 19 Italic; 22 Anil; 23 Isis.

QUICK: Across – 1 Crosswise; 8 Wren; 9 Alongside; 10 Spit; 13 Aorta; 15 Nudism; 16 Eleven; 17 Verger; 19 Funnel; 20 Rabid; 21 Same; 24 Education; 25 Line; 26 Implement. Down – 2 Rule; 3 Sink; 4 Wisdom; 5 Sedate; 6 Grapevine; 7 Instantly; 11 Knavishly; 12 Adornment; 13 Aster; 14 Aloud; 18 Random; 19 Fiscal; 22 Stem; 23 Down.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

As Mercury moves into your spiritual zone today, you may become more connected to your intuition and your instincts. Rather than making more logical decisions, you may be more inclined to go with your gut, which could actually save you time and trouble. However, you’re also in the mood to explore fresh options. Expect the unexpected!

It’s a fairly positive time today, with the Moon celebrating in your romance zone. If you feel like a great night out, go for it, as someone special may turn up to keep you company.

Because you’re in a progressive mode, and also because there’s a slight chance of a windfall, you may want to buy a lottery ticket and see if lady luck is on your side.

The Moon in your sign can bring extra good luck today, so make the most of it by asking for those things that you might normally be a bit nervous to go after. It’s possible that you could be pleasantly surprised at your progress.

Focus on your home zone increases today as Mercury moves in. Planning changes? This is the time to set them in motion.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Your social life continues to be upbeat and buoyant. Social trends seem to come alive for you at this time. Be sure to get involved if an interesting opportunity turns up. Financially, you may be in the mood to take a risk, and may decide to put that special purchase on your credit card - no matter what. You’ll have earned a break for tonight.

As Mercury moves into Pisces and your relationship zone, you may find it easier to put your feelings into words. This applies to romantic partnerships as well as business connections. It might also be easier to set an agenda for the future. Decide what you want to achieve, and make a plan.

Stick with it and you could work a trick or two.

Today, you may be doing a rapid U-turn regarding a plan you have on your agenda. It may seem that nothing goes the way you had envisioned it. Try not to get frustrated, instead go with things. You may find that what does happen could be infinitely better. If you want to get anything done involving finances or property, this is your chance to do it.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Things may be changing career wise - in a positive way.

As Mercury moves into Pisces today, it means you may intuitively know what to do to take your career to the next stage. If you get a hunch to go anywhere or do anything, follow it through. If you and your beau haven’t been on a date night for some time, think about one this evening.

You may be in a chatty mood, and keen to explore options that lead to adventure and perhaps a challenge. You may be looking for something different that engages you in an entirely new way. At the same time, someone you meet may put an idea in your head which encourages you to move in a brand new direction just for the sheer fun of it.

A fortunate trend provides plenty of freedom of action and the opportunity to say what is on your mind. When you share your feelings today it should have a very positive effect. Personal finances, as well as spending and earning are also emphasized. It’s possible that you could come up with some very creative ideas for earning extra cash.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

The Moon in Sagittarius may have you thinking more carefully about your current diet or exercise routine. As you are your own best resource, it makes sense to make sure that you’re as fit and healthy as possible. If taking on a personal trainer might make a difference - go for it. When you feel good in yourself, success may be more likely to follow.

Your options for romance seem to be getting better and better by the day. Mercury travels into Pisces, which means that the right conversations along with the right actions may help you to win over your latest love interest.

Today’s Moon might also put you in the mood to splash out. A new piece of exercise equipment could be your latest toy.

You have some great entertainment opportunities coming up - which includes today. If you love inviting people over for a meal cooked by yourself, which is bound to be amazing, then start preparing. The focus may be on spending money to add those special extra touches to your home, giving it warmth and cosiness, something you and your family might enjoy.

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MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** FOR SALE white wedding dress with veil, modern line, designed by famous Cypriot fashion designer. For information call Joanna 99597797 ***************************** WE WOULD LIKE to inform all who are interested that our company. C. Malathouras & Son Ltd., company registration number 39136, from Larnaca is intending to submit an application to the Licensing Authority for a grant for a transport “B” licence for a lorry vehicle of “Refrigerator with Lift” type, with Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) 7500KG, to serve our company in the exporting of fruit and vegetables. The vechicle will be used to transport perishables from 10, Pindou Street in Larnaca to Larnaca Airport. The transport will be done without extra charges. Whatever objections may exist must be submitted in writing within 20 days of the publishing of this notice with sufficient reason to the District Office of the Road Transport Department. ***************************** ARE YOU INTERESTED in gaining new skills to have a better relationship with your 3-6 yearold child? Do you want your child to behave better? The University of Cyprus, in collaboration with a visiting expert in childhood behaviour problems, is seeking an English-speaking family to participate in a weekly training seminar for graduate students. The one-hour training will be held in Nicosia every Tuesday or Thursday between February and May. It will be provided at no cost to you. Interested families can email PreschoolParenting@gmail.com or call 96887996. All communication will be kept confidential. **************************** STAGE ONE THEATRE, Paphos AUDITIONS at 7pm on 4 & 5 February for the comedy PARTY PIECE. Director: Carol Harvey. Performances: 7-11 May. Three couples M/F & a mother.

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Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385 homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work.

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LESSONS PERSONAL ***************************** PRIVATE TUITION Experienced, UK-qualified teacher offers fulltime or part-time private home tuition in Maths, English, the Sciences, I.C.T., Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. 9 years experience in Cyprus; references available. Telephone 99318796 *****************************

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For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** CHIMNEY SWEEP, when did you last have your chimney swept or log burner cleaned? Build-up of soot can cause respiratory problems and fires. All areas, call Dave, a professional sweep, now on 99819137. Also available for weddings. www.paphosluckychimneysweep.com ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com ***************************** UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN Cleaning Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ - Fabric Suites from 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€.

Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed.

Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas ***************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 All areas ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday

***************************** GERMAN MAN, 50 years, searching for a nice women. Mobil: 00491736590562 ***************************** MALE BIKER (mid 40s) moving from Lyme Regis Dorset to Limassol during February, wishes to find female companion.

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PETS ****************************** LOST DOG Desperately looking for our DOG – lost in Fasoula Area His name is BUDDY - German-Shephard / Labrador mix. Reward €500.00. Please call Angelos 99 656279 or 25 816060 ***************************** TAG 87, a very handsome young male wirehaired pointer cross around 1,5 years old. Friendly, attentive and athletic. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes !

To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. ***************************** TAG 144, a gorgeous female spaniel. Only around 1.5-2 years old.

Very friendly and playful. Very good with other dogs and children. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 Mon-Frid 10-2pm. ***************************** TAG 174, a young female (probably a hound x lab cross) only around a year old. Friendly, loving and playful. This is a medium sized but heavy-built, strong dog best suited to families with older children. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. ******************************

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nanny, cleaning, ironing, cooking, all household chores. Not live in, Limassol district only. Tel 96617183 ****************************** CHEF WITH A MINIMUM OF 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. Must have a good knowledge of Cypriot cuisine and the ability to create daily specials from fresh, seasonal produce. Must be a team player.

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FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ****************************** PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% - 45% - 3 stories). Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc. Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554 *****************************

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES ****************************** 2004 PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO, tiptronic, seats & carpets etc like new due to one owner, no children, 108000km, metallic gold color. New tyres. Price: 27 000.00. Got to be seen to be appreciated.Call 99494450 ****************************** NISSAN JUKE for sale. Owner emigrating, 1 year old, metallic grey,7 yr guarantee from Nissan.

Automatic,15.000km. €14.800 ono Contact: Maria 99 371874 or 99 461625 – Paphos Area ****************************** FOR SALE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER/PRADO white 1998, exceptional condition inside and out. Many extras. Any inspection welcome. €8850 ono. Tel: 99680747 ****************************** BLACK HONDA CBR1100XX SUPERBLACKBIRD registered new in June 2011 as new condition with 12000 km. Any inspection welcome. €8950. Call Philip 99680747 ******************************

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***************************** ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building. Excellent condition, very spacious, furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi. Close to The European University, supermarkets and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €485/m Please call 99695382 ****************************** FOR RENT 2 bedroom apartment of real luxury at Dasoupois, situated near Alfa Mega supermarket and the Areteion Hospital.

All appliances, also c/h, a/c, sw/ heater. Water booster, Sat TV, parking, store room and more.

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classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 22 Employment Miscellaneous 22 Pets 22 Lessons 22 Health & Fitness 22 Personal 22 Services 22 For Sale Miscellaneous -For Sale Land/ Property Business 22 For Sale Motor vehicles 22 Wanted -To Let Nicosia 22 To Let Limassol 25 To Let Larnaca 25 To Let Paphos 25 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -For Sale Nicosia -For Sale Limassol -For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 27 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 27 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads --

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Please note tel nos. that begin with: 22 = Nicosia 23 = Paralimni/Protaras 24 = Larnaca 25 = Limassol 26 = Paphos

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****************************** MAKEDONITISSA, 12 Ay Paraskevis, Engomi with panoramic view. 3 bedroom upper house & ground floor house with garden,2 bathroom , 2 toilets , fully a/c and a/h,new w/m,d/w,hob,oven,fridge freezer, fully fitted kitchen, fully furnished ,storage, parking.

Rent €750 pm. Tel 99660115 or 99688655. Email victorkaris@cytanet.com.cy ****************************** LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT a luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in a area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let. It has been recently renovated and consists of 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda. Approximate covered area 250 sq m. Tel: 99622370. ******************************

Covered parking. Central heating. Near Hilton hotel off Makarios Avenue. €480pm. Tel 99444336 ****************************** STROVOLOS 4 bdrm., house, c/h, a/c from €1000 now €800, Mak/ ssa f/f house, pool, 4 bdrm., 4wc, 2 shower €1700, Kornos villa, pool, mature garden €4000 (2) penthouse luxury Acropolis 1 bdrm, f/f, centre €450. For info www.markidesestates.com Markides 22378898, 99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16 ****************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Acropolis €300, 1bdrm P/ ssa €450, Aglantzia €350, Str/ los €350, Acropolis €350 2bdrm Lycavito furnished €530, Acropolis €550, Ag. Dometios €500, 3bdrm Nikis av. €550 Str/los G/F €660, Tymbos independent €800, Ag. Omologites colonial listed building swimming pool maids room €2,500. PROPERTY FINDER LTD. 99474839 99646822 A.M.627 A.A.108/E ****************************** STUDIO flat in Pallouriotissa (next to McDonald) furnished €280.

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TO LET spacious 2 bdrm apartment in a small building in Strovolos area near ARETAIEION hospital (dead-end) with independent petrol heating, 3 a/c, water pressure system, satellite. Directly available. TEL.: 96275151 ****************************** 2 BDRM flat (almost new, 4 years old) at Lycavitos with good area near University of Cyprus with fully equipment kitchen, a/c in all rooms. For info call 96530532. ****************************** 2 ROOMS €125 each, near McDonald’s Engomi only Philippine girls. Call 99663927. ****************************** FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank.

3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554 ****************************** 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required).

Tel: 97773358.

****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3/4 of a plot, office space, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, separate big kitchen with family room and all the electrical appliances, blinds and curtains on all windows, aluminum shutters, big garden with grass, 3 wc, covered parking, in a quiet area – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10051-R), (photos in the website) 2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen,3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPO-

LUXURY 6 BEDROOM HOUSE IN A QUIET AREA IN LATSIA. The house has been constructed with the most modern building materials and one can enjoy all comforts of modern life. The house has 3 storage rooms 3 kitchens, 2 covered garage, housekeeper’s room, study room, en-suite bathroom – master bedroom, walk in closet, Jacuzzi, c/h, a/c, and fireplace. Rent €5.000pm.

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TO LET NICOSIA LIS €600 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fireplace, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighbourhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas - €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos on website).

5. 3 bedr luxury detached house, 200sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 3wc, blinds and curtains, open plan kitchen with cooker, oven and dishwasher, veranda with bbq, good size garden, covered parking, storage room, alarm system, in a quiet area – Archangellos €1100 (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA 6. 4 bedrs and sitting room upstairs luxury detached house,380sq.m, central heating, full a/c, marble and parquet floor, big sitting and dining areas, office space, BIG bedrooms (2 en suite) big verandas around the house, 2 covered parking,3 bathrooms,4 wc in a quiet area off Eleonon street, near Pizza Hut – Strovolos €1500 (H4ST10041-R), (photos in the website) 7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with separate maid’s room, with very big garden with grass(200sq.m) and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood opposite Acropolis park - Acropolis - €1000 - H3ACS0004-R (photos on website).

8. 4 bedr very big luxury semi de-

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA tached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios foorball stadium. Available END of February - Makedonitissa €1500.

9. 4 bedr new luxury detached house build in a big plot of land, central heating, full a/c, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, 4 wc, bathroom with jacuzzi, big open space sitting and dining areas, 330sq.m, big swimming pool 5x10, big garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, roller blinds and curtains on all the windows, electrical appliances in kitchen, covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood off Tseriou avenue. AVAILABLE end of February –Strovolos €1800 (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electri-

TO LET NICOSIA cal appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

11. 4 bedr new luxury finished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminum shutters in all the house, separate big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big covered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Falcon school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website).

12. 3 bedr +office space luxury detached house, built on a big plot, 350sq.m, big swimming pool with cover, garden with grass, big sitting and dining room, separate family room, central heating, a/c, curtains on all the windows, cooker, dishwasher and dryer, parquet floor all the house, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking in a quiet area on the borders of Strovolos and Lakatamia – €1600 (H4LAK0002-R) (photos

TO LET NICOSIA in the website) 13. 3 bedr ground floor house with big separate 80sq,m room with shower and wc for multi use, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, 2 shower,1 bathroom, fully furnished, small garden, bbq area, parking, on a small building in a very quiet area near Agios Vasilios church. Strovolos - €900 - H4ST10028-R (photos on website).

14. 3 bedr +office space +attic room +separate big maid’s/ playroom in the basement semi detached house, recently renovated with big sitting and dining areas with marble floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven and family room, central heating, 3 bathrooms, 4 wc, 6 a/c units, covered parking, behind Hilton Park near the park – Engomi €1700 (H4ENG0003-R), (photos in the website) 15. 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

TO LET NICOSIA dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighborhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R),(photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com

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TO LET NICOSIA TO LET 3 bedroom house situated on a dead end street next to a small quiet park near Falcon School. Has an En-suite master room, large study room, central heating, a/c and fire place in the living room.

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€1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website).

€450 (A2AOM0010-R) (photos in the website)

2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

5. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood off Kallipoleos street – Lykavitos €650 (photos in the website).

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2 bedr penthouse apartment,100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/ jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).

4. 2 bedr spacious apartments with separate kitchen, a/c for hot and cold, NICELY FURNISHED, hot water all day, common swimming pool, in a quiet area off Nikis Avenue near the centre.

PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EXPENSES, swimming pool and hot water.– Agioi Omologites

6. 2 bedr new luxury apartment, modern nicely furnished, storage heaters, 2 a/c, 100sq.m, big covered verandah with nice view, covered parking off Digenis Akritas street near Debenhams shop, walking distance to the centre. PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EXPENSES. – Lykavitos €450 (A1LYK0020-R) (photos in the website) 7.

1 bedr cozy luxury apartment,60sq.m,parquet floor, nicely furnished ,all fitted electrical appliances(cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge),roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website) 8.

2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €550 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website)

9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neibourhood near Akropolis park.

AVAILABLE middle of February – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, 85sq.m, big sitting room, big fully equipped kitchen, nicely modern furnished, storage heaters, full a/c, big bedrooms, covered veranda with nice view,covered parking, off Prodromou streeet. – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0017-R)(photos in the website) 11. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment on a small modern building with central heating independent(with petrol), full a/c, solid parquet floor, big bedrooms, big sitting room with open plan kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Makarios Avenue in a quiet area

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near the centre - Nicosia €800 (A2NIC0030-R) (photos in the website)

ics and English school – Stovolos €800 (A3ST10013-R) (photos in the website)

12. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park.

AVAILABLE middle of February.– Acropolis €800 (A2ACS0002-R) (photos in the website)

16. 3 bedr new luxury ground floor apartment, with separate big TV room or guest room, 225sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances and breakfast area, 4 bathrooms, 4 wc, 2 bedrs with en suite bathroom, floor heating independent, full a/c, blinds on all the windows, marble and parquet floor, big veranda with bbq, small garden, closed 2 covered parking with remote control, in a very quiet area very close to Junior school and 50 metres from the park. FULLY NICELY FURNISHED – Agioi Omologites €1200 (photos in the website).

13. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big sitting and dining area, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, blinds, shutters in the bedrooms, big kitchen with all expensive electrical appliances, off Makarios avenue near the centre – Nicosia Centre- € 800 – A3NIC0025-R (photos on website).

14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol,full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING,storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website).

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TO LET LIMASSOL LIMASSOL FOR RENT new big furnished studio, in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia, in Neapoli area.

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FOR RENT big 3 bdrm furnished or unfurnished house, with big balcony, big garden, 3 wc, airconditioning, in Pareklisia area, 1000 metres from the sea and beach hotels. Price €800. Tel. 99406415 Andreas.

TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol.

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2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/Ctoilet in main bedroom. Semi/ full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace.

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GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Lami-

CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. 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 & 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 Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

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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.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496.

To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives.

Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783.

PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

nated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775

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Foinikoudes, Zenonos Kiteos shops 200 metres. Rent €350 p/m. Tel: 24 815104/9939 5954 FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca.

Price €370. Tel: 99202543 *****************************

PAPHOS UNIVERSAL: 1bed ground floor apartment fully furnished, airconditioning, fridge, beds common swimming pool , leather sofas, €260 p/m. For more information phone 99400697

WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE THE ENGAGEMENT OF NEOFYTOS KYRIAKOU ID NO 1026391, TO LIZA IAKOVOU, ID NO 942621, AND THE MARRIAGE WILL BE ON THE 31ST OF AUGUST 2013.

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3 bedrs luxury penthouse,165sq.m+80sq.m verandah with bbq, central heating ind, full AC, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with dining area, fully MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Athalassa Avenue near Stephanis Electrin-

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PROPERTIES FOR RENT IN NICOSIA Whole floor of approx. 400m2 available for rent on corner building in prominent position (Limassol Avenue & Costa Anaxagorou, Nicosia) Rent €3.500 pm/ono depending on size of organization & duration of contract 300m2 inside area & outside balcony 200m2 (approx) on 2nd floor available for rent in Galaxias Building, centre of Nicosia Luxurious renovations Suitable for office or café/bar Rent €3.000 pm/ono Centrally located shop, off Makarios Avenue (Aphrodite Street), total area 100 sqm Rent €1.200 pm/ono CLARION BUSINESS CENTRE – off Makarios Avenue (Aphrodite Street, Nicosia) Fully serviced offices with luxurious renovations Suitable for foreign companies which require a Cyprus base Reasonable charges depending on size of offices and services required 3 bedroom fully furnished (140m2) apartment.

Hilton area (opposite BOC Head Office) with air condition.

Rent €750 pm/ono For further information please contact 22361313/22761660/22479302

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS € 380 /MONTH UNIVERSAL AREA a 2-bed house, beautiful location, in cul-de-sac, 10 years old, 90 sq. mts, furnished, openplan lounge/kitchen, front carport, garden, 2-floors, 2 w.cs/bath and part air-conditioned. Call 99632388.’ ****************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, euro 650 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents ****************************** FOR LONG TERM RENT: 2 bedroom modern apartment, recently renovated-fully furnished, Chloraka- Melanos, quiet neighbourhood, communal pool, 2 covered parking space, security burglar bars throughout, 2 balcony. Sea view, central to shops. Communal fees included. 380.00eur/month.

Call Maria 99 371 874 ****************************** PAPHOS RENTALS SECTION TALA - modern 2 and 3 bedroom apartments U/F, P/F and F/F, some with communal pool , A/C, separate storage and own parking €325 TREMITHOUSA - traditional spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, and large mature enclosed garden, open fireplace, beautiful fitted kitchen, a/d, wonderful family home €400 EMPA - immaculate, spacious 2 bedroom, u/f, corner house, large kitchen, patio, quiet location, must be seen €300 TALA - Luxurious 3/4 bedroom villas, f/f to a very high standard, 2 bathrooms, 2 en-suites, own swimming pools, landscaped gardens with spectacular sea views, €700.

URGENTLY WANTED – Bungalows 2/3 Bedrooms MORE PROPETIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ****************************** 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 CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 2 bedroom townhouse situated in great central location, not on a complex, with enclosed garden & Jacuzzi hot tub. Fully furnished with good furniture.

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TO LET PAPHOS ensuite, family bathroom & downstairs guest wc. Fully furnished with modern furniture including fly screens & plasma TV. Enclosed rear garden. Private undercover parking & storage space. Pets allowed at owners discretion. website reference number: RTL_658 3. MESOGI €700 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. One bedroom on ground floor. Plus separate office or play room. Available unfurnished with gas central heating. Enclosed garden with private pool. Covered veranda with garden furniture. Pets allowed at owners discretion. website reference number: RTL_618 4. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher. Includes central heating, flyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 5. PEYIA €750 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on private road. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout, pressurised water & security alarm system. Modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. website reference number: RTL_572 6. CHLORAKA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor bedroom & bathroom. Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street parking. Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops. website reference number: RTL_611 7. MESOGI €1250 luxury detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villas. 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

TO LET PAPHOS garden & private pool offering stunning views. Gated entrance with undercover parking. Situated on a private road. website reference number: RTL_628 8. CHLORAKA €2,200 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling.

Stunning private pool area. Available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos. net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net

****************************** LONG TERM RENTALS 1. GEROSKIPOU a large 2 bed apartment with large balcony facing the sea, covered parking, a/c, communal pool. €330 pcm 2. TALA 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, and quiet area. €340 pcm 3. CHLORAKAS first floor 2 bed apartment, new kitchen and bathroom, very well furnished, two parking spaces, a/c, quiet area, easy access to town centre and a communal pool. €370 pcm 4. EMBA un-furnished 3 bed 2 bathroom villa, private gated parking, a/c, large kitchen with white goods, cul-de-sac. NO POOL. €445 pcm THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@unique-consultancy. eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. ****************************** KILI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom villa, with swimming pool and garden, unfurnished, gas central heating, large verandas, lovely mountain

FOR SALE Semi-detached house in 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.

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****************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS: Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST. Armou 2 bed Townhouse on a small complex of Townhouses in a lovely quiet and peaceful location, with small back garden, great views, communal pool, 2 bedrooms with en suites + guest WC. Pets welcome. Offered unfurnished Ref: 1204 €370 AYIA MARINOUDA a 3 bedroom villa with an additional loft room conversion with en suite. Property has a downstairs bedroom, sitting/dining area, separate utility area with granite work tops, 2 bedrooms on the top level master en suite. Central heating, AC, fly screens, private pool, enclosed and fenced garden. Ref: 1199 €900 Mesogi 4 bedroom villa with private pool, nice quality fixtures, granite work tops, separate utility room, downstairs bedroom with en suite,

TO LET PAPHOS fireplace, ac, 3 upstairs bedroom master en suite, separate bath, nice views, pets welcome, offered unfurnished Ref 783 €700 CHLORAKA 4 bedroom large villa with quality fittings , furnished to a very high standard, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suites, bathroom, private pool, decking, fantastic sea views, near Tombs of the Kings Ref: 806 €850 SECRET VALLEY 2 bed villas furnished or unfurnished with private pool, downstairs bedroom, kitchen , sitting/dining area, guest wc, upstairs large master bedroom with en suite bath, large veranda.

Nice location with sea views and off street parking: Ref: 1198 €450 PEGEIA 4 bed villa unfurnished, 2 downstairs bedrooms, large sitting/dining area, Italian kitchen with white goods, 2 bedrooms upstairs with outside large veranda. Property is of a high standard with central heating, full AC, off street parking, private pool, stunning views, quiet location. Ref: 765 €900 Mesogi Large 3 bedroom apartment with full AC, bathroom, kitchen, separate utility room, clean and tidy building with without communal area, walking distance to all local amenities. Offered unfurnished Ref: 818 €400 Sea Caves 2 bedroom town house, furnished with central heating, fire place, nice sea views, walking distance to Paphos the sea Ref 819 €300 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www. flowron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!! ******************************

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Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool. €425.00 or near offer 2 EMBA 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa in handy location close to the shopping areas. Property also has separate 1 bed apartment on the lower level. Large open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances. Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Separate 1 bed apartment on lower level. Perfect for dual living. Small garden & and parking. €550.00 a month.

3. GIOLOU – 5 bed unfurnished villa consisting of 3 bed, 2 bath

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS

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main house (bungalow) with self contained 2 bed apartment with own entrance. Main house, open plan living area, beamed ceilings with feature fireplace. Dining space and kitchen. 3 bedrooms, master with en-suite and family bathroom. Covered balcony with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas.

Lower level apartment reached via the main house or separate entrance. Large open plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. €850.00 per month 4. TALA – 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bed room with adjacent shower.

Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony. Pool and off

street parking. Lnadscaped gardens €750.00 per month or close offers only 5. TRIMITHOUSA – 4 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa set in quiet location. Open plan living area.

Fully fitted kitchen. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite shower.

Guest WC. Stairs to 3 more bedrooms, one with en-suite and family bathroom. Garden areas, large terraces and feature BBQ area and pergola. Private pool, garage. Never been occupied.

Available 1 Feb. €725.00 per month OVNO. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA – 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area. Comm pool and parking. €375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250per month.

bath part furnished villa situated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out the to pool and garden.. Very large breakfast fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms.

Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bathroom. Private pool, gardens, shutters. €550.00 per month or close offers only.

8. STROUMBI – 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area.

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***************************** 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.

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Sport Triumphant Mickelson has Masters on his mind

By Mark Lamport-Stokes ALREADY a three-time champion at the Masters, Phil Mickelson served notice he will again be among the front-runners for the year’s opening major by completing a wire-to-wire victory at the Phoenix Open in Arizona on Sunday.

The American left-hander, who has made a career habit of winning in the first four months of the PGA Tour season, triumphed by four shots after closing with a

four-under-par 67 at the TPC Scottsdale.

“It’s important to start building momentum,” Mickelson told the Golf Channel about the April 11-14 Masters at Augusta National in Georgia after finishing just two strokes shy of the PGA Tour low for 72 holes.

“But it’s more important what you do closer to Augusta, that you start feeling confident in your game then, that you start getting good touch on quick greens.

“Certainly having been in

contention and being able to come out on top is an important element going into the Masters if you want to do well because you’ve got to deal with some of the greatest pressure you will ever feel at the Masters.”

It was the 28th time Mickelson had triumphed on the PGA Tour before the end of April, while the title was his 41st overall on the US circuit.

He has now won at least once in 20 different seasons on American soil, with only Sam Snead (24 seasons)

and Jack Nicklaus (21) ahead of him.

“I feel like my game is on the up-swing,” the fourtime major champion said after finishing at 28-under 256, just two short of the PGA Tour record of 254 posted by Tommy Armour III at the 2003 Valero Texas Open.

“I felt like it was on the up-swing towards the latter part of last year, at the Ryder Cup, then I went over to China and played well and I had a great offseason.”

Well played: Phil Mickelson finished just two strokes shy of the PGA Tour low for 72 holes

Spain crash out of the Davis Cup

Cyprus beaten by Lithuania

By Nemanja Bjedov

Czech holders through to the quarter-finals

By Toby Davis

IN BRIEF

TOP seeds Spain crashed out of the first round of the Davis Cup for the first time since 2006 when Milos Raonic beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez to give Canada an unassailable 3-1 lead in their world group tie on Sunday.

The understrength fivetime champions had struggled from the start of the tie in Vancouver and Raonic killed them off with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Garcia-Lopez to secure Canada’s first ever triumph at this level of the men’s team competition.

Holders Czech Republic earlier moved into the quarter-finals with Tomas Berdych outlasting Swiss opponent Stanislas Wawrinka a day after the pair emerged from a marathon doubles encounter.

Berdych enjoyed a comparatively easy 6-3 6-4 3-6 7-6 victory over Wawrinka, to give the Czechs an insurmountable 3-1 lead, a day after he and Lukas Rosol edged a punishing sevenhour clash with Wawrinka and Marco Chiudinelli 24-22 in the final set.

The Czechs will now travel

to Kazakhstan in April after the Central Asian country wrapped up a 3-1 victory over Austria on Sunday.

The United States also fended off a fightback from Brazil in Jacksonville to secure a place in the last eight, where they will meet Serbia.

Sam Querrey finished the job with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-6 victory over Thiago Alves in the final rubber after Thomaz Bellucci had tied the contest up at 2-2 by battling past big-serving John Isner 2-6 6-4 6-7 6-4 6-3.

Italy also booked their place in the quarter-finals, where they will meet Canada, after Fabio Fognini beat Croatia’s Ivan Dodig in a decisive fifth rubber.

Spain, without Rafa Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro, were on the back foot from the start of the tie on the Vancouver hardcourts after going 2-0 down in the opening singles on Friday.

They wrestled their way back into the contest after a doubles victory on Saturday but Raonic put paid to any hopes of a remarkable comeback in the first reverse singles on Sunday.

The big-serving world number 15 opened his match

against Garcia-Lopez - a late replacement for Marcel Granollers- with three aces and fired down 22 in all in the victory to the delight of a passionate crowd at the Thunderbird Sports Centre.

“It’s pretty amazing,” Raonic told reporters. “It’s something we should all be proud of. It’s something I hope resonates not only with our team but throughout tennis in Canada.”

The Czechs came into the final day with a 2-1 advantage and Berdych took three hours and 15 minutes to wrap up a four-set win over an equally weary Wawrinka, who had defeated Rosol in the singles on Friday.

“This is a team event and the people we have in the team have magic hands.

They did a really great job and they told me I would be ready,” Berdych, who did not get to bed until 2am on Sunday after Saturday’s exploits, told reporters.

“I was feeling good from the first point and was quite ready for a fifth set.”

The match ended 3-2 after Switzerland’s Henri Laaksonen won the dead fifth rubber 0-6 6-3 6-1 against Jiri Vesely.

Big-serving Milos Raonic was the star for Canada against the top-seeded Spanish - who were under-strength

PLAYING without star player Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus suffered an expected 4-1 loss to Lithuania in the first round of the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II and will now have to battle against Benin in the relegation playoffs this April.

After losing the opening two singles matches on Friday, the Cypriot doubles pairing of Rares Cuzdriorean and Petros Chrysochos surprised their higher ranked opponents in five sets to cut their deficit to 2-1 on Saturday.

However, Lithuania’s top man and world number 85 Ricardas Berankis had no problems defeating 19-year-old Soteris Hadjistyllis in straight sets in the fourth rubber and with the host nation taking a 3-1 lead, the final encounter between Lukas Mugevicius and Christos Hadjigeorgiou was a dead rubber with the Lithuanian winning it 6-3, 6-3.

Baghdatis, who is expected to feature against Benin, will compete at the Zagreb Indoors this week where he is drawn to face German Tobias Kamke in the first round. The Cypriot beat Kamke in their only meeting on the tour last season in the opening round of the BMW Open in Munich.

Celtics win fourth straight without injured Rondo

Gallacher ends 201 tournament Fiery Steyn bowls S. Africa wait with victory in Dubai to big win over Pakistan

THE Boston Celtics withstood a furious comeback from the Los Angeles Clippers for a 106-104 win to record their fourth consecutive victory since losing starting point guard Rajon Rondo to injury.

Paul Pierce drained a crucial three-pointer with two seconds remaining, pushing Boston’s edge to 106-101 after a big lead was trimmed to two points in the final minute, and the home team survived despite Jamal Crawford’s gameending three-pointer.

Boston has won four straight since the injured Rondo, the team’s third-leading scorer and leader in steals and assists, was ruled out for the season.

STEPHEN Gallacher sealed his first European Tour win since October 2004 as he clinched the Dubai Desert Classic.

Gallacher, 38, made an eagle at the 16th in his one-underpar final round of 71 to end on 22 under, three shots ahead of South African Richard Sterne.

Chile’s Felipe Aguilar and Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen came third on 17 under.

Gallacher’s last win came in the 2004 Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.

“I didn’t realise it is 201 tournaments since my last win, but now I have got it, it is even sweeter,” he said.

DALE Steyn’s career-best bowling figures propelled South Africa to a comprehensive 211-run victory over Pakistan on day four of the first Test in Johannesburg yesterday.

Having set Pakistan an improbable 480-run victory target, South Africa bowled them out for 268 in their second innings, as the visitors lost their final six wickets for 59 runs Steyn picked up five second innings wickets to finish with 11 for 60. South African wicketkeeper AB de Villiers equalled Englishman Jack Russell’s world best of 11 dismissals in a Test that came in the same ground in 1995.

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Ambitious Azzurri praised Six Nations favourites France left stunned ITALY captain Sergio Parisse hailed a “fantastic beginning” to this season’s RBS 6 Nations Championship for his team after they stunned tournament favourites France in Rome.

Italy’s 23-18 success at Stadio Olimpico blew the competition wide open, with France and reigning Six Nations champions Wales both beaten on the opening weekend.

“We are really happy with the victory,” try-scorer Parisse said on BBC1.

“We talked a lot about our ambition as a team before the tournament, but when you talk and you don’t get the result, you don’t have any credibility.

“Today, we have won against France, a team that played very well in November. For us, it is a fantastic beginning to the Six Nations.

“We kept the ball for a lot of phases, and I am really happy because we played together so much. I think we really deserved the win.”

Leicester prop Martin Castrogiovanni scored the decisive try of a thrilling encounter, but Italy fly-half Luciano Orquera ran the show majestically.

Orquera kicked a dropgoal, two conversions and a penalty before his replacement Kris Burton’s late drop-goal saw the Azzurri beat France for a second successive Six Nations occasion on home soil.

France conjured first-half

By Alex Lowe

That’s the way to do it: Italy celebrate a famous 23-18 win at the home of World Cup finalists France on Sunday tries for number eight Louis Picamoles and wing Benjamin Fall, with Frederic Michalak slotting two penalties and a conversion, but they could have few complaints about the result.

Italy survived a frantic finale, holding out despite being under sustained scrum pressure after replacement hooker Davide Giazzon was sin-binned two minutes from time.

But they had heroes everywhere as France threw everything at them, gaining a victory that means they will head to Edinburgh next weekend as favourites to

beat Scotland.

Castrogiovanni said: “We couldn’t have started the tournament better than this, repeating what we did (against France) two years ago.

“France are one of the best teams and one of the favourites to win the tournament, so for us it is a huge start.

“We still have other four games to go, and I hope we keep playing like that. If we play like that, I think we can have a chance against any team.

“Our defence was unbelievable, and against any team in the world, if you put them

under pressure with your defence they can’t carry the ball forward.

“It’s not how you want to finish a game, with seven men in the scrum five metres from your own line, but the boys really wanted it.”

France must now pick themselves up for Saturday’s appointment with Wales in Paris, having seen their title hopes dealt a grievous blow.

“We need to congratulate Italy. They played very well, with a lot of passion, and kept the ball well,” France coach Philippe Saint-Andre said.

“We had control of the

game when we were five points in front, but we lost the ball too many times and were not precise. When you are not precise in the Six Nations, you are punished.

“The players are very, very disappointed. We prepared well for the game and we respect the Italian team.

They improve each year, and in November they were unlucky to lose to Australia.

“Wales against Ireland was a fantastic game on Saturday. Wales are very quick and physical, and we need to prepare very well and we need to win. It is not acceptable to lose at home.”

Champ Vettel wary of world domination with new RB9

By Alan Baldwin SEBASTIAN Vettel distanced himself from a suggestion that he was planning world domination as Formula One champions Red Bull unveiled the car that could carry him to a fourth successive title this season.

“World domination? I’m German, but I didn’t say that,” said the startled 25year-old at the launch of the RB9, revealed under bright lights and to a pulsating beat in a chilly hangar next to the team’s central English factory on Sunday.

“I have no moustache,” he added with a cheeky grin, to laughter from an audience of sponsors and predominantly British factory employees, lest anyone fail to get the allusion to Adolf Hitler.

The RB9, the latest brainchild of design boffin Adrian Newey at the Austrianowned team, has every chance of becoming a worldbeater and follows on from

Youngs: idiot experience made me stronger

Mark Webber (left) and Sebastian Vettel pose next to tthe 2013 car

cars that have set the pace for the past three seasons.

Vettel was dominant in 2011 but not so last year, when seven different drivers won the first seven races and Red Bull struggled to

get on top of the Pirelli tyres initially.

This season could see the top teams closer than ever with so little regulation change from 2012.

Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari

and McLaren, now without the stellar talents of Lewis Hamilton, have already unveiled their challengers but the Red Bull is the one both will want to beat once the championship starts in Aus-

tralia on March 17.

The car, with prominent new title sponsorship from Japanese carmaker Infiniti, was a clear evolution from last year’s but with notable design tweaks.

It retained the ‘broken nose’ but with a partial ‘vanity panel’ smoothing out the step where last year there was an aperture likened to a letterbox slot.

Newey said there were no huge changes, with most of the revisions in the middle area of the car with a tidying up of details that needed improving from last year.

“The devil is really in the detail with this car,” said Newey. “Perhaps the most significant change is not in the regulations, it’s the new (for 2013) Pirelli tyres.”

He said that it had been a “remarkable achievement” to get the car completed two days before the start of testing after a tight championship battle last season that took up so much time and resources.

BEN Youngs is determined to go from “idiot” to inspiration as England begin preparations for their RBS 6 Nations return to Dublin on Sunday.

The Leicester scrum-half suffered one of the toughest days of his career at the Aviva Stadium two years ago, when England’s Grand Slam bid was demolished by Ireland.

Youngs was sin-binned for petulantly throwing the ball away in England’s 24-8 defeat and afterwards admitted: “I’ve played like an idiot but I have to man up and take it on the chin. This is a good test of character.

Let’s see what I am made of.”

Youngs is ready to prove he has lived up to his word and emerged from that bitter experience a better player.

“I’m a far better player now after that experience,” he said after helping England open their Six Nations campaign with a 38-18 win against Scotland.

“To lose the Grand Slam is never nice. I got sin-binned and things just didn’t go my way.

“As hard as it is to deal with those moments and games, I am a strong believer that as you make mistakes you get better.

“It was a day at the office where I made a fair few mistakes. That day and getting bumped out of the World Cup were my lowest points.

“It was a lot to handle but I certainly came out the other side a far better player.

“I’d rather have taken a Grand Slam. But saying that, you have to go through those hard times and defeats because it makes you learn very, very quickly.

“This side want to minimise that - we want to learn whilst winning.”

England did win the the 2011 Six Nations title despite their defeat in Dublin but they will return a very different side following Stuart Lancaster’s revolution, a younger side but a smarter side.

“You can’t compare it now to how it was back then,” Youngs said.

“A lot of young guys from that squad are now two years wiser from club games, Test matches and Heineken games - they all add up.

“Look around the changing room and there is a huge amount of experience and also a huge amount of enthusiasm from the young guys as well. That helps drive the team.

“Stuart has come in and the long-term goal is 2015. That wasn’t mentioned previously - then it was one tournament at a time, and now the goal is to get to 2015 at our peak.

“This is a journey on the way. Guys are just excited about the challenges.”

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Burkina and Nigeria advance as Ivory Coast fail yet again

Sunday Mba’s dramatic winner 12 minutes from time for Nigeria continued a nightmare sequence of tournaments for Didier Drogba (right) and his Ivorian team mates who had been fancied to win the last five editions but came up short each time

By Mark Gleeson BURKINA Faso and Nigeria completed the line-up for the African Cup of Nations semi-finals on Sunday as tournament favourites Ivory Coast again failed to live up to expectations.

Burkina Faso beat Togo 1-0 thanks to an extra-time goal from Jonathan Pitroipa in Nelspruit after Nigeria’s upset 2-1 win over the much-vaunted Ivorians in Rustenburg had thrown the tournament wide open.

Nigeria play Mali in the semi-finals in Durban on Wednesday and Ghana and Burkina Faso meet in Nelspruit the same day to determine the teams for Sunday’s final.

Nigeria were given just a 20 per cent chance by their own coach Stephen Keshi of overcoming the Ivorians at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace.

But Sunday Mba’s dramatic winner 12 minutes from time continued a nightmare sequence of tournaments for Didier Drogba and his Ivorian team mates who had been fancied to win the last five editions but came up short each time.

Mba, who plays his club football in the obscurity of the Nigerian league, weaved his way close to the edge of the Ivorian penalty area before hitting a shot that deflected off Souleman Bamba and looped over goalkeeper Boubacar Barry.

The goal ended the pros-

pect of extra time which both sides looked to have settled for.

Emmanuel Emenike gave Nigeria a deserved halftime lead with a rasping free kick that Barry failed to get close to.

The goal came two minutes from halftime and broke the deadlock in a game that quickly made clear Nigeria were to be no walkovers.

Although their coach insisted they were still a side in transition with a longer term plan beyond this Nations Cup, Keshi had a clever game plan that kept Yaya Toure in check with John Obi Mikel and Lazio midfielder Ogenyi Onanzi sitting tightly on top of the African Footballer of the Year.

Without Toure given space

to drive the side forward, the Ivorians showed little of the lustre evident in the earlier rounds.

“My boys showed character and this is the character I know that Nigeria have,” Keshi told reporters.

There was a brief glimpse of the forceful potential of the Ivorians in full stride when they came out after halftime and swarmed all over Nigeria, equalising within five minutes through Cheick Tiote.

He stole in unmarked at the back post to head home Drogba’s free kick but Drogba, Gervinho and Toure proved largely ineffective and the Ivory Coast meekly bowed out of the tournament.

Burkina Faso reached the

semi-finals for only the second time when Pitroipa’s swivelling header from Charles Kabore’s corner in the 105th minute settled the match at the Mbombela Stadium.

“It’s a dream come true, we were just happy to get to the last eight, that’s a result for Burkina Faso,” said coach Paul after a dour match.

“But I told my players we have a chance to go even further and qualify for the semis and I’m so happy they did it.”

Sunday’s wins followed success on Saturday for Ghana, who ended the fairytale run of the Cape Verde Islands, and Mali, who eliminated hosts South Africa in a penalty shootout.

Balotelli flies straight into a storm

Mario Balotelli scored twice on his AC Milan debut

MAVERICK striker Mario Balotelli flew straight into another storm as he made his AC Milan debut on Sunday, even if it was not directly of his making.

Balotelli, playing three days after completing his move from Manchester City, scored twice in the 2-1 win over Udinese after being included in the starting line-up at the last minute following an injury to Giampaolo Pazzini in the warm-up.

The second goal, a penalty converted three minutes into stoppage time, came amid furious protests from the visitors who claimed there was nothing wrong with Thomas Heurtaux’s tackle on Stephan El Shaaraway.

El Shaaraway fell theatrically to the ground, rolling over at least three times, to win the penalty and the referee was surrounded by furious Udinese players after blowing the final whistle immediately after Balotelli’s goal.

Udinese’s sporting director Fabrizio Larini was fuming.

“We feel we’ve been done out of a point that we deserved to take home,” he said. “Every-

body saw it was not a penalty.”

AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri admitted it was a fortuitous decision.

“We were lucky with the penalty, it could have been given or not given,” he said. “The controversy was because it happened in the last 30 seconds.

“Balotelli played well and I think he has a lot to give Milan,” he added.

Balotelli, playing for the club he supported during his boyhood, said he needed more match practice.

“I’m happy but I need to train to improve my fitness level,” he said. “I wasn’t supposed to start but it worked out well for me.”

Balotelli, who moved to Milan for a fee media reports put at 20 million pounds, nearly scored after less than a minute when he burst past two defenders and clipped the far post.

He then set up a chance for M’Baye Niang and it was no suprise when he opened his account by turning the ball in from six metres after El Shaaraway’s cross from the left fell at his feet.

‘Sad day for football’ as scam in match fixing is exposed

By Thomas Escritt HUNDREDS of soccer matches have been fixed in a global betting scam run from Singapore, police said yesterday, in a blow to the image of the world’s most popular sport and a multibillion dollar industry.

About 680 suspicious matches including qualifying games for the World Cup and European Championships, and the Champions League for top European club sides, have been identified in an inquiry by European police forces, the European anti-crime agency Europol, and national prosecutors.

“This is a sad day for European football,” said Rob Wainwright, director of Europol. “This is now an integrity issue for football.

Those responsible for running the games should hear the warnings.”

The world’s most popular sport, soccer is played on every continent. The World Cup and Europe’s Champions League are beamed worldwide and generate billions of dollars for national associations, clubs and broadcasters.

Top players such as Lionel Messi of Barcelona and Argentina and Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese international who plays his club soccer for Real Madrid, are household names.

The matches in question, some of which have already been subject to successful criminal prosecutions, were played between 2008 and 2011, the investigators said. About 380 of the suspicious matches were played in Europe, and a further 300 were identified in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Corruption linked to Asian betting syndicates and organised crime has long been seen as a threat to the game, but Monday’s announcement underlines the scale of the problem.

Ralf Mutschke, Director of Security for world soccer’s governing body FIFA, said sports bodies and prosecutors needed to work more closely together.

“The support of law enforcement bodies, legal investigations, and ultimately tougher sanctions are required, as currently there is low risk and high gain potential for the fixers,” said Mutschke, a German former police officer.

Criminal gangs are believed to be involved in match-fixing networks, using them as a way to launder cash. Last year the head of an anti-corruption watchdog estimated that $1 trillion was gambled on sport each year - or $3 billion a day - with most coming from Asia and wagered on soccer matches.

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Itzhaki hat-trick keeps Anorthosis clear at the top

By Nemanja Bjedov

Oh dear: Reds keeper Pepe Reina made a costly misjudgment towards the end to allow Manchester City to equalise

Rodgers rues mistake Reds manager praises side after thrilling draw at the Etihad

By Carl Markham LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers was left to rue a late misjudgment by goalkeeper Jose Reina which cost his side victory against Manchester City on Sunday.

With the Reds having come from behind to lead 2-1 with 12 minutes to go the Spain international rushed from his goal in an attempt to beat Sergio Aguero to the ball.

The Argentina international was too clever for him, however, and having turned Reina on the left edge of the penalty area he drilled in the equaliser from a narrow angle.

“It was an outstanding performance coming here, a notoriously difficult place where it is even difficult to score goals,” said Rodgers added.

“We were brilliant. The only disappointment is that we were outstanding in our work but mistakes have cost us.

“Aguero’s finish for the second was unbelievable but from our perspective we are bitterly disappointed he was in that situation.

“It was a mistake, everyone is clear on that, but I can’t fault the players.”

There was yet more praise for inspirational captain Gerrard, whose superb dipping 30-yard volley put Liverpool ahead after Daniel Sturridge had cancelled out Edin Dzeko’s opener to ensure they went into the interval on level terms.

“It was a brilliant goal from Gerrard to beat Joe Hart, who is 6ft 5ins, from that distance,” added Rodgers.

“I thought his performance was immense.”

Sturridge’s goal, his fourth in six games since his £12 million move from Chelsea last month, was another clinical effort from the edge of the area against his former club.

The goal was surrounded by controversy though as Dzeko was laid out on the turf in Liverpool’s half after a tackle from Daniel Agger while the Reds played upfield to score.

“The first goal was clear both bodies get tangled up, Dzeko thinks it’s a free-kick but you’re talking about a minute or so after (before Liverpool scored),” added Rodgers.

“The referee told a couple of players - Daniel Sturridge and Steven Gerrard - to play on which is why they kept going.

“There was no injury to Dzeko, it was purely the referee’s decision.

“The controversy probably takes away from what was a great strike from Daniel.”

Sturridge is a doubt for England’s midweek friendly against Brazil with a thigh injury.

“He got a knock just before half-time on his thigh and he wanted to give it a go in the second half,” said the Reds boss.

“I think he will be a doubt for the game on Wednesday, which is unfortunate because he was terrific.

“His hold-up play, movement and pace was a real threat and combination with Luis Suarez, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson up front was outstanding.

“He will have a chat with our doctors and he will speak with the England set-up.

“They might want to have a look at it but at the moment he is obviously struggling.”

Baggies boss Clarke spitting mad with Popov

By John Curtis,

Popov (left) was sent off for spitting at Spurs’ Walker

WEST Brom head coach Steve Clarke slammed defender Goran Popov following his sending-off for spitting against Tottenham, admitting he was”absolutely disgusted” with his behaviour.

Popov faces a threematch ban as a result of the incident, which came early in the second half after he had exchanged angry words with Spurs defender Kyle Walker.

Clarke confirmed disciplinary action will be taken against the Macedonia international, adding that

his dismissal played a large part in Albion’s 1-0 defeat at The Hawthorns.

A second-half goal from Gareth Bale earned victory for Spurs, who are now only a point behind thirdplaced Chelsea in the Barclays Premier League.

Clarke said: “The game changed with the sendingoff. I’m absolutely disgusted with Goran’s behaviour.

“One of the group has let the players down. It changed the whole complexion of the game.

“It’s difficult enough in the Premier League playing against 11 players, especially when you’re playing against Tottenham.

“There’s no excuse for that. There’s no place for it in life, never mind on a football pitch.

“I would like to think that at some stage he will apologise. As always there will be disciplinary procedures taken against the player but they’ll remain in-house.”

Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas echoed Clarke’s sentiments.

He said: “It’s difficult for the ref, but Popov did what he did and Walker did nothing to react.

“It’s difficult to assess but I think Mark Clattenburg made the right decision.

“It’s horrible and nasty.”

BARAK Itzhaki’s hat-trick helped Anorthosis to a thrilling 4-3 victory over Olympiakos Nicosia in the final match of the weekend in Cyprus, and kept the Ammochostos side unbeaten and six points clear of APOEL at the top of the table.

“We started the match very well and managed to score two goals. Olympiakos came to Larnaca to play an open match and as a result they pulled a goal back which completely changed the proceedings,” said Anorthosis coach Ronny Levy.

Itzhaki broke the deadlock in the 26th minute with his sixth goal of the season and Yiannis Okkas made it 2-0 just two minutes later.

Italian forward Gaetano Monachello, who joined Olympiakos on a free transfer from Ukrainian side Metalurh Donetsk last month, reduced his team’s deficit in the 33rd minute.

“In the first ten minutes of the second half we were completely absent and Olympiakos turned the match in their favour and took a 3-2 lead. Luckily for us, we managed to compose ourselves and respond really well by scoring two quick goals and then we routinely saw the match off,” Levy added.

Marcos Michael, who is

on loan from Anorthosis, leveled the score six minutes after the interval and Monachello made it 3-2 with his second goal of the match three minutes later, before Itzhaki’s brace sealed all three points.

“We expected a difficult match and I do not want to look for an excuse in the fact that we were missing eight regulars, but anytime you pair two players in central defence who have not played together it will be tricky,” concluded Levy whose team top the standings with 54 points from 20 games.

On Saturday afternoon, APOEL recorded a 2-0 victory over Nea Salamina at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia with new Israeli striker Dudu Biton making his mark in the last minute to set up the final score.

Elsewhere, Vouho and Orlando Sa netted a goal apiece as AEL beat Ayia Napa 2-0 at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol, while Omonia celebrated a narrow 1-0 victory over Enosis in Paralimni.

Alki demolished AEP 4-1 in Paphos, while Doxa Katokopia and Apollon Limassol played out a goalless stalemate.

AEL are currently fourth on 40 points, four points less than AEK in third who came back from a goal down to defeat Ethnikos Achnas 2-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Leaders Anorthosis are unbeaten after 20 matches

Cyprus Standings Team 1 Anorthosis 2 APOEL 3. AEK 4 AEL 5 Omonia 6 Apollon 7 Doxa 8 Paralimni 9 Olympiakos 10 Ethnicos 11 Nea Salamina 12 Alki 13 Ayia Napa 14 AEP Paphos

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Power-packed: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was named the game’s Most Valuable Player after throwing three touchdowns in a thrilling encounter

Ravens revel in incredible Super Bowl win over 49ers

By Julian Linden THE Baltimore Ravens reclaimed the greatest prize in North American sports after a dramatic, nail-biting 34-31 Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

Inspired by their power-packed quarterback Joe Flacco, the Ravens survived a ferocious comeback from the 49ers and a bizarre power outage that stopped the game for more than half an hour to win their second Super Bowl.

John Harbaugh, the head coach of the Ravens, won the most anticipated sibling rivalry in American team sports against his younger brother Jim, who holds the equivalent job with the 49ers.

And Ray Lewis, the combative 37-year-old Ravens linebacker destined for the Hall of Fame, ended his 17-season career with a second Super Bowl title, 12 years after he won his first.

“What better way to go out?” said Lewis.

“We did it! We did it!”

Flacco, who threw three touchdowns added: “It’s unbelievable. I tell you what, we don’t make it easy.

“But that’s the way the city of Baltimore is, that’s the way we are. We did this for them back home.”

The game, at the Superdome in New Orleans, was preceded by one of the most poignant moments ever witnessed in the 47 editions of the Super Bowl when a choir from Sandy Hook Elementary School joined Jennifer Hudson in a stirring rendition of America the Beautiful.

The action on the field was as wild as the parties that have taken place in Bourbon St in the days leading up to the game as the Ravens opened up a commanding lead.

With Flacco, who was named Most Valuable Player, calling the shots and wide

receiver Jacoby Jones scoring two of the most spectacular touchdowns seen in a Super Bowl, the Ravens looked to be cruising to victory when they led 28-6 early in the third quarter.

The Ravens led 21-6 when Beyonce came out to perform a stunning halftime show then opened the second half with a Super Bowl-record 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown from Jones that will be shown on highlight reels for generations to come.

But just when it seemed the result was a foregone conclusion, a section of the lights at the Superdome, hosting the Super Bowl for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005, blacked out.

Play was stopped for 35 minutes while redfaced officials and technicians restored power. When it came back on, the game instantly took on a completely different complexion.

With Colin Kaepernick finally finding his targets and making inroads with the football in hand, San Francisco piled on 17 unanswered points.

But Justin Tucker kicked a 38-yard field goal and the 49ers failed to score the touchdown they needed to win as the Ravens defended their line for dear life.

“Five yards short, all the work we did in the offseason, the whole entire season, everything came down to five yards and we weren’t able to get it done,” said dejected 49ers tackle Joe Staley.

The Harbaugh brothers embraced each other as confetti rained down from the roof after one of the most emotional nights in American sport.

“I just love him obviously. I think anybody out there who has a brother can understand what that is all about,” John said.

“The meeting with Jim in the middle was probably the most difficult thing I have ever been associated with in my life. I am proud of him.”

ITHER Manchester United have virtually wrapped the Premier League title or Manchester City have them exactly where they want them after a weekend that saw the gap grow to nine points.

Champions City’s draws with Queens Park Rangers and Liverpool in a week in which United ground out narrow wins against Southampton and Fulham left Alex Ferguson’s side in the clear with 13 matches remaining.

City manager Roberto Mancini said the race is far from over after his side’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool and while straws are possibly being clutched by the Italian there is plenty of recent evidence backing up his optimism.

Last year City were in even worse shape, trailing by eight points with six games remaining, only for an uncharacteristic United wobble to allow their neighbours to snatch the title with almost the final kick of the season.

The bitter memory of that gripping finale, in which United thought they had won the title only for City’s Sergio Aguero to score deep into stoppage time at home to Queens Park Rangers, means United will be taking nothing for granted.

They will also be acutely aware that one bad result can lead to two, or three, as happened last season.

A 1-0 defeat in April to Wigan last year, was followed by a 4-4 draw at home to Everton, having led 4-2, and a 1-0 defeat at City which effectively took matters out of their hands.

United face Everton at home again this weekend, then an FA Cup tie against Reading before a run of three comfortable looking league fixtures leading up to a potentially decisive home clash with City on April 6.

Wedged into that schedule are home and away battles matches with Real Madrid in the Champions League last 16, whereas City are now free of European distractions.

Mancini will hope his side have made inroads into the deficit before they face United at Old Trafford.

“There have been plenty of

Not good enough: champions City find themselves nine points behind their arch-rivals following two straight draws times in the past when gaps like this have been made up,” a defiant Mancini said.

“There is still a long way to go and there is Champions League and FA Cup to take into account plus 13 games so a lot can happen during that time.

“Our target is to get into the Manchester derby in April just two or three points behind.”

Fuelling City’s hopes will be some spectacular Premier League blow-outs.

Manchester United were 12 points clear in March 1998 but were overhauled by Arsenal and that situation was reversed in 2003 when Arsenal frittered away an eightpoint lead in March.

Liverpool were eight points clear of United in January 2009 but by the time the two sides met in mid-March they had slipped seven points behind.

City won their last six matches to win the title last season and there are still plenty of points to play for but keeper Joe Hart knows they have left themselves little margin for error.

“Unfortunately it’s a big gap and it’s getting too big for our liking but we’ve got

to move forward,” he told radio station Talk Sport yesterday.

“We’ve put ourselves in a worse position than we would like to be but we know we’ll always be there in the race.”

Wayne Rooney scored the only goal at Fulham to keep United in pole position