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Eurogroup asks for Cyprus audit Private firm to be hired within a week but Nicosia will have a say

By Elias Hazou

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SUMMIT of eurozone finance ministers decided yesterday that a private-sector auditor would probe Cyprus’ compliance with anti-money-laundering regulations but the island drew no clear support from its partners on its refusal to impose losses on bank depositors as part of a bailout programme.

Speaking at a press briefing in Brussels last night, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the private firm would investigate both the legal framework in place as well as enforcement.

Cypriot authorities and the troika - a team of EU, IMF and European Central Bank experts - would jointly select the auditor and determine its terms of reference.

EU officials want Cyprus to pick the company as quickly as possible, inside of a week so that a report is ready in time for a bailout deal, mooted for March.

Asked by reporters if he could exclude the idea that depositors in Cyprus would lose money under the bailout, Dijsselbloem avoided a direct answer. “Tonight where Cyprus is concerned we zoomed in on the issue of anti-money laundering and didn’t go into any possible, or not possible, elements of a programme so I can’t go into these elements with you,” he said.

“We agreed that an independent assessment conducted by a private sector firm is

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required and we requested the troika and Cyprus to agree on the terms of reference for such an assessment within a week,” he added.

There was no immediate reaction from the government on either issue after the meeting. But beforehand, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said the issue of imposing losses on depositors was not acceptable to Cyprus under any circumstances.

He did, prior to the meeting, reiterate that Cyprus welcomed an independent audit into its anti-money-laundering system, but insisted the probe be assigned to international institutions.

“Our position is very clear: we have nothing to hide, we shall accept checks, just as we have agreed to checks from the International Monetary Fund, Moneyval and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), international organisations that are ordained to carry out such checks,” Shiarly said.

He added: “We are open to these international organisations at any time, even today, whenever they want.”

By allowing Nicosia a say in picking the auditors, it appears a face-saving solution was achieved for all concerned at yesterday’s Eurogroup meeting.

Cyprus, which recommended the audit, was averse to a subsequent counter-proposal made by eurozone officials that the probe be assigned to a private sector auditor.

Such a move could raise

From left: DISY’s Nicos Anastasiades, AKEL-backed Stavros Malas and EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas take on the economy and domestic policy in the third and final television debate last night FULL STORY PAGE 4

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Pope Benedict stuns world with shock resignation

By Philip Pullella POPE Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic Church, including his closest advisers yesterday when he announced he would stand down in the first papal abdication in 700 years, saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to run the Church through a period of major crisis.

Church officials tried to relay a climate of calm confidence in the running of a 2,000-year-old institution but the decision could lead to one of the most uncertain and unstable periods in centuries for a Church besieged by scandal and defections.

Several popes in the past, including Ben-

edict’s predecessor John Paul, refrained from stepping down even when severely ill, precisely because of the confusion and division that could be caused by having an “ex-pope” and a reigning pope living at the same time.

This could create a particularly difficult problem if the next pope is a progressive who influences such teachings as the ban on women priests and artificial birth control and its insistence on a celibate priesthood.

The Church has been rocked during Benedict’s nearly eight-year papacy by child sexual abuse crises and Muslim anger after the pope compared Islam to violence. Jews were upset over rehabilitation of a Holocaust denier and there was scandal over the leaking of the

pope’s private papers by his personal butler. In an announcement read to cardinals in Latin, the universal language of the Church, the 85-year-old said: “Well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of St Peter ...

“As from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours (1900 GMT) the See of Rome, the See of St. Peter will be vacant and a conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.”

At a news conference, chief Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the pope did not fear a possible

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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 12

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25 years ago Friday February 12, 1988

In Britain, The Atomic Energy Authority is created, to oversee the regulation of the production of atomic energy.

British church envoy Terry Waite, who disappeared a year ago while on a mission in Lebanon to negotiate the release of Western hostages, is being held at the Iranian Embassy in West Beirut. This was disclosed yesterday by the Arabic speaking newspaper The Victory.

1999 President Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

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Turkish Cypriot claims that the land they have abandoned to the South is equivalent to that they have appropriated in the North from Greek Cypriots evicted or made to leave their homes are untenable, and cannot stand the test of figures, official sources in Nicosia said yesterday.

One of the world’s best-known paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, is stolen from a museum in Norway.

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45 years ago Monday February 12, 1968

The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said today that use of tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam would be sheer lunacy and disastrous to America’s position. In a nationally televised recorded interview, Wilson, who had talks with President Johnson, was asked about reports of pressure on the US government to use the weapons in the event of a massive attack on the Marine base of the Demilitarised Zone, dividing North and South Vietnam.

2004 South Korean scientists announce they have successfully cloned the world’s first human embryo. However, in 2006 it emerges that the results had been faked.

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Prices drop for some medicines but not all New one-euro transaction fee for prescriptions

By Peter Stevenson and Poly Pantelides THE HEALTH ministry released a new price list for pharmaceuticals yesterday revealing some reductions in expensive drugs, a pricefreeze on prescription meds under €10 and increases in over-the-counter (OTC) products.

But consumers’ groups have condemned the hike in OTC medicines, and the limited overall reductions, and criticised the health ministry for setting a €1.0 transaction fee for prescriptions processed in the private sector.

The price list contains 4,191 medications, of which the prices of less than half have been reduced. Prices have gone down for 1,892 medicines, the prices for 1,815 are unchanged, and 484 have had their price increased, the head of the pharmaceutical services, Arthur Isseyegh said.

“The 484 medicines that have had their price increased are mainly low-cost, non-prescription medicines which should not affect the consumer too much,” Isseyegh said. He was referring to over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, sold without prescription, which companies are now able to sell at whatever price they want.

The Consumer and Quality of Life Union however condemned the decision to allow prices of basic medicine, such as Aspirin and Panadol double in some cases. “They may be cheap (drugs) but they have a high consumption rate, so profits also hike,” the union said in a statement.

For example, the price of Aspirin (20 tabs) has gone up from €1.80 to €2.30, and Panadol cold and flu (24 tabs) now costs €5.36 compared with €4.86. It is understood that about half of all OTC drugs available in the market are now more expensive.

“Unfortunately the Cypriot consumer will continue buying the most expensive medicines in Europe,” the consum-

Prices have gone down for 1,892 medicines ers’ union said, adding that the public would continue using the internet to buy, or else bring them in from abroad, or through the north.

“The reductions on the price list are limited as they don’t cover all the categories of medicines with most reductions essentially being minimal,” the statement added.

But health minister Androulla Agrotou told state broadcaster CyBC that with the new reductions, Cyprus would no longer be on the list of countries with the most expensive medicines.

Isseyegh said the reductions amounted to a total of €9.5 million to €10 million for consumers. “Analytically if we look at it, consumers should save approximately €1.85 million in 2013 on high bloodpressure medicines with many being reduced by 50 per cent,” Isseyegh said. “Money saved on stomach-acid related disorders should reach around €2.4 million in 2013 and €1.3 million on antibiotics for systemic use,” he added.

Consumers actually spend some €250 million a year on drugs, about €110 worth through the public sector and the rest through private pharmacies, auditor general

Chrystalla Georghadji said in her 2011 report. Meanwhile, the consumers’ union also criticised as “humiliating and inhumane” the introduction of a transaction fee for prescription medicines that will give private pharmacies an additional €1.0 per transaction. Given that 468 private pharmacies serve around 200,000 consumers, if each had only one prescription a year, the new charge would yield several thousand extra euros per pharmacy in extra annual revenue.

“Is it not a disgrace and cruel for a pharmacist to demand a fee from every patient, every pensioner, every large family, every unemployed person and every unfortunate person who doesn’t have enough money to raise their children, depriving them the ability to buy their children milk?” the consumers’ union said. Isseyegh said the fee exists in many European countries. “It paves the way towards procedures which will be applied in the national health scheme,” he said.

Pharmacies have a profit margin of up to 37 per cent of wholesale price – the second highest in the EU according to former health minister Sta-

vros Malas. Cyprus also has the second highest ratio of pharmacies to consumers in the EU, with 468 private pharmacies catering to up to 25 per cent of the population, a maximum of 210,000 people.

DISY deputy Stella Kyriakidou, who sits on the House Health Committee, questioned the timing of the new price list. “I am wondering why these new prices were not imposed when the current regime first took power five years ago and they have yet again waited for one week before the elections to implement their policy?” she asked.

“Cypriot patients have to face serious financial difficulties and the price list should be looked at again to provide more reductions in the price of medicine,” she concluded.

The auditor general has said that if the price list is updated once a year, prices could be reduced up to 20 per cent. But the health ministry is due to review medicine prices again in four years, sticking to a four year cycle methodology.

Malas, the former health minister who is running for elections this February tried to push the price review forward by a year – to 2012 – and even promised reductions of up to 50 per cent.

Instead, the average reduction is closer to 7.0 per cent.

The health ministry sets prices by getting the average from the wholesale prices of four EU member states ranging from cheap (Greece) to expensive (Sweden). The two countries in the middle are France and Austria.

Prices for medicines costing €10 or less have remained unchanged to ensure that manufacturers continue making them. Manufacturers will not usually make a drug if they cannot meet a 10 per cent profit margin on the wholesale price. When prices plunged in 2005, many drugs disappeared from the market with the pharmacists’ association claiming that twothirds of previously available medicines were no longer being sold.

President Demetris Christofias yesterday laid the foundation stone for a project to expand Larnaca general hospital.

The new €20m building will span 19,7000sqm and be connected to the main building via two covered bridges. Across four storeys – two underground - it will house offices and outpatient clinics. Another four floors may be added in the future. Works are expected to be completed in 36 months, while the contractor will also maintain it for 12 years, as part of the design-build-maintain contract

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Home CANDIDATES BUTT HEADS ON ECONOMY AND DOMESTIC POLICY AS A PROTEST WENT ON OUTSIDE

Promises of cheaper electricity, and citizen input on legislating PRESIDENTIAL frontrunner Nicos Anastasiades yesterday unveiled a proposal that would allow people to demand legislation passed by parliament – under certain conditions -- on matters that affect them.

“The only condition is that 10,000 signatures must be collected within four months,” Anastasiades’ spokesman Tasos Mitsopoulos said.

After confirming the signatures, the recommendation would be forwarded to the relevant parliamentary committee that must discuss it in three months.

“The committee is obliged to announce its conclusions and decide whether to send the proposal to plenum (for voting) or reject it,” Mitsopoulos said.

“Through this proposal, Nicos Anastasiades seeks to bolster public participation.”

AKEL-backed candidate Stavros Malas pledged yesterday to deliver a modern and upgraded health system.

Malas, who was health minister in the current administration for a year, said state hospitals would form the backbone of the system while the state would not pay more

than what it currently did.

Giorgos Lillikas, the third main contender, pledged to “exercise his influence,” if elected, to get the electricity authority to reduce its prices until it gradually returned to the public its contribution following the Mari explosion.

Lillikas also pledged to introduce special rates for large families and those with three children. Special rates will also be afforded to single-parent families.

The EAC already has special rates for large families and those with three children – income criteria do apply.

The authority also has special rates for families on welfare and those receiving heavy disability assistance.

The EDEK-backed candidate said he will create five photovoltaic parks in the higher regions and will provide residents free electricity, up to a certain amount, in lieu of a heating allowance.

The time frame for the project is five years.

Last, Lillikas pledged that the state will contribute to the installation of photovoltaic cells in hotels and industries and also speed up application processing.

DISY leader widens lead MAIN opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades has widened his lead over his two main challengers a week before presidential elections, three polls showed on Sunday, as voters looked for a fresh pair of hands to revive their struggling economy.

Support for Anastasiades rose above 40 per cent in two opinion polls by the Phileleftheros and the Kathimerini newspapers, while state broadcaster CyBC put his rating at 39.8 per cent. In all three cases, the polls showed at least a 15-point margin over his closest rival, Stavros Malas who is backed by ruling AKEL. Just over half a million Greek Cypriots will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president for a five-year term, with a runoff a week later if the first round does not produce a winner with an outright majority.

Christofias has seen his approval ratings plummet over his handling of the economy since he was elected in 2008.

Anastasiades, 66, criticised the government for stalling on seeking international aid while the island was shut out of financial markets.

A massive munitions explosion, which killed 13 people and incapacitated the island’s main power station in July 2011, was widely blamed on state incompetence. A bailout package for Cyprus, which could potentially amount to 100 percent of its Gross Domestic Product, is expected by April.

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The three candidates meet for the third and last time om television before the ballot on Sunday

No surprises in debate

By Poly Pantelides THE THREE main contenders in Sunday’s presidential elections yesterday discussed the economy and domestic policy for the third and final televised live debate, broadcast by four main TV channels Sigma, Ant1, CyBC and Mega.

A number of protesters claiming to have been duped by banks into investing in risky bonds were waiting for the candidates to show up outside state broadcaster CyBC. Tensions arose when AKEL-backed Stavros Malas passed them by at the gate but he did return to speak to them, difusing the situation. DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades and EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas also took a moment to talk to the protesters, all claiming they would support them.

Journalists and candidates alike stuck to the subject matter of the economy and the need to sign a memorandum agreement with Cyprus’ international lenders.

Malas stuck to AKEL’s line in relation to who was responsible for Cyprus’ nearly bankrupt state. He blamed the global crisis and the banks’ risky behaviour.

“We need to ensure that no second bailout loan is necessary,” Malas said, a point he kept returning to.

Police grapple with a protester He was also asked to comment on the Mari naval base blast in 2011 that killed 13 people, knocked out the main power station, and led thousands in the streets demanding the President’s resignation.

The attorney general who looked at the police report on criminal responsibility did not find that the president was criminally responsible, Malas said, adding that the opposition took advantage of the situation to drive people to the streets.

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Lillikas tried to assert himself as an independent candidate, despite his support

by EDEK. “I’m not part of the political status quo,” Lillikas said. “My commitment is towards the public,” he said.

Using natural gas to disengage from the bailout as soon as possible, was again the focus of Lillikas’ proposals, but he was also asked to comment on reports of certain practices while he served as commerce minister for the Tassos Papa-

dopoulos government, allegedly implicating himself and his wife in dodgy dealings.

Lillikas claimed that daily Politis that published the reports, supported Anastasiades’ candidacy and the mudslinging was only proof that they were worried he would get through to a second round, which would determine the winner.

“It is all untrue. This time I will not accept just an apology. I will get compensation and donate it to charity,” Lillikas said.

Anastasiades focused on his proposals – laid out in 49 draft laws – that would limit the terms of state officials, clarify their responsibilities, and scrutinise decisions to appoint them.

“We will not rest with electoral promises,” Anastasiades said adding that his proposals would become law.

He dismissed suggestions that he was a ‘yes-man’, all too willing to yield to his European partners.

“People want someone who knows how to create relations with those from whom he will later claim things,” he said.

At the end of the debste all three candidates were given two minutes to address viewers and tell them why they should vote for them.

They all looked straight into the camera and promised new hope and new beginnings.

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Daily dose of mudslinging

By Poly Pantelides AS SUNDAY’S presidential elections edge closer, ruling party AKEL yesterday accused the election forerunner of arrogance, and EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas threatened a daily newspaper with a lawsuit.

AKEL spokesman Giorgos Loucaides yesterday said forerunner DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades was arrogant and provocative, if his representatives were anything to go by.

One of DISY’s deputies stated during an afternoon TV talk show that Anastasiades would be the next president of the republic, Loucaides said.

“If Anastasiades’ crew behaves in this provocative and arrogant way, the public can only be left vulnerable and in fear over how Anastasiades would behave if he were elected president,” Loucaides said.

But the incumbent president, AKEL’s Demetris Christofias, himself said he was the future president of Cyprus before the elections in 2008. “You are speaking to the future president of the Republic,” he told a television reporter at the time in response to a question.

“We all know it very well that Anastasiades has not changed, he has just mutated in his positions. The people of Cyprus cannot trust him because he is not reliable and he inspires fear,” AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said during the opening ceremony of Nicosia refugee football team AEK Kythreas.

“Our people are worth much more than the leader of policies that go against people, an arrogant and unreliable (person),” Kyprianou said.

They deserve (Stavros) Malas, “who knows how to, and can, protect people,” he added.

“If there is anything that truly fills our fellow citizens with fear is them remaining in power,” responded DISY spokesman Harris Georgiades.

But Kyprianou also took on Giorgos Lillikas who has been unable to explain “how he will save Cyprus from Turkey”, and “who has spent his electoral campaign trying to substantiate his proposal on selling block 12”, he said, referring to the offshore gas field.

Meanwhile, Lillikas has taken on daily newspaper Politis, which published yesterday and on Sunday reports on allegedly dodgy practices during Lillikas’ term

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Lillikas said the reports were libellous, aiming to undermine his candidacy.

“Politis’ reports stem from their worries that Giorgos Lillikas will get through to the second (electoral) round and will beat Nicos Anastasiades,” a statement said adding that legal action would be taken against the newspaper.

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Sylikiotis: a new era of strategic partnership

From right: Delek CEO Gideon Tadmor, John Tomich, Cyprus country manager for Noble, and far left Sylikiotis

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Israeli firms take 30 per cent stake in Noble’s Cyprus field

By Elias Hazou THE GOVERNMENT yesterday signed an agreement transferring 30 per cent of Noble Energy’s gas exploitation rights on offshore Block 12 to Avner Oil & Gas and Delek Drilling, the US firm’s Israeli partners.

Avner and Delek Drilling are the arms of the Delek Group, a supplier of fuel and one of Israel’s largest companies. Noble’s request to transfer 30 per cent of its rights was approved by the Cabinet a week ago.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said

the deal opens up “a new era of strategic partnership between Cyprus and Israel” with both economic and political ramifications.

Attending the ceremony among others were Karen Enstrom, Regional Energy Officer to the US Embassy in Nicosia, Israeli ambassador Michael Harari, and Charalambos Ellinas and Solon Kassinis, executives of the state hydrocarbons company.

Noting that the consortium comprising Noble, Delek and Avner possesses the majority of shares in Israel’s Leviathan field, Sylikiotis said the participation of the Israeli com-

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panies in Cyprus’ block 12 opened up possibilities for “significant synergies.”

Economies of scale could also be achieved via the commercial exploitation of the natural gas discovered in Block 12 and the natural gas discovered in Leviathan, he added.

The minister spoke also of possible partnership in an LNG plant here for transporting natural gas to European and international markets.

BENEFITS The construction of such a terminal would yield benefits not only for Cyprus as a regional energy hub, but also for Israel and the broader region, said Sylikiotis.

“For the first time in the history of the south-eastern Mediterranean,” said Sylikiotis, “it is possible to turn our geographical position from a disadvantage to an advantage and to work together in order to form

conditions of prosperity, peace and progress to the benefit of our peoples.” Nicosia expects Noble to carry out follow-up drilling in Block 12 by October.

As a result of appraisal drilling the gas reserves which currently are only estimates - would be proven and be assigned an economic value, paving the way for eventual monetisation.

“We shall continue together to appraise the discovery in block 12 and also to follow up with additional targets for exploratory work,” said John Tomich, Cyprus country manager for Noble. For his part, Delek CEO Gideon Tadmor said everyone recognises that Cyprus “has a real potential of becoming an energy hub in this special place we live in.”

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ers but also between the governments of Cyprus and Israel working together for the benefit of the people of Cyprus and Israel and for the whole region.”

Tadmor expressed the hope that the “very significant” discovery of hydrocarbons in Block 12 would become “a very fruitful project and we will see how this project will cause other companies to join the effort of investing in oil and gas exploration offshore Cyprus.”

Cyprus signed its first hydrocarbon exploration contract with Noble Energy in 2008. In late 2011, the US company announced a discovery offshore Cyprus with estimated gross mean resources of seven trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

At the Eurasian Economic Summit held in Istanbul last month, Turkey’s deputy minister for energy and natural resources Hasan Murat Mercan warned his Israeli counterpart that Israel’s energy co-operation with Cyprus would stand in the way of any proposed Israel-Turkey natural gas pipeline.

CONSTRUCTION workers continued their strike action yesterday with no end in sight, as talks between the labour ministry, construction contractors and trade unions continued to be fruitless. The strike began on January 24 when workers from the construction industry decided to down tools in protest against the new collective agreements proposed by the contractors. Strikers have also protested against the large influx of foreign, unskilled, cheap labour into the marketplace.

In light of the ongoing strike, the builders’ union DEOK has set up an account for people wishing to pledge financial support to the union’s striking builders.

In a statement DEOK appealed to all workers and to the public in general to contribute to the strike fund to give financial assistance to their striking colleagues.

Contributions can be made at any Popular Bank, the account number is 35000-527997 and the name of the account is the Builders Strike Fund of DEOK. Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou yesterday expressed the state’s wish for a solution to be found and for the strike to end.

Remanded in son’s stabbing A 51-YEAR-OLD Nicosia woman was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days suspected of stabbing her son, 22.

The incident happened on Sunday. Reports said the woman was arguing with her daughter when her son stepped in to support his sister.

According to the reports, tempers flared and the young man allegedly began strangling his mother before she then allegedly managed to grab a kitchen knife and thrust it into his chest.

He was taken to hospital and underwent surgery after doctors established that he had suffered damage to his chest and lungs.

His condition is considered serious but not life threatening. The woman allegedly said she wanted to go to prison to be free from the torturous problems she has to deal with in her life.

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Five crew killed in ship drill Cables snap on a lifeboat aboard Louis-owned ship FIVE crew members died in an emergency drill on a Cypriot- owned cruise ship in the Canary Islands on Sunday.

Cables snapped on a lifeboat and it plunged 20 metres to the ocean and fell upside down, killing the five and injuring three others aboard, during the mock rescue exercise on the Thomson Majesty, operated by British travel group TUI Travel plc and owned by Cyprus-based Louis.

The boat was docked in the port of the capital of the island of La Palma, Santa Cruz. Safety tests on lifeboats are a significant source of accidents, according to a report by Britain’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch.

There were 1,498 passengers on board the 20year-old ship at the time, a Thomson Cruises spokesman said. None of them was involved in the accident. The ship is registered in Malta.

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Three of the dead were Indonesians. The other dead were a Filipino and a Ghanaian. Three more crew members were injured.

One person has been discharged from hospital and the other two people were expected to be released from hospital imminently, the company statement said.

A statement from Louis in Nicosia yesterday confirmed the deaths aboard the Thomson Majesty.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those involved at this time who have all been notified and offered assistance,” a statement from the company said. “Three crew that were injured who were taken to hospital for precautionary reasons, have now been released and are back on board and receiv-

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The company said it was undertaking an investigation to ascertain what led to the accident. ‘We are co-operating fully with the investigations,” said Louis, adding that it would be inappropriate to make any further comment at this

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Dogs ‘may understand the human mind’

By Ben Mitchell PET dogs may understand a human’s point of view, according to new research which suggests they are more likely to steal food when they think nobody can see them.

Dr Juliane Kaminski, of the University of Portsmouth’s department of psychology, found that when a human forbids a dog from taking food, dogs are four times more likely to disobey in a dark room than a lit room, suggesting they take into account what the human can or cannot see.

Dr Kaminski said: “That’s incred-

ible because it implies dogs understand the human can’t see them, meaning they might understand the human perspective.”

She said that although many dog owners think that their pets are clever and understand humans, this had not yet previously been tested by science.

Dr Kaminski said: “Humans constantly attribute certain qualities and emotions to other living things.

We know that our own dog is clever or sensitive, but that’s us thinking, not them.

“These results suggest humans might be right, where dogs are concerned, but we still can’t be com-

pletely sure if the results mean dogs have a truly flexible understanding of the mind and others’ minds. It has always been assumed only humans had this ability.”

The research involved a series of experiments in varied light conditions.

The tests were complex and involved many variables to rule out that dogs were basing their decisions on simple associative rules, for example, that dark means food.

Dr Kaminski said that there was no evidence on how well dogs could see in the dark, but the results of her research showed that dogs could differentiate between light and dark.

She said: “The results of these tests suggest that dogs are deciding it’s safer to steal the food when the room is dark because they understand something of the human’s perspective.”

She explained that previous studies have shown chimpanzees have a sophisticated understanding and seem to know when someone else can or cannot see them and can also remember what others have seen in the past.

She added that more research was needed to understand what was influencing the behaviour of dogs because their understanding was limited to the “here and now”.

Scotland ‘new state’ outside EU, UN if splits THE British government yesterday intensified its campaign to stop Scotland leaving the United Kingdom, publishing a legal opinion saying it would forfeit its membership of international bodies such as the European Union if it chose independence.

The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) that runs Scotland’s devolved government plans to hold a referendum on the politically sensitive and emotionally charged subject next year, and has played down the impact of a “Yes” vote on its international status.

But the 57-page legal opinion - drafted for the British government by two independent experts on international law - said the implications could be far-reaching, likening the situation to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union when Russia was declared the USSR’s legal successor but the 14 other Soviet states had to forge their international relations anew.

The overwhelming weight of international precedent suggested Scotland would be legally deemed a “new state”, it said - a scenario that would force it to re-apply to join international bodies such as

the EU, the UN and NATO. The government’s unusual decision to publish such an opinion reflects its concern that Scots may vote for independence, triggering the break-up of the UK comprising England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

“If Scotland became independent, only the ‘remainder of the UK’ would automatically continue to exercise the same rights, obligations and powers under international law as the UK currently does, and would not have to renegotiate existing treaties or re-apply for membership of international organisations,” the government said.

BEST OF BOTH Prime Minister David Cameron intervened in the British debate on Sunday, conceding that Scotland had what it takes to be an independent nation, but arguing it enjoyed “the best of both worlds” as part of the UK. “Put simply: Britain works.

Britain works well. Why break it?” he wrote in an article in Scottish newspapers.

Cameron’s political future and historic legacy are on the line. He has pledged to contest the next British election in 2015 and his own Conservative party would never forgive

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him if he presided over the break-up of the UK. London’s main parties are campaigning jointly against independence, knowing that Alex Salmond’s SNP is a highly motivated political machine that will spare no effort to win a vote on its flagship policy.

Tapping into an emotive cocktail of historical rivalry and a perception that the British parliament in London does not nurture Scotland’s national interests, the Yes Scotland campaign wants independence to be a reality by 2016.

Scottish secession could create serious problems for the remainder of the United Kingdom.

Britain’s Trident nuclear submarine fleet is based in Scotland and revenues from Scottish North Sea oil remain important to its coffers.

The SNP published a document this month suggesting the transition arrangements could be made relatively swiftly, and that Independence Day for Scotland could come in March 2016.

Opinion polls suggest support for independence has stalled, with around one third of voters backing it and just under half opposing it. But Cameron and politicians from other parties remain nervous.

ONE of the two Australian DJs who made a prank call to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was treated during the early stages of her pregnancy is back on air.

Michael Christian and Mel Greig sparked worldwide outrage in December when they were put through to Kate’s ward after phoning the King Edward VII’s Hospital, posing as Prince Charles and the Queen.

They were suspended by 2Day FM in Sydney after the nurse who answered the phone was found dead - but Christian has now returned to the airwaves.

He has appeared on sister-station Fox FM in Melbourne.

BRITISH butchers are seeing a marked spike in trade as consumers turn their backs on imported and processed goods in light of the horse meat scandal, industry professionals said yesterday.

Last month Irish food inspectors said they had found horse meat in some burgers stocked by a number of UK supermarket chains including Tesco, Iceland and Lidl.

The scandal has prompted British consumers to return to the high street butcher as confidence in processed and cheaper, imported meats plummets.

Brindon Addy, chairman of the Q Guild representing 130 butchers across England, Scotland and Wales, said: “There has definitely been a spike in sales for the high street butcher in recent weeks, some are saying by as much as 20 and 30 per cent.”

Fatal crash Shackleton Epic expedition leader Tim Jarvis (left) and mountaineer Barry Gray on arrival at Stromness after a gruelling three-day climb across the mountains and crevasses of South Georgia Island. A team of exhausted but elated explorers successfully recreated Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic survival journey, yesterday completing a three-day climb across mountains despite a treacherous blizzard. Jarvis and Gray reached the old whaling station at Stromness early yesterday (AFP)

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FIVE members of the same family have been killed in a car crash in Saudi Arabia - but a oneyear-old baby miraculously survived.

Three generations of the Welsh family had been making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca ahead of a family wedding when the taxi they were travelling in crashed into a ditch.

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Pope stuns world with resignation ‘I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me’ (continued from front page) “schism” in the Church, with Catholics owing allegiances to a past and present pope in case of differences on Church teachings. The pope, known for his conservative doctrine, stepped up the Church’s opposition to gay marriage, underscored the Church’s resistance to a female priesthood and to embryonic stem cell research.

But Lombardi said Benedict, who is expected to go into isolation for at least a while after his resignation, did not intend to influence the decision of the cardinals who will enter a secret conclave to elect a successor.

A new leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics could be elected as soon as Palm Sunday, on March 24, and be ready to take over

by Easter a week later, Lombardi said. He indicated the complex machinery of the process to elect a new pope would move quickly because the Vatican would not have to wait until after the elaborate funeral services for a pope. The decision shocked many throughout the world, from ordinary believers, to politicians to world religious leaders.

“This is disconcerting, he is leaving his flock,” said Alessandra Mussolini, a parliamentarian who is granddaughter of Italy’s wartime dictator. “The pope is not any man. He is the vicar of Christ. He should stay on to the end, go ahead and bear his cross to the end. This is a huge sign of world destabilisation that will weaken the Church.”

The announcement even caught the pope’s elder

brother Georg Ratzinger, off guard, indicating just how well-kept a secret it was.

Ratzinger told reporters in Germany that he had been “very surprised” and added: “He alone can evaluate his physical and emotional strength.”

Lombardi said Benedict would first go to the papal summer residence south of Rome and then move into a cloistered convent inside the Vatican walls. It was not clear if Benedict would have a public life after he resigns.

The last pope to resign willingly was Celestine V in 1294 after reigning for only five months, his resignation was known as “the great refusal” and was condemned by the poet Dante in the “Divine Comedy”. Gregory XII reluctantly abdicated in 1415 to end a dispute with a rival claimant to the papacy.

Lombardi said Benedict’s stepping aside showed “great courage”. He ruled out any specific illness or depression and said the decision was made in the last few months “without outside pressure”.

But Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, secretary to the late Pope John Paul, who suffered through bad health for the last decade of his life, had a thinly veiled criticism of Benedict. John Paul stayed to the end of his life as he believed “you cannot come down from the cross,” Dziwisz told reporters in Poland.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the worldwide Anglican communion at odds with the Vatican over women priests, said he had learned of the pope’s deci-

sion with a heavy heart but complete understanding.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the pope’s decision must be respected if he feels he is too weak to carry out his duties. British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “He will be missed as a spiritual leader to millions.”

Elected to the papacy on April 19, 2005, Benedict ruled over a slower-paced, more cerebral and less impulsive Vatican.

While he had slowed down recently - he started using a cane and a wheeled platform to take him up the long aisle in St Peter’s Square - he had given no hint recently that he was mulling such a dramatic decision.

Succeeding the enormously popular John Paul, Benedict never appeared to feel comfortable in a job he said he never wanted. He had wished to retire to his native Germany to pursue his theological writings, something which he will now do from a convent inside the Vatican.

The resignation means that cardinals from around the world will begin arriving in Rome in March and after preliminary meetings, lock themselves in a secret conclave and elect the new pope. In his announcement, the pope told the cardinals that in order to govern “... both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.”

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Ex-LAPD officer and US Navy reservist Dorner is suspected of targeting police oficers and their families

A RECORD $1 million reward was posted on Sunday for information leading to the capture of a fugitive former Los Angeles policeman suspected of targeting police officers and their families in three killings committed in retaliation for his 2008 firing.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said the reward, raised from private donations, police unions, businesses and city and county governments, marks the largest sum ever offered in Southern California in a criminal investigation.

The reward was posted as law enforcement agencies across the region pressed on for a fourth day in their

U.S. Northeast digs out following blizzard, hundreds of thousands are left without power

India stampede kills 36 at religious festival

THE US Northeast was digging out on Sunday after a blizzard dumped up to 40 inches (one metre) of snow with hurricane force winds, killing at least nine people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.

As the Northeast cleared roads and shovelled out, another storm bore down on the Northern Plains and tornadoes threatened the Southeast in a weekend of extreme weather across the United States.

A tornado which appeared to be a mile wide touched down in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, causing significant damage, said Anna Weber of the National Weather Service. The twister also hit the nearby town of Petal where it destroyed a brick building.

In New York City trucks ploughed through residential streets, piling snow even higher at the edges and leaving thousands of motorists to dig out their buried vehicles.

Another round of severe weather yesterday threatened more misery, with freez-

ing rain and more snow predicted that was set to make the evening commute even more difficult.

In Boston, Mayor Tom Menino canceled school yesterday after touring neighbourhoods throughout the city, where two feet (60 cm) of snow fell.

Utility companies reported that some 350,000 customers were still without electricity across nine states after the wet, heavy snow brought down tree branches and power lines.

Air traffic began to return to normal after some 5,800 flights were cancelled on Friday and Saturday, according to Flightaware, a flighttracking service.

Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and New York state’s Long Island MacArthur Airport reopened on Sunday morning.

Boston’s Logan International Airport reopened late on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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search for the suspect, ex-LAPD officer and US Navy reservist Christopher Dorner, 33. Beck described it as the most extensive manhunt ever mounted in the Los Angeles area.

He called the spate of revenge-driven violence Dorner is accused of committing “an act of domestic terrorism.”

“This is a man who has targeted those who we entrust to protect the public.

His actions cannot go unanswered,” Beck said.

At a news conference, Beck said investigators were making progress but he declined to elaborate, saying they presumed that if Dorner is still alive, he would be following media coverage

of the manhunt closely.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa added, “Our dedication to catching this killer remains steadfast, our confidence in bringing him to justice remains unshaken.”

The search for Dorner has been focused in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains northeast of Los Angeles since a pickup truck belonging to Dorner was found abandoned and burning near the popular ski resort community of Big Bear Lake on Thursday.

Police throughout the region also have chased down numerous unconfirmed sightings and dead-end leads.

Hindu devotees pray as they participate in ritual bathing at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad on Sunday

By Sharat Pradhan A STAMPEDE at a railway station in northern India killed at least 36 Hindu pilgrims on Sunday, the busiest day of the world’s largest religious festival at which some 30 million had gathered to wash away their sins in the sacred Ganges river.

Twenty-seven of the dead were women, mostly elderly and poor. An eight-yearold girl was also crushed to death. A Reuters witness saw a woman weeping at the train station, surrounded by six bodies dressed in brightly coloured saris.

Up to 100 million pilgrims and Hindu ascetics are expected to attend the twomonth long Kumbh Mela festival, which comes to an end next month.

It is held every 12 years in a temporary city covering an area larger than Athens, spread over a wide sandy river bank in Allahabad at the point where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet a third mythical river.

The festival grows in size every time it is held and is considered the world’s largest temporary gathering of people. Officials said some 30 million visited the site on Sunday, considered the most auspicious day to bathe in the river.

Officials gave contradictory

versions of what caused the crush. A railway official told Reuters police had been using batons to control the crowd, triggering panic. A state government official said a footbridge handrail collapsed, sending people slipping down the stairs and starting a stampede.

A spokesman for Indian railways said authorities had found 36 bodies and 30 people were injured. The injured were being treated at hospi-

Himalayan temple of Naina Devi.

Thousands of police and volunteers are used for crowd control during the Kumbh Mela, manning the river bank when the pilgrims and naked, dreadlocked ascetics dash into the water to bathe.

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pot from demons containing the nectar of immortality.

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“Since there were huge crowds and a lot of panic, it took time before the bodies could be extricated,” said another official, R. M. Srivastava, the top security official in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the festival is held.

Deadly stampedes are common at India’s vast pilgrimages and religious festivals.

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A TOWN in the southern Philippines plans to hold funeral rites for the world’s largest saltwater crocodile which has died after becoming ill in an eco-tourism park.

The mayor of Bunawan town in Agusan del Sur province said the remains of the one-tonne reptile, named Lolong, will be preserved in a museum to keep tourists coming and prevent their community from slipping back into obscurity.

The creature, which measured 20.24ft (6.17 metres), was declared dead on Sunday a few hours after flipping over with a bloated stomach in a pond the park in Bunawan town.

“The whole town, in fact the whole province, is mourning,” Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said. “My phones kept ringing because people wanted to say how affected they are.”

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No horsemeat fraud committed in Romania - PM

WORLD TODAY Military chief dies in crash THE head of Guinea’s armed forces, a staunch ally of President Alpha Conde, was killed yesterday when the aircraft carrying him and five other top Guinean military officials crashed close to the Liberian capital Monrovia.

General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo, who was on a security mission to Liberia, was appointed

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Diallo was charged with reforming the restive army in the West African state after two years of military rule.

Investigators and United Nations peacekeepers picked through the charred wreckage of the aircraft amid a grove of palm trees near Charlesville, some 40 km (25 miles) southeast of the Liberian capital Monrovia. There were no survivors.

Ponta angry at allegations against his country

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Romanian Prime Minister Ponta (above) denied his country was the site of any fraud over horsemeat sold as beef.

UK Environment Secretary Paterson (below centre) said the scandal appeared to be ‘extensive’ across Europe

Islamists thrown out of Gao FRENCH and Malian government forces have regained control of the strategic northern city of Gao after Islamic fighters tried to retake it.

Hundreds of residents gathered around the heavily damaged police headquarters building in the centre of the city where body parts lay strewn about a day after al Qaeda-linked militants launched a surprise attack on the city.

The radical Islamic fighters, who had ruled Gao for nearly 10 months before they were thrown out at the end of January, returned to the city by crossing the Niger River in boats to launch their assault on Sunday afternoon. The fighting lasted more than five hours.

Deportation order UGANDAN authorities said yesterday they plan to deport a British theatre producer who was charged last year with staging a play about homosexuality.

Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and David Cecil, 35, was charged with disobeying a public official last September after ignoring official orders to cancel a theatre production with a gay leading character.

A court dropped the charges against him last month due to lack of evidence. Cecil, who denied being a gay rights activist, would have faced two to four years in jail if convicted.

ROMANIA’S prime minister said yesterday any fraud over horsemeat sold as beef had not happened in his country and he was angered by suggestions that it might have been.

The French and British governments have vowed to punish those found responsible for allowing horsemeat originating from Romania to be sold as beef.

The British unit of frozen foods group Findus began recalling its beef lasagne last week on advice from its French supplier, Comigel, which said the questionable meat came from Romania.

“From all the data we have at the moment, there is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory,” Victor Ponta told a news conference.

“I am very angry, to be honest.”

An initial French investigation revealed that the horsemeat ended up in Comigel’s

Luxembourg factory, supplied by a French firm, and that a Dutch and Cypriot trader had also been involved.

However, the meat originally came from a Romanian abattoir.

Romania exports 10-12 million euros of horse meat a year, the Ziarul Financiar daily said, quoting agriculture ministry data, and authorities had investigated two unnamed abattoirs to check on their possible involvement.

‘RESPONSIBILITY’ “It is very clear that the French company did not have any direct contract with the Romanian company and ... it has to be established where the fraud was committed and who is responsible for this fraud,” Ponta said.

Horse and carts remain a common means of transport in the Romanian countryside and some can even be seen on the edges of major cities, including the capital Bucharest.

When horses are too old for work, farmers often sell them

to abattoirs.

Legal action over the horse meat scandal is to be mounted in Europe, British Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has said as he described the contamination of beef products as a case of fraud against the public.

Paterson said the scandal appeared to be “extensive” across Europe but he repeated his rejection of calls for a ban on meat imports, saying that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) advice was that all products on sale are safe for consumption.

“This is a case of fraud and a conspiracy against the public, this is a criminal action, substituting one material for another,” he told BBC Breakfast in answer to questioning about calls for a ban on meat imports.

“If a British consumer goes into a retail store and buys a beef product, they should expect to get beef in that product, not horse.

“So this is a straight case of fraud and I think you will see legal actions beginning in certain continental coun-

Russia mine blast kills 18 Biggest Syria dam seized by rebels AN underground methane gas explosion killed up to 18 miners at a coal pit in northern Russia yesterday and President Vladimir Putin dispatched his disasters minister to the scene to oversee rescue efforts.

Rescue workers said they had brought 10 bodies to the surface at the Vorkutinskaya mine, owned by large Russian steel company Severstal, in the icy Komi region and were trying to recover eight other corpses.

About 250 people had been at the pit at the time of the blast, about 800 metres (2,600 feet) below the surface but most had escaped or been rescued, government officials said.

Although mine safety has improved since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, fatal accidents are frequent in Russia’s ageing pits. Most accidents have been attributed to methane blasts, negligence or a failure to follow safety regulations.

“We need a clear and understandable picture of what happened,” Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov told local officials and rescue workers via a video link-up soon after the explosion.

Putin sent his condolences and ordered Puchkov to travel in person to Komi, about 1,200 km (750 miles) northeast of Moscow, to oversee the rescue, cleanup and help the victims’ families.

The Emergencies Ministry and Severstal said 16 miners had been killed and the fate of two others was unknown. Three people were taken to hospital after the blast, the company said.

Itar-Tass quoted Puchkov as saying each victim’s family would be paid 2 million roubles (£42,375) in compensation.

REBELS have captured Syria’s biggest hydro-electric dam and battled army tank units near the centre of Damascus, activists said as the opposition renewed an offer yesterday to negotiate the departure of President Bashar al-Assad.

On the Turkish border, nine people were killed when a car arriving from rebel-held territory in northwestern Syria blew up at the Reyhanli frontier crossing; Turkish officials said it was unclear whether the blast was a suicide attack or an accident.

The rebel seizure of the Taqba dam, a prestige project on the Euphrates river completed

by Assad’s father in the 1970s, may have only limited impact, but along with the fighting

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‘Wasteful’ Process begins to sell off Orphanides chain tax tribunal is to be abolished says state THIRTEEN years after it was set up, the government decided yesterday to abolish the tax tribunal, which proved to be ineffective and a waste of taxpayer money.

“The tax tribunal’s operation all these years has not been convincing,” government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said.

“The government has decided to submit a bill to parliament for its abolition, which will save substantial funds.”

The tribunal is an independent administrative body authorised to examine appeals against the decisions of the inland revenue department director.

It was made up of six members, including its chairman who collected €67,707 plus €3,000 in allowances plus cost of living allowance.

Each of the members received €59,714 per year.

The tribunal’s term was four years. The current board’s term ended on January 14.

The tribunal’s effectiveness, or lack thereof, had been extensively discussed by parliament during the budget debate last December.

“The general feeling of the discussion was that the tribunal had not convinced it was operating adequately, considering also the small number of appeals submitted,” the spokesman said.

Stefanou said the government was responding to the general sentiment that boards and other bodies that do not justify their cost were unnecessary.

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RECEIVERS appointed by the Popular Bank, the single largest creditor of debt-ridden Orphanides Supermarkets, have invited expressions of interest for the outright purchase of the business or of part of its assets.

The two receivers - from the Michalis Avraam & Partners Ltd and UHY Hacker Young LLP firms - are acting on behalf of the bank alone.

They were appointed by Popular earlier this month to ensure as much debt is paid back to the bank as possible.

The bank, a secured creditor, is reportedly owed around €100m. According to stock exchange data, in 2009 the equity of Orphanides Public Company Ltd amounted to €145m.

In a paid briefing published on

Sunday in Phileleftheros, the receivers said they have begun the process for selling the company, its activities and its assets.

According to the announcement, parties expressing an interest would be required to sign a confidentiality agreement, after which they would be given access to the company’s financial data, enabling them to formulate their eventual bids.

The bids should be submitted in sealed envelopes, the announcement said. A subsequent announcement would follow designating the deadline for the submission of bids.

The receivers said also they would look into a deal between Orphanides and the Elomas supermarket chain, concluded on January 14, by

which Elomas would take charge of supermarket operations within the Orphanides mall in Nicosia.

“The receivers are assessing the agreement in question and if need be shall take steps to immediately safeguard the interests of the creditors and shareholders,” the announcement said. Reports said the deal took the bank by surprise, because while the company was under receivership it was not supposed to enter into commercial agreements.

However the deal predates Popular’s actual appointment of receivers.

Over the next days the receivers are expected to meet with a number of suppliers of Orphanides who have expressed an interest in taking over

the management of some of the chain’s outlets. Once the island’s largest retailer, Orphanides owes suppliers a reported €85 million. Being unsecured creditors, the suppliers fret that the chain’s demise will drag them down as well, putting hundreds of jobs on the line.

Meanwhile a major supplier of Orphanides has filed a petition in court to wind up the supermarket chain.

Should the petition succeed, liquidators would step in to seize the company’s assets. These would then be distributed on a pro rata basis among all the company’s creditors, both those holding secured debt (the banks) and unsecured debt (suppliers and other commercial creditors).

Eurogroup asks for audit Speedy report sought to aid March bailout (continued from front page) questions about bank data confidentiality and scare foreign depositors away, the government said.

Some EU officials acknowledge that Nicosia has nothing to conceal, but say an audit by a private firm would help clear the air and thus overcome reservations among bloc members to endorsing financial assistance for the island.

Last week senior eurozone finance ministry officials told Cyprus it should “rapidly” order an independent audit into its anti-money laundering system.

Should the audit show that the country needs to do more in “two or three areas” to improve its practices in fighting money laundering through its financial system, the shortcomings could be introduced into the memorandum of understanding for Cyprus’s bailout, an EU official was quoted as saying.

The audit could be quickly

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly talks to ECB President Mario Draghi (R) during the meeting yesterday conducted by a private sector company and clear the air on those money-laundering allegations, the same official had said.

Eurozone officials have reportedly cited two reasons for a private firm taking the job: first, the audit could be speedily completed in time for a bailout deal, mooted for March; and second, organisations such as Moneyval focus more on the legal framework in place and less on the actual enforcement oF measures to

combat money laundering.

Cyprus has been in talks with the EU and the IMF for seven months to secure a much-needed bailout. Concerns about the country’s links to Russian money and its reputation as a moneylaundering and tax haven have hampered the talks and made the bailout deal politically controversial, especially in Germany.

Nicosia vehemently denies the money laundering allegations, citing recent assess-

ments by the IMF and Moneyval which gave the island high scores.

Moneyval is a Council of Europe committee of experts which assesses its members’ compliance with all relevant international standards in the legal, financial and law enforcement sectors through a peer review process of mutual evaluations.

Moneyval’s aim is to ensure that its member states have in place effective systems to counter money laundering

and terrorist financing and comply with the relevant international standards in these fields.

Such standards are those contained in the recommendations of the FATF, including the Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime.

Cyprus aid is ‘not a one-way street’ says Asmussen

By George Psyllides EUROPEAN Central Bank executive board member Joerg Asmussen has warned that Cyprus could default if there was a delay in granting financial assistance to the island, putting at risk the progress achieved in the eurozone last year.

Asmussen believed an aid package for Cyprus will be ready by the end of next month, he told the German business daily Handelsblatt in an interview published yesterday.

“I expect the aid programme for Cyprus will be in place by the end of March,” he said, adding that politicians in his native Germany should not try to delay a controversial decision on Cyprus until after a German federal election in September.

“There must be no doubt about this: if Cyprus gets no external help, it will slide into default,” said Asmussen.

He also warned that failing to help a

systemically relevant euro zone country would “put at risk progress made last year on the euro crisis - and that would have high financial and political costs”.

Politicians in Germany’s governing alliance and the opposition are hesitant about granting Cyprus a €17.5 billion bailout because of its status as a tax haven for rich Russians, many of whom use it for money-laundering.

Asmussen said an aid package for Cyprus would be “no one-way street” and the government in Nicosia would have to fulfil “tough conditions” including scaling down its financial sector and introducing more banking transparency.

At the same time the European Commission said yesterday it had not proposed forcing losses on uninsured depositors of Cypriot banks.

The remarks were made following a report in the Financial Times that a proposal had been made to ‘bailin’ investors and depositors of Cyp-

riot banks, a move that would reduce the amount of financial assistance required by Cyprus. “There are no proposals of the European Commission along the lines described in the article,” said a spokesman for Olli Rehn, the European Commissioner in charge of economic and monetary affairs.

He added that the Commission intended to ensure fair burden sharing and restructuring Cypriot banks.

Quoting a confidential memo, the FT said the proposal was one of three options put forward as alternatives to a full-scale bailout.

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said Cyprus would not accept such a proposal. “I would say that the bail-in of depositors is a grossly exaggerated possibility, unlikely to happen, we will not accept it under any circumstances and I don’t think it creates any way forward,” Shiarly said.

The Central Bank of Cyprus said there was no question of implement-

ing such a plan. Such an action would be unconstitutional since it affected a person’s right to property, a Central Bank spokesperson said.

It also clashed with provisions of the European Charter of Human Rights, Aliki Stylianou said.

The new plan has not been endorsed by its authors in the European Commission or by individual eurozone members, the FT said. The memo warned that “risks associated with this option are significant”, including a renewed danger of contagion in eurozone financial markets, and premature collapse in the Cypriot banking sector.

Labelled “strictly confidential” and distributed to eurozone officials last week, the memo said the radical version of the plan – including a “haircut” of 50 per cent on sovereign bonds – would shrink the Cypriot financial sector -- nearly eight times larger than the island’s economy -- by about one-third by 2015, the FT said.

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Opinion

Would giving troika a say in managing natural gas be such a disaster?

SPEAKING in the Netherlands’ lower house in The Hague last week, the new head of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that revenues from natural gas could be included in calculations to make the Cyprus debt sustainable. Proceeds from the sale of gas, he said, could be paid into a separate account that could be used to service the national debt, adding, however that certain questions needed to be answered first.

Before that gas was included in the programmes, the drillings had to be completed and the quantities and the quality of the gas had to be established, said Dijsselbloem.

This was a pretty sensible response regarding the Cyprus bailout, which would have to be approved by the Dutch parliament. It was perfectly understandable that MPs sought explanations of how we would be repaying our loan and that the head of the Eurogroup wanted to assure them that revenue from natural gas would go towards paying it off.

Dijsselbloem’s comments were slammed in Cyprus on the grounds that the Europeans wanted to take control of our natural gas resources, a claim that we have heard on countless occasions from our politicians.

Their argument is that taking decisions jointly with the troika on hydrocarbons would be undermining the country’s sovereignty, which is a correct observation, but a statement of the obvious.

Just like the shareholders of a business which is being saved from bankruptcy by the bank relinquish control of decision-making so does a state in the same predicament.

Were we under the impression that our lenders would allow us to take the revenue from hydrocarbons and spend it on pay rises in the public sector or on building new roads, while owing billions to them?

This would not happen anywhere in the world and commerce minister Neoclis Sylikiotis was being disingenuous in attempting to make out there was a foreign scheme aimed at preventing Cyprus playing a bigger political role in the region and in Europe by using its natural wealth. The truth is that the Europeans are looking for ways to ensure that Cyprus’ debt would not be unsustainable, as this would cause big problems both for the island and the euro-zone. If accounting for the hydrocarbon revenues would make the debt sustainable, would it be such a bad thing?

Giving a say to the troika over the management and exploitation of hydrocarbons is not the disaster Sylikiotis claims either. The troika has as much of an incentive in monetising our gas finds as we do, because the repayment of our debt would be guaranteed in this way. In fact its participation in the decision-making could help us develop a rational energy policy, something our politicians have, so far, failed to do.

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Tunisia murder mystery: who killed Chokri Belaid?

Comment Gwynne Dyer

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HEN somebody is murdered and his killer is unknown, the detective’s first step is to ask: who had a motive? In classic murder-mystery novels and films, the usual answer was: almost everybody. That’s the only way to keep the plot going for 250 pages/90 minutes. But in real life, the suspects are generally few, and pretty obvious. So who killed Chokri Belaid?

The Tunisian human rights lawyer and political leader was assassinated outside his home as he left for work on February 6, and the country immediately erupted in violent anti-government demonstrations. His wife Basma said she would file murder charges against the ruling Ennahda Party and its leader, and the mobs in the street chanted the mantra of the Arab revolutions, “the people want the fall of the regime.”

But the regime in question is the democratically elected government of a country that has already had its revolution. Tunisia was the birthplace of the “Arab spring”. It held its first free election on October 2011, to elect an assembly to write the new constitution. The winner, as in a number of other Arab countries, was a moderate Islamic party.

The Ennahda-led transitional government has made some mistakes, as you would expect of inexperienced politicians, but it has shown no desire to subvert democracy. Indeed, the Islamic party formed a coalition with two secular centre-left parties after the election, and in the weeks before Belaid’s murder it was deep in talks to broaden the coalition and bring other secular parties in.

Those other parties have now

Tunisian human rights lawyer and political leader Belaid walked out of the talks, demanding the cancellation of the results of the 2011 election. That certainly does not serve Ennahda’s interests, and the violent protests in the streets are even more of a problem, since they might trigger a military intervention to “restore order”.

(The Tunisian army is strongly pro-secularist.) In terms of motive, Ennahda has none. So who would actually benefit from killing Chokri Belaid?

One suspect is the Salafists, religious extremists who despise the Ennahda Party but absolutely hate militant secularists like Belaid. Many in the secular camp criticise Ennahda’s founder and leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, for failing to “crack down” when Salafist fanatics attack peaceful political gatherings, and he must bear some blame here. But that’s still a long way from plotting a murder.

Ghannouchi, like the leaders of other moderate Islamic parties across the Arab world, is reluctant to treat the Salafists as enemies (even though they are), because they both compete for the votes of pious Muslims. But he also argues, quite reasonably, that mass arrests and torture of Salafists in the style of the old regime is immoral and counterproductive. Just track down the ones who have committed specific crimes.

Did the Salafists commit this particular crime? Possibly. Killing a militant secularist would be emotionally satisfying to them. But they are not actually the leading suspect in Shokri Belaid’s murder.

The prime suspect is the old ruling elite, people who served the former dictator and have been deprived of power and opportunities for graft since the revolution. They can only regain their

privileges if democracy fails, so violence in the streets, extreme political polarisation, the discrediting of an elected government, and a military take-over are precisely what they need.

The Constitutional Democratic Rally, the party whose members loyally served the dictator and were lavishly rewarded by him, was banned after the revolution, and some of its senior members are in jail or in exile. But there are still plenty of others around, and it would be astonishing if they were not plotting a comeback. The only viable route to that goal is to stimulate a civil war between the secular democrats and the Islamic democrats.

If this is where the logic takes us, why are some of the secular parties taking to the streets?

In some cases, no doubt, grief and rage have led them astray.

In other cases, however, there is probably the cynical calculation that this is the most effective way to hurt the Islamic party, even if it had nothing to do with the murder.

Ennahda’s response has been less than coherent. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, shocked by the news of the murder, offered to replace the government with a cabinet of technocrats and call early elections, but the party’s founder and leader, Rachid Ghannoushi, said that the government should stay in place and track down the murderers.

Jebali is sticking to his guns, and the outcome is far from clear. The whole thing is a mess, and Tunisians are justifiably concerned that their revolution has lost its way. But there is quite a good chance that they will be able to get the process of building a law-abiding democracy back on track without a major disaster, and it’s certainly far too soon to say that their revolution was a mistake.

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

Brennan perpetuates Obama’s legacy of secrecy Analysis Kate Kelland JOHN Brennan’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last Thursday was a microcosm of the Obama administration’s approach to counterterrorism: The right assurances, with little transparency.

Brennan said the United States should publicly disclose when American drone attacks kill civilians. He called waterboarding “reprehensible” and vowed it would never occur under his watch.

And he said that countering militancy should be “comprehensive,” not just “kinetic,” and involve diplomatic and development efforts as well. What any of that means in practice, though, remains unknown.

Brennan failed to clearly answer questions about the administration’s excessive embrace of drone strikes and secrecy. He

flatly defended the quadrupling of drone strikes that has occurred on Obama’s watch.

He gave no clear explanation for why the public has been denied access to vital Justice Department legal opinions that give the president the power to kill a US citizen without legal review. And his statement that the establishment of a special court to review the targeting of Americans was “worthy of discussion” was noncommittal.

Administration officials, as they have been for years, were more forthcoming in private about the career CIA officer who has served as the president’s chief counter-terrorism adviser throughout his first term.

The day before the hearing, a senior administration official who asked not be named said Brennan has actively worked to reduce drone attacks and increase transparency.

They described him as a traditionalist who would move the CIA away from the paramilitary attacks that have come to define

its mission since 2001. Instead, the agency would move back to espionage and hand over lethal strikes, including drone attacks, to the military’s Special Operations forces.

Daniel Benjamin, who recently stepped down as the State Department’s top counterterrorism official, told The New York Times this week that Brennan had sweeping authority. “He’s probably had more power and influence than anyone in a comparable position in the last 20 years,” said Benjamin.

“He’s had enormous sway over the intelligence community. He’s had a profound impact on how the military does counterterrorism.”

Some former military and intelligence officials have warned that the administration’s drone strikes have shifted from an attempt to target senior militants to a de facto bombing campaign against low-level fighters.. They say such a policy creates high levels of public animosity toward

the US for questionable results.

In truth, the administration insistence on keeping the drone programme secret fuels public suspicion. Declaring a program “covert” when it is reported on by the global media on a daily basis is increasingly absurd.

After the hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she was considering drafting legislation that would create a special court to review requests by the US president to target Americans under certain circumstances.

The new body would be similar to the court that currently reviews government requests to wiretap citizens. The Obama administration has a long record of promising transparency and then embracing secrecy.

David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a former reporter for The New York Times

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Showbiz

High note: Fun. receives their Grammy for Song of the Year. Right: Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z perform

Black Keys win three as Grammys spread widely Gotye, Mumford & Sons, FUN. pick up top trophies in Sunday night show

By Piya Sinha-Roy THE Grammy awards were bestowed widely on Sunday as Australian singer Gotye, New York indie-pop trio FUN. and British folk band Mumford & Sons took home top honours on the music industry’s biggest night.

On an evening that rewarded mostly young or lesser known artists over veterans and household names, British folk band Mumford & Sons picked up two Grammys, including the coveted Album of the Year for Babel.

Unlike last year, when British singer Adele swept the board with six trophies, there was no single big winner.

Ohio rockers The Black Keys, formed by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, took home three Grammys including Best Rock Album for El Camino. Auerbach also won the prestigious Producer of the Year award, bring his tally to four.

Mumford & Sons went into

Double win: Ben Affleck with his two BAFTA awards

the ceremony with six nominations but they had to wait until the last minutes of the 3 and 1/2 hour televised show to claim the top prize.

“We just sort of resigned ourselves that last year was Adele’s year and this year would be the Black Keys’ year,” lead singer Marcus Mumford told reporters backstage, adding that it felt “awesome” to finally win.

FUN. was named Best New Artist and won Song of the Year for its smash 2012 hit We Are Young. “I don’t know what I was thinking writing the chorus of this song. This is HD (television), everyone can see our faces, and we are not very young. We have been doing this for 12 years,” lead singer Nate Ruess said.

Australia’s Gotye won three Grammys, including Record of the Year for his heartbreak hit Somebody That I Used to Know. The singer-songwriter said he was surprised by the runaway global success of the song, which was recorded in a barn on his father’s

property in Australia.

“I wouldn’t mind if I don’t have another song that has a moment like this... I have written maybe better songs and hopefully will write better songs,” Gotye told reporters backstage.

Rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West walked off with three trophies, two for their collaboration N****s in Paris and one for their song Mercy, which also featured R&B cean. star Frank Ocean. us Grammy The 80-plus e voted on categories are by members of the Reemy, which cording Academy, is made up of creative and industry professionals in the music world.

But only a handentful were presentay’s ed on Sunday’s ch telecast, which rincluded performances from Rihanna, Elton John, Taylor ie Swift, Carrie Underwood, Ali-

cia Keys, and Bruno Mars.

The night’s other winners included electronic music DJ Skrillex with three awards, Adele, Zac Brown Band and Miguel.

Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of TV contest American Idol, gave a shout out to up-and-coming Los Angeles R&B artist Miguel as she collected her Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album, saying, “I don’t know who the hell you to are but we need to sing tog e t h e r. . .

That was the sexiest damn thing I’ve ever seen.”

One of the night’s most anticipated performers, Justin Timberlake, returned to the spotlight with his first televised performance since he released Suit & Tie in January, his first new song in five years.

Timberlake sang and danced with performers dressed in suits and ties in a throwback black and white speakeasystyle set, joined by Jay-Z. Cou Country-pop darling TayS lor Swift kicked off the show with a circus-themed set for h single We Are Never her hit Ever Getting Back Together.

Bru Bruno Mars, Rihanna and Sting joined Ziggy and DamM ian Marley for a lively tribute to late reggae singer Bob M Marley, featuring Locked O Out of Heaven, Walking on the Moon and Marley’s hit love song Could Y Be Loved.

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Gotye and Kimbra pose with their trophies at the Staples Center during the Grammys

KEY 2013 GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS ALBUM OF THE YEAR Babel - Mumford & Sons RECORD OF THE YEAR Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra BEST NEW ARTIST Fun. SONG OF THE YEAR (Songwriter’s award) We Are Young (Fun.) - Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM Stronger - Kelly Clarkson BEST ROCK ALBUM El Camino - The Black Keys BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM Making Mirrors – Gotye BEST R&B ALBUM Black Radio - Robert Glasper Experiment BEST RAP ALBUM Take Care - Drake BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Uncaged - Zac Brown Band BEST DANCE/ ELECTRONIC ALBUM Bangarang - Skrillex BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE Set Fire to the Rain (Live) - Adele BEST POP DUO/ GROUP PERFORMANCE Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye feat. Kimbra BEST DANCE RECORDING Bangarang - Skrillex featuring Sirah BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

Argo extends winning streak with best film BAFTA

By Es Estelle Shirbon BEN Affleck’s Argo was crowned best film at the BAFTAs on Sund Sunday while Daniel Day-Lewis bagg bagged yet another leading actor awar award for the title role in Lincoln as an increasingly familiar awa awards season script unfolded in L London.

A eck also won the best Affl di director trophy for Argo, about th rescue of American hosthe ta tages in Iran during the 1979 rrevolution, and the movie is n now in pole position to win tthe biggest movie award of all on Oscar night.

“You are remarkable at what you do. You’re smart a and you know what you want b more importantly you love but wh you’re doing,” George what Cloo Clooney, one of the film’s produc-

ers, told Affleck on stage as they accepted the best film award.

Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Abraham Lincoln was nominated in 10 categories but went away with just one award for DayLewis, following a pattern seen at the Golden Globes and at other prestigious US award nights.

The reclusive Day-Lewis, a method actor well-known for staying in character during the entire filming period of his movies, began his victory speech by satirising his own working habits.

“Just on the chance that I might one day have to speak on an evening such as this, I’ve actually stayed in character as myself for the last 55 years,” he said to laughs from the audience at the Royal Opera House.

Emmanuelle Riva, an 85-year-old French actress, won the BAFTA for leading actress for her part as

a retired music teacher struggling to cope with the aftermath of a stroke, in Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Amour.

Haneke’s harrowing Frenchlanguage Amour also won the BAFTA for best film not in the English language.

Anne Hathaway won the BAFTA for best supporting actress for her singing role as the tragic Fantine in Les Miserables, the movie version of a global hit stage musical.

“What am I thinking? I almost walked past George Clooney without hugging him. That’s just stupid,” she said after being presented with her statuette by the Hollywood heart-throb.

Christoph Waltz won the supporting actor award for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s slavery-era Western Django Unchained, which also won the best original screenplay BAFTA.

The James Bond movie Skyfall beat Les Miserables to win the BAFTA award for outstanding British film, a rare joy for 007 fans who feel the Martini-loving spy has been long overdue for a major trophy.

“We all had very high expectations for the film and I think it’s fair to say all of them have been exceeded, and this really is the icing on the cake,” said Sam Mendes, the film’s director.

Skyfall also took the award for original music, while Les Miserables took four BAFTAs. As well as Hathaway’s prize, the musical won best production design, sound, and make-up and hair.

Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, about a man and a tiger lost at sea, won two BAFTAs, one for best cinematography and another for visual effects. The tiger, a central character, was entirely conjured out of special effects.

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Environment

European cars less green than claimed

Air pollution identified as ‘risk’ to baby health

A third of CO2 emissions cuts down to test loopholes

By John von Radowitz

By Barbara Lewis EUROPEAN car manufacturers are exploiting test loopholes to exaggerate their vehicles’ green credentials, an official European Commission study has found.

The report, which is likely to stoke already heated debate on carbon standards, found that cars are more polluting and a lot less fuelefficient than their makers tell us.

Simulations used to test new cars have never perfectly reflected actual emissions.

However, the EC-commissioned analysis by three consulting firms found “flexibilities” squeezed consumers, benefited manufacturers and jeopardised European Union environment goals.

Test techniques such as using tyres with extra traction or driving on an unrealistically smooth road surface could account for about a third of the recorded drop in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across the European Union between 2002 and 2010, it said.

“Frankly, people should be absolutely outraged. This is just taking money out of people’s pockets. The industry is running rings around this procedure,” one EU source said.

CO2 emissions were 167.2 grams per kilometre (g/km) in 2002 and 140.4 g/km by 2010, figures in the report showed, giving a total average reduction across new EU cars of 26.8 g/km. The study attributed 9.1 g/km, or roughly a third, to the way testing was performed, rather than improved technology.

“This means that vehicles do not deliver end-users the promised fuel cost reductions, leading to consumer misinformation,” said the re-

Those driving on ‘real’ roads do not find the cars quite so energy efficient, a new study says port carried out by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), British-based AEA Ricardo and IHS Global Insight, of the United States.

Already widely used, the flexibilities could be exploited further as debate continues in Brussels on implementation of a 2020 target to cut average emissions across the EU fleet to 95 (g/km).

In addition to the 2020 goal, the Commission is revising testing law, but it is not expected to close all the loopholes. Globally, the United Nations is working on new standards.

The Commission said new tests from around 2016 should “mitigate” the effect of these flexibilities on the gap between actual and regulatory CO2 emissions, though “some tolerances are necessary for practical reasons”.

EU consumer organisation BEUC calculated that the flexibilities meant that consumers paid up to €135 a year more in fuel, based on today’s fuel prices and 14,000km of driving in a car bought in 2010.

British Liberal member of the European Parliament Chris Davies said he was

working on amendments to tackle testing standards as part of the 2020 cars emissions debate.

“The cheats are confounding the lawmakers and deceiving the public,” he said.

Another British Liberal European politician, Fiona Hall, is calling for conformity tests after cars have entered service.

One of those involved in the report, TNO consultant Richard Smokers, said that such tests would help and that Europe’s use of flexibilities was more pronounced than elsewhere.

The United States already

has in-service tests and Japan is culturally scrupulous, he said.

“What we have heard from people in the field is that there is a cultural reluctance to exploit flexibilities.

It’s the difference between the spirit and the letter of the law. In Europe, we have a tradition of finding and exploiting bandwidths and loopholes,” he said.

VDA, which represents the German auto industry, said in a statement that a unified testing cycle was necessary and the car industry was “working actively” on reform.

SOOTY air pollution in towns and cities increases the chances of women giving birth to small babies, research has shown.

A study involving millions of births around the world found that higher pollution levels raised the risk of low birth weight.

Although small, the effect is said to be statistically significant. At national population scales it could have an important impact on child health, said the researchers.

Babies are underweight at birth if they tip the scales at less than 2,500g.

They face an increased risk of dying in infancy, as well as chronic poor health and impaired mental development.

The new study, the largest of its kind ever conducted, focused on tiny sooty carbon particles called PM10s and even smaller PM2.5s which are known to be linked to heart and lung problems and early death.

They originate from a number of sources, including diesel exhausts and the chimneys of coal-fired power stations and factories.

Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli, who led the UK arm of the study at the University of Newcastle, said: “As air pollution increases we can see that more babies are smaller at birth which in turn puts them at risk of poor health later in life.

“These microscopic particles, five times smaller than the width of a human hair, are part of the air we breathe every day. What we have shown definitively is that these levels are already having an effect on pregnant mothers.”

The research also showed a continual trend of elevated low birth weight risk with higher levels of air pollution.

Row erupts over ‘tin from coast’ New group seeks to save nearAmazon forest more resilient scheme on Cornish beaches lawless oceans from over-fishing to climate change than feared ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have clashed with a minerals firm over plans to extract tin from Britain’s Cornish coastline and sell it to Asia.

Marine Minerals Ltd (MML) wants to filter valuable tin from a section of the north coast of the county, pumping millions of pounds annually into the UK economy through its use in hi-tech equipment such as mobile phones.

But campaigners from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) say the work, scheduled to begin as early as 2015, would have significant impact on the region’s cherished tourist, surfing and fishing economies, as well as local wildlife.

The mineral firm has rejected these concerns and says

any work carried out, 200 metres out to sea from the low tide, would be completed without detriment to existing beach and water users.

The row has re-ignited ahead of an application for an environmental permit from MML to the Marine Management Organisation.

If granted later this year, it would allow MML to assess the likelihood of successfully extracting tin as desired without environmental consequences, eventually paving the way for a licence to carry out the work.

Chris Davies, MML spokesman, said: “The bottom line is that SAS don’t know whether the project will or will not cause problems, they are making assumptions based on no evidence. ”.

THE HIGH seas that cover almost half the Earth’s surface are a treasure trove with little legal protection from growing threats such as over-fishing and climate change, according to a new international group of politicians.

“High levels of pillage are going on,” David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, said. He will co-chair the Global Ocean Commission, which started work last week and give advice to the United Nations on fixing the problems.

Over-fishing and environmental mismanagement cost the world economy $50 billion a year and about three-quarters of world fish stocks are over-fished or fished to the maximum, according to World Bank and UN data.

“The hidden depths are a treasure trove, and a treasure trove that we neglect or raid at our peril,” Miliband said of the high seas, the area beyond national limits that stretch 200 nautical miles (370 km) from coasts.

Miliband said vast areas of the oceans, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, were “a neglected area of global governance” despite a 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The Commission says the high seas are under severe and increasing threat from over-fishing, damage to habitat, climate change and ocean acidification caused by a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

THE AMAZON rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertiliser, a study has showed.

The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.

“I am no longer so worried about a catastrophic dieback due to CO2-induced climate change,” Professor Peter Cox of the University of Exeter in England said of the study he led in the journal Nature. “In that sense it’s good news.”

Cox was also the main author of a much-quoted study in 2000 that projected that the Amazon rainforest might dry out from about 2050 and die off because of warming.

Others have since suggested fires could transform much the forest into savannah.

Plants soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it as an ingredient to grow leaves, branches and roots. Stored carbon gets released back to the atmosphere when plants rot or are burnt.

A retreat of the Amazon forests, releasing vast stores of carbon, could in turn aggravate global warming that is projected to cause more floods, more powerful storms and raise world sea levels by melting ice sheets.

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OPE Benedict was cheered by conservatives for trying to reaffirm traditional Catholic identity but liberals accused him of turning back the clock on reforms and hurting dialogue with Muslims, Jews and other Christians.

The 85-year-old Germanborn pontiff announced yesterday he would step down at the end of the month because the effects of old age meant he was unable to complete his ministry. It was a decision that stunned Church officials and Catholics around the world, but one that he had hinted at in the past.

Benedict enjoyed relatively good health most of his life but the first sign that he was slowing down came in October 2011, when he began using a wheeled platform to move up the main aisle of St Peter’s Basilica.

In a book in 2010, he said he would not hesitate to become the first pontiff to resign willingly in more than 700 years if he felt himself no longer able, “physically, psychologically and spiritually” to run the Catholic Church Before he was elected pope, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was known as “God’s rottweiler” because of his stern stand on theological issues.

But it became clear that not only did he not bite, but he barely even barked.

Despite great reverence for his charismatic, globe -trotting predeces-

sor - whom he put on the fast track to sainthood and beatified in 2011 - aides said he was determined not to change his quiet manners to imitate John Paul’s style.

A professorial type who relaxed by playing the piano, Benedict sought to show the world the gentler side of the man who had been the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer for nearly a quarter of a century.

But child abuse scandals hounded most of his papacy.

He ordered an official inquiry into abuse in Ireland, which led to the resignation of several bishops. But the Vatican’s relations with once Catholic Ireland plummeted during his papacy, to the point that Dublin closed its embassy to the Holy See in 2011.

Victims demanded that he be investigated by the International Criminal Court but the Vatican said he could not be held responsible for the crimes of others.

Scandal closer to home hit in 2012 when the pontiff’s butler was found to be the source of leaked docu-

Pope Benedict XVI in Rome after celebrating a mass for the opening of a Roman Catholic synod of bishops in 2008

Benedict’s papacy marked by strong conservative fo B contrasted sharply with charismatic John Paul, re ments alle alleging corruption in the Vat Vatican’s business dealings, ca causing an international fu furore.

The firrst German pope for 1,0 1,000 years, Benedict confronted his countr country’s past when he visited the Nazi death camp a at Auschwitz.

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He was never a member of the Nazi party and his family opposed Adolf H Hitler’s regime.

But his trip to Germany also prompted the first major crisis of his pontificate. In a un university lecture he qu quoted a 14th century Byzantine em-

peror as saying Islam had only brought evil to the world and that it was spread by the sword.

After protests that included attacks on churches in the Middle East and the killing of a nun in Somalia, the pope said he regretted any misunderstanding the speech caused.

In a move that was widely seen as conciliatory, he made a historic trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey in 2006 and prayed in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque with the city’s grand mufti.

But months later, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met the pope and said wounds between Christians and Muslims were still “very deep” as a result of the Regensburg speech.

In 2007 Benedict appointed a Polish bishop who once spied for communist police.

The bishop had to stand down.

Benedict made a successful trip to the United States in 2008. He apologised for the sexual abuse scandal, promised that paedophile priests

would go, and comforted abuse victims.

But 2009 became an annus horribilis for the pope as he made one misstep after another.

The Jewish world, as well as many Catholics, were outraged after Benedict lifted the excommunication of four

At the Vatican, he preferred to appoint men he trusted blindly and some of his early appointments were controversial.

He chose Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who had worked with him for years in the Vatican’s doctrinal office, to be Secretary of State even

The pope prompted international outra of 2009, when he told reporters on a p Africa that the use of condoms in the only worsened the probl traditionalist bishops, including one who openly denied the Holocaust.

The pope prompted international outrage again in March of 2009, when he told reporters on a plane taking him to Africa that the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS only worsened the problems.

though Bertone had no diplomatic experience.

One of the themes he often returned to was the threat of relativism, rejecting the concept that moral values are not absolute but relative to those holding them.

“We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism, which does not recognise an-

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ocus, his reserved style eports Philip Pullella ything as definitive and has as its highest value one’s own ego and one’s own desires,” he said in a homily at John Paul’s funeral, which many believed convinced his brother cardinals to vote for him in the conclave that followed.

Benedict committed himself to Christian unity but

age again in March plane taking him to fight against AIDS ems other religions criticised him in 2007 when he approved a document that re-stated the Vatican position that all other Christian denominations apart from Catholicism were not full churches of Jesus Christ.

He confirmed his conservative view of other religions in 2011, when an inter-faith

meeting in Assisi, Italy did not include the simultaneous common prayer that was held when John Paul initiated the gatherings in 1986.

At the same meeting however, he meekly acknowledged “with great shame” that Christianity had used force in its long history as he joined other religious leaders in condemning violence and terrorism in God’s name.

Benedict’s relations with Jews had highs and lows.

Jews were offended by his decision to allow a wider use of the old-style Latin Mass and missal, which included a prayer for the conversion of the Jews.

Jews took offence again in December 2009 when he restarted the process putting his wartime predecessor Pius XII, accused by some Jews of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust, back on the road to sainthood after a two-year pause for reflection.

However in 2011, he won acclaim by personally exonerating Jews of allegations they were responsible for Christ’s death, repudiating the con-

cept of collective Jewish guilt that haunted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries.

His critics saw many of his actions as attempts to turn back the clock on reforms enacted by the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which modernised the Church and encouraged inter-religious dialogue.

He made it easier for married Anglican priests, upset that their church was becoming too liberal, to convert to Catholicism.

Benedict wrote three encyclicals -- the most important form of papal document. His first, “Deus Caritas Est” (God is Love) in 2006, was about the various concepts of love, both erotic and spiritual.

The 2007 “Spe Salvi” (Saved

by Hope), was an attack on atheism and an appeal to a pessimistic world to find strength in Christian hope.

The 2009 Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), called for a re-think of the way the world economy is run.

Under the German’s meek demeanour lay a steely intellect ready to dissect theological works for their dogmatic purity and debate fiercely against dissenters.

Ratzinger first gained attention as a liberal theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council.

However, the Marxism and atheism of the 1968 student protests across Europe prompted him to become more conservative to defend the faith against growing secularism.

After stints as a theology professor and then archbishop of Munich, Ratzinger was appointed head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the successor office to the Inquisition, in 1981.

He and Pope John Paul agreed that traditionally sound doctrine and theology had to be restored in the Church after a period of experimentation.

In the CDF office, Ratzinger first turned his attention to the “liberation theology” popular in Latin America, and drew criticism for his severity in ordering the one-year silencing in 1985 of Brazilian friar Leonardo Boff, whose writings were attacked for using Marxist ideas.

Ratzinger issued a firm Vatican denunciation of homosexuality and gay marriage in 1986.

He brought pressure in the 1990s against theologians, mostly in Asia, who saw nonChristian religions as part of God’s plan for humanity.

A 2004 document sternly denounced “radical feminism” as an ideology that undermined the family and obscured the natural differences between men and women.

His combative side came out in 2000 in a dispute over a CDF document entitled Dominus Iesus. Aimed at restating the primacy of the Roman

June 2010 - President Christofias greets Pope Benedict on his arrival in Cyprus

Benedict is assisted as he arrives for a meeting with seminarians in Rome

Catholic Church against the more inclusive views in Asia, it branded other Christian denominations as deficient or not quite real churches.

Anglican, Lutheran and other Protestant churches which had been in ecumenical dialogue with Rome for years were shocked. They were further upset when Ratzinger dismissed protests from Lutherans as “absurd”.

The son of a police chief, he was born in Marktl am Inn in Bavaria, southern Germany, in 1927.

“Neither Ratzinger nor any member of his family was a National Socialist,” John Allen, a leading Church expert, wrote in a biography of Ratzinger.

In 2002, he became dean of the College of Cardinals which elected him pontiff three years later.

In June 2010 Ratzinger became the first pontiff in modern history to visit Cyprus.

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films

(K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/ 15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

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

Telephone no: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 Rio Limassol: 25871410

NICOSIA Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 10.15pm The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3.10pm Anna Karenina (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian); K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian) Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.10pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm

Rio Paphos: 26-207000

This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.40pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 11am, 1pm and 3pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 10.15pm 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 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Barbara (in German, 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 Argo (12) Rio 4 at 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm

CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy

The Impossible (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.10pm Anna Karenina (K) Rio 1 (in English) at 7.35pm, weekends also at 2.30 and 5pm; Rio 3 (dubbed into Russian) at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian) Flight (18) Rio 1 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm Gambit (K) Rio 6 at 8pm, weekends also at 3pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.10pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm This is 40 (18) Rio 3 at 7.40pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 10pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 2 at 7.45pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only

at 3 and 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 6 at 10pm, weekends also at 5pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 5, weekends only at 2.30 and 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 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 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm

LARNACA Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm

PAPHOS

The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.10pm Anna Karenina (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian) Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Argo (12) Rio 7 at 5pm (weekdays only), 7.30 and 9.45pm The Impossible (12) Rio 3 at 7.30 and 9.45pm Anna Karenina (K) Rio 1 (in English) at 5, 7.30 and 10pm; Rio 5 (dubbed into Russian) at 5 and 7.30pm

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm This is 40 (18) Rio 2 at 10.30pm Django Unchained (15) Rio 4 at 9.45pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30 and 5.30pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4pm Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 10pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 3, weekends only at 3 and 5.20pm The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 3pm Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 1 (in English, in 2D), weekends only at 3pm

Flight (18) Rio 6 at 5pm (weekdays only), 7.30 and 10pm Gambit (K) Rio 4 at 7.30pm

listings Today

Tomorrow

Exhibition

Exhibition

The Celebration of Love Group art exhibition. Opens February 12, 7pm until February 14. Atelier K, (Karima Ben Otman’s Art Studio ),10B Georgiou Malekidi Street, Limassol. 7.30pm-10.30pm. karimabenotman@live.com

Tourists who Shoot Solo photography exhibition and the book launch by Theopisti StylianouLambert. Opens February 13, 7.30pm until March 2. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009. www.argogallery.org

Thetre

Beach. There will be a bus to the start and collection at the finish.

February 17, book by midday February 13. The complete walk sheet can be found at www.csrc.ws csrc.bookings@gmail.com Colloquium: Atmospheric Dust and Sprite Experiments on the Columbia Space Shuttle in its Last Tragic Voyage to Space Lecture by Prof. Zev Levin Department of Geophysics, Atmosphere and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel and The Cyprus Institute, cover the history Columbia Space Shuttle and its achievement.

February 13. The Cyprus Institute, Seminar room, 1st floor, GOB – Athalassa Campus. 4pm. Tel: 22-208607. nickpld@cyi.ac.cy. www.cyi.ac.cy

Haroula The Central Stage of ETHAL presents the Cypriot play by Christos Zanos, directed by Adonis Florides. February 12. Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Limassol. 8.30pm. In Greek. €10. Tel: 25877827

The Work of Art as a Functional Object Second part of group exhibition.

Opens February 13, 8pm until March 8. Centre of Contemporary Art Diotopos, 11 DZ, Crete Street, Nicosia.

Tuesday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 22-766117

Other Events

Theatre

Other Events

Love at first… Bite Chocolate week, marvel at chocolate sculptures, watch chocolate cooking demonstrations and taste a variety of exciting new flavours. February 1217. C House Lounge Café, 33 Neas Engomis, Nicosia. Chocolate shows from 5.30pm-8.30pm followed by chocolate tasting at 8.30pm. Special chocolate inspired Valentine’s Day Menu. February 14. Tel: 22-269600

Nature in the Soul The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with two distinguished artists with conductor Ayis Ioannides and soprano Margarita Elia. February 13.

Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia.

8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-313010

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. www. pharosartsfoundation.org

Other Events Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come and join a ramble starting in Sotira and finishing near Curium

Ongoing

Stories in Screen A series of video work presentations.

February 8 until March 15. Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art Gallery

Solonos 10, Paphos Monday- Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-6pm. Saturday: 10am-1.30pm. Tel: 99-311225

Dance In Wonder(?) Land A physical theatre performance, about Cyprus as a country, a society. February 9-12. Old Vinegar, 34 Genethliou Mitella, Limassol .

8.30pm. Tel: 99-669476/99-491246

Theatre The Whore from Ohio The central stage of ETHAL presents black comedy by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, directed by Panagiotis Larkou. Until February 12. Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue. Tuesday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek Tel: 25-877827 Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy.

February 11-12. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959 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 Antigone THOC presents Sophoclean tragedy directed by Despina Gatziou. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300 Isadora Duncan Satiriko Theatro presents play by Thanasis Theologis based on the life of the famous dancer. Until February 24. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15/10. Tel: 22312940/22-421609 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

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

Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia.

Every Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

Exhibition Paraskeva Pappagelli Solo sculpture exhibition. Until February 15. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm8pm. 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.

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

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Tomorrow Other Events Starry, starry nights High above Earth in the realm of meteors and luminous clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances above thunderstorms. Researchers call these mysterious lights: sprites, blue jets, and elves. These displays, known collectively as Transient Luminous Events (TLE’s), are colourful, fleeting and tend to come in bunches.

Although sprites have been seen for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until after 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras onboard the space shuttle, and most recently by the Colombia Space shuttle in 2003.

Tomorrow evening the Cyprus Institute is hosting a lecture by Zev Levin, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Physics at the Tel Aviv University, Israel entitled Colloquium: Atmospheric Dust and Sprite Experiments on the Columbia Space Shuttle in its Last Tragic Voyage to Space.

The space shuttle Columbia blasted off on January 16, 2003, carrying more than 80 scientific experiments on a 16-day research mission known as STS-107.

Though Columbia roared into space successfully that day, it suffered a mortal wound during lift-off. A chunk of foam broke off the orbiter’s external fuel tank and struck the leading edge of Columbia’s left wing, punching a hole in the shuttle’s protective heat shield.

When Columbia tried to return home on February 1, 2003, hot atmospheric gases infiltrated the wing through this weak spot, causing the orbiter to break apart

high over Texas. All seven STS107 astronauts — commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool and mission specialists Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first space aviator — were lost.

The Columbia accident also led to the end of the space shuttle programme, whose close was announced in 2004 and finally became official in July 2011.

Although it will predominantly be remembered for its tragic culmination, STS-107 was an extensive and successful scientific mission.

On-board was the joint US/Israeli experimental module MEIDEX (Mediterranean-Israeli Dust Experiment). The experiment was intended to aid in the study of world climatic changes, and entailed observing Mediterranean dust storms and sprites.

Following the crash, much of the data was recovered and, when combined with the aircraft observations, it revealed much about the characteristics of the dust in the Med and its effects on clouds and rain. The sprite experiments were successful beyond all expectation.

This lecture will cover the history from the initial idea to send an Israeli astronaut to space, the training of the astronauts before the launch of the shuttle, the conduct of the experiments during the flight, the post-accident investigation and some of the scientific and technological accomplishments.

Colloquium: Atmospheric Dust and Sprite Experiments on the Columbia Space Shuttle in its Last Tragic Voyage to Space Lecture by Prof. Zev Levin, Department of Geophysics, Atmosphere and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel and The Cyprus Institute, cover the history Columbia Space Shuttle and its achievement. February 13. The Cyprus Institute, Seminar room, 1st floor, GOB – Athalassa Campus. 4pm. Tel: 22208607. nickpld@cyi.ac.cy. www.cyi.ac.cy

Space Shuttle Columbia launched the STS-107 mission to the International Space Station on January 16, 2003. The vehicle broke apart over Texas on February 1, 2003, killing all on board

Review Theatre The tragedy of a missed opportunity Four actors holding lanterns and a suitcase enter. They place the suitcase centre stage.

They open it, and take out four scripts. And from these scripts, they begin to read a condensed version of Sophocles’ Antigone.

Effective lighting changes. A beautiful and promising start.

One that makes you think ‘finally, an interesting simplistic

attempt at a classic’. Five minutes pass. Ten. They are still reading. Something will happen, surely, at some point, they will do something interesting.

Thirty minutes. They’ve moved a bit. The lights change constantly, as if substituting for the lack of action. A woman in the audience randomly joins in – she’s good. She can act. She isn’t reading. You want her to keep talking. There is a beauty and a rhythm to her speech that is further fortified by her presence in the audience in everyday clothes. Yet the effectiveness of her performance simply draws attention to the emptiness of what is occurring onstage.

A choc to the system

Calling all chocoholics, get ready to honour one of your favourite foodie treats with Chocolate Week, at C House Lounge Café in Nicosia.

It’s going to be an indulgent few days, and what better time to embrace chocolate than in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day. The humble cocoa bean has evolved considerably since its birth as cacoa. It was first tamed into a thick, bitter drink - meant to aid fatigue, nourish and stimulate. These medicinal and even aphrodisiac qualities enticed everyone from the Aztecs to Columbus. Although historically this sweet treat was exclusively for those who could afford such luxuries, nowadays it’s safe to say that it’s probably everyone’s favourite guilty pleasure.

And now we’ve got an excuse to indulge collectively in one deliciously sinful, chocolate-packed week. From today until Sunday, visitors are invited to immerse themselves in this decadent celebration of chocolate. Marvel at chocolate sculptures, watch chocolate cooking demonstrations and taste a variety of exciting new flavours, unexpected pairings and classic favourites from around the world or sample a special dinner menu for Valentine’s Day. Proving just how versatile chocolate can be, guest chefs to C House Lounge Café, Charalambos Antoniou, Stefanos Chrisanthou and Antonis Charalambous will be serving a special chocolate afternoon tea menu exclusively for chocolate week, influenced by French and Belgian cuisine, countries where chocolate creations are recognised as art.

Watch the masters at work every day between 5.30pm and 8.30pm as they give demonstrations on making, working with, and cooking with chocolate on a specially designed kitchen counter. Visitors can learn proper chocolate tasting techniques (among other things) and

The classics are littered with content that is begging to be transformed and thrown onto a contemporary stage, but these edits must be done with a clear purpose, and if simplicity is that purpose, then the acting must be so absurdly fantastic that the lack of elaborate movement, lighting, sound, costumes etc. remains entirely irrelevant.

If this play is meant to educate our young people on how to transform texts into a live production (as the brochure claims), then the future of Cypriot theatre is in serious jeopardy. Young people are currently on the verge of rejecting classic theatre and culture al-

witness impressive chocolate creations such as truffles and pralines come to life, while the buffet options will be multiplied by choice of fine Petit Fours.

A trip to the sweet world of chocolate would not be complete without a chocolate fountains, fine, imported milk chocolate and dark chocolate, along with marshmallows, fresh fruit, cookies. Every day after 8.30pm, a selection of Maxim’s de Paris luxury chocolates - one of France’s most luxurious, boutique brands - will be available for sampling, along with sparkling Italian wines and champagne Ruinart 1729, in collaboration with the famous wine cellar La Maison Du Vin. Let’s not forget that Thursday is Valentine’s Day and the C House Lounge Café has planned a romantic evening and a special menu that will be served to the sounds of the electric saxophone.

The menu consists of four courses and includes a rich buffet of appetisers, including the Café’s famed rolled sushi makimono and lobster bisque. The main dishes include stuffed shrimp wrapped in kataifi and stuffed tenderloin combined with passion fruit sauce and spicy Belgian chocolate, while dessert includes a live demonstration of chocolate creation by the famous confectioner Antonis Charalambous.

Love at first… Bite Chocolate week, marvel at chocolate sculptures, watch chocolate cooking demonstrations and taste a variety of exciting new flavours. February 12-17. C House Lounge Café, 33 Neas Engomis, Nicosia. Chocolate shows from 5.30pm-8.30pm followed by chocolate and wine tasting at 8.30pm. February 14. Special chocolate-inspired Valentine’s Day Menu. Tel: 22269600

By Ledha Socratous

together, and where there is an opportunity to either remedy or worsen the situation, it is the director’s vital responsibility to respond directly to the needs of these young people – to take a classic play and tell it in their language, to show them how these ancient words can still represent and express them today. Otherwise, why bother at all?

Antigone THOC presents Sophoclean tragedy directed by Despina Gatziou. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek.

Tel: 22-864300

By Eleni Cosma

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

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

11.00

Kaftes Piperies (rpt)

11.30

Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

Cookery show.

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 16.30 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

Apo Mera Se Mera

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Entehnos

Current affairs show.

Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15 18.45

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

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News Vimata Stin Ammo

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Presidential Elections 2013 News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) More Repeats

07.50 08.40

NRG Zone FILM: The Ring 2

Desperate Housewives Seventh season.

‘Everything’s Different, With Beth on life support, Susan’s chances of receiving a new kidney look set to improve, but Paul is determined that the donation will never take place. Tom turns down a lucrative job offer to continue working with Carlos, and Bree tricks Andrew into attending an AA meeting - but he disrupts the event.

Moiraia Fengaria

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

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05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00

A journalist and her son are once again tormented by vengeful and malevolent spirits.

Sequel to the horror remake, starring Naomi Watts. 2005

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

20.00 21.15

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Kati Psinetai (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Doctor Who (rpt) Fifth season. ‘The Big Bang’. The Daleks, Cybermen and others have imprisoned in the Pandorica the most dangerous creature in the universe - the Doctor, who they say will in the future destroy the universe.

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

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ANTENNA

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Repeats

09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.40 16.40 17.30 17.40

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) Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

MEGA 06.30 07.00 10.00

Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

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

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kolokairi Castle American crime drama.

00.00 00.05 00.30 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

News Sports News Radio Arvila Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

06.10 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.20

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Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Greek drama series.

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Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Master Chef (rpt)

16.15 18.00 18.20

Reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.20 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.10

With News at 18.00.

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Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou

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Oi Vasiliades News Klemmena Oneira Presidential Elections 2013 Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Greek game show testing contestants on their music general knowledge.

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News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

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Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To’ Xeres Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.45

Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50

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News Aspra Balonia Al Tsantiri News Best Of News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

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

Local drama series.

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Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores

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Mila 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.

‘Miracle’. A boy’s kidney tumour miraculously disappears after he drinks from a natural spring, and Jacob rushes to the scene to debunk what he believes is a fraudulent medical cure.

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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 06.45 08.25 08.55 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.30 15.15 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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: Sonic Impact When a dangerous criminal seizes control of a passenger aircraft high above the United States, former Navy Seal is forced to improvise a daring rescue.

Action adventure, starring James Russo.

2000.

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FILM: Gone But not Forgotten A defence attorney wrestles with her conscience while representing a multimillionaire who may be a serial killer.

Drama, starring Brooke Shields. 2005. Part 1 of 2.

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FILM: Moscow Chill Drama, starring Norman Reedus. 2007.

One Day (Novacinema1, 15.00)

01:30 Come Fly With Me 02:00 The Weakest Link 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 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 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 Carrie’s War 13:45 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 14:30 Dinnerladies 15:00 Fawlty Towers 15:30 The Weakest Link 16:15 EastEnders 16:45 Doctors 17:15 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 Walter’s War 22:50 Last Of The Summer Wine 23:20 Twenty Twelve 23:55 Kiss Of Death

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 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 09:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 10:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 11:30 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 12:30 Luge: World Cup African 13:30 All Sports: Watts 13:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 15:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 17:15 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 19:00 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 19:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 20:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 00:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

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 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Masterchef

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Up In The Air 10:00 Father Hood 11:45 Greetings From The Shore 13:45 All Roads Lead Home 15:45 Brooklyn’s Finest 18:00 Heist 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Brideshead Revisited 23:15 Another Year 01:25 Hustler TV 03:00 Beautiful (2009) 04:45 Love Child 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 NBA Action 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Liga Bbva 201213 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man

Out Sonoma 22:30 NHL: Los Angeles Kings At St. Louis Blues 19:20 Happy Gilmore 21:00 After The Sunset 22:45 Cine News 23:00 How I Met Your Mother 00:20 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 21:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 E-60 01:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

Stone 14:20 All Good Things 16:15 Easy A 18:00 Tootsie 20:00 Flypaper 22:00 Two Tickets To Paradise 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 03:40 Run 05:15 Expendables, The (2010)

07:15 Chuck 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Bones 09:25 Borgias I, The 10:20 According To Jim 10:45 2 Broke Girls 11:15 Hawai Five 13:00 Supernatural 13:45 Chuck 14:30 Bones 15:15 Borgias I, The 16:10 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 The Long Green Cloud 22:35 Five Days 2 23:40 Top Boy 00:35 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-L 02:10 Guitar, The 03:45 Friends 04:10 Two And A Half Men 05:00 Closer, The 05:45 Harry’s Law 06:30 Supernatural

05:05 Cine News 05:50 The Veteran 07:30 Bloodworth 09:05 Mr. Popper’s Penguins 10:40 Films And Stars 11:10 Courageous 13:25 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 15:00 One Day 16:50 Cine News 17:15 Chicken With Plums 18:50 Hollywwod 1on1 19:25 The Client List 21:00 C.S.I. 22:00 The Grey 00:05 Albert Nobbs 02:05 Passion Play 03:45 Street Kings 2: Motor City

07:30 Dangerous Attraction 09:15 I Am Slave 10:45 Beetle Juice 12:30

05:05 Killer Elite 07:00 Hemingway & Gellhorn 09:35 Cheri 11:10 My Week With Marilyn 12:50 The Tree Of Life 15:10 Hollywood Buzz 15:45 Abduction 17:35 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 19:40 He Got Game 00:00 The Game 02:20 The Vanishing 04:15 Cine News 04:55 Animal Kingdom

19:05 Alfie 21:00 Footloose 23:00 Happythankyoumoreplease 00:45 Barney’s Version

01:00 Golf Central International 02:00 Super Bowl Highlights: I: Green Bay V Kansas City 02:30 Super Bowl Highlights: II: Green Bay V Oakland 03:00 America’s Game: 1966 Green Bay Packers 04:00 Nhl: Los Angeles Kings At St. Louis Blues 06:30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 07:00 Feherty - Donald Trump 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 Sports Unlimited 11:00 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Oklahoma St. At Oklahoma 13:00 Drag Ace High 13:30 My Ride Rules 14:00 Pinks All Out Sonoma 15:00 Sea Master 15:30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 16:00 Ringside Boxing Ik Yang V Mario Padilla 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Aep Vs Doxa 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 21:45 Pinks All

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 08:30 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 15:30 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 17:30 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Wake Brothers 20:30 MTV Wake Brothers 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 23:00 MTV The Inbetweeners 23:30 MTV Beavis & Butthead 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 Gone With the Wind 10:35 The Night Of The Iguana 12:40 Clash By Night 14:25 The Brothers Karamazov 16:50 Bombshell 18:25 The Merry Widow 20:10 The Big Sleep 22:00 Brass Target 00:05 Wild Rovers 02:15 Splendor In The Grass 04:00 Across The Pacific 05:35 Stars In My Crown

By Preston Wilder

Flypaper (LTV3, 20.00) What did you think of Flypaper, Mr. Wilder? Well, it seemed to have some bugs, but it stuck with me.

(Thank you, I’ll be here all week.) Actually I haven’t seen this fun-sounding crime comedy - it went straight to DVD in most places - but it stars Patrick Dempsey as a man who finds himself caught up in not one but two simultaneous bank robberies. Two gangs of crooks happen to attack the same bank at the same time - but it seems there’s enough to go round, the hi-tech gang going for the vault while the bumbling hayseeds rob the ATMs, meanwhile taking hostages until the robberies are over. Mr. Dempsey’s among the hostages, ditto Ashley Judd as a buxom

bank teller; Tim Blake Nelson does his drawling hillbilly routine, while Octavia Spencer does the sassyblack-momma routine that won her an Oscar for The Help. Sounds amusing, in a stupid kind of way, and of course you’ve got Dr. Shepherd from Grey’s Anatomy.

There’s no flies on him, right ladies? Made in 2011.

Brideshead Revisited (LTV, 21.00) I know this is hard to accept, but maybe the British should just stop making period dramas altogether. It made sense when the country still had remnants of the old pre-war England - as in the early 80s, when the famous mini-series version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited came out - but now it’s changed too

Brideshead Revisited

much, and filmmakers seem unable to put themselves in the place of early-20th-century Britons except to mock them for being so hidebound. Matthew Goode is Charles, a rather bland painter who gets involved with the Flytes, a dysfunctional family of aristocrats; Ben Whishaw is the tragic Sebastian (now reduced to a guilt-ridden “sodomite”), Hayley Atwell his sister Julia, Emma Thompson - wildly miscast - the smothering matriarch who destroys her children’s lives with her rigid Catholicism. The film is handsome (if you like stately homes) but shallow and simplistic, a tale of silly people ruining their lives with repression and religion; you’d never guess that it’s based on a (fabulous) book written by a Catholic convert. Made in 2008.

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1 Young Leonard’s sight better using this (4) 2 Turned puns round (4) 3 Old records, only four in the vaulted passages (8) 4 Case used during intensive tuition (4) 5 Heathen restored oil trade (8) 6 What men or women of affairs did regularly? (4,2,4) 9 It might be a shocking experience to see this at the cinema (6,4) 12 State of the beetle (8) 14 Armed gent stewed pears on the island (8) 18 Patient example (4) 19 Half a house? (4) 20 Idolise Dorothy East (4)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Echo; 8 Blood donor; 9 Amis; 10 Escapade; 12 Worry; 13 Etc; 16 Unseal; 17 Relict; 18 Fry; 21 Swamp; 22 Adjutant; 24 Rose; 25 Conscience; 26 Deck. Down – 2 Compounded; 3 Observed; 4 Corset; 5 Ideal; 6 Anna; 7 Brae; 11 Dance-music; 13 Elf; 14 Cry; 15 Glowered; 19 Runner; 20 Stick; 22 Arch; 23 Jane.

QUICK: Across – 1 Shoo; 8 Frequently; 9 Half; 10 Backache; 12 Stink; 13 Shy; 16 Geneva; 17 Abrade; 18 Tow; 21 State; 22 Lemonade; 24 Avow; 25 Estimation; 26 Yogi. Down – 2 Heartsease; 3 Offender; 4 Squash; 5 Jerky; 6 Otic; 7 Byre; 11 Headstrong; 13 Sat; 14 Yaw; 15 Brittany; 19 Oddity; 20 Gnome; 22 Leek; 23 Mute.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Minor aggravations may be a problem for part of the day, but because you are generally upbeat and positive, you’ll easily find a way to resolve your problems. It’s a good time to pursue spiritual disciplines and social contacts. A hunch or intuition may help you to make a decision about a career issue and possibly a financial matter too.

Choose your words carefully, especially when you are at work or dealing with those in positions of authority. If you’re not sure what affect your communiqué might have, tread with care. On the plus side, friendly gestures seem to be tender and meaningful. Some people may be highspirited and quite playful. Relax with friends if possible Leo.

Others may keep you busy today, and you too may have a lot of errands to run and things to sort out. Creative and innovative moves receive attention. Generally, there is not much that can hold you back. The Moon in your home zone may encourage you to explore new household projects and consider those ongoing chores like gardening or domestic chores.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

If you work hard today, you may get a reassuring and grateful pat on the back for all your efforts. The Sun in your career zone suggests that your leadership abilities may come into play. By taking the initiative you could be rewarded. You may need to reassure a friend who could be in need of a shoulder to cry on. A drink and a chat may help.

Your natural abilities and versatility means you are capable of achieving much. However, it might be best to choose one particular focus through which to channel your vitality in order to ensure success. Your affection for your partner may be strong, but it’s also possible that someone else may be trying to take advantage of you. Be watchful Virgo.

Getting involved in anything to do with charity, or simply being there to lend a helping hand, may be a source of satisfaction today. However, despite being very practical and shrewd you may still hear a sob story. If so, use your powers of discrimination. Unexpected calls or visitors may mean a change of plan, but you’ll probably feel quite pleased.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Some people have the knack of knowing what to say and when to say it, and today this could be you. As Mercury makes some profound aspects to Pluto and Saturn, you may need to make decisions, talk seriously about ongoing work or career issues and generally be the one who puts the cards on the table. If so, then you’ll do just fine.

It may be hard to be a part of a team this morning, as minor annoyances might cause tensions and delay the outcome of a plan or project. However, a burst of sunshine may shine through as the day progresses. The ball is in your court, so if it’s your health you want to improve, make some resolutions now and get into the swing of things.

You may feel great, but when it comes to finances you may need to be very down to earth. You have opportunities to succeed, if you’re willing to do what it takes. Any trouble you might have could be due to a problem making an important decision, which could be linked with money.

Find your direction and set sail. New love adventures may await too.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Some unsettling planetary angles may mean you have to work to make things as good as you can. There’s a possibility that strong-willed friends might upset your equilibrium, or that relationships in general may test your metal.

However, with insight and a change of perspective you may be able to salvage the day and even begin to enjoy yourself.

You may have a strong desire to start work on a long-term goal. Your imagination is very powerful at this time, so the best way to get started may be to make a plan, and kick things off. If you feel keen concerning a creative project that intrigues you, it’s definitely time to push on. Pursuing friendships and social contacts and getting out more can also figure.

Sometimes it can be hard to motivate yourself. This can see you happy to drift, even if it doesn’t take you anywhere specific. At other times you may feel an inner force encouraging you to take action and go after whatever you want. Today, you may be wondering whether to take the plunge or not. Yet the cosmos and events may leave you in little doubt.

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MISCELLANEOUS STAGE ONE THEATRE, Paphos AUDITIONS at 7pm on 26 & 28 February for comedies PARTY PIECE, Director Carol Harvey, and Rosebowl entry THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, Director Geoff Greavey. Performances May. Call Peter 99984035 for information. Auditionees must advise their intention to audition in advance.

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WHITE DOVES, wanted 2 baby pure white doves, to restock my dovecote (Paphos area) contact Chris Brown: 99170519 FOR SALE white wedding dress with veil, modern line, designed by famous Cypriot fashion designer. For information call Joanna 99597797 ARE YOU INTERESTED in gaining new skills to have a better relationship with your 3-6 year-old 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.

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ART AFTERNOONS Drawing Thursdays Painting Fridays Sketching Saturdays 14.30 – 17.30 IDC at Art Studio 55, Heroes Square, Limassol. Tel 99 409 829 info@idclimassol. org ART ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION PRIVATE TUITION Experienced, UK-qualified teacher offers full-time 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.

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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 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 homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work. For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879

PETS VICO KENNEL: Dog Training Centre and Boarding Kennel.

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Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES SEVODNYA.COM Social Media is urgently looking for Assistants and Salespersons for part-time work. Basic computer and communication skills plus English are required.

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HEALTH & FITNESS MASSAGE full body relaxing Aromatherapy, my place or yours. Call Lora 99 026488 CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia.

Individual assessment and supervision of exercises.

“Clinical pilates” is a modified form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988.

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FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES FOR SALE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER/PRADO white 1998, exceptional condition inside and out. Many extras.

Any inspection welcome. €7950 ono. Tel: 99680747 BLACK HONDA CBR1100XX SUPERBLACKBIRD registered new in June 2011 as new condition with 12000 km. Any inspection welcome. €6950. Call Philip 99680747 BMW 320 CONVERTIBLE 2001 new shape, Tax/MOT, Gold Metallic with cream half leather interior and Oak Dash, Full Electric Pack, Full Service History, Low miles, Manual, Many pictures available Bargain due to relocation €7000.

Tel 99219583 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.

13.800 eur ono. Contact: Maria 99 371874 or 99 461625 – Paphos Area

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TAG 69, young female Staffie.

Approximately 1.5 years old.

Great temperament. Trusting, balanced, good with people, and loves children.

She is good with other dogs.

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 99520511 Mon-Frid 10-2pm. ****************************

RUDY is a 2-3 year old male mini pinscher. He is super smart and expressive. He will make a great, fun and loving pet. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes !

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‘PROPERTY BUSINESS FOR SALE’. ‘Unique Opportunity to purchase FREEHOLD stonebuilt village property currently operating as a Cafe, with fully equipped kitchen.Seating for 40. Potential for further expansion. Easily converted to residential dwelling.Viewing highly recommended. Greatly reduced to Euro 160.000. Details ring Tel: 99864097 – Paphos Area **************************** 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.

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA TO LET fully furnished upper house in Ayios Dometios.3 bedrooms,2 wc 2 sitting rooms, 2 verandas, a/c in rooms. €480pm. Call 99628100 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, h o b , o v e n , f r i d g e freezer, fully fitted kitchen, fully furnished ,storage, parking.

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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. ***************************** 2 BEDROOM flat, fully furnished.

Fully A/C, small block, 3rd floor. Covered parking. Central heating. Near Hilton hotel off Makarios Avenue. €480pm. Tel 99444336 *****************************

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.

For info call 99606984. ****************************** 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.

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 - ACROPOLIS €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

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.

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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 detached 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

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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, electrical 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 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

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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 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-

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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,

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storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (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 €450 (A2AOM0010-R) (photos in the website)

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).

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 parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (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

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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 near the centre - Nicosia €800 (A2NIC0030-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) 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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ing off Athalassa Avenue near Stephanis Electrinics and English school – Stovolos €800 (A3ST10013-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).

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

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. Road to heritage school/ Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished.

Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/ shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. ****************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms.

Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ******************************

***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

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Three bedroom first floor apartment, bathroom, en suite. Downstairs toilet, large lounge/kitchen diner. Two balconies, rural and sea views. All mod cons, linen etc. Tastefully fitted out. €550 pcm email Sylval@cytanet.com. cy Tel 99141162/99923884 1 BEDROOM flat in Ermou Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom flat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca.

Call 96693375 ***************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca.

Town centre, fully furnished one bedroom apartment available for immediate occupation. Ref. TLL341. Tel 24815926 2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca.

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LANDLORDS AVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY WITH US FOR FREE. Tel. 24815926 Email. info@superiorrealestatelarnaca. com ***************************** FLAT IN CENTRAL LARNACA, Stasinou St, f/f, a/c, one bedroom, Off street car parking.

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 ******************************

tremely private with panoramic mountain and sea views, unfurnished, swimming pool, a/c and fireplace, fence around the property €550 per month ono – available from 1st of April For more info call : 99 442485 ****************************** UNIVERSAL: 1bed ground floor apartment fully furnished, airconditioning, fridge, beds common swimming pool , leather sofas, €260 p/m. For more information phone 99400697 ****************************** 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.

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

NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!

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.

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HOSPITALS ........ 1400

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

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

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

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information)

Forest Fires ..................... 1407 Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

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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Sport IN BRIEF England wait on injured Morgan ENGLAND may have to make a last-minute call today on the fitness of key batsman Eoin Morgan.

The lynchpin number four has “jarred” his back and had to sit out yesterday morning’s practice at Seddon Park, where England take on New Zealand in the second of three Twenty20s today.

Morgan hurt himself in the latter stages of the tourists’ opening win in Auckland on Saturday when his 46 was the top score in England’s best ever Twenty20 total of 214 for seven.

His injury is understood to be muscular and there has been no need as yet for a scan or injection.

Should the Irishman fail to recover in time to take part today, an opportunity is likely to once again come the way of Joe Root, while Morgan’s absence will spell increased responsibility too up the order for another young Yorkshireman Jonny Bairstow.

Morgan and Bairstow put on 81 together in seven overs at Eden Park and between them hit five of England’s record 15 sixes.

For Bairstow, who had to miss England’s final Twenty20 of 2012 in India and also the return trip there last month for five one-day internationals because of a family illness, 38 runs from 22 balls was an encouraging return.

Halfpenny: Wales back on title trail LEIGH Halfpenny believes Wales are back on the title scent in this season’s RBS 6 Nations Championship.

The defending champions appeared down and out nine days ago after being beaten at home by Ireland, but a first victory over France in Paris since 2005 has breathed life into their campaign.

The 16-6 success also ended a run of eight successive defeats as Wales now look ahead to consecutive away games against Italy and Scotland before hosting unbeaten leaders England on March 16.

“The confidence we will get from this win will be immense, and we can concentrate now on what we set out to do from the start, which is to retain the title,” Wales full-back Halfpenny said.

“We knew this game was key. It was my third time in Paris, and I know how difficult it is to get a win there, but the boys dug deep and had that hunger and desperation to win.

“I am really chuffed for (interim head coach) Rob Howley and the coaches. They give us everything, all the information we need, then it is up to the guys on the field to put in a performance, and that’s what we did.

“When you go to France and win, it is special.”

Almost a year after Wales last beat another Test-playing country - France in Cardiff to win the Grand Slam - they triumphed

through 11 points from Halfpenny’s trusty right boot and wing George North’s 73rdminute try.

And although there is still an awful lot to do in playing catch-up behind England, Wales have at least given themselves a fighting chance of featuring prominently at the tournament’s business end.

“We are a far better team than we have been showing, and it was fortunate we had another game so quickly after the previous Saturday to put things right,” Wales scrumhalf Mike Phillips said.

“We were adamant we were going to do well in the first 20 minutes and not make another bad start. The body language of the French told us we were doing well.

“They were blowing and had their hands on their knees, and we knew if we could keep the tempo up we would take the sting out of their attack, even though we were blowing ourselves at times.

“But that is international rugby for you - it’s hard. We kept the forwards on the front-foot and we took all our opportunities, which we didn’t do against the Irish. It was a good day.”

“When you are in a losing team, you have got to expect criticism a little bit, but we knew we weren’t far off turning it around.

“It’s a tough world, and in rugby one minute you are the hero and the next you’re rubbish, but you have got to be strong.”

Winning moves: Halfpenny’s trusty right boot was critical in Wales’ victory through 11 points over France in Paris

Record-breaking Lebron James too hot for Lakers

Los Angeles side fall Briton named to 107-97 new Aussie defeat athletics head SIMON Nathan, who helped Britain’s athletics team clinch four golds medals at the London Olympics, has been named Australia’s high performance director of athletics.

Briton Nathan, a longserving coach with British Athletics, will be responsible for strategy, contracts, selection policy and funding in an over-arching role within governing body Athletics Australia (AA).

“I had a great time at the London Olympics, which went very well for me personally,” Nathan said in a statement released by AA yesterday.

Britain also won a silver and a bronze medal in the athletics events in London.

“I’ve always admired the Australian sporting culture and the chance to be able to contribute directly is very exciting.”

LEBRON James set a Miami record as the Heat claimed their fifth win in a row, with the Los Angeles Lakers falling to a 107-97 defeat.

James poured in 32 points - the fifth consecutive game that he has scored 30-plus points - in a match where the build-up was dominated by discussion of who would emerge triumphant between the 28-year-old forward and Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant.

Bryant proved his worth to the Lakers with 28 points but he was trumped

by James, while Dwayne Wade added 30 points to help the Heat’s march to victory.

The Boston Celtics extended their winning streak to seven matches and halted Denver’s in the process following a sensational 118-114 triple overtime triumph over the Nuggets.

Paul Pierce led the way for the Celtics with a phenomenal performance, contributing 27 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists -

Lebron James (R) poured in 32 points - the fifth consecutive game that he has scored 30-plus points - in a match pitting him against Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant his second double-triple in the last two weeks.

Denver slipped to their first defeat in 10 matches in the battle of the in-form teams, despite Ty Lawson top-scoring in the match with 29 points.

Carmelo Anthony contributed nearly half of New York’s points yet still ended up on the losing side after the Knicks were beaten 102-88 by the Los Angeles Clippers.

Anthony scored 42 points

- the fifth time that he has succeeded in scoring more than 40 points in a game this season - although he was marked out of the game in the final quarter as the Los Angeles Clippers stretched an already

healthy lead.

The Oklahoma City Thunder brushed aside the Phoenix Suns for the second time in three days, this time easing to a 97-69 success.

Russell Westbrook scored 24 points and Thabo Sefolosha sank five threepointers out of seven attempts in the Thunder’s fourth straight win, while Markieff Morris was the only Phoenix player to register double figures in points with 12.

The Orlando Magic ended a woeful run of defeats with their first win in 13 matches after JJ Redick’s 22 points guided them past the Portland Trail Blazers 110-104.

John Lucas scored 10 of his 19 points in the final quarter as the Toronto Raptors overhauled the New Orleans Hornets 10289, to record their second successive win and strong showings in the second and third quarters propelled the Memphis Grizzlies to a 105-88 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Elsewhere, the San Antonio Spurs managed to bounce back after suffering defeat against the Detroit Pistons to ease past the Brooklyn Nets 111-86 - their 11th win in 12 matches - and the Sacramento Kings came from behind at the end of the third quarter to edge out the Houston Rockets 117111.

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Sizzling Snedeker triumphant at Pebble Beach

By Nemanja Bjedov

Records fifth career victory on PGA Tour

By Mark Lamport-Stokes FEDEXCUP champion Brandt Snedeker finally reaped just reward for his red-hot early form on the PGA Tour this year when he eased to victory by two shots at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday.

Runner-up behind Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in his two previous starts on the US circuit, the American world number six closed with a seven-under-par 65 to post a tournament record low of 19-under 267.

Co-leader overnight with compatriot James Hahn, Snedeker took control with an eagle on the second hole and never relinquished his grip on a glorious day of late winter sunshine on the picturesque Monterey Peninsula.

American Chris Kirk sank a 16-foot birdie putt at the last for a 66 to finish alone in second, with PGA Tour rookie Hahn (70) a further three strokes back at 14-under in a three-way tie for third.

It was Snedeker’s fifth career victory on the PGA Tour and his second in his last six starts, dating back to the Tour Championship in September when he also landed FedExCup honours.

“It’s kind of crazy to think about what’s happened the last four months,” a smiling Snedeker told CBS after sealing victory with a par at the last before pumping his right fist in celebration

and taking off his cap to acknowledge the crowd.

“And to finish the West Coast (swing) off to win this way. It’s such a special place.

To win at Pebble Beach on a beautiful day like this ... you can’t make this stuff up. It’s just too perfect.”

MAJOR PRIORITY Snedeker, who had recorded three top-three finishes in his first four events on the 2013 PGA Tour, said winning a first major title was now his top priority.

“Finishing off a tournament like this with a win, it gives me a ton of confidence going into the Masters, the US Open, all the great venues we have this year,” the 32-year-old said.

“And that’s next on my list.

I’ve won five times out here now. The most important thing now is to win majors.”

On a chilly, sun-splashed morning at Pebble Beach, Snedeker moved one stroke in front of playing partner Hahn at 14-under after sinking a four-foot eagle putt at the par-five second.

Hahn, who had missed an eagle chance of his own at the second from seven feet, then lipped out with a fivefoot birdie attempt at the third to remain one behind.

Snedeker remained one ahead after he and Hahn both birdied the fourth before being handed a twoshot advantage when his playing partner bogeyed the par-three fifth after finding a

greenside bunker off the tee.

Further birdies followed for Snedeker at the sixth and the scenic par-three seventh, where he rolled in a 16-footer, as he moved three strokes clear at 17-under.

The pacesetting American surprisingly bogeyed the par-four ninth, where he three-putted from 22 feet, to reach the turn in four-under 32, two ahead of the chasing pack at 16-under.

Long regarded as one of the game’s best putters, Snedeker immediately rebounded with consecutive birdies, sinking a 26-footer at the 10th and a 16-footer at the 11th to stretch his lead to four shots.

Though Kirk applied pressure with back-to-back birdies on 13 and 14, Snedeker stayed in control with rock solid golf over the closing stretch.

He recorded his sixth birdie of the day at the parthree seventh after hitting a superb seven-iron to 10 feet and coolly sinking the putt, then safely parred the 18th to secure the win.

Snedeker’s closing 65 was his 10th consecutive round under 70 on the PGA Tour, and he climbed to a careerhigh fourth in the world when the rankings were issued yesterday.

Defending champion Phil Mickelson closed with a level-par 72 to finish a distant 18 shots off the pace, his lowlight of the day a doublebogey at the 18th where he twice hit into the ocean.

Snedeker finally reaped just reward for his red-hot form on the PGA Tour this year when he eased to victory by two shots at the Pebble Beach national Pro-Am

MARCOS Baghdatis will begin his ATP World Tour 500 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament campaign today against Frenchman Benoit Paire, who was defeated on Sunday in the Open Sud de France final by his compatriot Richard Gasquet.

The title in Montpellier was the second of the season for Gasquet, who is seeded fourth in Rotterdam, and who is Baghdatis’ potential opponent in the second round of the event should the Cypriot overcome Paire.

Gasquet, on the other hand, faces a difficult test in his opening match himself, against Serbian Viktor Troicki.

Baghdatis, who is currently ranked 36th, has never played against Paire at an ATP World Tour, Grand Slam or Davis Cup main draw event.

At the last season’s edition of the event, the 27-year-old Cypriot was forced to retire in the second round against Czech Tomas Berdych early in the match with a leg injury, while his best result at the tournament was in 2011 when he reached the quarterfinals, where he lost to now-retired Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia.

Baghdatis will also take part in the doubles tournament alongside Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.

In the first round they will take on Austrian Julian Knowle and Filip Polasek of Slovakia, with the prospect of playing against the top-seeded Spanish pairing of Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez in the second round.

Zeballos shocks Nadal in Chile final clash

Nadal, returning to competitive tennis after seven months out, had been the favourite for the title at Vina del Mar

HORACIO Zeballos of Argentina produced a stunning upset to deny Rafael Nadal victory in his comeback tournament from injury and illness at the VTR Open in Chile.

Nadal had looked relatively untroubled en route to the final and was the overwhelming favourite to end a positive return to competitive tennis after seven months out with the title at Vina del Mar. But Zeballos was clearly not overawed by facing the 11-time grand slam champion and defied the odds to triumph 6-7 (2/7) 7-6 (8/6) 6-4 for his first ATP Tour crown.

“It’s a dream for me,” Zeballos told the ATP Tour’s official website.

“To be able to play a final against Nadal was already good enough for me. It’s a moment that will stay in my memory for the rest of my life.”

Zeballos did not progress beyond the second round in any of the tour-level events he competed in last year, but had already beaten three seeds en route to the showpiece encounter.

He saved his best performance of the week for Nadal - who before

this week, had not played a competitive match since suffering a shock second-round defeat to Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon last year due to injury and a stomach virus, an illness which ultimately ruled him out of last month’s Australian Open.

The Spaniard saved two break points on his opening service game and looked to be on course for victory after wrapping up the first set on a tie-break.

REFUSED TO BUCKLE Yet even then, the world number 73 refused to buckle and he duly levelled proceedings after another tight tiebreak.

There had been no breaks of serve in the opening two sets, but Nadal changed that when he won the opening game before immediately relinquishing his advantage.

At 5-4 ahead, Zeballos made his move and charged into a 0-40 lead on Nadal’s serve before converting his first match point and sealing victory after two hours and 46

minutes.

“I’ve worked really hard because I really wanted to be at this level,” Zeballos added.

“For some months, I’ve been playing at a high level and I think I’m at the best moment of my career. I’m very strong physically and psychologically.”

Nadal characteristically chose to take the positives from the defeat, despite missing out on the chance to collect his 37th claycourt title.

Yet the former world number one hopes he can go from strength to strength following a successful comeback in Vina del Mar. “It was a great tournament for me,” he said. “If we take everything, it was positive. It’s true I wanted to win the final but it wasn’t possible.

He made things better than me and I didn’t play my best match.

“I just need to keep working, practising with hope, motivation and the right attitude to have better sensations every week. I hope it’s the beginning of a lot of good things for me.”

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Nigeria leads as African football at crossroads NIGERIA cemented their position as the best team at the African Nations Cup with a deserved title victory on Sunday in a tournament offering further evidence that soccer in the continent has reached a fascinating crossroads.

The 1-0 win over outsiders Burkina Faso, who also defied the odds to reach the final with a series of performances that continually exceeded expectations, was completed with a young and inexperienced squad that surprised many seasoned observers.

Coach Stephen Keshi, under intense pressure back home to lift the cup for the first time since he himself captained the last Super Eagles side to victory in 1994, ignored the critics and picked a squad in which 14 of his players were 24 or under.

And if proof was needed that Keshi had got it right, the stunning cup-winning goal was scored by 24-year-old Sunday Mba, a midfielder with just a handful of caps to his name who still plays domestically in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s performance reflected that of the tournament’s progress. The competition started slowly with 12 draws in the opening 24 group matches, before the real excitement started in the knockout stage.

The eventual champions were also slow out of the blocks with draws against

Burkina Faso and Zambia before two late Victor Moses penalties gave them a 2-0 win over Ethiopia.

They then hit form with their 2-1 quarter-final win over tournament favourites Ivory Coast and reached their peak with a 4-1 demolition of Mali in the semi-finals. Their win in the final was measured, mature and tactically astute, with the Super Eagles surviving a desperate onslaught from the Burkinabe in the final minutes.

But while the tournament was an undoubted success for Nigeria, who Keshi maintains “have only reached 80 per cent” of their potential, it also represented something of a triumph for a number of the continent’s middleranking or emerging nations.

As Keshi said earlier in the tournament: “You can no longer differentiate so much between which teams are better.”

You might think one side will win but you don’t know. I think this is wonderful for African football.

“The competition is so tight. You look at the likes of Ethiopia and Cape Verde and some of the other countries. I am very impressed with their performances and the standard they are reaching.”

Burkina Faso led the way for the emerging teams, a country that before this tournament had never won a Nations Cup finals match on foreign soil

and had gone 17 matches without a victory since they reached the semifinals at home in 1998.

Also impressing were first-time quarter-finalists Togo and Mali, who lifted spirits in the impoverished and conflictridden country by finishing with the bronze medal for the second successive tournament.

Pre-tournament favourites Ivory Coast flattered to deceive by becoming the first team to qualify for the quarterfinals with a match to spare, before suffering an upset in Rustenburg when Mba scored his first superb goal of the tournament.

Ivorians’ “golden generation”, led by striker Didier Drogba, and including Salomon Kalou, Emmanuel Eboue, Didier Zakora, and Yaya and Kolo Toure are now set to end their careers without adding an international honour to their many successes at club level.

Champions Zambia may have exited the tournament unbeaten but they failed to repeat last year’s fairytale victory with draws in their group games against Ethiopia, Nigeria and Burkina Faso not enough to see them advance to the knockout stage.

Ghana, who have waited 31 years to win their fifth African crown, were also eliminated, technically at least, without losing a game.

Youth no obstacle: Nigeria’s stunning cup-winning goal was scored by 24-year-old Mba (right)

Ancelotti unsure over future as PSG boss

Impressive Balotelli return continues with Cagliari tie

CARLO Ancelotti yesterday admitted he is uncertain about his future as manager of Paris St Germain.

The 53-year-old was appointed on December 30, 2011, when he replaced Antoine Kombouare and guided the club to second in Ligue 1, three points behind champions Montpellier.

This season PSG are top of the league, six points ahead of nearest challengers Lyon, after a run of eight wins and a draw in their last nine games, including a 3-1 victory over Bastia last time out.

Today they visit Valencia for the first leg of their last16 clash in the Champions League.

Things look rosy for PSG but Ancelotti is still uncertain whether he will be at the Parc des Princes next season, as the final year of his two-and-a-half year contract is optional.

He told L’Equipe: “Depending on where we finish, I have an extra year on my contract if, at the end of the season, PSG are in the top three of Ligue 1 and we qualify for the Champions League.

“I want to stay. But I know that at the end of the season, the club will decide if they are happy or not with my work.”

Ancelotti claims not to be concerned by his future, despite the likes of Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager, being linked with the club. Neither has he spoken with club president Nasser el-Khelaifi about the situation.

“The thing is simple,” he said. “We will take stock at the end of the season, and if the club are happy, and me too, we will continue.”

Serie A tally now up to three goals in two games

By Brian Homewood MAVERICK forward Mario Balotelli’s impressive return to Serie A continued when he scored a late penalty for the second straight game on Sunday to give new club AC Milan a 1-1 draw at Cagliari.

The Italy forward won the penalty after being pulled down by Davide Astori and sent Michael Agazzi the wrong way to make it three goals in two games for fifthplaced Milan since his move from Manchester City.

Astori, already booked for a previous foul on Balotelli, was sent off as Cagliari faded in the second half after dominating the opening 45 minutes and taking the lead with a Victor Ibarbo header.

Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri described his team’s result as “a useful point against a good team”.

Palermo and AS Roma failed to win, but Inter Milan beat Chievo 3-1 to ease the pressure on coach Andrea Stramaccioni.

Pablo Osvaldo missed a penalty for Roma in their 3-1 defeat at Sampdoria as they remained winless in the league in 2013.

Juventus, who beat Fiorentina 2-0 on Saturday, are top with 55 points, five clear

AC Milan’s maverick forward Mario Balotelli scored a late penalty for the second straight game on Sunday to grant his new claub a 1-1 draw at Cagliari of Napoli who drew 1-1 at third-placed Lazio, also on Saturday.

Lazio are a further six points behind in third and only one ahead of Inter.

Palermo stayed level on points at the bottom with

Siena after drawing 1-1 with Pescara, who are also in the relegation zone.

Alberto Malesani, taking over as Palermo’s third coach of the season following the dismissal of Gian Piero Gasperini, saw his side

fall behind to a 73rd-minute header by Birkir Bjarnason.

Diego Fabbrini, signed on loan from Udinese in January, levelled in the 80th minute for the Sicilians who have 18 points from 24 games, three behind Pescara who are 18th

in the 20-team table.

Paraguay midfielder Marcelo Estigarribia gave Sampdoria the lead against Roma in the 55th minute as Aurelio Andreazzoli moved into the hot seat on an interim basis following the dismissal of Zdenek Zeman.

Osvaldo then won a penalty for Roma, insisted on taking it despite protests from the usual taker Francesco Totti and weakly sent it into the arms of Sergio Romero.

That was followed by three goals in five minutes as Gianluca Sansone curled in a free kick for Sampdoria, Erik Lamela volleyed one back and 19-year-old Argentine Mauro Icardi restored the two-goal lead with a header.

Diego Milito scored his first goal of the year early in the second half to complete Inter’s win over Chievo.

Antonio Cassano, overlooked by Italy since Euro 2012, gave Inter a secondminute lead, helped by a blunder from Chievo goalkeeper Cristian Puggioni.

Luca Rigoni levelled in the 21st minute after being left unmarked to head in but Inter, who had won only one of their last seven league games, quickly re-gained the lead when Andrea Ranocchia headed in from a corner.

Siena drew 1-1 at Bologna after going ahead through Switzerland midfielder Innocent Emeghara. Panagiotis Kone replied for 15th placed-Bologna, both goals coming in an eight-minute spell before halftime.

Genoa’s point from their 0-0 draw at Parma kept them one point clear of the danger zone in 17th place.

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Angry Mancini to make changes for Leeds clash

Nea Salamina hand Anorthosis their first defeat of the season

City boss furious after 3-1 humiliation against Southampton

By Nemanja Bjedov

By Martyn Ziegler ROBERTO Mancini is ready to wield the axe on his Manchester City squad and has warned his players he will only pick those who are ready to fight every inch of the way for the rest of the season.

Mancini was furious at the limp manner of City’s 3-1 defeat at Southampton at the weekend which now leaves the reigning champions 12 points behind leaders Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League with 12 games left.

Mancini said he will make significant changes for the FA Cup fifth-round visit of Leeds on Sunday.

He told the Manchester Evening News: “I am sure we will change that, because I will change players next week.

“I only want players who are ready for the fight in the last 12 games.

“I am very angry with a lot of my players, and very disappointed at the performance, because it is impossible to play the way we did.

“We didn’t fight for every ball. We can’t always win by playing well - that is normal.

Sometimes we play well and win, but you also need to be able to win because you fight for every ball, and fight against an opponent who also wants to win the game.

“Every team that plays against us treats it like a Champions League final, but we should know this, it is normal.

“We now have 12 games left, (we) need to do well in the Premier League, and we have the FA Cup - there are games left and we can do better.

“We need to finish the season the way we did last year.”

Carlos Tevez is expected to return to City this week after a family problem, and Vincent Kompany should also be available again, as will

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has said he will make significant changes for the FA Cup fifth-round visit of Leeds on Sunday Matija Nastasic and Kolo Toure who were not risked after late returns from international duty.

Mancini branded the fixture demands caused by the international fixtures “ridiculous” but did not hold his defenders - including midfielder Javi Garcia in a makeshift centre-back role - responsible for the Southampton defeat.

He added: “The fixtures are ridiculous sometimes, as we played on Saturday and then had six players who came back on Friday, and

‘Every team that plays against us treats it like a Champions League final...’

five who came back Thursday night.

“Sometimes it is impossible.

“Nastasic came back Friday and Kolo came back three or four days ago - plus the last time Javi Garcia played there, he played really, really well.

“On Saturday we played well in defence, but the problem was that we didn’t give the defenders any help.

They were left to play alone, and we conceded two goals the like of which I have never seen in my life.”

NIKOS Englezou’s goal directly from a free kick, a minute into injury time, helped Nea Salamina hand opponents Anorthosis their first loss of the season, with a 2-1 victory in Round 21 of the national football championship on Sunday evening.

“This match was a good lesson for us. We were not organised properly and could not stay focused, so obviously we were not at our best - but even so, we still managed to create several goal-scoring opportunities,” assessed Anorthosis’ coach Ronny Levy. “Our opponents fought bravely and I congratulate them on their performance.”

Armend Alimi put the home side ahead on the 63rd minute with a shot from just inside the penalty area, while Ricardo Laborde made it all level ten minutes from time after a great through ball by Juliano Spadacio.

“We are disappointed, but we must stay strong since we knew that a defeat would come along the way,” added Levy. “What we have to do now is to continue working hard and immediately bounce back. The entire team did not have a good match, we were not focused, did not keep the ball and relied solely on our defenders to do the job.”

Nea Salamina coach Mirsad

Nea Salamina’s 2-1 win over Anorthosis on Sunday marked their first win at home in two months

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Important week for Chelsea, admits Azpilicueta CESAR Azpilicueta believes Chelsea face a key week of knockout competition with the first leg of the Europa League clash at Sparta Prague followed by the FA Cup fourth-round replay with Brentford.

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Champions League title won last May ended limply before Christmas, but now their attention is focused on the Europa League last32 in Prague on Thursday night.

“We want to play every few days because it means we are still in competitions,” Azpilicueta, who impressed in Saturday’s 4-1 Premier League defeat of Wigan, said on chelseafc.com.

“It is very important for the team to keep going in the Europa League and the FA Cup. “It is true the Europa League is not the same as the Champions League because that is the top, but the Europa League is a big

competition, an important competition, and now we have the chance to win it,” he said.

“Never in the history of Chelsea have we won this cup and we are going to try to do it.”

European Cup-winning manager Roberto Di Matteo was replaced by interim boss Rafael Benitez when Chelsea failed to advance from the Champions League group stages.

Chelsea have struggled for positive results in recent weeks, including drawing at npower League One Brentford, resulting in this week’s replay.

Azpilicueta, though, is confident Benitez’s meth-

ods are working.

“The first months I was here we had Roberto (Di Matteo) with us and now Rafa came here and we are working very hard with him,” added Azpilicueta, who won his first cap for Spain last week.

“We are trying to do the things that he asks and I think that we are playing well and doing the right things.

“When we have lost we have done a good game but when you make mistakes you pay.

“When you don’t win it is difficult but hopefully we now recover the smile that is important for the team and for the future.”

Jonuz was, not surprisingly, delighted with his team’s achievement - their first victory at home in two months.

“This victory will represent a significant boost for us as a team,” he said. “They might have the best players in Cyprus, but they had a bit of luck in the last round against Olympiakos, so we thought we stand a chance.

Our best player was our team. However, we are still in a difficult position and we must continue to improve, which I’m sure we will if my players give everything they have as they did tonight.”

Elsewhere, on Saturday evening Enosis Neon Paralimni edged out Olympiakos 3-2 in Nicosia. Eighteenyear-old Italian striker Gaetano Monachello broke the deadlock, recording his third goal in two games, 20 minutes into the match, but Miljan Mrdakovic showed his class with two goals to lift the visitors to a welldeserved victory.

On Sunday afternoon, Apollon came back from a goal down to top Alki 2-1 at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol, while their city rivals AEL had no trouble beating Ethnikos Achnas 3-1 away from home. At the GSP Stadium in Nicosia, Omonia trounced Doxa Katokopia 3-0.

In the final two matches last night, Ayia Napa lost 0-2 to APOEL, while AEK crushed AEP 4-0 at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca.

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Powerful statement: Ireland’s Ronan O’Gara (right) is tackled by England’s skipper Chris Robshaw

ENGLAND captain Chris Robshaw felt his side delivered a powerful statement of intent with their battling 12-6 victory over Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday.

No English side had won an RBS 6 Nations match in Dublin for a decade, since Martin Johnson’s team completed a Grand Slam at the old Lansdowne Road.

Owen Farrell kicked four penalties as England delivered a performance of ferocious intensity to pass their biggest test of character since Stuart Lancaster took charge.

In doing so, England signalled their Six Nations title credentials. They host France in two Saturdays’ time before tackling Italy at Twickenham and then Wales in Cardiff.

“We came here to put a marker down and we will build on that,” said Robshaw, who was named man of the match. “We knew we hadn’t won here in 10 years and we knew why. Today we got it spot on.

“We are always fired up and the message today was ‘no backward step’, whether it is little off-the-ball stuff or going after them from minute one

and we did that today.

“It was all about defence at the end of the day and someone like Owen kicking the goals. That performance was definitely right up there.”

The victory, by many measures, represented England’s biggest achievement under Lancaster. England’s victory over New Zealand in December was stunning but it was a one-off performance when the team had nothing to lose. Now they shoulder expectations and each week they rise to them.

Last week England added new levels to their attacking game to beat Scotland 38-18. Yesterday, under incessant rain, they had to battle for their victory.

Head coach Stuart Lancaster hailed the maturity of his young team.

“I am delighted to get the win here,” Lancaster said.

“When you have the conditions as they were it was going to be a tight game and down to small margins.

“To come here with a young side and show that kind of maturity to close the game out was hugely pleasing.

“It is a very difficult to play rugby against experienced players when we have lads on single figures in terms

of caps, it is great testament to their maturity.

“As a test of character it was right up there because of the quality of the Ireland side and the ability to get the win.”

Ireland enjoyed most of the first-half possession but England defended like rabid dogs at times and they led 6-0 at the interval.

Ronan O’Gara landed two penalties to draw Ireland level and with, James Haskell in the sin-bin, England were suddenly up against it.

But the visitors maintained their composure and won that 10-minute period, with Farrell restoring their six-point advantage.

“I put that up there as an absolutely massive win, a huge win,” said assistant coach Andy Farrell.

“We have come to Ireland and we have played against a very good Ireland side.

“There was a tricky point in the third quarter but the way we composed ourselves and finished the game - our energy got better, our line speed got better, our composure - was a masterclass of how to handle that last 20 minutes.”

United hoping Ronaldo will not emulate his famous namesake Valencia meet PSG, Celtic entertain Juve today

The namesake of Real Madrid hot-shot Ronaldo (C) had scored a memorable hat-trick for the Spaniards against United 10 years ago

By Brian Homewood

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he Champions League provides a crackerjack of a fixture tomorrow when Real Madrid hotshot Cristiano Ronaldo faces Manchester United, the club where he made his name, for the first time.

United will hope the Portugal winger does not emulate Brazil forward Ronaldo who scored a memorable hat-trick for the Spaniards when the teams last met 10 years ago.

The Real forward will not have to be concerned about being overshadowed by archrival Lionel Messi because organisers UEFA have again spread the last 16 over a series of dates, meaning the matches will take one month to complete.

Messi’s Barcelona will not be in action until February 20 when they visit AC Milan for their first-leg encounter while the Arsenal-Bayern Munich, Galatasaray-Schalke 04 and Porto-Malaga ties also take place next week.

Another of the group stage’s outstanding players, Brazilian playmaker Willian, will not be involved at all as he has joined Anzhi Makhachkala from

Shakhtar Donetsk who are at home to Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund tomorrow.

Valencia host ambitious Paris St Germain and Celtic entertain Serie A champions Juventus in today’s ties.

The meeting of nine-times European champions Real, who are paying the penalty for failing to win their group, and United is the first for 10 years.

As well as being Ronaldo’s

first confrontation with the team he spent six glittering seasons with, the first leg at the Bernabeu also allows Real coach Jose Mourinho to renew his rivalry with United counterpart Alex Ferguson.

Real, the Spanish league champions, have been disappointing in La Liga this season and finished second in their Champions League group behind Dortmund.

Ronaldo, a United player

from 2003-09, will be desperate for his team to rise to the occasion against the club he helped to land the Champions League trophy in 2008.

“I actually said beforehand I believed we would draw United,” the 28-year-old told UEFA.com. “I’ve wanted to face them for some time.

“I have great memories from my time there. They’re a team that always do well, every year they’re at the top and

therefore a team we respect a lot,” added Ronaldo who collected his 17th La Liga hattrick in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Sevilla.

The last of the four meetings between Real and United was in the 2002-03 quarter-finals when a treble by Brazilian World Cup-winning forward Ronaldo gave the Spaniards a 4-3 second leg win and a 6-5 aggregate triumph.

Celtic, who beat Barcelona

at home earlier in the campaign, and Juventus will clash for the first time since 2001 when the Scottish side won 4-3 in a group game.

Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is the only survivor from that match and the Italians have added former France striker Nicolas Anelka to their squad following his move from Shanghai Shenhua.

Shakhtar play Dortmund in Ukraine tomorrow without Willian who was sold to big-spending Russians Anzhi for 35 million euros ($46.83 million) last month against the wishes of coach Mircea Lucescu.

The Ukrainians, domestic champions for the last three seasons and Champions League quarter-finalists in 2011, are generally one of Europe’s most stable sides and still have eight players from the squad that lifted the UEFA Cup in 2009.

Dortmund are widely perceived as dark horses after topping a group that contained Real, Manchester City and Ajax Amsterdam.

Paris St Germain have not included new signing David Beckham in their squad for today’s match in Valencia, one of four Spanish sides in the last 16, although he is registered for the competition as is fellow new recruit, Brazilian Lucas.