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All eyes on loser’s votes in endgame The two run-off candidates will also reach out to the 17 per cent who abstained

By Stefanos Evripidou

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HE RACE is on between DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades and AKELbacked Stavros Malas to see who will garner enough support to be declared the next President of Cyprus this coming Sunday.

After Anastasiades attracted over 45 per cent of the vote last Sunday, just five percentage points short of outright victory, and Malas 27 per cent, taking them both into the runoff election, all eyes are now on the 25 per cent of the population who voted for EDEKbacked Giorgos Lillikas to see which way their vote will swing in five days time.

The two runoff candidates will likely use this week to also reach out to the 17 per cent of the population that abstained in the first round.

Both the Anastasiades and Malas camps yesterday declared victory in the elections, while behind the scenes, campaign delegates busied themselves sending feelers out to the parties without a horse in the race. After the election results were announced, Anastasiades communicated with the leaders of EDEK, the Greens and EVROKO on Sunday night, according to his campaign spokesman Tasos Mitsopoulos.

Commenting on Sunday’s results, Mitsopoulos said: “Over 70 per cent of Cypriot citizens sent a strong message rejecting the policies of the outgoing President (Demetris) Christo-

fias and the AKEL leadership.”

DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades thanked the more than 200,000 citizens who trusted Anastasiades and “gave him the biggest percentage that any candidate takes with him to a second round of elections”. He added: “Austerity, cuts, unemployment and social distress are what the outgoing government of Christofias-AKEL are leaving behind.

Recovery and growth, investments, new jobs, international credibility and effectiveness are what the new government of Nicos Anastasiades will bring.”

Malas’ spokesman Takis Hadjigeorgiou had a different view: “One thing that’s clear is that the Cypriot people don’t want to see Mr Anastasiades in power,” he said, referring to the fact that the DISY leader came up five percentage points short of a majority.

“Let no one be fooled. Voting for Mr Anastasiades means a government of salvation of the right,” that will go against workers’ rights and in favour of privatisations, he argued.

AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou also saw the upside of Anastasiades’ election result: “Mr Anastasiades asked for a strong mandate to win the elections in the first round, but the people did not give him this. A significant majority of voters did not trust Mr Anastasiades because they know that his positions have no limits or conditions regarding the Cyprus problem.”

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‘Hitchcock’s Birds’ come to life in a Kentucky city

Ballot papers for next Sunday’s run-off elections for a new president are ready, Assistant Chief Returning Officer Demetris Demetriou said yesterday. Ironically the ballot paper has the right-wing DISY candidate Nicos Anastasiades on the left hand side, and the left-wing candidate, AKEL-backed Stavros Malas on the right (Christos Theodorides)

MILLIONS of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film, The Birds.

The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, before roosting at dusk, turn the landscape white with bird poop, and the disease they carry can kill a dog and sicken humans.

“I have seen them come in, and there are enough that, if the sun is just right, they’ll cloud your vision of the sun,” said Hopkinsville-Christian County historian William Turner. “I estimate there are millions of them.”

David Chiles, president of the Little River Audubon Society, said the fact that migratory flocks are roosting in the city rather than flying further south is tied to climate warming.

“The weather, the climate plays a big role,” said Chiles, the bird enthusiast who also teaches biology at Hopkinsville High School.

“They somehow establish a roost south of where the ground is frozen solid,” he explained. “They are ground feeders, feeding on leftover crops and insects. If the fields are frozen solid, they can’t feed.”

Although the birds have not turned on humans as in the classic 1963 Hitchcock movie featuring vicious attacks on people in a small northern California town, the city has taken defensive measures.

The south-central Kentucky city of 35,000 people, about an hour north of Nashville, has hired a pest control company to get rid of the interlopers.

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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 19 1861 Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom in Russia.

1945 US Marines storm the island of Iwo Jima. Nearly 60,000 Marines went ashore the 8-square-mile volcanic island.

1961 In London, supporters of the deposed Prime Minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba clash with police outside the Belgium embassy.

1978 Fifteen Egyptian commandos are killed in a gun battle with Greek Cypriot soldiers at Larnaca airport in Cyprus, whilst trying to solve a hostage crisis.

2004 Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a “lifetime of service to humanity.”

WHAT THE MAIL SAID 25 years ago, Friday February 19, 1988 The ruling Democratic Party of outgoing President Spyros Kyprianou has decided not to support the one or the other of the two finalists in Sunday’s elections and told its members to vote at will without taking any active part for either Clerides or Vassiliou. The Socialist EDEK Party of House President Dr Lysarides has already decided to support Vassiliou.

35 years ago, Sunday February 19, 1978 Two Arab gunmen yesterday shot and killed Egyptian Yussef el-Sebai, the Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Peoples Solitary Organisation which was meeting at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia. Palestinians shot Sebai as he was about to enter the conference room and subsequently held hostage the Arab delegates.

45 years ago, Monday February 19, 1968 Frank Galbally, a leading Australian criminal lawyer, returned to Australia today from Athens and claimed Greece was under a rule of fear. Galbally and James Kimpton, a legal adviser, were sent to Greece by the Australian Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Greece, to give legal aid to prisoners held by the militarybacked government there.

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CB to seek troika approval to inform banks of needs

Bailout must be linked to ‘dirty money’ reviews

By Elias Hazou

ECB’s Draghi says laws on the books are not enough

By Elias Hazou A FINANCIAL rescue package for Cyprus must be accompanied by close and continuous monitoring of its progress in implementing anti-moneylaundering policies, the European Central Bank chief said yesterday.

Mario Draghi told European lawmakers that it was not sufficient to put all relevant laws on the books, adding the crucial part was implementing them. A final deal should provide for “close monitoring” of anti-money laundering mechanisms on the island, he said.

Draghi said it was imperative for the next Cyprus government to emerge from elections to commit to a financial assistance programme.

“It is very important that a programme be agreed,” Draghi told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. “We have to make sure we don’t create financial instability.”

And a spokesman for the German finance ministry yesterday mooted March as the earliest date at which possible aid for Cyprus would be discussed at the Eurogroup.

“It now depends on how quickly Cyprus will be in a position for talks,” spokesman Martin Kotthaus said at a press briefing in Berlin. “The topic will be on the table of the March Eurogroup at the earliest,” he said.

The government here has said it can cover the state’s financing up to April. Cyprus’ request for a full bailout has apparently been caught in limbo due to disagreements between EU members, but also over allegations the island is a hub for money laundering.

Nicosia denies the allegations, but is wary of a proposal that its banking sector be audited by a private company.

Meanwhile, a report by Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy organisation based in Washington D.C., said suspected Russian money laundering was being facilitated through Cyprus.

Titled: “Russia: Illicit Financial Flows and the Role of the Underground Economy,” the February 2013 report outlines remedies for the Russian government for cracking down on its underground economy and the transfer of illicit Russian capital. That’s where Cyprus comes into play. The report

ECB boss Mario Draghi: bailout needs to be agreed

THE CENTRAL Bank will reportedly seek international lenders’ approval to officially inform banks about their recapitalisation needs, thus enabling the banks to accurately inform investors of their financial results for 2012.

It’s understood that the island’s two largest banks, the Bank of Cyprus and the Popular Bank, have asked stock exchange authorities for an extension on the deadline by which they are obliged to announce their yearly results.

The deadline for publishing preliminary results for 2012 is February 28. The two banks argue that they cannot meet that cut-off date as they have not yet been informed about the final amount needed for their recapitalisation.

Announcing their results without factoring in this information might be misleading to investors, the banks say.

But an extension on posting financial results is prohibited by legislation governing transparency and market manipulation.

An extension can only be granted by the minister of finance via a decree.

HITCH considers a hypothetical case describing the mechanics behind the transfer of illicit capital: “Say Company A in Russia exports oil to its Subsidiary B in the Netherlands. The transaction is undervalued at a price significantly below the world market price. The invoice for the transaction does not, however, accompany the shipment. Instead, the invoice goes to a re-invoicing company in Cyprus owned by the Russian exporter and there is re-priced at something more accurately reflecting the world market price.

“Customs administration in the Netherlands has no reason to question the invoice since the price is in line with prevailing norms. Subsidiary B turns around and sells the oil to another country in Europe at the world market price. Upon payment, it transfers the total revenues to the Cyprus re-invoicing facility,

reaping a huge profit flowing into that account in Cyprus, a tax haven. At a later time, the illicit capital in Cyprus may be round-tripped back to Company A in Russia as recorded foreign direct investment.”

According to the report, “This stylized flow of goods and capital resulting from the under-invoicing of oil exports and related illicit and licit financial flows finds considerable support in recorded FDI [Foreign Direct Investment] flows between Cyprus and Russia.”

Citing data reported by Russia to the IMF, the report said Cyprus was Russia’s largest source and destination of FDI over the period 2009-2011.

“It is unlikely that Cyprus, with a GDP of around US$23 billion can manage to make such large investments in Russia unless those investments were financed through illicit assets from Russia,” it noted.

But there’s another hitch.

Investment managers Pimco have been hired to carry out a due diligence of banks to determine their capital needs ahead of an overall bailout package sought by Cyprus.

Under an agreement concluded with the island’s prospective international lenders - the troika - the findings of the due diligence would be made public only upon the signing of the final loan agreement.

Now the Central Bank wants to query the troika on whether the rules can be bent.

The Cyprus News Agency said the regulator would try to explain to the troika why there must be some alteration in the established procedure so that banks are informed about the amount needed for their recapitalisation based on Pimco’s scenarios.

The reported decision was taken at a meeting yesterday

attended by Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades, Attorney-general Petros Clerides, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Demetra Kalogirou, head of the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) Nondas Metaxas and Finance Ministry officials.

Reports said both the SEC and CSE cited concerns over leaks of sensitive information to the media regarding the status of Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus, listed on the stock exchange.

Such information includes the amount needed for the banks’ recapitalisation according to a due diligence report, which affects investors’ decisions.

PLAN Pimco’s due diligence is being monitored by a steering committee. It comprises representatives from the Central Bank, the finance ministry, the cooperative bank supervisory service, the IMF, European Commission, European Central Bank, European Stability Mechanism, European Banking Authority, and the European Central Bank.

On February 2 the steering committee received Pimco’s final report. The committee would next draw up a plan to determine the capital needs of the banking sector.

That’s only part of the problem with the Pimco report. The investment company has reportedly come up with a worst-case scenario of €10.1 billion for the bank’s capital needs - an amount which would raise the island’s debt to over 120 per cent of GDP and thus make it unsustainable under IMF criteria.

The government has come under fire for allegedly deliberately allowing the recapitalisation figure to be inflated in a bid to drive home its argument that the banks were to blame for the mess the economy is in.

But on realising that the figure quoted by Pimco could derail Cyprus’ request for aid, critics say, the government asked a second company to review Pimco’s report.

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Home CyBC wins ratings battle HUNDREDS of thousands of people were glued to their TV sets on Sunday for an average of over six hours, watching the presidential election coverage, according to the AGB Cyprus Nielsen audience measurement.

All major TV channels covered the elections with special programmes in place before and after voting closed collectively harnessing 578,810 viewers who tuned in even for just one minute, even more than the previous presidential elections when 566,090 people tuned in.

Average viewing time came to 378 minutes compared with 366 minutes in 2008, Nielsen said.

“The twelve minute difference is considered very large for TV, and shows viewers great interests,” Nielsen said.

TV channels CyBC, Mega, Ant1, Sigma and Plus TV broadcasted between them some 41 hours on the elections. CyBC led the way with 14 hours and four minutes of broadcasting material, Mega lagged behind with 11 hours and 28 minutes, Ant1 dedicated less time with just seven hours and 56 minutes, Sigma seven hours and five minutes, while Plus TV settled with just two hours and 32 minutes’ coverage, Nielsen said.

Viewing peaked between 8.25pm and 8.29pm when some 397,730 people were watching TV to see the final results.

Some 317,440 people were watching TV between 6pm and 6.05pm on to see what the exit polls predicted after voting closed and exit polls were broadcasted.

The battle of the ratings was won by state broadcaster CyBC which got 20.7 per cent share of viewings, followed by Sigma with 19.7 per cent, Ant1 with 18.8 per cent, and MEGA with 15.0 per cent, Nielsen said. However, cable channels and other channels that did not cover elections got a 22.5 per cent share.

Authorities prepared for new cyber threat to elections

By Peter Stevenson THE government’s IT systems withstood a cyber attack which attempted to block the release of election results on Sunday.

Authorities were on alert throughout election day after a group of hackers threatened to disrupt the elections by targeting state websites. A video posted on Saturday on the Internet by a group claiming to be the Cyprus branch of ‘Anonymous’ called on sympathisers to launch the attack at exactly 6pm on Sunday – the designated deadline for the start of the ballot count.

Interior Ministry officials claim that these sorts of attacks happen sporadically, while police re-assured the pub-

lic that it would be extra vigilant during the run-up to the second round of elections this coming Sunday.

“There was a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack, also known as a cyber attack on Sunday, in an attempt to prevent the interior ministry from showing the results but also unauthorised attempts to reach other sites that were related to the elections,” chief official for the Department of Information Technology Services (DITS), Andreas Kyprianou said.

He revealed the department prevented any kind of attack by using the technology it possesses. “We always take every necessary measure to ensure the smooth-running of government online services,” he added.

Kyprianou stated that the attempted breaches of security of websites are

common, especially during an election process. “We cannot know for sure whether the known hacker group ‘Anonymous’ were responsible for yesterdays attack,” he remarked.

Kyprianou explained that DITS is constantly taking measures to protect government websites, not only during election-time. “We are responsible for the smooth-running of government online services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 52 weeks a year,” he said.

After reports emerged on Saturday that ‘Anonymous’ were planning an attack, Police Chief Michalis Papageorgiou contacted chief returning officer, Andreas Assiotis, to make sure all possible measures were taken to prevent any attack.

“The biggest problem anyone could

have caused was delaying the presentation of the election results,” Assiotis said. “This only would have been temporary though,” he added.

Police spokesman, Andreas Angelides, said police were constantly monitoring the situation and would be extra vigilant during the week and on Sunday for the second round.

He also said that police would be looking into an SMS sent on Sunday informing people of electoral standings, something which is not permitted either on the day of elections or on the day before.

According to voting law, during the day preceding the day of voting, and during the day of voting, political advertisements, statements and events which are relevant to the elections are strictly prohibited.

‘People have grown tired of the baseless promises’ Growing abstention rate a sign that voters becoming disillusioned

By Peter Stevenson THE upward trend of voter abstention in recent years was much in evidence during Sunday’s first-round when 16.86 per cent of the public chose not to bother contributing to the process of electing a new head of state.

Almost one-fifth of registered voters did not bother to visit a polling station, more or less confirming previous analyses according to political analyst Christoforos Christoforou.

“Before the elections my estimate was that there would be between 15 and 20 per cent abstention,” he said. Christoforou believes the number was neither positive nor negative.

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Despite the abstentions, the voting rate in Cyprus is still higher than many other countries people abstaining was logical if we consider the trends over the last few years, taking into consideration that during the last presidential elections we saw around 10 per cent of people staying away from polling stations,” he added.

Although voting is mandatory for all citizens, Christoforou said that since 2001 when the law was relaxed, the number of people who have chosen not to exercise their democratic right has increased as they have gradually become disillusioned by the various politicians. “People have be-

gun to realise that politicians and political powers don’t really keep their promises,” he said. “They haven’t succeeded in solving the Cyprus problem nor has Cyprus’ accession to the EU meant that the standard of living or quality of life improved,” he added. “Generally, people have grown tired of politicians baseless promises and decided to show that by not even showing up to vote,” he explained.

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Belgium and Luxembourg, which also has a mandatory voting law. “With over 80 per cent of people turning up to vote for elections where the three main candidates were perceived to be of a negative nature, the number shows that people on the island do still care who will lead them,” he said.

Christoforou revealed, although it appeared on Sunday that ruling party AKEL had not lost much of their vote despite being blamed for the Mari Naval Base explosion and the collapse of the economy, their candidate, Stavros Malas received around 40,000 less votes than the party’s previous candidate, President Demetris Christofias in 2008.

“If you take into consideration that there are currently 30,000 new registered voters since the 2008 elections and the decrease in numbers from five years ago for Malas then it would appear quite a few people have grown tired of the current government,” he said.

“According to exit polls, five per cent of people who voted for Christofias five years ago voted for DISY candidate Ni-

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cos Anastasiades,” he added.

Official data on the final turnout put the total at 82.84 per cent, compared to 89.62 per cent in the last presidential elections in 2008.

The turnout during the 2011 parliamentary elections was 78.70 per cent.

In Nicosia, the turnout was 81.82 per cent, compared to 88.80 per cent in the 2008 elections. Limassol had an 83.24 per cent turnout, the Famagusta district 83.86 per cent, Larnaca 84.01 per cent and Paphos 84.00 per cent.

The abstention rate for the 2011 parliamentary elections was 21.3 per cent, a figure almost double that of the previous elections. December 2011’s municipal elections saw an abstention rate of over 30 per cent but Christoforou felt the reason the number was so high for those elections was that people perceive them as being of less importance than presidential elections. “Municipal elections are generally seen as being based more on the common interests of those seeking power, with most people voting for people they know,” he concluded.

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All eyes on loser’s votes in endgame AKEL leader engages in scaremongering tactics to lure the undecided away from Nicos Anastasiades

AKEL’s Andros Kyprianou (above) says Anastasiades’ election will lead to ‘tens of thousands’ jobless

(continued from front page) Kyprianou also slated the DISY leader for planning “austerity, cuts and privatisations” for Cyprus, warning that today’s unemployment will increase by tens of thousands if Anastasiades is elected.

Meanwhile, Lillikas yesterday showed signs of greater ambitions than coming third in an election race.

According to reports, his campaign team politely refused invitations for meetings with the two remaining candidates. Instead, Lillikas pledged to enter into dialogue with his supporters across Cyprus, starting today and ending Thursday before announcing on Friday what decision he’ll take in the runoff election.

Reports suggested he was leaning towards proposing a conscience vote to those who supported his candidacy.

The independent candidate got official backing from EDEK in Sunday’s election but succeeded in luring many voters from EVROKO, the Greens and more significantly, DIKO, whose leadership officially

endorsed Anastasiades.

“I did not only appeal to people of the middle ground (centre of the political spectrum), I appealed to the citizens, and the results of the election prove that we went beyond the ‘limits’ of the so-called middle ground.

I continue to appeal to all members of the public,” said Lillikas.

Asked about reports that he plans to harness this support from EVROKO and DIKO members to form a new party, he replied: “We have heard a lot of rumours in these elections, not to mention polls and exit polls.

When I have something to say, I will say it myself.”

He added: “Certainly, (Sunday) was not the end, it was the beginning. The people gave me a mandate; I will carry out that mandate.”

As for EDEK, now that its candidate is out the running, party leader Yiannakis Omirou said yesterday he had “no fears or concerns” about reports that Lillikas planned to form a new party.

Omirou plans to meet both Anastasiades and Malas today, after requests from the two to meet with him.

EDEK’s political bureau will meet later on today, while a decision on what position to take for the second round will be made on Thursday, said Omirou.

The Greens’ central committee decided last night on a conscience vote for Sunday while EVROKO leader Demetris Syllouris said his party’s central council will decide tomorrow on a proposal by the executive office to support Anastasiades’ candidacy.

EVROKO members were asked to cast a conscience vote in the first round between Anastasiades and Lillikas. However, it is believed the majority of members supported Lillikas.

EVROKO member and Lillikas supporter Stelios Americanos yesterday rejected the idea of supporting Anastasiades.

He noted that Lillikas was the first presidential candidate to reject the notion of a bizonal, bicommunal federation for a reunited Cyprus and still got 25 per cent of the vote. “I am proud of my vote,” he said.

The biggest question hangs over what DIKO members

Nicos Anastasiades

Stavros Malas

Giorgos Lillikas

Winners and losers by the numbers ACCORDING to the Chief Returning Officer, the results of Sunday’s presidential election were as follows: Nicos Anastasiades won 45.46 per cent of the vote (counting for 200,591 votes); Stavros Malas 26.91 per cent (118,755 votes); Giorgos Lillikas 24.93 per cent (109,996 votes); ELAM’s Giorgos Charalambous came fourth with 0.88 per cent (3,899 votes),

United Democrat’s Praxoula Antoniadou-Kyriacou got 0.61 per cent (2,678 votes); Indepedent Makaria Antri Stylianou received 0.43 per cent (1,898 votes); Lakis Ioannou 0.29 per cent (1,278); Solon Grigoriou 0.18 per cent (792); Costas Kyriacou (Outopos) 0.16 per cent (722); Andreas Efstratiou 0.10 per

cent (434); Loucas Stavrou 0.05 per cent, counting for 213 registered voters.

Voter participation reached 83.14 per cent, representing 453,534 voters, showing a marked decrease from the 2008 presidential elections when 89.62 per cent turned up to vote.

In total, abstentions came to 16.86 per cent; the percentage of void ballots was 1.72 per cent and blank ballots came to 0.98 per cent.

will do, considering that reports suggest less than half its members voted for the party’s official candidate Anastasiades. Before the election, DIKO vice-president Nicolas Papadopoulos, son of the former president, the late Tassos Papadopoulos, stepped down from the party leadership expressing

his disapproval of Anastasiades, while failing to hide his support for Lillikas.

DIKO released a statement yesterday highlighting that Sunday’s election was not a dilemma between left and right, but between going forwards or backwards, and saving the country’s economy. It remains to be seen

(Christos Theodorides)

who will succeed in attracting the “middle ground” in the coming days. Perhaps making life a little more confusing, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday that the new ballot papers for the second round are ready, with a box for Anastasiades printed on the left, and Malas on the right.

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Paphos family living in limbo

By Bejay Browne A FAMILY of four living at a stricken development in Armou in Paphos remain in limbo, unsure of their future, after their homes were declared unfit for habitation in November last year.

The luxury development was built by JNM developers.

All of the houses, which were only built in 2004, have serious structural problems, from slanting floors, to the partial collapse of stairs, walls, swimming pools and patio areas.

Outside drains are exposed in one garden and retaining walls have split.

In November, homes had official notices placed on them stating the decree shall remain in force until such time as repair works deemed nec-

Four months on and still unsure of their future in collapsing Armou development essary by the District Officer are carried out.

A day later, owners were informed that electricity supply to their homes would be cut but it is still connected.

Simon Phillips, his wife Jen and their two children are the only family still living at the development. They say they are unable to move due to financial restrictions and the prospect of homelessness hangs over them.

Phillips said: “We don’t earn enough to take out a mortgage or to rent another property. I would only be able to afford a tiny apartment.”

house has not.”

“It’s similar to a fault line.

We are in a unique position in that our house is behind this line while all of the other homes, and our front garden, are in front of it,” he added.

Phillips said he has appealed to a district official to return with an engineer to confirm his hypothesis but is still waiting to hear back. The Cyprus Mail was told the official was currently away.

‘Chucking a family of four out on the street surely can’t be a solution. I want to be compensated with a property of equal value and similar to

SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Remand for woman suspected of killing her newborn A WOMAN who gave birth in secrecy at a farm in Famagusta was remanded for eight days yesterday suspected of concealing the birth and of manlaughter, after a state pathologist said a post mortem indicated the baby was born alive.

State pathologist Eleni Antoniou who did a postmortem on Sunday said that there was reason to think the baby girl had been born alive.

“But it will only be clear whether this was the case after further tests,” Famagusta police spokesman George Economou said.

The 41-year-old Bulgarian woman was admitted to Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni on Saturday morning. She had been bleeding since Friday afternoon when she gave birth at a farm in Famagusta’s Sotira where she worked.

The woman eventually told doctors about the birth, adding the baby was born dead, and police found the body on Saturday evening, wrapped in towels among rubbish at the Sotira farm. The woman was arrested the same night – guarded in Famagusta hospital – in relation to concealing a birth, later adding manslaughter to the investigations, following the postmortem.

The remand hearing took place in hospital yesterday with the woman reserving her right to silence. She is expected to be released from hospital today, while still on remand.

The 41-year-old woman arrived in Cyprus four months ago and has been working in Sotira.

Her employers told the police they were not aware of her pregnancy.

He said he was also fearful of the possibility of looting if his home were left empty. “I received a phone call from a woman named Sonia…she works at the district office and placed the notices on all of our doors. She reminded me that we couldn’t stay as there is a ban order in place and that we have to move for our own safety. But I pointed out that although the other five houses have been affected and admittedly our outdoor space has too, including our entrance steps, car port, swimming pool and patio, which have all moved, our

mine .We paid for it outright and don’t have a mortgage.

It cost us €250,000,” said Phillips.

He said that although several people had kindly offered temporary use of their holiday homes or empty properties, that was no way to live. “It’s impractical and impossible. We all need some peace and relief from this terrible situation.”

But he said if the electricity was cut off, as threatened, the family would be forced to move.

A report by the president of Paphos’ architects and civil engineers association, Chrysostomos Italos was completed in June 2012 and has been handed over to the legal advisers of the homeowners.

Italos places the blame firmly on the developer.

CYPRUS TODAY Car arson AN EXPLOSIVE device was set-off on a car, parked in a field at around 10.30pm on Saturday in Aglandja, Nicosia, police said. From initial investigations, police established they were looking at a case of arson.

The explosion was caused by a firecracker. The car, owned by a 44-year-old man, was damaged severely, although the amount has yet to be estimated.

A second car caught on fire at around 9pm, as it was also parked in a field in the village of Flasou in the Nicosia district on Saturday. The blaze was extinguished by members of the fire service after damage was caused to the front part of the vehicle.

Initial investigations indicate it was a case of arson.

Traffic offences MEMBERS of Police Headquarters’ traffic department carried out a series of checks over the weekend in the Nicosia District. During their checks a motorist was written-up for driving at 207 km/h, more than double the permitted speed of 100 km/h. A second driver was written up for causing noise pollution, a third for carrying scrap metal without the required permit and a fourth because he had failed to transfer the car he was driving into his name for the last five years. Also during the checks, 47 people were written-up for drinkdriving.

Dogs attack

A blossoming almond tree snapped along the Nicosia to Limassol highway yesterday

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Economic crisis hits media advertising hard THE BIG loser of the economic crisis for Cyprus’ media has clearly been the print media, which saw a 25 per cent drop in advertising revenue last year.

According to a study by media monitoring company Matrixmedia, advertising revenues for print media have taken a battering since the onset of the economic crisis.

Television’s advertising revenues have also seen a yearon-year drop, while radio has beaten the odds to see a resurgence in ad revenues.

Advertising revenues for print media dropped from €76m in 2011 to €58m last year, marking a 25 per cent decrease while TV revenues dropped from €325m to €293m.

Radio saw an increase in

ad revenues, climbing from €46m in 2011 to €55m in 2012.

According to Matrixmedia, the media advertising pie is traditionally divided between TV, press and radio with 70 per cent going to TV, 20 to print and 10 to radio.

In 2008, the share in Cyprus

was 68-21-11, though now radio and print have an almost equal share of ad revenues, with the ratio looking more like 72-14-13.

The result of falling revenues for TV and print have seen media owners carry out a series of staff layoffs and

salary cuts to stave off closure.

If the current trend continues, it remains to be seen which media will remain standing and in what format, should further staff and salary cuts be implemented.

A 9-YEAR-OLD boy was savagely attacked by two dogs on Sunday at around 3.30pm in Limassol, police said. According to reports, the two dogs, a Rottweiler and a Pitbull terrier, were in a fenced off enclosure when, under circumstances that are being looked into, the child managed to enter.

The child was taken to a private clinic after the attack, where he underwent surgery and was kept for observation.

Police arrested the 42year-old owner of the dogs to aid their investigations but he was later released.

Yermasoyia police station is investigating the case.

Drugs arrests TWO men, aged 33 and 27 were arrested on Sunday in Nicosia, on suspicion of the illegal use and possession of drugs with intent to sell, police said.

The car the two were riding in was checked by members of the force who located 170 grammes of cannabis, a joint, a crusher and two precision scales with traces of cannabis on them.

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NICOSIA Criminal Court yesterday acquitted all the defendants in the trial for the 2005 Helios aviation disaster, spelling the end of legal proceedings here more than seven years after the crash which claimed the lives of 121 people.

The court dropped the charges as a matter of routine after the Attorney-general moved to suspend the prosecution of all five defendants.

The state prosecution cited “insurmountable difficulties” posed by a recent court decision in Greece.

Earlier this month a Greek court of appeals upheld a 10-year prison sentence for three airline executives found responsible for the accident, but gave them the option to buy-out their convictions for some €76,000 each.

The three, Helios’ managing director Demetris Pantazis, flight operations manager Giorgos Kikkides, and Bulgarian chief pilot Ianko Stoimenov, were found guilty of negligent manslaughter, a misdemeanour.

The Athens court acquitted a fourth defendant, a British engineer who had carried out the final checks on the aircraft before the fatal August 14 flight. He did not stand trial in Cyprus.

The decision in Greece was expected to complicate legal proceedings in Cyprus where the Supreme Court ordered a retrial after the Nicosia Criminal Court had acquitted the defendants, which also included Helios Airways as a legal entity and executive chairman at the time Andreas Drakos.

In court yesterday, the state prosecutor spoke of “insurmountable difficulties” to further pursuing the case against Pantazis, Kikkides and Stoimenov.

She cited the EU’s framework decision on the European arrest warrant, which has been incorporated into Cyprus law, as well as the legal principle of double jeopardy that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following a legitimate acquittal

or conviction. As a result of the Greek decision, Drakos was the only remaining natural person as defendant in Cyprus, in addition to Helios Airways as a legal entity. Drakos did not face charges in Greece.

And since Drakos was considered “more removed from the charges of negligence” as compared to the others, there was little point in continuing the trial, the prosecutor argued.

Still, it’s understood that the Greek court’s decision against Pantazis, Kikkides and Stoimenov is not yet irrevocable. In order for it to become legally irreversible, the three must appeal the decision with Greece’s Supreme Court, which will have the final say either way.

Alternatively, they could opt to drop the case by accepting their sentence there.

Raising a point of objection, George Papaioannou, defence attorney for Pantazis, said his client preferred to stand trial in Cyprus, given that the decision in Greece was not yet irrevocable.

His client was confident of being re-acquitted in Cypriot courts, which would clear his name once for all, he added.

But now, with the dismissal of the case, the public would never get to know the true causes behind the deadly air crash, Papaioannou said.

Helios and their lawyers have maintained throughout that there was not enough forensic evidence to pinpoint the precise cause of the August 2005 crash. As such, the airline executives could not be blamed for hiring (or for not sacking or not grounding) the two pilots, who according to the official accident report were primarily responsible.

The relatives of the crash victims, who for almost eight years have been seeking some measure of redress, voiced disgust at yesterday’s development.

“It seems the Attorney-general chose to hide behind the decision in Greece,” Nicolas Yiasoumis, a spokesman, told the Mail.

Having left the matter in the hands of the state, there was now little else the relatives could do, he said.

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Firms rap GPs’ fizzy beverages tax suggestion

BRITAIN TODAY Only a third of Britons want to stay in EU ONLY a third of Britons would vote to stay in the European Union in a proposed referendum, a poll showed yesterday, underlining the scale of Prime Minister David Cameron’s task in persuading voters to back his flagship EU policy.

In one of the biggest gambles of his premiership, Cameron promised last month to win back powers from Brussels and hold a vote on Britain’s 40-year EU membership.

Cameron would campaign to stay in the EU, provided he can reform Britain’s ties with Brussels in the face of opposition from European allies and he secures a second term in an election due in 2015.

Just 33 per cent of voters would support his call to remain in the bloc, with 50 per cent wanting to leave and 17 per cent not planning to vote, according to the Harris Interactive poll in the Financial Times.

Reject idea such a tax would combat obesity

By Dominic Harris and Tom White, MANUFACTURERS of fizzy drinks have hit back at a call

by GPs for them to be taxed to help tackle spiralling levels of obesity.

Following a report released by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), which expressed concerns about public health, the soft drinks industry has rejected the idea that a tax would help.

An industry body has said their products account for just 2 per cent of calories in an average diet and it is what people consume overall which needs to be addressed.

They also said sales of fizzy drinks have fallen during the last decade, but levels of obesity have risen.

Gavin Partington, directorgeneral of the British Soft Drinks Association, said: “We share the recognition that obesity is a major public health priority but reject

the idea that a tax on soft drinks, which contribute just 2 per cent of the total calories in the average diet, is going to address a problem which is about overall diet and levels of activity.

“Over the last 10 years, the consumption of soft drinks containing added sugar has fallen by 9 per cent while the incidence of obesity has been increasing, and 61 per cent of soft drinks now contain no added sugar.

“Soft drinks companies are also committing to further, voluntary action as part of the Government’s Responsibility Deal Calorie Reduction Pledge. “Don’t forget that there already is a 20 per cent tax on soft drinks, 10p out of every 60p can of drink already goes to the Government thanks to VAT. “Putting up taxes even further will put pressure on people’s purses at a time when they can ill afford it.”

The AMRC, which represents nearly every one of Britain’s

220,000 doctors, is pressing the Government, the NHS and food organisations for action on what it calls the greatest public health crisis affecting the UK, the Guardian said.

Figures say one in four adults is obese and that number is expected to double by 2050, presenting an unresolvable problem.

The report says doctors from across the medical profession are united in their concerns, and criticised the present and previous governments for insufficient and ineffective attempts to tackle the problem.

Following a year-long inquiry, the AMRC has devised a list of 10 recommendations to stop the UK being the fat man of Europe.

These include taxes of 20 per cent on sugary drinks for at least a year, banning the advertising of foods high in saturated fat, sugar and salt before 9pm, and councils having the power to limit the number of fast-food outlets near schools and leisure centres.

Figures say one in four British adults is obese and that number is expected to double by 2050, presenting a currently unresolvable problem

UK actor Richard PM David Cameron on Indian Briers dies aged 79 trade trip as graft scandal erupts BRITISH actor Richard Briers, best known for the 1970s TV sit-com The Good Life but also for his Shakespearean roles, has died at the age of 79, prompting a flood of tributes for “a national treasure”.

The actor, who spent a lifetime on the stage, had recently spoken publicly of battling a serious lung condition for years, saying that “the ciggies got me” after a lifetime smoking habit.

He said his health was failing after being diagnosed with emphysema five years ago even though he gave up smoking 10 years ago.

“I was diagnosed five years ago and didn’t think it would go quite as badly as it has,” he told a newspaper interview last month.

“I used to love smoking.

It’s totally my fault.”

His agent said he died on Sunday at his London home.

Briers’s career ranged from television, to theatre, to film and radio with the actor, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, making his West End debut in the late 1950s.

In The Good Life, he played alongside actress Felicity Kendal as a married couple who decide to drop out of the rat race and try out a life of selfsufficiency.

His film credits included A Chorus Of Disapprov-

Briers was well-known for his Shakespearean roles al in 1989 and Watership Down in 1978 in which he was the voice of Fiver. He also narrated the children’s cartoon series Roobarb and Custard.

But he won wide acclaim for his Shakespearean work after joining Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company.

He appeared in a list of Branagh’s films including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet.

Briers, who was married with two daughters, was awarded an OBE in 1989 for services to the arts.

Branagh paid tribute to Briers, telling reporters: “He was a national treasure, a great actor and a wonderful man.

“He was greatly loved and he will be deeply missed.”

Actor Stephen Fry on Twitter described him as “the most adorable and funny man imaginable”.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron flew into India yesterday promising to try to revive Indian interest in the Eurofighter even though New Delhi has chosen a French-made rival and as a graft scandal is engulfing an Anglo-Italian helicopter deal.

Making his second visit to India as prime minister, Cameron’s trip comes days after a similar trade mission

by French President Francois Hollande, underlining how Europe’s debt-stricken states are competing to tap into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Cameron’s delegation, which includes representatives of more than 100 companies, is the biggest taken abroad by a British premier and includes four ministers and nine MPs. But the timing of the trip is not ideal. India said on Friday it wanted to cancel a $750 million deal for a dozen helicopters made by AgustaWestland, the Anglo-Italian subsidiary of Italy’s Finmeccanica, over bribery claims.

That will not make Cameron’s job of persuading India to buy more civil and military hardware easier, and Indian officials have told the local press they intend to press Cameron for “a fully-fledged report” on what Britain knows about the scandal.

Britain has said it wants to wait until the end of the Italian investigation before commenting in full, but has given India an interim report on

PM Cameron speaks during a business seminar in Mumbai yesterday the subject.

“This is something for the Italian and Indian authorities to deal with and I’m sure they will,” Cameron told reporters yesterday, saying issues had been raised that needed to be settled.

Cameron said he would tell the Indian government that the Eurofighter jet, which is partly built in Britain, remains an attractive option if India decides to review a multi-billion dollar deal to buy 126 French-made Rafale fighters. New Delhi rejected the Eurofighter last year. “(Eurofighter) Typhoon is a superior aircraft,” he said, adding that the consortium

that built it had said it would “look again” at the price. Such a deal could involve technology transfer and industrial participation, he said. “I will make clear the Typhoon is still available.”

A British government source said on Friday that London had noted that Hollande hadn’t finalised the Rafale fighter jet deal during his own trip.

Cameron told his hosts they should open up their economy because Britain had done the same for Indian firms. He said he was proud of the fact that Indian companies like Tata group, the owner Jaguar Land Rover, had such a strong foothold in the British economy, but said he expected a reciprocal arrangement.

“Britain is an open economy and we encourage that investment,” he said. “I think, in return, we should be having a conversation about opening up the Indian economy, making it easier to do business here, allowing insurance and banking companies to do more foreign direct investment.”

India still had outdated rules and regulations, Cameron complained.

Investors have been clamouring for years for India to open up Asia’s third-largest economy to more foreign investment. But their entreaties have been resisted by Indian opposition groups worried about potential damage to home-grown businesses.

Senate bid ‘a legal defence’ WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defence against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain, a news website said yesterday.

Assange spoke to The Conversation website at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he was granted asylum in June to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime claims.

If he wins a senate seat at elections on September 24, Assange told the website the US Department of Justice would drop its espionage investigation rather than risk a diplomatic row.

The British government would follow suit, otherwise “the political costs of the current stand-off will be higher still”, Assange said.

Experts to train Malian forces BRITISH military advisers are to carry out infantry and artillery training for the Malian armed forces fighting Islamist extremists in the west African state, it was announced today.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed that the UK would contribute 40 personnel to a European Union training mission due to start in the spring.

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Russian court rejects attempt to block dead whistleblower’s trial

Armenians receive their ballots to vote at a polling station in Yerevan yesterday

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Armenians vote for new president Polls criticised as being a one-horse race

By Hasmik Mkrtchyan ARMENIANS voted in a presidential election yesterday that is set to hand incumbent Serzh Sarksyan a new fiveyear term, but the lack of any serious opposition and an assassination attempt on one of his rivals cast a shadow over the ballot.

Opinion polls suggest Sarksyan’s victory is all but certain. He is on target to win more than 60 per cent of the vote in the small, landlocked country in the South Caucasus, with the next of the other six candidates barely in double figures.

Sarksyan hopes a vote free of the violence and fraud that marred the last presidential poll in 2008, when 10 people were killed in clashes, will show the former Soviet republic is on the path to economic recovery after years of war and upheaval.

Political stability in a region where pipelines take Caspian oil and natural gas to Europe is also a concern for foreign investors and neighbours.

Casting his own ballot at a polling station in the capital of Yerevan, Sarksyan said: “I voted for the future of Armenia, for the security of Armenia, for the security of our citizens.”

It is a message that has resonated with many voters in the country of 3.2 million, where

Incumbent Serzh Sarksyan more than 30 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, the average monthly salary is about $300 and unemployment was 16 per cent in 2012.

“Sarksyan promotes the improvement of educated society, which is a guarantee of Armenia’s future,” said Artak Avetsyan, 31, a teacher who came to cast his ballot for the incumbent.

But with none of Sarksyan’s serious opposition rivals choosing to stand, election observers expressed concerns over the democratic credentials of the vote.

Officials from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said they found apathy towards the vote and a lack of confidence about

the electoral process among the public when they visited the country in January.

Questions also linger over security in a nation locked in a dispute with neighbouring Azerbaijan over NagornoKarabakh, an ethnic Armenian-majority enclave inside Azerbaijan over which Armenians and Azeris fought a war in the 1990s. Sarksyan, 58, like many of his generation, is a veteran of that war.

The threat of a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh also remains.

Sarksyan has accused Azerbaijan of threatening a new war. Baku denies it is the aggressor in the conflict and says Armenia should hand back control of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Security concerns were underlined by an attempt to kill Paruyr Hayrikyan, 63, an outsider in the election. He was shot in the shoulder on January 31.

Another dark horse in the race, Andrias Ghukasyan, has been on a hunger strike since the start of the campaign to press demands for Sarksyan’s candidacy to be annulled and for international observers to boycott the vote.

A third candidate, Arman Melikyan, has said he will not vote as he believes the election will be skewed in Sarksyan’s favour. Other potential rivals chose not take part in the race for similar reasons.

Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux loses his bid for parole BELGIAN paedophile Marc Dutroux who is serving a life sentence for kidnapping, torturing and abusing six girls in 1995 and 1996, and murdering four of them, has lost his bid for parole.

Dutroux, 56, who has been in prison for 16 years, tried to convince a court that he

would be no risk to the public if he was released while being monitored with an electronic ankle bracelet. Dutroux’s former wife, Michelle Martin - who had let two girls starve to death in a cellar while her husband was jailed for theft - was given early release in July, and now lives in a convent.

A RUSSIAN court yesterday pressed ahead with plans to try a dead whistleblowing lawyer on tax evasion charges, despite an attempt by relatives to block a trial they say is inhuman and politically motivated.

Sergei Magnitsky died in 2009 after complaining he was denied treatment as his health declined in jail, prompting the United States last year to bar entry to Russians accused of involvement in his death or human rights abuses.

Critics say the posthumous trial, which the state says is possible under legal changes made last year, is a cynical act by President Vladimir Putin to hit back against Washington.

Magnitsky’s lawyers refuse to defend him in the trial and boycotted a pretrial hearing at the Tverskoi Court in Moscow yesterday. The court rejected their attempt to stop a state-appointed lawyer defending Magnitsky.

“Exploitation of the decree ordering the postmortem prosecution of my son by the Russian Federation’s Prosecutor General ... is illegal,” Magnitsky’s mother, Natalya, said in a statement read out by the family’s lawyer, Nikolai

Critics say Magnitsky’s posthumous trial is meant to hit back at Washington Gorokhov.

“From the civil point of view, it is cynical and inhuman,” she said.

Court spokeswoman Alexandra Berezina said a pretrial hearing due on Monday had been postponed until March 4 to give the defence lawyer appointed by the state time to prepare. She did not say when the trial itself would begin.

Putin, back in the presidency since May despite the biggest protests since he rose to power in 2000, has dismissed international

criticism over the case, saying in December that Magnitsky had died of a heart attack at the age of 37.

Although Putin has rejected suggestions Magnitsky was tortured in prison, the Kremlin’s own human rights council has voiced suspicions he was beaten to death.

Magnitsky’s former employer, investment fund Hermitage Capital, says the lawyer was killed because he had accused law enforcement and tax officers of stealing $230 million from the state by setting up bogus tax refunds.

Gorokhov says the dead can be prosecuted in Russia only at the request of relatives seeking to rehabilitate a loved one. This has not happened in this case, which the family says is politically motivated.

Gorokhov says the trial is intended to discredit Magnitsky and Hermitage owner William Browder, who is to be tried in absentia, and paint them as the criminals.

“The fact that this posthumous trial is going ahead indicates that justice in Russia is turning into raw and outright blasphemy,” a statement issued by Hermitage said.

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Chavez makes surprise return to Venezuela

WORLD TODAY Workers hurt at SA mine AT least 13 workers were wounded by rubber bullets or machetes in fighting at a mine in South Africa yesterday in the first major mine violence this year after deadly strife in the sector in 2012.

Police said the bloodshed at the Anglo American Platinum mine was provoked by a dispute between the established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the growing Association for Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) over access to a mine office. The membership turf war between the rival unions has rocked the country. Police said the violence started when four likely NUM workers on special leave tried to occupy the union office at the mine in the Rustenburg region, about 120 km northwest of Johannesburg. About 1,000 suspected AMCU workers gathered to force them out.

But no new information on his condition

By Andrew Cawthorne and Deisy Buitrago

Tighter North Korea sanctions EUROPEAN Union governments agreed yesterday to tighten sanctions against North Korea, restricting the country’s ability to trade following last week’s nuclear test.

The sanctions expand those approved by the UN Security Council in January, adding measures preventing trading in North Korean government bonds, gold, precious metals, and diamonds, EU diplomats said.

Two charged in ‘witch’ murder POLICE in Papua New Guinea have charged two people over the grisly killing of a woman who was burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.

Janet Ware and Andrew Watea were charged with murder over the death of Kepari Leniata, 20, a mother who was stripped, tortured with a hot iron rod, doused in petrol and set alight on a pile of car tyres and rubbish by a mob earlier this month.

Hagel progress REPUBLICAN opponents of former senator Chuck Hagel’s stalled bid to become U.S. defence secretary say that they will probably allow his Senate confirmation vote to proceed unless material more damaging to the nominee surfaces in the coming week.

A photo taken on January 13, 2012 shows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saluting military-style before the Parliament in Caracas (AFP)

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba yesterday more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardised his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member.

The 58-year-old socialist leader’s homecoming in the middle of the night implies some medical improvement - at least enough to handle a flight of several hours - and will inspire supporters’ hopes he could return to active rule.

Yet there was no new information on his state, nor images of his arrival, and aides say his condition remains “complex”.

Chavez could simply be hoping to quieten political tensions in Venezuela and smooth a transition to Vice President Nicolas Maduro, whom he has urged voters to back should he have to stand down and a new presidential election is held.

“We have arrived back in the Venezuelan fatherland.

Thanks, my God! Thanks, my beloved people! Here we will continue the treatment,” Chavez said via Twit-

ter after flying in.

After a six-hour operation in Cuba on December 11, Chavez had not been seen or heard in public until photos were published of him on Friday.

There had been speculation Chavez was not well enough to travel despite wanting to return for continued treatment for the disease he was first diagnosed with in mid-2011.

“I remain attached to Christ and trusting in my nurses and doctors,” Chavez also tweeted yesterday. “Onwards to victory forever! We will live and we will conquer!”

FIREWORKS But Maduro said Chavez flew in at about 2.30am (0700 GMT) from Havana and was in a military hospital in Caracas, where a crowd quickly gathered, chanting slogans and dancing.

Chavez’s arrival thrilled supporters in the nation of 29 million people, where his common touch and welfare policies have made him an idol to many of the poor.

“It’s fabulous news, the best thing possible,” Chavez’s cousin, Guillermo Frias, told Reuters from the president’s rural birthplace in Barinas

state. “Venezuela was waiting for him, everyone wants to see him. Welcome home! Thank God he’s back!”

Fireworks were set off in some Caracas neighbourhoods as news spread and celebrations began among “Chavistas.”

Government ministers were jubilant with one singing “He’s back, he’s back!” live on state TV. They asked Chavez’s euphoric supporters to respect the peace of patients at the military hospital, near a hillside shanty-town, where a huge banner of the his face adorned one wall.

Soldiers guarded the installation, while supporters chanted “We are Chavez!” and “He’s back, he’s back!” At one point, medical staff came out and asked them to quieten down.

The December operation in Havana was the fourth for Chavez since cancer was first detected in his pelvic area in June 2011.

Officials have emphasized in recent days that Chavez’s condition remains delicate. “It’s a complex, difficult situation, but Chavez is battling and fighting for his life,” Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said during the weekend.

Re-elected Correa seeks investment ECUADOREAN President Rafael Correa on Monday reveled in a sweeping re-election victory that allows him to deepen his socialist revolution even as he seeks to woo foreign investment in the resource-wealthy Andean nation.

The pugnacious 49-year-old economist trounced his nearest rival by more than 30 percentage points on Sunday to win a new four-year term. He has already been in power for six years, winning broad support with ambitious social spending programmes.

His resounding victory could set Correa up to become Latin America’s most outspoken critic of Washington as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is locked in a battle with cancer and may be unable to stay in power.

“We will be present wherever we can be useful, wherever we can best serve our fellow citizens and our Latin American brothers,” Correa told supporters who celebrated in front of the presidential palace in Quito, waving the ruling Alianza Pais party’s neon-green flags.

Chavez made a surprise return to Venezuela yesterday after two months of cancer treatment in Cuba, but his health is delicate and it

is not clear if he will be able to stay in power and maintain his decade-long role as Latin America’s leftist standard bearer.

Correa is now the region’s loudest voice arguing against the free-market reforms promoted

by Washington and in favour of state-driven economies and expanding ties with China.

Still, the continued success of Latin American socialism will depend on strong commodities prices that underpin generous social spending, and Correa needs to both improve Ecuador’s stagnant oil production and spur a nascent mining industry.

In a sign he wants to deepen socialist reforms, Correa’s legislative agenda includes a new law that would regulate television and newspaper content, part of his ongoing confrontation with opposition media. He also plans a land reform campaign to redistribute idle land to the poor.

Correa is also expected to seek changes to a mining law that would help close a deal with Canada’s Kinross to develop a large gold reserve. That will be a major test of his ability to offer investment security while ensuring the state keeps a large portion of revenue.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (R) hugs Administration Secretary Vinicio Alvarado after his re-election

Pakistan’s Shi’ites demand protection from militants THOUSANDS of Pakistani Shi’ites furious over a sectarian bombing that killed 89 people protested yesterday, demanding that security forces protect them from hardline Sunni groups.

The attack, near a street market in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, highlighted the government’s failure to crack down on militancy in nuclear-armed Pakistan just a few months before a general election is due.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), seen as the most ruthless Sunni sectarian group, claimed responsibility for the latest bombing, just as they did for another bombing that killed nearly 100 people in the same city last month.

While the Taliban and al Qaeda remain a major source of instability, Sunni sectarian militants, who regard Shi’ites as non-Muslims, have emerged as another significant security threat.

Shi’ite frustrations with waves of attacks on them have reached boiling point, piling pressure on Pakistani leaders ahead of elections expected within a few months.

The government is already under fire for failing to tackle a host of other problems, from power cuts and corruption to poverty.

In Quetta, some ethnic Shi’ite Hazaras are refusing to bury their dead until the army goes after the LeJ. Around 4,000 men, women and

children placed 71 bodies beside a Shi’ite place of worship. Muslim tradition requires that bodies are buried as soon as possible, and leaving them above ground is a potent expression of grief and pain.

Some coffins contained three or four bags of remains, with photographs of the dead on top. Grown men wept beside a hand-written list of victims hanging on a wall.

Protesters chanted “stop killing Shi’ites”.

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World ‘Australian may have leaked Mossad secrets’

A woman reads an article about Ben Zygier in a Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in Jerusalem on February 15, 2013

A SUSPECTED Mossad agent who died in an Israeli jail in 2010 was arrested by his spymasters who believed he may have told Australian intelligence about his work with the Israeli spy agency, Australian media reported yesterday.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp said dual Australian-Israeli citizen Ben Zygier, 34, had met officers from Australia’s domestic spy agency ASIO and had given details of a number of Mossad operations.

Quoting undefined sources, the ABC, which broke the initial story about Zygier’s secret arrest and death in prison, said on one of his four trips to Australia, Zygier had also applied for a work visa to Italy.

But Mossad became concerned when it discovered Zygier had contact with the Australian spy agency, the ABC reported, adding it was worried he might pass on information about a major operation planned for Italy.

It said Zygier was one of three Australians who changed their names several times and took out new Australian passports for travel in the Middle East and Europe for their work with Mossad.

The closely guarded case has raised questions in Australia and Israel about the suspected use by Mossad of dual Australian-Israeli nationals.

Israeli lawmakers on Sunday announced plans to investigate Zygier’s

death, which a judge has ruled was suicide. Australia’s Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has initiated an inquiry into his department’s handling of the case.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday sought to reduce media attention on the case and said he “absolutely trusts” Israel’s security services and what he described as the independent legal monitoring system under which they operated.

Australia’s Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, who is in charge of ASIO, yesterday said he would not comment on intelligence matters or suggestions ASIO had exposed Zygier’s identity.

‘Time to refer Syrian war crimes to the ICC,’ says UN

Kidnap of foreigners claimed by group

Investigators: both sides are guilty of such crimes

AN Islamist group linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility yesterday for kidnapping seven foreigners in an attack in a remote Nigerian town at the weekend, when raiders used explosives to blast their way into a housing compound in a hail of gunfire.

Gunmen killed a security guard and abducted a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers after storming the compound of Lebanese construction firm Setraco in Jama’are in Bauchi state late on Saturday.

It was the worst case of foreigners being kidnapped in the mostly Muslim north of Africa’s most populous country since an insurgency

by Islamist militants intensified two years ago.

“By Allah’s grace (we) have the custody of seven persons, which include Lebanese and their European counterparts working with Setraco,” read a statement from Ansaru, a group that has kidnapped other foreigners in Nigeria in the past.

The kidnapping was “based on the transgression and atrocities done to the religion of Allah by the European countries in many places such as Afghanistan and Mali,” the statement said.

Attacks by Islamist groups in northern Nigeria have become the biggest threat to stability in Africa’s top oil producer. Western governments are increasingly concerned about Islamists in Nigeria linking up with groups elsewhere in the region, including al Qaeda’s North African wing AQIM, especially given the insecurity in nearby Mali.

Member of a UN-mandated commission of inquiry on the Syria conflict Carla del Ponte looks on during a press conference yesterday in Geneva (AFP)

By Stephanie Nebehay UNITED Nations investigators said yesterday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The investigators urged the UN Security Council to “act urgently to ensure accountability” for violations, including murder and torture, committed by both sides in a conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 people since a revolt against President Bashar alAssad began in March 2011.

“Now really it’s time ... We have a permanent court, the International Criminal Court, who would be ready to take this case,” Carla del Ponte, a former ICC chief prosecutor who joined the UN team in September, told

a news briefing in Geneva.

The inquiry, led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, is tracing the chain of command to establish criminal responsibility.

“Of course we were able to identify high-level perpetrators,” del Ponte said, adding that these were people “in command responsibility ... deciding, organising, plan-

ning and aiding and abetting the commission of crimes”.

She said it was urgent for the Hague-based war crimes tribunal to take up cases of very high officials, but did not identify them, in line with the inquiry’s practice.

Del Ponte, who brought former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the

ICC on war crimes charges, said the ICC prosecutor would need to deepen the investigation on Syria before an indictment could be prepared.

Pinheiro, noting that the Security Council would have to refer Syria’s case to the ICC, said: “We are in very close dialogue with all the five permanent members

and with all the members of the Security Council, but we don’t have the key that will open the path to cooperation inside the Security Council.”

Karen Koning AbuZayd, an American member of the UN team, told Reuters it had information pointing to “people who have given instructions and are responsible for government policy, people who are in the leadership of the military, for example”.

The inquiry’s third list of suspects, building on lists drawn up in the past year, remains secret. It will be entrusted to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, upon expiry of its mandate at the end of March, the report said.

Pinheiro said the investigators would not speak publicly about “numbers, names or levels” of suspects, adding that it was vital to pursue accountability for international crimes “to counter the pervasive sense of impunity” in Syria.

The investigators’ latest report, covering the six months to mid-January, was based on 445 interviews conducted abroad with victims and witnesses, as they have not been allowed into Syria.

Masked men open fire on Egyptian lawmaker’s vehicle in an attempted carjacking MASKED men opened fire on an Egyptian lawmaker’s vehicle in an attempted carjacking, a security source and state media said yesterday, days after a similar attack on the central bank governor’s car.

Many Egyptians complain of a breakdown in security in the two years since a popular uprising ended former President Hosni Mu-

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barak’s decades-long rule, and of a spike in crimes such as robbery and sexual assault.

Four unidentified men shot at the car of Osama Fekry, a member of the hardline Islamist Nour Party, state news agency MENA reported.

A security source told Reuters the attack happened as Fekry was driving from Cairo to his hometown in

the Nile Delta. Three bullets hit the car, a BMW, but Fekry was not wounded, the source added.

A Nour Party official said he could not immediately comment on the attack which happened late on Sunday.

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60 people were killed in a wave of violent street protests between Jan. 25, the second anniversary of the uprising’s start, and February 4.

On Wednesday, armed men attacked the car of Egypt’s central bank governor, killing a guard, wounding the driver and stealing the vehicle.

The governor, Hisham Ramez, was not in the car at the time.

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Business Iberia strikers, police in clashes

Yen resumes fall after G20, earnings worries hit stocks

STRIKING union workers clashed with police at Madrid’s Barajas airport yesterday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain’s flagship airline Iberia.

Hundreds of workers demonstrated outside Barajas, Iberia’s hub, and inside the airport’s Terminal 4 where they carried out a sit-in and chanted and whistled.

Outside the terminal police beat some strikers with truncheons. At least two protesters were arrested.

More than 80 Iberia flights were cancelled yesterday as workers at the carrier began the series of strikes that is expected to cost the airline and struggling national economy millions of euros in lost business.

Staff, including baggage handlers and air stewards, are holding three five-day strikes in February and March to protest management plans to axe jobs and cut salaries at the loss-making airline.

Some 10 per cent of longhaul flights and half of domestic flights will be grounded this week.

The labour unions kicked off the demonstrations in the morning with an 8km march (5 miles) around Barajas, telling reporters the airline was under threat, as was the future of the airport.

“Nobody is safe from being sacked,” said Elias Gonzalez, a maintenance supervisor at the protest who has worked for Iberia for 27 years.

“There was an initial deal with the company when the merger with the British was agreed, but now there is disagreement.”

Although skeleton staff were on duty and the airline had rescheduled most passengers or returned them their money, some people were left stranded.

Euro, dollar gain on yen after G20 statement

By Richard Hubbard THE yen resumed falling yesterday after Japan signalled it would push ahead with expansionist monetary policies having escaped criticism from the world’s 20 biggest economies at the weekend.

European shares and industrial metals dropped on lingering worries about the economic outlook, especially for the eurozone. The risk of an inconclusive outcome in Italian elections at the weekend also added to investor concerns.

However, activity was curtailed by the closure of markets in the United States for the Presidents’ Day holiday.

The yen, which has dropped 20 per cent against the dollar since mid-November, fell further after financial leaders from the G20 promised not to devalue their currencies to boost exports and avoided singling out Japan for any direct criticism.

“Future yen direction will continue to be driven by domestic monetary policy from the Bank of Japan and improving international investor confidence, which are both driving the yen weaker,” said Lee Hardman, currency analyst at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe seized the opportunity to keep pressure on the central bank to loosen policy, telling the Japanese parliament that buying foreign bonds could be among options the Bank of Ja-

Japan PM Abe speaks during an upper house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo yesterday pan could adopt.

The result was the dollar rising 0.5 per cent to 93.98 yen , near a 33-month peak of 94.47 yen set a week ago. The euro rose 0.2 per cent to 125.32 yen, roughly midway between Friday’s two-week low of 122.90 and a 34-month high of 127.71 yen hit earlier this month.

Strategists said that while the yen was likely to stay weak, its decline could lose momentum as investors wait for more clarity on who will be taking the helm at the Bank of Japan when the current governor steps down on March 19.

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ish recession.

Sterling fell 0.15 per cent to $1.5492 having earlier touched $1.5438, its lowest since July 13.

A big week for data on the outlook for the world’s economy weighed on other riskier asset markets following the recent dire fourth-quarter growth numbers for the eurozone and Japan, along with Friday’s soft US manufacturing figures.

In European markets, attention is focused on the euro area Purchasing Managers’ Indexes for February and German sentiment indices due later in the week. These

could affect hopes for a recovery this year.

Analysts expect Thursday’s euro area flash PMI indices, which offer pointers to economic activity around six months out, to show growth stabilising across the recession-hit region, leaving hopes for a recovery in the second half of 2013 intact.

Concerns over an inconclusive outcome in the Italian elections on Sunday and Monday have added to the weaker sentiment as a fragmented parliament could hamper a future government’s efforts to reform the struggling economy.

Banks in the heart of eurozone are relying less on crisis funds

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governor, so it is difficult to put on massive positions beforehand,” said Saeed Amen, currency strategist at Nomura.

Abe is poised to nominate the new governor in the coming days. Sources have told Reuters that former financial bureaucrat Toshiro Muto, considered likely to be less radical than other candidates, was leading the field.

Elsewhere in the currency market, sterling hit a sevenmonth low against the dollar, after a key policymaker made comments about the need for further weakness and recent poor data which has kept alive worries of another Brit-

ECB President Mario Draghi said earlier this month that the financial market conditions had improved significantly

GERMAN banks’ use of European Central Bank crisis funding dropped by a third in January from the previous month, a further sign that banks in the heart of the eurozone are returning to money markets after last year’s credit squeeze.

Banks in countries on the periphery of the 17-member bloc still rely on central bank lending, which, while at a record-low interest rate of 0.75 per cent, is above market rates.

The divergence complicates the ECB’s interest rate-setting plans.

The Bundesbank data released yesterday showed German banks owed the central bank 49.5 billion euros ($66.1 billion) at endJanuary, 23.6 billion less than a month earlier, suggesting they took advantage of the first opportunity to pay back the three-year loans to the ECB, known as LTROs, on January 30.

Most - 20.6 billion euros - of the fall came in German banks’ use of longer-term facilities, which cover anything from one month to three years.

The ECB gave banks the ultra-long term loans in two instalments roughly a year ago, with eurozone lenders taking more than a trillion euros in cheap cash.

In the first of the twin loans, offered in December 2011, banks took 489 billion euros. In

the first opportunity to pay back those loans early, banks returned 137.2 billion euros to the Eurosystem of eurozone central banks on January 30.

Banks with market access can get overnight funds at 0.06 per cent, while the interest rate for 3-month loans is 0.223 per cent.

ECB President Mario Draghi said earlier this month that the financial market conditions had improved significantly and that the early repayments were “a sign of confidence”.

“Many banks had accessed (three-year) LTRO for precautionary reasons because they were, a year ago, uncertain about the liquidity situation - about the funding prospects. And now they are less uncertain, than they were a year ago. So, that is also a positive sign,” Draghi said in a post-rate decision news conference.

National central bank balance sheets showed, however, that a lion’s share of funds paid back came from core countries of Germany, France and Belgium, and that peripheral countries’ banks continue to rely to great extent on the central bank for funds.

This complicates the ECB’s task of setting interest rates suitable for the whole block, as its policy decisions do not get transmitted in the same form to all countries.

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It was not DISY that invited the troika but AKEL THE AKEL camp wasted no time in embarking on the demonization of Nicos Anastasiades ahead of the Sunday’s decisive vote. The DISY leader, predictably, is being presented as a right-wing scourge who would impose austerity measures, cuts and privatise semi-governmental organisations, while the ‘independent’ AKEL candidate Stavros Malas would ignore the commands of the EU about privatisations and protect the interests of the “workers and middle class” with which the party “has identified for decades”.

This was the gist of yesterday’s comments made by AKEL chief Andros Kyprianou who was setting the campaign agenda of the next few days. Anastasiades was a force of conservatism, said Kyprianou whereas Malas represented the “democratic and progressive forces” of the country. “A significant majority of the Cypriot voters did not trust Mr Anastasiades, because they knew he had no boundaries or conditions as regards the Cyprus problem,” said Kyprianou in a demonstration of the communist talent for re-inventing reality.

Did it not occur to him that a much more significant majority – in fact the overwhelming majority - of the voters did not trust Malas who polled 27 per cent of the vote compared to Anastasiades’ 45.4 per cent? But what can you expect from a party that is telling us not to vote for Anastasiades because he would impose austerity measures and cuts?

These have already been imposed by the AKEL government which invited the troika and agreed a memorandum of understanding with it.

Are cutting public sector wages, benefits and pensions, reducing welfare payments, freeze on new appointment not austerity measures? These were not imposed by Anastasiades, but by the AKEL government. It is not Anastasiades who decided to raise taxes and further reduce the disposable income of the workers and the middle classes that AKEL is protecting.

And if the new president “obeyed the commands of the EU and went ahead with extensive privatisations, today’s 50,000 unemployed would increase by tens of thousands,” warned Kyprianou. Leaving aside the fact that under AKEL’s gross mismanagement of the economy unemployment is at record levels, the government should come clean about the privatisations which are stipulated in the memorandum it agreed to.

Proceeding with privatisations would not be a question of obeying the EU but of honouring the AKEL government’s agreement with the troika.

The Anastasiades camp should focus on debunking the myths being served to the voters by the AKEL propaganda machinery with facts, instead of allowing it to present a reality in which the party which bankrupted the state, officially agreed to privatisations, imposed austerity policies and caused unprecedented unemployment is blameless.

DISY should also keep reminding voters of the other big lie being served by AKEL – Malas is an ‘independent’ candidate.

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Wider legal rights at stake in US gay marriage cases Analysis Lawrence Hurley

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S THE US Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next month, laws barring recognition of such unions are not the only issue hanging in the balance. The very question of whether gay people constitute a vulnerable group that needs the court’s help in asserting equal rights is also at stake.

Ahead of two high-profile oral arguments in March, backers of gay rights and defenders of more traditional marriage are zeroing in on whether courts should be wary of any laws that target gay people.

The underlying question is whether bans on gay marriage violate the US Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.

The Obama administration is due to weigh in by Friday, its deadline for written submissions in a case questioning the constitutionality of a central part of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage under federal law as being between a man and a woman.

The other case before the nine-member court asks the justices to consider whether Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage, should be struck down. The cases will be argued on March 26 and 27. A ruling is expected by the end of June.

It’s unclear how the court will rule, but conventional wisdom is that Justice Anthony Kennedy, the most moderate justice on the conservative wing of the court, will be a deciding vote.

While the court has no obligation to address the bigger gay rights issues raised in the cases, if it does, the justices would first have to consider whether gay people merit the same protections as some other groups that have experienced discrimination.

That finding determines what standard the court will adopt in reviewing the law in question. If it deems that a particular group merits protection, the justices will look at the statute with a more skeptical eye and are more likely to strike it down.

Court rulings in the past have held that, in the face of discrimination, classifications based on race, national origin and gender all require closer “scrutiny,” the term the court invokes in discrimination cases.

Any ruling that laws affecting gay people require tough scrutiny has implications that go beyond the two cases before the court. It could influence future cases involving not just gay marriage but also any laws seen to infringe upon gay rights.

“It would be an invitation for lawsuits to pop up in every state of the union,” said gay rights legal expert William Eskridge, a Yale Law School professor who is filing a brief urging that the California law be struck down.

Not only would same-sex marriage bans be more legally suspect, but also laws relating to other family matters involving such issues as adoption or cus-

The underlying question is whether bans on gay marriage violate the US Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law tody, he said.

There has been a long history of laws targeting gays and lesbians, gay rights activists say.

Homosexual conduct was for a long time illegal in many states.

More recently, various states have passed laws that critics say aim to counter the rise of the gay rights movement.

In 2011, for example, Tennessee enacted a law that stripped local governments of their ability to pass stricter anti-discrimination ordinances. Gay rights activists say it was designed specifically to invalidate a Nashville law that provided protections on the basis of sexual orientation.

The level of scrutiny varies based on the protected group, with the most stringent, known as “strict scrutiny,” reserved for classifications based on race.

Distinctions based on gender prompt a lower level of review known as “intermediate scrutiny.”

‘Any ruling that laws affecting gay people require tough scrutiny has implications that go beyond the two cases before the court’

Legal experts don’t think the court will opt for the highest level of scrutiny, but even if the justices do pick something along the lines of the second option, it would mean they would look at DOMA and Proposition 8 with more suspicion, meaning they would be more likely to strike them down.

Alternatively, the court could find that gay people don’t warrant special protection. In that case, both laws might have a greater chance of surviving court review.

DOMA supporters point out that in the past, the court has declined to extend special protections to the impoverished, the elderly and those with mental disabilities, among other groups.

As John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University who has filed a brief in support of Proposition 8, put it, “it makes it a more uphill battle” for his side if the court believes gay people constitute a protected group.

What the Obama administration says in its DOMA brief in the coming week is of particular importance because the court traditionally pays some deference to what the executive branch says.

The case focuses on whether Edith Windsor, who was married to a woman, could get the federal estate tax deduction available to heterosexuals when their spouses pass away.

Gay rights supporters are hoping the U.S. Justice Department will argue in favour of tough scrutiny of any laws targeting gay people.

“It would be a very strong statement that gay people have really suffered a history of discrimination,” said Susan Sommer, a lawyer with Lambda Legal.

The Justice Department has already said it believes DOMA is unconstitutional. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli is expected to argue - as he has pre-

viously - that laws affecting gay people should face some kind of “heightened scrutiny,” a catchall phrase to refer to any type of enhanced review.

DOMA’s defenders before the court, a group of Republicans in the U.S. Congress, say the court should adopt the lowest standard of review, which would not categorize gay people as a group in need of protection.

Their lawyer, Paul Clement, noted in his already filed brief on the issue that the Supreme Court has previously applied the lowest standard of review to matters involving sexual orientation.

The first instance, in 1996, concerned a Colorado law that sought to prevent gay people from being able to assert rights based on sexual orientation.

The second, in 2003, focused on a Texaslaw that criminalized sexual conduct between samesex couples. In both cases, the court - in opinions written by Justice Kennedy - struck down the statute in question.

But in neither case was marriage the issue.

There are several rational reasons for defining marriage as between one man and one woman, Clement said, including the “unique relationship between marriage and procreation that stems from marriage’s origins as a means to address the tendency of opposite-sex relationships to produce unintended and unplanned offspring.”

Although the Justice Department brief is in the DOMA case, lawyers involved in the litigation think what the solicitor general says on behalf of the Obama administration could influence the court’s consideration of Proposition 8.

The federal government is not a party in the latter case, but it does have the option of filing a friend of the court brief before a Feb. 28 deadline. The Justice Department has left lawyers guessing as to whether it will take a stand.

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Die Hard action beats love stories at box office

Argo, Zero Dark Thirty win at writers guild awards

Willis’ fifth movie in franchise takes in $25 million

By Lisa Baertlein

By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud THE fifth movie in the Bruce Willis Die Hard franchise scored the biggest box-office action over the US holiday weekend, beating out love story Safe Haven, which came in third for the Fridaythrough-Sunday period.

A Good Day to Die Hard, with Willis returning as the tenacious, wisecracking hero John McClane, pulled in $25 million at US and Canadian theatres over the three days, according to studio estimates.

The tally was expected to approach a total of $40 million for the five days that began with Thursday’s Valentine’s Day and ended with yesterday’s Presidents Day holiday in the United States.

Die Hard beat Safe Haven, an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel that was aimed at luring couples during the week of Valentine’s Day. The film, which stars Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel, pulled in $21.4 million over the three days.

Last weekend’s box office winner, the Melissa McCarthy comedy Identity Thief, stayed strong and ended up taking second place with $23.4 million from Friday to Sunday.

Willis prevailed with his reprisal of a role he played four previous times starting with the original Die Hard in 1988. Those movies grossed $1.1 billion around the world

In A Good Day to Die Hard, John McClane (Bruce Wilis, left) travels to Russia to help his estranged son, a CIA operative played by Jai Courtney, in a fight to prevent a nuclear weapons heist and made Willis a global action star.

In the new movie, McClane travels to Russia to help his estranged son, a CIA operative played by Jai Courtney, in a fight to prevent a nuclear weapons heist.

Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution at 20th Century Fox studio, said the film performed “right on par with our expectations,” which was near $40 million for the five-day period.

Audiences were about 55 per cent male and 45 per cent female, with just over one-third under the age of 25

and two-thirds 25 and older, which Aronson said was in line with the franchise’s last instalment.

“It just shows the consistency of the fan base,” he said.

The opening was nearly double the total of the original Die Hard, adjusted for inflation, but down significantly from the previous three films in the franchise, according to figures from boxofficemojo.com.

The film added another $61 million to its total at international box offices, performing especially well in Russia, Japan and the Unit-

ed Kingdom.

News Corp’s 20th Century Fox spent about $92 million to produce the latest Die Hard sequel. It hit theatres on Valentine’s Day, and, in addition to Safe Haven, faced another romance movie in Beautiful Creatures.

Fox promoted Die Hard with commercials encouraging moviegoers to “get some action” on Valentine’s Day. Safe Haven stars Dancing with the Stars alum Hough as a young woman who meets a widower played by Duhamel. Privately held Relativity Media produced the film for $28 million.

The studio said Safe Haven was on track to finish second for the Thursday-toMonday period, with total sales of $34 million, beating industry projections.

Beautiful Creatures, the supernatural love story about a teenage girl with magical powers, made its debut with $7.5 million at the box office to rank sixth in the threeday tallies.

The film was another of several Hollywood films aiming to capture the Twilight and Hunger Games audiences of teenage girls with adaptations of popular young adult novels.

Avicii records first UK chart number one

By Michael Holden

Swedish DJ Avicii collaborated with Dutch DJ Nicky Romero

SWEDISH DJ Avicii notched up his first British number one single on Sunday while the ‘Harlem Shake’ Internet sensation made a stunning debut in third place, the Official Charts Company said.

‘I Could Be The One’, a collaboration between 23year-old Avicii, whose real name is Tim Bergling, and Dutch DJ Nicky Romero, entered the charts in top spot, bettering his two top five releases in 2011.

It sold 8,000 more copies than ‘Thrift Shop’, by American hip-hop artist Macklemore featuring producer Ryan Lewis and singer Wanz, which slipped a place to second.

New York DJ Baauer’s ‘Harlem Shake’ burst into the charts in third after it became a massive Internet hit and spawned a dance craze with echoes of the global success of South Korean rapper Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’.

FLOOD OF VIDEOS A flood of videos featuring the song have appeared on YouTube and have attracted 44 million hits since appearing at the start of the month. “‘Harlem Shake’s’ arrival at Number 3 underlines just how quickly this track has turned into a bone fide phenomenon,” said Martin Talbot, Managing Director of the Official Charts Com-

pany.

“At the start of the week, it wasn’t even selling enough to make the Top 20, but it is now one of the UK’s most popular tracks.”

R&B singer Rihanna and U.S. artist Mikky Ekko climbed four places to fourth with ‘Stay’, while British garage band Disclosure fell three to fifth spot with ‘White Noise’.

In the album rankings, the soundtrack of the movie version of Les Miserables remained at number one just pipping Holy Fire by English rock band Foals which debuted in second place.

Emeli Sande was third with Our Version Of Events, with English singer Jake Bugg’s eponymous album in fourth.

US film and television writers gave their top two movie awards on Sunday to Zero Dark Thirty and Argo in the final Hollywood guild awards show before next week’s Oscars.

Writer Mark Boal won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Original Screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty, which chronicles the intense US manhunt and daring raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Asked backstage what message he hoped to send to audiences with the film, Boal said: “I think director Kathryn Bigelow said it best when she said she wanted to shine a light on a dark decade. I don’t know that I could put it any better than that.”

Argo, about the Hollywoodassisted rescue of American hostages in Iran during the 1979 revolution, earned writer Chris Terrio WGA’s trophy for Best Adapted Screenplay.

“I’ve never actually won a call-your-name award before,” an overwhelmed Terrio said backstage at the awards.

The WGA awards gave the winning films a last boost in the race for the Oscars, the world’s top film honours, because many guild members also belong to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that hands out the Oscars on February 24.

The guild gave a special nod to Lincoln, honouring screen writer Tony Kushner with a special award recognising work that embodies the spirit of civil rights and liberties. Lincoln, a drama about President Abraham Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery, was up against Argo for WGA’s Best Adapted Screenplay.

Argo and Lincoln are considered front-runners for this year’s Best Picture Oscar, although Argo recently has taken a slight edge after also nabbing the top prize from both the director and producer guilds, which each have strong records of predicting Oscar winners.

Searching for Sugar Man writer-director Malik Bendjelloul nabbed the WGA award for documentary screenwriting.

Breaking Bad won for Best TV Drama Series and the writers of Louie claimed the prize for TV Comedy Series.

Girls was named for Best New TV Series.

Ben Affleck has won a host of pre-Oscar awards for Argo

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Environment

Buildings that will generate more power than they use Radical refit meant to show that it can be done TWO OFFICE blocks by the Oslo fjord will generate more power than they use from 2014 after a radical refit meant to show that the world’s energy-squandering building sector can do more to fight climate change.

Geothermal and solar energy generated on site will make the 1980s buildings “energy positive” in a tiny step to cut demand from the building sector that burns about 40 per cent of world energy and emits a third of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

So far, most focus in green energy has been on new buildings, not refits. Yet about 80 per cent of existing buildings in developed nations will still be standing in 2050, by when governments are planning deep cuts in emissions.

“There is a huge global potential” in renovations, said Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, chief executive of Norwegian aluminium group Norsk Hydro which is a partner in the Powerhouse alliance behind the 110 million crown ($20 million) project near Oslo.

“We believe this is the first time in the world that a normal office block is being renovated to such strict standards,” he said of the 3 and 4-storey blocks in Sandvika, south Norway, with space for more than 200 workers.

The renovation will use a heat-retaining black wooden facade, an interior design that makes air flow without fans, and high-grade insulation to cut energy use by up to 90 per cent.

Backers say it will make long-term economic sense by eliminating bills for heating and lighting.

And an energy-positive refurbishment in Norway, where winter cold pushes up heating bills and scant sunlight makes solar panels inefficient, would show that they can be achieved anywhere in the world.

“We see it ... as a big possibility for us to take a strong market position,” Brandt-

Two office blocks by the Oslo fjord will generate more power than they use from 2014 after a radical refit zaek said, hoping for new orders if successful. Aluminium will be widely used, such as in window frames.

The European Union says that new buildings owned by public authorities will have to be “near zero energy” from 2019 and other new buildings from 2021. California has a “net zero energy” standard by 2020 for residences.

The U.N. Environment Programme says the building sector has the biggest potential of any sector - from industry to transport - for big and moneysaving cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases that are released by burning fossil fuels.

In rich nations, the rate of renovations would have to triple from one per cent

of buildings a year to meet goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, said Peter Graham, head of the Global Buildings Performance Network.

Meanwhile, emerging economies led by China and India need stricter codes for new buildings and cities, he said.

“For Europe and the United States more than 80 per cent of the existing building stock will still be around in 2050. In China and India, 80 per cent of the buildings in 2050 have yet to be built,” he said.

Big clean energy building projects include Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, to be run on solar and renewable energy. Nations from China to France have some zero or positive energy new build-

ings.

In New York, the 39-storey United Nations headquarters is being renovated to a “gold” standard of energy use, just below a top “platinum” rating under a U.S. system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

In Norway, one problem is that tall elm and ash trees shade the coastal site, where workers are tearing out insulation and other fittings this month.

“There aren’t optimal conditions for solar energy,” said Fredrik Daehli, project manager at construction group Skanska. Other partners are Norsk Hydro, Norwegian architects Snohetta, environmental group Zero and property owners Entra Eiendom.

After the renovation, an environmental and architecture consultancy, Asplan Viak, will move in from February 2014.

The on-site electricity will more than cover lighting and heating and the energy used to produce and recycle building materials. It will not cover energy used by equipment brought by the tenants, from computers to coffee machines.

Tine Hegli of Snohetta, which has contracts including a re-design of Times Square in New York, said solar energy was far easier to use than wind on buildings.

“Wind turbines can cause vibrations, and mean buildings need a lot more reinforcement with concrete,” she said.

German minister seeks fracking law before September GERMAN Environment Minister Peter Altmaier has said he wants to ban controversial gas drilling methods, or fracking, in all areas where drinking water is protected and that he would like to see legislation on fracking in place by September.

Speaking in a video released on the government website, Altmaier said there are unresolved issues about fracking.

He previously said he did not see that fracking would be employed anywhere in Germany in the foreseeable future.

“I’ll propose that we ban fracking in areas where drinking water is protected and for all other areas we’ll do environmental comparability testing,” Altmaier said in the video. “I assume we’ll have an intensive discussion with companies and citizens affected.”

Altmaier, who has launched a number of initiatives recently ahead of the campaign for the Sept. 22 election, said the ministry was working closely with the environmental protection office and other agencies on the fracking issue.

“I’d like to see Germany have a law before the election and that we can hold this conversation in a calm and reasonable environment,” Altmaier said.

“Everyone has to know that nothing can be approved in Germany that’s not justifiable.”

Fracking involves pumping vast quantities of water and chemicals at high pressure through drill holes, which together with vertical drilling helps prop open shale rocks to release trapped gas.

The upper house of parliament, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition no longer has a majority, earlier this month passed a resolution urging the cabinet to tighten rules for fracking, which critics say may increase seismic risks and even pollute drinking water.

Arctic ice thaw could spell bad news for hungry polar bears

By Alister Doyle A THAW of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean last year sent extra plant food to exotic creatures on the deep sea floor in a shift that might leave polar bears hungry at the surface, scientists have said.

The study, using robot submarines down to 4,400 metres deep, could be a glimpse of radical changes for life in the sunless depths of the Arctic Ocean after ice thinned and shrank to cover a record low area in September 2012.

Scientists found large amounts of algae growing on the underside of the ice last year, apparently because more light was getting through as it thinned in a trend blamed on global warming, according to the study in the journal Science.

Much of the algae, of a type that forms strands up to a metre (3 ft) long, then sank to the seabed where they were food for brittle stars, which are related to starfish, and tube-like sea cucumbers that grow up to about 5 cms long.

“For surface life it could be bad news, for the deep sea

floor it could be a feast,” Antje Boetius, of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and lead author of the study made on the research vessel Polarstern. If the algae keep taking scarce nutrients from surface waters to the sea floor in coming years, then “the food for fish and eventually for the polar bear will be totally diminished,” Boetius said.

In the Arctic food chain, fish eat algae, seals eat fish and polar bears eat seals.

“We were totally surprised that there were all these clumps of sea ice algae on the sea floor,” she said. Scientists saw no fish there but many sea cucumbers were bloated with algae food. On average, the scientists found that the amount of algae on the seabed worked out at 9.0 grammes of carbon per square metre(0.03 oz per sq foot), nine times the amount measured in the 1990s in a sign of changes as the ice receded.

Boetius said algae were making a small contribution to getting rid of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere emitted by burning fossil fuels, by burying it on the seabed. “But it’s too small to make a large dif-

ference,” she said of the findings in Science, which is run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“Arctic climate models predict a further decline in the sea ice cover, toward a largely ice-free Arctic in coming decades”, according to the scientists, from German, Dutch and Russian research institutes.

Ice has thinned to about a metre (3 ft) thick on much of the Arctic Ocean from perhaps five in recent decades, letting through more light in the May to August summer growing season.

Boetius said most studies of the Arctic relied on satellite measurements rather than observations under the ice.

“This study gives us some evidence that a system can change from the surface to the deep sea,” she said. Some fish stocks are moving polewards because of climate change but their advance may be stopped by a lack of nutrients.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average.

White sea ice reflects sunlight and as it recedes it exposes water that is a darker colour and soaks up more of the sun’s heat, accelerating the thaw.

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Lifestyle

Wagner reviled and rev and music mu entwined German soprano Annette Dasch performs as Elsa von Brabant during the rehearsal of the opera by Wagner in Bayreuth

Bicentennary: Richard Wagner

By Michael Roddy

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ORMER German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner’s Gotterdammerung when Valhalla goes up in flames.

In this bicentenary year of Wagner’s birth, Himsel, 90, recalled the last wartime production at Bayreuth. It was August 9, 1944 and the cast performed Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, which contains the command “honour your German masters”. The Nazis had turned the piece into a propaganda pageant.

Although malnutrition was rampant, and Paris was to be liberated two weeks later, Himsel, a butcher’s apprentice who was wounded five times and survived the Russian front, said for the last performance the backstage and catering crews were feted with a band, half a duck each and all the wine they could drink.

Adolf Hitler considered Wagner his favourite composer. History’s problem, compounded by Wagner’s virulent anti-Semitism, has been disentangling the two.

“We danced at the feast while the soldiers died,” Himsel said in an interview at a Bayreuth restaurant and hotel where Wagner stayed when he was building his Bavarian opera house in the late 19th century.

Hitler was a Bayreuth regular and kept it going during the war by buying up tickets for soldiers to attend. Hitler’s

use of Bayreuth for propaganda purposes, rivaled only by his manipulation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, resonates still.

“Of course Wagner’s reputation is terrible, I understand why people have the feelings they do about his music,” American soprano Deborah Voigt, who sings Wagner’s Ring -cycle heroine Brunnhilde, said from Florida.

“It’s odd to me because as someone who is spiritual, and has a lot of faith, it feels like the music he wrote was divinely inspired and in such contrast to what his personal views were.”

“Wagner is a genius, the sound is extraordinary,” said Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer, who runs a Wagner festival in Budapest and is Jewish. “The music is not the person,” he added, saying what was important was “the intensity of Wagner’s music”.

From Seattle to Australia, and across Europe, Wagner compositions from the Ring with its Valkyrie cry “hojotoho”, to the romantic Tristan und Isolde which provides the soundtrack for the world’s end in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, draw audiences of all ages.

“It gives a higher feeling, you get goose bumps,” artistphotographer Christopher Gemenig, 27, a stud in his lower lip, said recently during the interval of Wagner’s swan-knight opera Lohengrin at the Dresden Semperoper.

Gemenig, and his companion Mia Mueller, whose flame-red hair bolstered their resemblance to Wagner’s doomed lovers Tristan

Half a duck and wine at Bayreuth opera house while Ger himself was like a Las Vegas entertainer, Germ and the Irish princess Isolde, acknowledged that despite Wagner having joined ranks with anarchists in a failed revolution in mid-19th century Dresden, the taint of Hitler ran deep.

“Hitler liked the music and all that Hitler likes is evil. I think that’s a curse of Wagner,” said Gemenig, whose favourite bit is the overture to Gotterdammerung. “But I think this is not a problem for me, and for many people it also is not.”

As they have every year since 1990, Germany’s first couple, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, quantum chemist Joachim Sauer, will attend the summer festival at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, the opera house Wagner built with money he borrowed from Bavarian King Ludwig II and never repaid.

“It never ends, it’s so rich,” Sauer, 63, said in a rare interview with Reuters, speaking of the appeal of Wagner’s operas. “And they are all so very different.”

These days Bayreuth is always sold out and has a wait-

ing list that can be as long as a decade.

A little way down the “Green Hill” from the opera house, visible from the balcony of an annex built for Ludwig where Hitler acknowledged the Nazi salute of the crowd in the plaza below, is an outdoor exhibition called “Silenced Voices”.

Adult-height placards display short biographies and the smiles or serious gazes of singers, musicians, conductors and stage directors who were progressively shunned

by Bayreuth, as the festival drew closer and closer to the Fuhrer.

Arranged in a multi-layered rectangle around a bust of Wagner by Nazi-era sculptor Arno Breker, the placards furthest away are for people who emigrated or somehow survived the war. Those closest died in concentration camps and gas chambers.

“This Breker bust, it is the fascistic Wagner image and this ‘Hitler Wagner’ is surrounded by his victims,” said Sven Friedrich, director of the Richard Wagner Museum

and National Archive.

He brushed aside suggestions the bicentenary may trigger a debate about Germany’s role in Europe. Merkel is a “trustful person, she’s not dangerous at all” and her presence “gives this very bourgeois image to Bayreuth”, he said.

Hitler, and Bayreuth’s complicity in Nazi propaganda, is another story.

“Everybody is conscious about the history, it is absolutely necessary, we mustn’t leave it,” Friedrich said, speaking in a room Hitler used when he visited.

“In Bayreuth you can learn the ‘elysium’ and the ‘bestiarium’ of German history, both extremes... This is a very, very big tension.”

For his 200th, Wagner’s hometown of Leipzig will get an “anti-Breker bust” - a lifesized bronze statue of the composer with a black shadow several times his diminutive height looming behind him.

To be unveiled on the birthday, May 22, the €220,000 cost was raised privately and

mostly from outside Leipzig, said Markus Kaebisch, 44, a businessman who spearheaded the effort.

He said Leipzig still has a “difficult” relationship with its native son, in part because of the anti-Semitism and Hitler, but also because Leipzig was host during their adult careers to so many other mu-

‘Wagner is a gen extraordinary,’ said H Adam Fischer, wh festival in Budape sical greats, including Bach, converted Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn - whom Wagner reviled - and Schumann.

“It’s never been a Wagner city,” he said in a telephone interview. “And I’m sure it won’t be better after this year is over.”

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vered, German history All ages: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde provides the soundtrack for the world’s end in Melancholia.

Left: Deborah Voight in Gotterdammerung

rmany starved and Wagner man writer says Music critic Barry Millington, whose book The Sorcerer of Bayreuth adds to a bibliography some say makes Wagner the third most written-about person in history, after Jesus and Napoleon, says there is no extricating him from his anti-Semitism.

“I’m attacked by the Wagnerians who think I am dragging

ius, the sound is Hungarian conductor ho runs a Wagner est and is Jewish him through the mud... They want the Wagner experience to be in this idea-free zone, they want to erect a firewall between the music and the ideology and you can’t. Wagner’s music is rooted in the ideology. That for me is what makes it fascinating,” the British author said.

Wagner’s infamous 1850 essay Judaism in Music, published at first under a pen name and some 20 years later under his own, took vile swipes at contemporary Jewish opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and the converted Mendelssohn, depicting them and other Jews as “a swarming colony of maggots” feasting on the carcass of German culture. The rants continued unabated right up to Wagner’s death in a Venice palazzo in 1883.

“Anti-Semitism is woven into the fabric of the music of Wagner,” Millington said.

Another view comes from Hamburg-based author Joachim Kohler, one of whose books, called Wagner’s Hitler, The Prophet and His Disciple in English, struck a raw nerve with Wagnerians. Kohler, in an interview in his flat, said he had changed his opinion and now saw Wagner’s antiSemitism as an adjunct of his artistic mind, not as a scenario for which Hitler and the Holocaust were the inevitable last act.

“Yes, I made a mistake... so

I revised and I came to the conclusion that Wagner’s anti-Semitism was not political, it was theatrical,” Kohler said.

“And the proof that he had not deep-rooted antiSemitism against people, it was just an idea against people, is that he had so many Jewish friends.” One of them, Kohler said, was the impresario Angelo Neumann whom Wagner, sick with the expense and trouble of the place, wished would buy Bayreuth.

Kohler’s latest book, entitled The Laughing Wagner in German, paints an altogether different picture of Wagner from the grim anti-Semite.

Wagner, who stood just over 168cm enjoyed cracking jokes and stood on his head when welcoming the visiting Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil to Bayreuth for the festival’s opening in 1876.

“He was a real entertainer, like a Las Vegas entertainer,” Kohler said, adding that Wagner’s “genius gave him not a multiple personality because the different personalities knew of each other, but I would say he had multiple identities.

“There were really opposites in him that can’t be easily reconciled because they are opposites.”

Some of those personality traits have been passed down from generation to generation in the famously feuding Wagner clan, and all its branches, whose lives read like a soap opera that regularly commands the attention of the German and world press.

Power struggles over who would control the festival, and the Wagner legacy, have pitted mother against children, children against siblings and different branches of the clan against each other. The German state and the

town of Bayreuth now run it, town with family members sitting with on the board of directors and on having artistic control.

One great grandson coaxed the then-septuagenarian Winifred Wagner, the Englishborn widow of Wagner’s son Siegfried, into revealing her filmaffection for Hitler to a fi lmmaker in the 1970s: “If Hitler were to walk in through that door now, for instance, I’d be as happy and glad to see and have him here as ever...”

In their way the family machinations, and the concern of some Wagner researchers, among them Millington, that important correspondence between Winifred and Hitler is mouldering away under lock and key in a Munich bank vault, out of public view, are a good public relations gimmick, archivist Friedrich said.

The documents in the vault have been “Fafnerised”, he said, referring to the dragon

in the Ring who sits on his rom the hoard of gold stolen fr from maidens includ Rhine maidens, including the accursed ring that gives its wearer supreme power. It is all part of what he called the “myth” that makes the family interesting.

Those myths, but particularly the ones Wagner fashioned out of old Norse legends and other sources, some of them brought to his attention by his Jewish friends and acquaintances, are what draw audiences to the treasure trove of Wagner today.

American stage director Francesca Zambello said she had reimagined Wagner’s Ring cycle for a production that focused on greed and power for Washington and on the destruction of the environment when she tailored it for San Francisco.

“I think Wagner’s music feels contemporary... The themes, the characters, the emotions, they resonate with

a contemporary audience.

Wagner, more than any other composer, can be interpreted in a variety of approaches because his works are mythic and mythic can mean the past, the present and the future,” she said.

And Wagner does have a future in the eyes of some of the young people who will be around to mark his 250th birthday.

“I just know every opera from Wagner is very long but what I know, what I hear, I like,” Tomas Ottych, 32, of Brno, Czech Republic, said, passing a plaque mounted on a wall in Leipzig that marks the spot where Wagner’s birth house stood in 1813.

Ottych, a ballet dancer who will perform in a production to mark the bicentenary, said Wagner’s anti-Semitism and Hitler’s fondness for him were beside the point.

“I mean, it’s past, and his music is forever,” he said.

Bystanders wait for the arrival of guests for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the so-called Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth

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(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 Rio Paphos: 26-207000

NICOSIA A Good Day to Die Hard (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm Upside Down (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.25pm and 3.30pm Love in the End (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.10pm Anna Karenina (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm

Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm 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 Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm Faust (in German, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, Thursday and Friday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy Short Films from the Drama Film Festival Cine Studio, tonight and Wednesday at 9pm. Tel: 96-420491

LIMASSOL A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 3.30 and 5.30pm; KCineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends at 3.30pm

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

Upside Down (N/A) Rio 5 at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Love in the End (N/A) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 6pm; Rio 4 (in Greek) at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.25pm Argo (12) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.30 and 5.45pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm The Impossible (12) Rio 5 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3.20 and 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm Anna Karenina (K) Rio 3 at 7.35 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm Flight (18) Rio 2 at 10pm

Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 3pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm Short Films from the Drama Film Festival Rialto Theatre, Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-7745

LARNACA A Good Day to Die Hard (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Upside Down (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Love in the End (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in Greek) at 5.30, 8 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.25pm Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm

Gambit (K) Rio 4 at 7.45pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30 and 4.20pm

The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Anna Karenina (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.30 and 10.10pm Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm The Skin I Live In (in Spanish, with Greek subtitles) Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society.

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

PAPHOS A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 1 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Upside Down (N/A) Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends also at 4pm Love in the End (N/A) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekdays at 5.45, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends at 6.15, 7.45 and 9.45pm

Anna Karenina (K) Rio 6 (in English) at 5pm (weekdays only), 7.30 and 10pm; Rio 5 (in English), weekends only at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (dubbed into Russian) at 5.15pm Flight (18) Rio 2 at 9.45pm Gambit (K) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekdays only at 5.30pm, weekends only at 3.30pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm 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 Short Films from the Drama Film Festival Rio Cinema, tonight at 8.30pm.

Tel: 99-521620

Argo (12) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3pm The Impossible (12) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm.

listings Today

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Exhibition

Music

Olga Spanou Solo art exhibition. Opens February 19, 7.30pm until March 5. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286

Violin & Piano Recital Pharos Arts Foundation presents recital with pianist Nareh Arghamanyan and violinist Hyeyoon Park with works by Beethoven, Ravel, Szymanowski and Prokofiev. February 20. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €20/15.

Tel. 22-663871/ 70-00-9304. info@ pharosartsfoundation.org www.pharosartsfoundation.org

Dance Flamenco Fever Flamenco show from the Spanish Dance Group Adolfo de Castro, from the city of Cadiz. February 19. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €20/15.

Tel: 77-777745. E-ticket: www.rialto. com.cy

Other Events Drama’s Festival Travels Screenings of awarded short films from the Drama International Short Film Festival in Greece.

February 19: Rio Cinema Paphos, 130 Alexandrou Papagou Street.

8.30pm. free. Tel: 99-521620 February 19-20: Cine Studio, (University of Nicosia), 46 Makedonitissas Avenue. 9pm. Free. Tel: 96-420491

Alkistis Protopsalti Famous Greek singer performs live new and old songs accompanied

by George Perris. February 20.

Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia.

8.30pm. €30. Tel: 22-313010 The Zilla Project Four-piece band playing blues/rock and electrifying sounds. February 20.

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

Dance Flamenco Fever Flamenco show from the Spanish Dance Group Adolfo de Castro, from the city of Cadiz. February 20.

Larnaca Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. €20/15. Tel: 24-665795

Other Events

Theatre

Drama’s Festival Travels Screenings of awarded short films from the Drama International Short Film Festival in Greece. February 20-21. Rialto Theatre, Limassol.

8.30pm. free. Tel: 77-777745. Eticket: www.rialto.com.cy

Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy.

February 18-19. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959

Documento Book launch featuring 34 painting/ comics by Eleni Nicodemou dedicated to the Mari tragedy. February 20.

Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. 7pm. Tel: 22-762605

Trelantonis Stage 018 of THOC presents a classic work of Greek literature by Penelope Delta. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Saturday February 16 & 23 at 6pm and Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300

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

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str, Nicosia. 8pm. Free. Films shown in original language with English subtitles where applicable. For more information: www.pharosartsfoundation.org Stories in Screen A series of video work presentations.

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

The Grönholm Method The New Stage of THOC presents play by the Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán Ferrer. Until February 23.

THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 77-772717 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 Theatre 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 Shear Madness Popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides returns with an adaptation of one of the longest-running non-musical plays in the world. Until March 17. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910/22-675787 God of Carnage Dionysos Theater presents multiaward winning comedy by Yasmina Reza directed by George Mouaimis.

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

In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

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

Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents a theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Exhibition 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. Tel: 22-128157 Social Contract Solo painting exhibition by Avraam Christou. Until February 28. Alpha Gallery, Makarios Avenue & 3 Papanikoli Street, Nicosia. Monday-Saturday 10.30 am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm.

Tel: 22-751325 / 99-303366 Lush Art in Austere Times Fifth edition of group exhibition featuring works at affordable prices.

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

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670

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Tomorrow Other Events Documenting tragedy Tomorrow evening Gloria Gallery in Nicosia is hosting a book launch by Eleni Nicodemou.

Entitled Documento, the book is based on Nicodemou’s exhibition of the same name, held last summer, also in Gloria. The book, like the exhibition, features 34 works - paintings/comics dedicated to the memory of those who tragically died in the Mari blast.

The connection between art and politics has served a long and traditional role in visual history. In her book, and as seen in her exhibition, the artist makes full use of humour to examine local politics, but this doesn’t mean they let the viewer off easily. Preconceptions and stereotypes are parodied and challenged, and it may seem like a lot of fun, but

it’s all aimed at making you think.

Nicodemou was born in 1955 in Cyprus, where she currently lives and works. She initially studied Economics at the University of Athens, before receiving a diploma in Painting and Engraving from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

In the beginning of the 1980s, she lived and worked at the Cité Internationale des Arts. She has received scholarships from the French Government, the Hellenic Organisation of Small and Medium Enterprises and Handicraft and the Leventis Foundation of Cyprus.

In 1986 she was awarded the Prix Matisse by the French Embassy in Cyprus. Nicodemou has held numerous solo exhibitions over the years and her works are included in numerous private collections in Europe, the United States and Japan.

Documento Book launch featuring 34 paintings/comics by Eleni Nicodemou, dedicated to the Mari tragedy.

February 20. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. 7pm. Tel: 22-762605

Against conventions What does it mean to make radical art? Some people talk about avant-garde art and think it means art that sets out to shock.

French impressionist painter Paul Signac, a leading anarchist artist once said: “The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions”.

Promoting debate, confronting conventions and formulating alternative ways of thinking, an open lecture

by Dr Michael Paraskos at the University of Nicosia, entitled “What is Radical Art?” will explore what radical aesthetics might mean in the 21st century.

The lecture, which will take place on Thursday, will be conducted in English and is being organised by the Fine Arts Programme offered at the University of Nicosia in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire.

At its core, the lecture reconsiders the relationship between how art is practised and how art is theorised.

With a tradition stretching back over 1,000 years, Orthodox Christian art can be seen as the opposite of contemporary radical art. But in his lecture Dr Paraskos will argue that church art has much in common with anarchist art.

In the last century, many artists and theorists argued that radical art illustrates radical subject matter or ideas, and this belief was particularly strong amongst mainstream Conceptual artists. Dr Paraskos challenges this theory and explores another conception of radical art that emerged from anarchist intellectuals in the 19th and 20th centuries’.

Using ideas from anarchist theories of art Dr Paraskos offers an alternative view of radical art, suggesting radical art offers a vision of a world outside our own.

He will argue that many artists who claim to be radical today are in truth deeply conservative because they are trapped into thinking it is the subject matter that makes their work radical.

Furthermore, Paraskos will suggest that for anarchists genuinely radical art is art that achieves something

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It’s nearing the end of the month, the most difficult time to budget, but you fancy heading out for the

similar to radical politics, namely a transcendence out of the existing world and into a new reality. Examples of works used in the lecture include anarchist writers such as the art critic Herbert Read, the artist Eric Gill and the novelist Emile Zola.

Those within the art circle will be very familiar with Paraskos either as a writer, lecturer or curator; he is also the son of famous Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos.

More importantly, he is one of the new generations of art critics who are redefining the way we make and see art in the 21st century. He is a leading figure in the New Aesthetics movement, an informal grouping of artists and writers who emphasise the physical and material nature of art above its conceptual meaning.

Paraskos studied at the School of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, and gained his doctorate researching the aesthetic theories of Herbert Read from the University of Nottingham. He was formerly Head of Art History for Fine Art at the University of Hull.

He is a regular contributor to newspapers, magazines, radio and television, including journals such as The Spectator, Epoch Times and British Art Journal, and the regular art critic for the London edition of The Epoch Times newspaper.

He has reviewed exhibitions for Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and appeared on BFBS, BBC Radio Wales and Channel 4 television.

He is the author of several books, and his new book The New Aesthetics will be published in 2013. In addition, he has organised conferences at Tate Britain and the Whitechapel, London, and is Director of the Cyprus College of Art. What is Radical Art: An Anarchist Perspective Lecture with Dr Michael Paraskos offering an alternative view of radical art, suggesting radical art offers a vision of a world outside our own. February 21. Unesco Amphitheatre at the University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Avenue. 6.30pm. In English. Tel: 22-841500

By Ledha Socratous

evening... what are your options?

Well, keep in mind there are cheap or even free alternative sources for live entertainment. This week, look no further than your local schools and choirs for some of the best live entertainment in town with Musica Live IV! Taking place on Thursday at the Strovolos Municipal Theatre, the show will see more than 200 students and professional musicians

take to the stage, to perform a variety of well-known works for choir, band and orchestra.

Due to space restrictions, the first Musica Live! in March 2010 started with only a limited number of students and schools; this year 10 schools/institutions will be taking part and promises to be bigger and better than ever. The idea for Musica Live came about as a result of a conversation over coffee between

The Demolisher 1899 by French impressionist painter Paul Signac, one of the most famous anarchist artists

four music teachers. The teachers discussed the possibility, of each of their students performing together in one big show and following further debate, Musica Live was eventually born.

Through these concerts, Musica Live hopes to inspire excellence in performance amongst the schools by offering them another platform to showcase their musical abilities to the public. Such a unique

experience helps to build students’ confidence, enhance their creativity and improve their self-esteem and interpersonal skills.

Musica Live IV More than 200 students and professional musicians on stage, performing a variety of wellknown works for choir, band and orchestra.

February 21. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 7.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-313010

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By Preston Wilder

The Deep (Capital, 21.00) Why do they call it ‘The Deep’ when it’s not deep?

Maybe because ‘The Adaptation of a Peter Benchley Novel With a Madly Sexy Jacqueline Bisset’ wouldn’t fit on a theatre marquee. Mr. Benchley was all the rage in the mid-70s, having written Jaws - and this was the follow-up, with Bisset and Nick Nolte as a young couple vacationing in Bermuda who decide to do a bit of snorkelling. “Was it beginner’s luck to discover a sunken wreck in less than 60 feet of water?” wonders the trailer. “Was it coincidence that there were two treasures - one of priceless jewels, the other more valuable than that?” Rhetorical questions, I assume and the plot is generic in any case, the lovers getting

involved with crooks and treasure hunters plus the occasional sea monster to recall Jaws (Robert Shaw, who played Captain Quint in the shark flick, is the villain here). The film’s appeal is mostly in the disco music on the soundtrack, the cheesy action, the whole 70s vibe - and of course Jackie Bisset, not much of an actress but the classiest-looking film star since Audrey Hepburn. Deep? Not exactly. Made in 1977.

Underemployed (MTV, 21.00) I want my MTV, like the man said - though I preferred the old MTV, with the wall-to-wall music videos. Nowadays the music channel is more of a ‘light entertainment for ADHD teens’ channel - though this “scripted

Underemployed

comedic drama” (translation: not a reality show) is vaguely interesting, if only as a time-capsule of young people’s fears and desires in the 2010s. “More than any other generation in history, we have a chance to leave here today and change the world!” enthuses Sophia (Michelle Ang) at her college graduation - but a few months later she’s working a McJob at a doughnut place, like her similarly underpaid, underemployed exclassmates. Mostly clichéd (what, no gay character?) but still amusing, especially if you’re in the same agegroup - which you probably are, or you wouldn’t be watching MTV in the first place. “Things happen out of the blue, with the lame excuse of ‘youth’,” sniffs an unimpressed Athenian at the Internet Movie Database.

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Answers to crossword 2315

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Yule-log; 5 Might; 8 Lanolin; 9 Le Havre; 10 Abysmal; 11 Defined; 14 Ballast; 16 Lighter; 18 Idyllic; 19 Garland; 20 Nodal; 21 Lunatic. Down – 1 Yelled; 2 Light-fingered; 3 Leaving; 4 Gilead; 5 Money; 6 Gold medallist; 7 Tingly; 12 Playpen; 13 Flagon; 14 Bridal; 15 Tactic; 17 Trawl.

QUICK: Across – 1 Habitat; 5 Bidet; 8 Bizarre; 9 Lateral; 10 Extract; 11 Turn-out; 14 Penalty; 16 Monster; 18 Octagon; 19 Overlap; 20 Hasty; 21 Punster. Down – 1 Haslet; 2 Butter-fingers; 3 Thermos; 4 Tablet; 5 Bizet; 6 Dermatologist; 7 Twenty; 12 Unction; 13 Smooth; 14 Prop up; 15 Yonder; 17 Telly.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

It’s time to slow down and take a break. This doesn’t mean you have to stop working, but that it helps not to give yourself too much to do. Leave blank spaces in your diary so that you have more time to spend reflecting and recharging your batteries. You may find yourself in a more spiritual mood and may meditate or perhaps take up yoga.

The Moon in bubbly Gemini, along with Jupiter, suggests that you may want to socialize as a way to forget about certain issues that you find hard to resolve or come to terms with. You might even have a few fears that would vanish if you were to probe them further. Don’t try to gloss over what’s worrying you; instead get to work on it.

Your home may feel like a womb that’s safe and secure, a place where you can relax and be yourself. With a big emphasis on this part of your situation, you might enjoy taking time to smell the coffee and do your own thing.

The cosmos brings you a chance to reconnect with your heart’s desire and inner purpose, and also to reflect and refocus.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

With a major line-up of planets in your social zone, it seems you’re going to be very busy having fun, networking and generally enjoying life. This is an excellent time to move in new circles, especially those that are linked with your interests. You may benefit both business and romance wise.

Collaborations of all kinds might be possible.

Relationships of all kinds may be very important today and for a while yet. However, you could find it hard to pin anyone down or get a promise or a date from them.

Friends, your lover, your boss or just about anyone else may promise the earth, but something might get in the way of delivering. Either be patient or issue an ultimatum.

You may be brainstorming for ways to increase your income and earn extra cash. Give inspired ideas an airing, even if they seem whacky or far out. Making money on the internet may be a way to increase your wealth too.

If you ever wanted to write a novel, especially a fantasy novel, this may be a good time to make a start. Anything is possible.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You may be like the wise executive mystic today, who uses spiritual understandings and truths as a guideline to making the best business decisions. If you have an important interview to attend, you might feel like reflecting for a few minutes beforehand to get your bearings - the same with a big meeting. Yet confused thinking is also a possibility, so watch for this.

With a major focus on Pisces and your work and health zone, you may want to set a few goals for yourself concerning both of the above. If you don’t, there may be a tendency to drift and before you know it, perhaps to have missed a golden opportunity. Be inspired by your dreams and visions concerning what may be possible for you to achieve.

Connect with the inspired energy behind all your financial and business transactions, and you may find ways to influence your career for the better. Try not to lose concentration though, or get spaced out or forget where you’re heading. With a major Pisces influence, you can easily get sidetracked and lose the benefits of recent good work you have done.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You may be conscious of seeking something, though it’s also possible you don’t know what it is. Travel to an exotic place filled with the promise of paradise may be on your mind. You might also be keen to find a guru or mentor who can guide you through the maze of life and help give it greater meaning. Romance may be found through learning.

Though Valentine’s Day has already passed, the opportunities for love and romance are still strong. You could fall in love with someone and be content to worship them from a distance. This isn’t your usual style, but it may be the way things pan out for a while yet. If you fall in love, you could lose yourself in powerful feelings that erode away your ego.

There is a lot going on in your zodiac sign, and this can be reflected in the activities in your life. You may be spoilt for choice as ideas swim like beautiful fish through your mind. Which will you choose? It helps to focus on one thing and put all your efforts into making it happen. If you keep chopping and changing every two minutes, you may be less successful.

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“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.

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

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

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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

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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.

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nished, two parking spaces, a/c, quiet area, easy access to town centre and a communal pool. €370 pcm 4. EMBA un-furnished 3 bed 2 bathroom villa, private gated parking, a/c, large kitchen with white goods, cul-de-sac.

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out to rear garden and pool.

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3. GIOLOU– 5 bed unfurnished villa consisting of 3 bed, 2 bath main house (bungalow) with self-contained 2 bed apartment with own entrance. Main house, open plan living area, beamed ceilings with feature fireplace. Dining space and kitchen. 3 bedrooms, master with en-suite and family bathroom. Covered balcony with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas. Lower level apartment reached via the main house or separate entrance. Large open plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. €850.00 per month 4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bed room with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub.

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Sport Durant inspires the West in NBA All-Star game

IN BRIEF Hirscher ends Austria wait for gold

LA Clippers star Chris Paul gets MVP award

By Steve Ginsburg KEVIN Durant and Blake Griffin provided a potent mix of outside shooting and inside dominance to lift the Western Conference to a 143-138 victory over the Eastern Conference in the NBA All-Star game on Sunday.

Durant scored 30 points and Griffin added 19, on nine-of-11 shooting, but the Most Valuable Player Award went to Chris Paul, who scored 20 points and added 15 assists for the West.

Paul told Durant, the NBA’s leading scorer and last year’s All-Star game MVP, to expect to see the ball in his hands.

“I told KD early in the first quarter, ‘Man, if they score anything, you run. I’ll get you the ball, you score. I want to be the one to give it to you,’” recalled the Los Angeles Clippers guard.

“In games like this it’s so up-tempo and fast paced, a guy like me that’s a facilitator, I enjoy it.”

Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks paced the East with 26 points, followed

by Miami guard Dwyane

Wade, who had 21, and LeBron James, who added 19.

Durant hit 13-of-24 shots to lead the West to a third straight victory in the annual showcase that features little defense, a lot of dunks, and plenty of assists for anyone who decides to pass.

“I’m just out there having fun,” Oklahoma City forward Durant said. “I played a lot of street basketball.

I played a lot of celebrity games.

“This is my type of ballgame, up and down.”

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, a three-time MVP of the game, dueled James several times in the fourth quarter and came out on top. James nailed sevenof-18 shots but misfired on all four fourth-quarter attempts.

James, a forward with the Miami Heat, said he was not startled to see the smaller Bryant guarding him with the game on the line.

“He does it all the time,” James said. “I am absolutely not surprised. It was all in good spirit. It was just two guys that love to compete, love to go at it. It was a lot of fun.”

The West held a three-

point, fourth-quarter lead but a 25-foot, three-pointer

by Paul, a driving lay-up by Bryant, and a dunk by Durant pushed the lead to 136126 with 2:34 left.

Anthony said at halftime with the West leading 6965 his East team mates decided “we were going to go after it”.

“Everybody competed,” he said. “We get guys out there of that calibre, they’re going to compete. Nobody likes to lose.

“At the end of the day, we’re all basketball players, we’re all competitors.”

The sell-out Toyota Center crowd of 16,101 roared its approval at the array of alley-oop baskets, sprints to the hoop, and the rimrattling dunks by Griffin, Paul’s team mate with the Clippers.

West coach Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs praised both teams, saying: “Those guys are the best in the world and they competed and worked hard.”

“They respected the game,” he said. “They respected each other. Nobody got hurt. The fans had a great time. That’s what it’s all about.”

Slam: Oklahoma City Thunder superstar and NBA leading scorer Kevin Durant told reporters he had ‘a lot of fun’

Merrick is at a loss for words

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

Journeyman John Merrick landed his first PGA Tour title

AN emotional John Merrick struggled to find the words to describe his elation after landing his first PGA Tour title in a playoff on Sunday at a course he has known since his student days.

The 30-year-old American played Riviera Country Club regularly while studying at the nearby University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and hordes of ‘Bruins’ fans roared him to victory at the Northern Trust Open.

“Growing up as a kid I went to a lot of these tournaments and played a lot of rounds here while at UCLA,” Merrick, who was born in Long Beach, told reporters after beating compatriot Charlie Beljan at the second extra hole.

“To get a win in my hometown, it’s amazing. It is a dream come true. Gosh, I can’t believe it. It has not sunk in yet for sure.

“When you’re alone some-

times, you think about different scenarios of winning tournaments. You dream.

But to win? I can’t describe it. It’s so much fun.”

Merrick, a journeyman professional who had twice been a runner-up on the PGA Tour, benefited from fortunate breaks on his way to victory, the most crucial coming on the first extra hole.

While Beljan was in the middle of the fairway with a wedge in hand for his approach into the par-four 18th, Merrick faced a daunting second shot with a threeiron from a line of eucalyptus trees to the right of the fairway.

“I didn’t really have a good lie down there,” he said. “It was kind of matted down and I had 170 (yards) to the front and 200 to the flag. I had no shot.

“I just had to hit like a low cut around there. I was just trying to get something up there right of the flag and it came out perfectly. It just

scooted through.”

Merrick’s second shot ended up just off the back of the green from where he chipped up to two feet and sank the par putt.

One hole later, at the driveable par-four 10th, he sealed victory with a rock-solid par after Beljan missed a fivefooter to keep the playoff alive.

“It’s so hard not to get ahead of yourself,” Merrick said of his thoughts as he played the closing stretch in regulation with, at one point, a two-shot lead over the chasing pack.

“You get these flashes in your head thinking about winning and you’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh, what am I doing?

I’ve still got four or five holes left.’

“My caddie and I kept talking, ‘Slow down, slow down, play your shot as best you can and just keep moving forward.’ I was nervous. I was just trying to grind it out, be tough and do the best that I could.”

MARCEL Hirscher, the world’s top skier last season, won the men’s slalom to give host nation Austria their first individual gold at the Alpine skiing world championships in the final of the ten events on Sunday.

The 23-year-old sent the 30,000 crowd into raptures as he beat Germany’s Felix Neureuther, the son of former Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier and 1970s slalomist Christian Neureuther, by 0.42 seconds over the two runs.

Hirscher’s compatriot Mario Matt completed an excellent day for the hosts, whose only previous gold was in the low-key team event, by finishing third to add to the gold medals he won in the slalom in 2001 in St Anton and 2007 in Are. Hirscher, who won silver in Friday’s giant slalom, led after the first run and nearly came a cropper as he attacked on the second, but recovered his balance just in time.

American Ted Ligety’s hopes of a fourth gold medal ended early when he skidded out high on the first run.

Ligety had already won the super-G, giant slalom and combined to become the first male skier to win three golds at the championships for 45 years.

But he is not a slalom specialist and said beforehand he did not expect to win Sunday’s race.

England call up trio ENGLAND have called up three additions to their squad for Saturday’s Six Nations match at home to France.

London Wasps’ Elliot Daly and Saracens team mates Will Fraser and Joel Tomkins will join up with the squad this week.

Daly will provide training cover for Ben Foden, who is on a post-match recovery programme, Fraser comes in as cover for Ben Morgan, who is recovering from an ankle injury, while Tomkins is an injury replacement for Jonathan Joseph.

IRELAND centre Gordon D’Arcy meanwhile has been ruled out of the remainder of the Six Nations with a foot injury, adding to a growing casualty list that threatens to derail the country’s bid for its first championship in four years.

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US tennis in mourning as the San Jose Open bids farewell

Pakistan ‘hindered by lack of home Tests’

Iconic event moving to Rio de Janeiro after 125 years in California

By Nick Said

By Matt Cronin THE US tennis community mourned the loss of another ATP tournament on Sunday when the San Jose Open packed up and headed to Brazil after 125 years in California.

The event was first played in 1889 and has included champions such as Fred Perry, Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Andy Murray and Andy Roddick before Canada’s Milos Raonic completed a hat-trick of wins on Sunday.

Former player and broadcaster Justin Gimelstob, who is also an ATP board of directors member, told Reuters he was sad to bid farewell to the second oldest tournament in the United States behind the US Open.

“It’s been one of the landmarks of the tour,” he said.

“There are so many great champions who have won here. This negative trend is very disappointing.”

Tournament owners San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises, who are also in charge of the San Jose Sharks, opted to sell the event to a Rio de Janeiro group for both financial reasons and to prevent having to send their NHL team on an annual two-week road trip.

When the United States was dominating men’s tennis and former major champions such as Sampras and Agassi were happy to play at one of their national tournaments, spectator attendances were good.

However, after Agassi re-

Big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic beat Tommy Haas in Sunday’s final to complete a hat-trick of wins tired in 2006 and Europeans began to dominate the tour, the event was unable to draw the very best players to the West Coast in early February when they knew they would have to travel to California for the mandatory Indian Wells tournament in March.

As well as the San Jose Open, California lost an-

other of its events last year when the Los Angeles Open was sold and relocated to Bogota, Colombia.

“Putting my US tennis fan and broadcaster hat on...

America is a huge market and we need to make sure that the market is protected and incentivised,” Gimelstob added.

“Putting my ATP board of directors hat on... it’s a difficult business model at this smaller level having these outlying tournaments. How do they get the top players, television and sponsors?

“It’s a bad cycle. Something needs to be done.”

World number 16 John Isner said the fact that the

United States did not have an active grand slam champion was also a major factor after Roddick, who won the US Open in 2003, retired last year.

“Every American is working to do his best,” Isner said. “It does hurt the marketability of the sport, especially in this area.”

Alonso returns as F1 testing moves up a gear

By Alan Baldwin

Double world champion Fernando Alonso poses next to Ferrari’s 2013 car during its recent unveiling

FERNANDO Alonso will test his new Ferrari for the first time in Spain today while former champions Williams bring Formula One’s ‘launch season’ to a close as the last team to unveil their 2013 car.

There will not be much fanfare, if any, at either event when the second of three pre-season tests gets underway at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

In days gone by, the unveiling of new cars was an excuse for excess - whether it be through extravagant presentations in glamorous locations or enlisting the Spice Girls as part of the show - but the current age of austerity has made such lavish gestures a thing of the past.

Forget putting the car on a plinth in Venice’s St Mark’s Square (Benetton 2001) or hiring the Cirque du Soleil to perform at London’s Albert

Hall (Jordan 1998).

The norm this year has been for the bright and shiny new cars to be pushed out of the garage into the sunlight and then sent on their way after a few brief words from the team boss and drivers.

When tail-enders Marussia revealed their car in Jerez this month they merely rolled it on to the starting grid and removed the travel cover without even a driver next to it.

Champions Red Bull splashed out on champagne and finger food for guests but otherwise showed off their car at the factory while McLaren and Ferrari did likewise.

“There are some reality checks going around,” observed McLaren principal Martin Whitmarsh, whose own team’s launch involved putting up temporary seating in the factory atrium with a drive-past of classic cars to mark McLaren’s 50th anni-

versary.

“We used to hire Alexandra Palace and launches were a competition. People don’t want to see one-millionpound extravaganzas any more. Times have changed.

We peaked,” added Whitmarsh.

Williams are last to launch - the others all getting their cars out before or at Jerez - but the livery has already been revealed and new bits tried out at the previous test.

The emphasis will be on getting Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado on track and putting miles under his belt as much as anything.

Ferrari tested the F138 with Brazilian Felipe Massa at Jerez, with Alonso absent. Today, in front of his home fans, will be the Spaniard’s first run in a promising-looking car that will carry his hopes of a third championship this year but it will be a test like any other.

PAKISTAN captain Misbahul-Haq reiterated his belief that the continued boycott of his country by international sides is hindering their chances of becoming the leading Test nation.

Ongoing security concerns mean the last Test match played in Pakistan was against Sri Lanka in 2009, one of just four home fixtures for the side in the last seven years.

In that time, the Pakistanis have played ‘home’ matches in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and even England.

Four years ago, armed militants attacked the tourists’ team bus in Lahore, killing eight Pakistanis and wounding six Sri Lankan players, with the incident bringing an end to Tests in the country for the foreseeable future.

There was hope that Bangladesh would tour last month, but that too has been shelved over safety concerns.

“There is no doubt that this is a problem for us, it is difficult to be the top cricket team in the world when you do not play in your home conditions,” Misbah told reporters in South Africa, where Pakistan are currently touring.

South African captain Graeme Smith offered his sympathy for Pakistan’s plight, but admitted he would chose not to tour the country if a proposed visit was put forward.

“I obviously sympathise with their situation. I have been to Pakistan five times in the past, but I would have serious concerns as to my safety going there under present circumstances.”

Misbah added that the fact his side played just six Test matches in 2012 gave little opportunity for the players to gain experience in the longer form of the game.

“We have played some very good Test cricket in the last two-and-a-half years, but not enough matches. If you look at the experience in this South African side, they have players with over 100 matches and others with more than 50.

“Because we have not played much, our team has players with just a few games and little experience.

That makes it difficult to compete.”

The Pakistan side that lost the second Test of the three-match series against South Africa on Sunday had a combined 277 Test caps between them, with Younus Khan (81) the only player with more than 50 appearances.

The Proteas, by contrast, had amassed 597 caps, with five players having passed 50 and Morne Morkel on the cusp with 49.

South Africa lead the current series 2-0 with the third and final Test starting at Centurion on Friday.

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PSG’s unbeaten run ended by impressive Sochaux

By Julien Pretot

Malaga must brace themselves for a barrage of attacking football from Porto’s Colombian Jackson Martinez (left). The Spaniards warmed up for their return to Champions League action with a morale-boosting 1-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao courtesy of Javier Saviola

Porto’s Colombia duo lined up to sink in-form Malaga

By Daniel Alvarenga IN-FORM Malaga must brace themselves for a barrage of attacking football from Porto’s Colombian Jackson Martinez and his returning compatriot James Rodriguez when they meet at the Dragao Stadium for their Champions League last 16 first leg tonight.

Twice European champions and Portuguese premier league leaders Porto are firing on all cylinders thanks mainly to the exploits of Martinez.

The striker, nicknamed ‘Cha Cha Cha’ for his dance-

like moves on the pitch, has feasted on passes from Porto’s array of supporting talent and leads the Portuguese league scoring charts with 20 goals.

“We will be up to the demands of a game of this level against Malaga. Porto are a team used to winning and react to any adversity,” coach Vitor Pereira told reporters.

Porto are boosted by the return of influential forward Rodriguez, out to quench his thirst for football after missing seven matches with a thigh injury.

The 21-year-old Colombia international made his comeback as Porto beat Bei-

ra Mar 2-0 away on Friday.

Ghana winger Christian Atsu also returned from the African Cup of Nations to score the opener while Russian Marat Izmailov, signed from rivals Sporting in January, has quickly gelled with the architects of Porto’s possession football -Joao Moutinho and Argentine playmaker Lucho Gonzalez.

“It is good to head into the Champions League with a comfortable win. Although it was not with the exuberance we strive for because we had this European fixture next,” Pereira said.

Malaga too warmed up for the return to Champions

League action with a moraleboosting 1-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday which kept them in fourth place in La Liga.

Argentine forward Javier Saviola, who used to play for Porto’s fierce rivals Benfica, scored but it was goalkeeper Willy Caballero who made sure of the points with some outstanding saves.

“Caballero made a couple of very good saves,” coach Manuel Pellegrini said.

“We have secured fourth place in La Liga for now, and next we want to get to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. We have a difficult game in Portugal

on Tuesday but it is always good to go into a match having won the last game.”

Qatari-owned Malaga, in their debut Champions League campaign, have impressed in Europe and have yet to lose a match.

They are on course for a return to Europe through the league, but have been hit by a future UEFA ban from European competition because of cash flow problems which have led to delayed payments to players and creditors.

The Costa del Sol side have appealed against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Real survive Ramos red, Atletico end away blues

By Mark Elkington

Ten-man Real Madrid still had too much firepower for Rayo Vallecano at the Bernabeu

REAL Madrid survived an early red card for Sergio Ramos to see off city rivals Rayo Vallecano 2-0 at the Bernabeu on Sunday, matching the wins of La Liga leaders Barcelona and Atletico Madrid over the weekend.

Youth-team striker Alvaro Morata and Ramos scored inside the opening 12 minutes, but Real were checked when their captain picked up two yellow cards in quick succession to get sent off.

The third-placed champions moved on to 49 points from 24 games, four behind second-placed Atletico Madrid, who remembered how to win on the road again when Radamel Falcao opened the scoring in a 3-0 victory at Real Valladolid.

Barcelona are top with 65 points after a 2-1 comeback victory at Granada on Saturday in which Lionel Messi scored both goals.

After a draining midweek Champions League clash with Manchester United which ended 1-1 at the Bernabeu, Real coach Jose Mourinho, in his 100th league game in charge, rang the changes.

Xabi Alonso was rested and with Gonzalo Higuain, Luka Modric and Alvaro Arbe-

loa suspended, Morata was given his first league start up front and Kaka a rare run out in midfield.

The match was only three minutes old when Mesut Ozil’s low cross found Morata in the area and the 20-year-old fired in the opener.

Real threatened to run riot as Ramos rose to head the second from an Ozil free kick in the 12th.

However, Rayo were let off the hook when Ramos collected two quick yellow cards, first for bundling over a player and the second for a handball after 18 minutes, the 26year-old Spain defender’s 17th red card of his professional career.

“It was a shame because it started so well for the fans,” Real director Emilio Butragueno told Spanish television.

“It was difficult to see so it is best not to comment on the referee’s decision. The important thing is we won.”

Rayo battled but although they took the game to Real they were given little room by an organised Madrid defence.

Atletico last won on the road in mid-November, when they defeated Granada 1-0, but after consecutive defeats in La Liga and the Europa League they rediscovered their bite to turn over Valladolid.

PARIS St Germain’s Ligue 1 lead was trimmed to three points as they slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Sochaux that ended a ninematch unbeaten league run on Sunday.

Cedric Bakambu netted the winner six minutes from time as PSG conceded three goals in a league game for the first time this season.

Carlo Ancelotti’s side looked nothing like the team who beat Valencia 2-1 at the Mestalla in a Champions League last-16 first leg clash last Tuesday as Sochaux eased their relegation fears with an impressive performance.

PSG had won 12 of their last 13 matches in all competitions - eight of their last nine league games but they lacked inspiration throughout and missed the injured Jeremy Menez.

They stay top with 51 points from 25 games, but their lead was reduced after second-placed Lyon hammered Bordeaux 4-0 away earlier on Sunday.

“This week’s game took its toll physically,” midfielder Blaise Matuidi, who put in a below-par performance, told French TV channel Canal Plus.

“Everyone was at fault.

We now have to question ourselves and get back on our feet.”

PSG were without new signing David Beckham at Sochaux’s Stade Bonal, as the former England captain has yet to regain full fitness since joining the Ligue 1 club at the end of the January transfer window.

The midfielder is likely make his debut at the Parc des Princes against Marseille on Sunday.

PSG opened the scoring in the 29th minute when Alex headed home from a Javier Pastore corner.

Sochaux, who moved up to 14th on 26 points, hit back seven minutes later, with Sebastien Roudet firing an angled shot past Salvatore Sirigu after a brilliant charge down the left flank.

Sochaux maintained the upper hand after the interval and deservedly took the lead in the 54th. Sio played a fine one-two with Roudet and beat Sirigu with a low shot.

The home side came close to a third on the hour as Sebastien Corchia’s 25-metre free kick smashed the post, but PSG centre back Mamadou Sakho equalised with a deflected shot in a packed goal mouth.

The hosts, however, claimed all three points in the 84th minute. Ryad Boudebouz’s cross to the far post was deflected by Sloan Privat into the path of Bakambu who poked the ball into the empty goal.

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I am the best boss in England, claims Mancini

By Matt McGeehan

Italian also says title race far from over MANCHESTER City boss Roberto Mancini says he is currently “the best manager in England” and is not facing the sack.

City are out of European competition and face a battle to retain their Premier League title, with Manchester United currently 12 points clear.

They are in the FA Cup quarter-finals but former City player Danny Mills has suggested Mancini will be replaced at the end of the season.

“In the last 15 months I am the best manager in England,” Mancini was quoted

by BBC Sport as saying.

Mancini took over at Manchester City in December 2009, replacing Mark Hughes.

In his first full season in charge, the Italian led his side to third in the Premier League and Champions League qualification.

Last season Manchester City closed an eight-point gap on United to win their first Premier League title with a dramatic 3-2 final day win over Queen’s Park Rangers.

But this season his side have been left behind by United in the league and they also exited the Champions League at the group stage, finishing bottom of Group D and failing to win

a match which also meant they failed to qualify for the Europa League.

There has been some restructuring behind the scenes this season, with former Barcelona technical director Txiki Begiristain appointed as director of football and speculation about Mancini’s future has been growing.

Reports linked former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola to Mancini’s job, but the Spaniard has joined Bayern Munich. Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who last week said his next job would be in the Premier League, is now being touted as a possible replacement for Mancini.

After Sunday’s 4-0 FA Cup victory over Leeds, Mancini said: “Someone says for six months that Manchester City would change manager, Guardiola would come in, and after Guardiola went to Bayern Munich, now another manager.

“I won one Premier League, one FA Cup, one charity shield, there is not another manager that’s won like me in the last 15 months.

“I can do nothing but it is the reality.”

Mancini said he also believes there is life in the Premier League title race if his strikers can fire as they did in the Cup cruise over Leeds.

City rarely had to leave second gear to beat their lacklustre Championship opponents 4-0, with Sergio Aguero’s double complemented by goals from Yaya Toure and Carlos Tevez.

A walk in the park against a Leeds side who were out of their depth was just the tonic City needed after their Southampton horror show last week.

Many consider it to be a foregone conclusion that the trophy will be back an Old Trafford come May. But after watching Aguero score twice to take his tally of goals in a stop-start season to 13, the Italian predicted twists and turns if his men can start scoring on a regular basis again.

He said: “I hope Sergio will be like this from now until the end, because if Sergio is like this, and our strikers continue to score a lot of goals from now until the end, I think the championship is not finished.

“This is possible but I think it should be confident, always. If we are 12 points behind - we lost seven points in three games. This can happen for every team. We play a lot of games.

“I think in this moment they deserve to be there because they played better than us. They scored more goals than us.”

Defiant: under-fire Roberto Mancini has defended his record as Manchester City manager

Sturridge targets Golden Boot for team-mate Suarez

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez has 18 league goals this season only one behind Man United’s Robin van Persie

DANIEL Sturridge is keen to help his fellow Liverpool frontman Luis Suarez secure this season’s Barclays Premier League Golden Boot award.

Suarez’s strike in Sunday’s 5-0 win over Swansea at Anfield took his tally to 18 league goals for the campaign and the Uruguay international is currently the division’s second-highest scorer.

Only Manchester United striker Robin van Persie - on 19 goals - is ahead of Suarez at this point in the Golden Boot standings and Sturridge plans to do everything he can to boost his teammate’s chances of reaching the number one spot by the end of 2012-13.

Asked if he thought Suarez could claim the award this term, Sturridge told www. liverpoolfc.com: “I don’t see why not. There are 11 games left for us so I’m sure he can.

“I’ll try to help him get there and give him opportu-

nities.

“It’s always good to get individual glories as a player because they’re the things you can look back on at the end of your career and tell your grandchildren you were top scorer for that season.

“I’m sure he’ll be gunning for that and I’ll try to help him get there.”

After Suarez’s effort made it 4-0, Sturridge netted Liverpool’s fifth with a penalty, leaving the England forward’s record since joining the Reds from Chelsea in January showing five goals in seven appearances in all competitions.

The other scorers for the Reds, who moved up to seventh place with the win, were Steven Gerrard with another spot-kick, Philippe Coutinho and Jose Enrique.

Swansea manager Michael Laudrup meanwhile accepted some of the blame for the “accident” of their 5-0 defeat but felt the players had to also take responsibility.

The Dane made seven

changes - leaving 15-goal striker Michu and captain Ashley Williams on the bench - with one eye on next weekend’s Capital One Cup final against Bradford.

It backfired spectacularly as his side were never in the match and barely managed to raise a competitive element to their game.

“We could have lost seven or eight nil easily had it not been for goalkeeper Michel Vorm and that is not good enough,” said Laudrup.

“It is a little difficult to explain because I made a lot of changes so the first to blame is me because I picked the team.

“But I will not exclude players who were thinking about the game next week, which in a certain way is human logic because it will be the biggest game in the history of the club.

“I want to see this as a single accident maybe caused by what is going to happen in seven days - at least I hope so.”

CHELSEA interim boss Rafael Benitez and John Terry are adamant they are not in dispute after the captain made a goalscoring return to the starting XI. Following a knee injury sustained in November before Benitez’s arrival, Terry made just his third start under the Spaniard in Sunday’s 4-0 FA Cup fourthround replay win over Brentford at Stamford Bridge.

Benitez and Terry felt the need to rebuff a report of a disagreement between the pair.

“He’s quite positive,” Benitez said. “He knows that the main thing is the team winning and if he can play, much better.”

Terry told ITV: “It’s good to have competition.

“The manager knows me and I want to play. I have been out for two or three months, but the other two (centre-backs) have been doing well.”

Branislav Ivanovic and Gary Cahill started in last Thursday’s defeat of Sparta Prague, with Terry an unused replacement for a fifth time under Benitez.

Terry could again find himself among the replacements on Thursday for the second leg of the Europa League clash, with Sunday’s Barclays Premier League clash at Manchester City in mind.

Victor Moses, David Luiz and Demba Ba also returned against the Bees, with Benitez happy with the options at his disposal.

“When you have players available you can manage in a different way,” he said.

“You can change player and they still keep the intensity in the team.”

Nevertheless, Frank Lampard continues to prove his value to Chelsea, netting his 199th goal in front of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, present for the first time since the defeat of Arsenal.

It was the 34-year-old’s 26th FA Cup goal, moving ahead of the record held by Bobby Tambling, and the third of the game following strikes from Juan Mata and Oscar.

Now Tambling’s club record of 202 is in Lampard’s sights, yet his future remains uncertain, with contradictory reports over whether he will be offered the chance to extend his 12-year stay at Stamford Bridge beyond this summer.

“I’m pleased to be at the top of the list,” Lampard told Chelsea TV. “I’m just pleased to get another one. I’m pleased if I score and if it helps the team.”

The win keeps Chelsea on course for silverware and a fifth FA Cup win in seven seasons, but Mata knows the priority lies elsewhere.

The Spain forward said: “Next season we have to play in the Champions League.”

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Nadal caps comeback with Brazil win

By Andrew Downie

I’m back! the 11-time grand slam champion, now ranked five, won his first tournament since last year’s French Open

RAFA Nadal’s comeback from a seven-month injury layoff gathered pace as he brushed aside Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2 6-3 to win the Brazil Open, his first title since the 2012 French Open.

The Spanish world number five, playing only his second tournament following his return from injury, broke twice in the first set and recovered from 3-0 down in the second to win in 78 minutes.

The 11-time grand slam champion, who said he still suffers pain in his troublesome knees, has chosen to return to action on the clay courts he favours as he tries to work his way back to match fitness.

“When the knee hurts I can’t move properly. And if I can’t move properly, I can’t hit the ball cleanly. When

my knee gets better, the tennis will get better, the head will get better, everything will get better,” Nadal told reporters.

“Today was the day I felt best on court.”

Nadal made his comeback in Chile last week but lost the final to another Argentine, Horacio Zeballos.

But there was to be no repeat of that setback this week as the 26-year-old Spaniard overran the hapless Nalbandian.

Although he was clearly a long way from his best, Nadal showed the same swashbuckle that took him to the top of the game. In a reference to his first title in Brazil in 2005, the year he burst on to the world scene, he said he hoped this win would mark a new beginning for him.

“Brazil will always be in my heart, this is the second time I have been here,” he told fans after the game. “In 2005,

big things started to happen for me after winning here and I hope this time again it is the start of something good.”

The Spaniard is expected to play in the Mexico Open in Acapulco later this month as he prepares to defend his French Open title in May. Asked whether he feels ready to compete with the top three of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray, Nadal said: “We are going to see how the knee responds and then take stock.

“I don’t have any problem playing against better rivals because I accept that I can lose. Losing is not a problem for me. I just need time to continue improving and return to a more competitive level.”

Nadal will be targeting an eighth Roland Garros title, but for now his goals are simple: “I am going to think about Acapulco and nothing else.”

Wenger demands Arsenal character in Bayern test Gunners need big performance to silence the critics

By Justin Palmer

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RSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has ridden out periods of turbulence in what is certain to be eight successive trophyless seasons of domestic disappointment but the heat is back on when Bayern Munich visit in the Champions League tonight.

The Frenchman, whose furrowed brow added a line or two after Arsenal were dumped out of the FA Cup by second-tier Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, has called on his side to stand up and be counted when they face the runaway Bundesliga leaders in a last 16 first-leg tie.

Arsenal were booed off after the home fifth round-defeat

by Blackburn, completing a Cup exit double at the hands of lower league opposition after a shock Capital One (League Cup) quarter-final loss to fourth-tier Bradford.

Out of contention in the Premier League and with only a Champions League place to play for, Wenger needs a big performance against Bayern

Don’t look: under-fire manager Arsene Wenger is embarrassed after Arsenal’s FA Cup defeat to Blackburn on Saturday

to quieten the doubters.

“It is a good opportunity to show that we have character and are men who can fight for each other. That is all you can do,” Wenger said.

“You take a distance in terms of what people say and show how strong and good you are in the next game.

“If we feel sorry for ourselves we would be completely wrong. We have a massive game on Tuesday night and we have to show that we have some response

in the team.”

Arsenal have lost in the last 16 in the last two seasons and face a Bayern side cruising towards the Bundesliga title having won 18 of 22 league games.

Friday’s 2-0 victory at VfL Wolfsburg was their fourth successive win with Mario Mandzukic, joint top scorer of the league, again on target for his 15th goal of the season.

Mandzukic looks set to start against Arsenal, with

Mario Gomez again left on the bench. The Croatian’s form has been a blessing, with Gomez out for months following ankle surgery in August.

He is also unfazed by media reports saying Bayern are close to signing Borussia Dortmund top scorer Robert Lewandowski for next season.

The only minor discord in the Bayern camp is Arjen Robben’s dissatisfaction with his current substitute

role.

Robben came on late against Wolfsburg and drilled in Bayern’s second goal in stoppage time, before demanding to start against Arsenal.

“I do not see any reason why I should not play against Arsenal,” he told reporters.

“These are the super games you want to play.”

The Dutch winger also vented his frustration with his playing time under coach Jupp Heynckes.

“I really want to play. I have been more hopeful in the past. I am not happy. I was on the bench again and that is disappointing. The goal was good but nothing more,” he said.

Heynckes, who will make way for Pep Guardiola at the end of the season, has denied there was any growing tension with the player Bayern will be without suspended Jerome Boateng and injured Holger Badstuber and Claudio Pizarro, but can again count on midfielder Javi Martinez, who should be fit for the game after training on Sunday following a minor injury.

“Arsenal have found their rhythm again in the last few weeks,” Heynckes said.

“They look sharper up front. We should not underestimate them. They are improving and that is a real danger for us.”

Probable teams: Arsenal: 1-Wojciech Szczesny; 3-Bacary Sagna, 4-Per Mertesacker, 5-Thomas Vermaelen, 6-Laurent Koscielny; 8-Mikel Arteta 19-Santi Cazorla, 10-Jack Wilshere, 9-Lukas Podolksi; 12-Olivier Giroud, 14-Theo Walcott Bayern Munich: 1-Manuel Neuer; 21-Philipp Lahm, 5-Daniel van Buyten, 4-Dante, 27-David Alaba; 8-Javi Martinez, 31-Bastian Schweinsteiger, 25-Thomas Mueller, 39-Toni Kroos, 7-Franck Ribery; 9-Mario Mandzukic