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S&P says real risk of default Ratings agency warns island is facing a ‘material and rising’ risk

By George Psyllides

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YPRUS faces a “material and rising risk” of defaulting on its sovereign debt, especially if the eurozone and International Monetary Fund do not come up with aid, rating agency Standard & Poor’s said yesterday.

“We see at least a one-inthree chance that we could lower the Cyprus sovereign ratings again in 2013, for example if official financial assistance from the (European bailout fund) ESM and/or IMF is not forthcoming, leaving the Cypriot authorities few choices apart from to restructure its financial obligations,” S&P’s head of EMEA sovereign ratings Moritz Kraemer said in a report.

S&P’s comments came as the island gears up for a runoff presidential election on Sunday pitting DISY chief Nicos Anastasiades, who is in favour of a swift bailout deal against the AKELbacked Stavros Malas who supports a bailout but with fewer harsh austerity measures.

“We could also lower the ratings if we believe the (Cypriot) authorities are not able to fulfill the conditions that would be attached to an official assistance programme.”

S&P currently rates Cyprus at CCC+, well into noninvestment grade “junk” bond territory, with a negative outlook.

Cyprus asked for international aid eight months ago after its banks suffered huge losses on exposure to

a restructuring of Greek sovereign debt and due to difficulties in accessing international capital markets shut to it because of fiscal slippage since mid-2011.

Cyprus could need an estimated €17.5 billion from the eurozone to recapitalise its banks and to finance the government over the next three years.

Though the final figure has not yet been agreed, as Cyprus appears to object the amount needed for bank recapitalisation – €10 billion, the EU and the IMF have expressed concern over the island’s debt burden after the bailout.

The IMF has reportedly asked for Cypriot banks to be recapitalised directly by the European Stability Mechanism and or a debt restructuring of either sovereign or bank debt.

The idea of deposit haircuts has also been floated.

Financial services giant J.P. Morgan views the recent rhetoric as “mostly negotiation tactics.”

“The IMF wants to force a more pro-active commitment from the eurozone (it is also pushing for bank recap relief in Ireland), and both the IMF and eurozone want Cyprus to agree to more aggressive reforms and collateral commitments,” a J.P. Morgan report said earlier this month.

“Similarly, the eurozone wants to ensure Russia’s participation in the bailout, given Russia’s deep economic ties to Cyprus. Policymakers can only reach these goals by

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Health Minister Androulla Agrotou yesterday visited St George’s University of London Medical School at the University of Nicosia where she signed an agreement allowing students to carry out their required practice at hospitals and clinics in Cyprus. The minister was given a tour of the School by its Course Director Dr Adonis Io-

annides. Photo shows a mock medical procedure being shown to the minister. The school currently hosts 98 students from 21 countries, the majority coming from North America and Europe. Agrotou congratulated the school for the high level of education offered and its modern infrastructure

Woman ‘close to family’ arrested in toddler kidnap

By Peter Stevenson POLICE arrested a 35-year-old woman yesterday for the kidnapping of 18month-old Stavros Styllis in Limassol last Friday after forensic evidence implicated her in the abduction, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said.

The woman reportedly comes from the ‘family environment’.

Angelides said that police were looking at the circumstances of the abduction but that investigations indicated that more than one person was involved. “The woman, who is close to the family, was being questioned at the time the toddler was still missing which would indicate

she had an accomplice,” he added. Reports were also confirmed yesterday that in December, a portion of pudding the toddler’s grandmother was about to feed him contained pieces of broken glass and crushed medicine.

The episode happened roughly a fortnight after the young boy had been released from the intensive care unit of Makarios Hospital after being in coma.

He had been hospitalised from November 20 till November 26, 2012, suffering from encephalitis. The glass and medicine were discovered in the child’s food when his grandmother tasted it just before she was about to feed him. She noticed it did not taste normal.

The food serving was checked by a

laboratory abroad which confirmed the cream contained pieces of broken glass and other health hazards. Styllis was taken from his grandmother’s verandah in Ypsonas on Friday morning, sparking a massive hunt for the kidnapped toddler across Limassol, with police helicopter, British bases police, National Guard and Civil Defence, and members of the public all involved.

With news of the little boy’s disappearance spreading like wildfire across the internet, by midday on Friday, there were few people in Cyprus unaware of the family’s ordeal. By 3.30pm, a widow who went to Ypsonas cemetery to light a candle found the little boy crying outside a shed, eight hours after he had been taken.

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ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 21

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25 years ago, Sunday February 21, 1988

The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published.

Greek Cypriots vote in a crucial presidential election today with the two candidates agreed that time is running out for negotiations to reunite Cyprus. Right-winger Glafcos Clerides, 67 and leftist-backed George Vassiliou, 56, were neck-and-neck in the run up to the second round of voting after beating incumbent President Spyros Kyprianou into third place last Sunday.

1916 The First World War: The Battle of Verdun begins in France.

1952 In Britain, the Conservative government abolishes Identity Cards.

1965 Controversial black rights leader Malcolm X is assassinated in America.

1972 Richard Nixon becomes the first American President to visit China, and has an audience with Mao Zedong.

1995 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

35 years ago, Tuesday February 21, 1978 A fierce and deadly battle between National Guardsmen and Egyptian commandos was fought at Larnaca Airport on Sunday night as negotiations were reported to be nearing a successful end for the release of 11 hostages aboard a Cyprus Airways plane.

45 years ago, Wednesday February 21, 1968 Forty teams of public servants will be entrusted with the task of counting the votes in Sunday’s presidential election. The teams, of two men each, must report for work at the premises of the Public Servants Trade Union in Nicosia by 11.30pm on Sunday. From midnight onwards and after the arrival of all ballot boxes from the various polling stations throughout the island, they will begin counting the votes.

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‘MI5 ruined my life’ says London Cypriot resident Home used for surveillance in bomb plot

By Peter Stevenson A BRITISH Cypriot living in London, Constantinos Alexandrou, is suing the Metropolitan Police after his house was used by members of MI5 to watch terrorist suspects in 2006 claiming the whole ordeal ‘had destroyed’ his life.

According to the Daily Mail, Alexandrou, from Walthamstow in North London, told Central London County Court how he assisted the police and security services by giving over his home for surveillance, as it was immediately opposite the bomb factory being run by alQaeda-inspired plotters.

Although he played a part in foiling the 2006 bomb plot, which was billed as comparable to the 9/11 tragedy, he was later wrongfully arrested twice and falsely imprisoned, the Daily Mail reported.

His barrister Stephen Chippeck said: “He told them that he loved his country and would help in any way that he could. They asked to borrow his home and he persuaded his partner of 25 years to assist.”

After agreeing to leave their

home, something his partner at the time did not agree with, they lived in a hotel. This led to the collapse of his relationship, according to Alexandrou. After the three terrorist suspects were arrested, Alexandrou attempted to return home, only to be arrested on two separate occasions by members of the police as he tried to enter his home.

He also told the court about a third run-in with armed police, when he feared he was going to be shot, after they stopped him while walking through a park and demanded to see identification According to the Daily Mail, following the first arrest, Alexandrou started sleeping rough under the bushes outside Wood Green police station, as he did not feel safe. The Daily Mail goes on to explain the plot was the biggest terror investigation in the UK and intelligence officers believe it was directed by al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan. It led to changes in aviation rules worldwide that left passengers unable to take liquids into the cabin of passenger aircraft.

Security officials on both sides of the Atlantic believe

the men wanted to kill people in the air and possibly more on the ground in a wave of attacks causing more devastation than the 11 September attacks in the USA. On 7 September 2009, a jury at Woolwich Crown Court found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of ‘conspiracy to murder involving liquid bombs’ and therefore that the target of the conspiracy was the airline passengers.

The plot was said at court to have been discovered by MI5 using covert listening devices in a flat in east London. Ali and Sarwar must serve at least 36 years, while Hussain was jailed for at least 32 years.

In July 2010, Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court and sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to murder.

They must serve a minimum of 20 years in prison before being eligible for release.

The Metropolitan Police deny the claims of false imprisonment, wrongful arrest and Alexandrou’s claim for aggravated damages.

Constantinos Alexandrou outside his home in London. which was taken over by MI5 (Photo: Steve Finn, Daily Mail)

Public not fully taking advantage of new state opening hours

By Peter Stevenson THERE have been no complaints and no reported problems with the new public service working hours according to the public administration and personnel department.

State services have been serving the public for longer following extended working hours, which came into effect in January under the bailout terms agreed with international lenders.

Civil servants - but not shift workers – can start work at any point between 7.30am and 8.30am and leave between 3pm and 4pm as a transition.

From September 1, employees will come in between 8am and 9am, leav-

ing between 3.30pm and 4.30pm. They will no longer work Wednesday afternoons to serve the public, spreading out that time over the week instead.

The measure is part of changes aimed at reducing overtime by introducing non-stop working time and extending flexitime, said senior official with the public administration and personnel department at the finance ministry, Sophia Vassiliou.

The majority of departments serving the public now work until 2.30pm in an attempt to give an opportunity to members of the public who cannot get away from work before 1pm which was the old time the offices serving the public used to close. According to Vassiliou, the Road Transport De-

partment (RTD), whose tills are open until 3.15pm to help members of the public more, have not reported a large amount of people visiting their offices between 1pm and 2.30pm.

“The RTD mentioned that the busiest time for them was between 11am and noon and although people have been making use of the extended hours there hasn’t been a huge influx of people at those times,” she said.

Vassiliou also mentioned that she was told by officials at the migration office that although people were taking advantage of the lunch-time opening hours there were not unmanageable numbers.

She said that official numbers had yet to be gathered but there have been

no reports of any problems. “There hasn’t been a large amount of people using the extended hours yet as they need to get used to the new timetable,” she explained. “The most important thing for us is that there have been no complaints and people are being served when they weren’t able to before,” she added.

Vassiliou revealed that there has also been a noticeable improvement in traffic in the mornings and afternoons. This was also confirmed by police traffic department chief Demetris Demetriou. “The new hours have certainly improved the traffic situation in the main cities,” he said. “Morning traffic has definitely decreased,” he added.

A 49-YEAR-OLD business man was caught doing 213km per hour on the Limassol-Nicosia highway in his Ferrari and fined €1,200.

According to reports, during the hearing this week, the court heard that because the man was using the highway as a race track, the police officers who recorded the speed thought it wise not to chase the car at the time and instead sent out an alert. The Ferrari was then stopped 18km down the road.

In order to reach a verdict, presiding judge, Annie Pantazi had to question whether the man’s behaviour on the road was such a danger to society that the only suitable punishment would be to put him behind bars for a period of time.

However after considering the fact that the man had a clean driving record and has consistently contributed to society and philanthropy, the judge decided against imprisonment. She said the Ferrari driver’s exemplary life until then compensated for the selfish and antisocial picture that comes to mind when someone sees a luxury car being driven at a very high speed.

“Depriving the accused of his freedom is not the only legal measure available to the court, just as long as we make sure that the defendant is penalised according to the degree of significance of his offence,” she said.

After fining the 49-year-old, and confiscating his driving licence, the judge said: “At a time when serious and deadly traffic accidents caused by high speed, are unfortunately increasing, the court is obliged to set an example through the penalty it chooses to impose, while stating that this type of behaviour is unacceptable,” she said.

“Only with complete compliance to the rules should we expect to successfully see a decrease in traffic accidents, which mostly have irretrievable circumstances.”

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Election camps pile on the slurs

By Peter Stevenson

EVROKO decided to support DISY boss as Lillikas camp pushes towards blank vote

By Stefanos Evripidou THE CAMPS of the two presidential candidates continued their war of words yesterday in an effort to undermine each other’s bid to crown the next President of Cyprus as major support was not forthcoming.

A majority at EVROKO did offer to back DISY boss Anastasiades after a party meeting last night but the forces that supported the failed bid of Giorgos Lillikas - representing 25 per cent of last week’s voters - are increasingly pushing for a blank vote on Sunday.

The AKEL camp yesterday got fired up over DISY’s paid ads in the media equating a Stavros Malas victory to another five years of the present government.

Malas has tried during the election campaign to paint an image of himself as an independent candidate, free of the political dirt that can be thrown against his opponents.

He yesterday pledged “to be a president of all Cypriots in a new era for Cyprus”.

During an appearance on state broadcaster CyBC yesterday, the former health minister under President Demetris Christofias even wore a blue tie.

Speaking on behalf of Malas’ campaign team, AKEL MP Nicos Katsourides said yesterday: “The only truly independent candidate is Stavros Malas.”

Taking a swipe at DISY

leader Nicos Anastasiades’ campaign bid, he said: “The preachers of a government of national salvation are resorting to black propaganda to attract voters on Sunday.”

In reference to the contents of one of DISY’s paid ads, Katsourides added: “It is absurd to say that if Stavros Malas is voted in, there will be another Mari.”

Also slamming the paid ads, AKEL spokesman Giorgos Loucaides said Malas’ opponents had resorted to: “black propaganda, aphorisms, lies and distortions”.

BLACK AND NEGATIVE DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades issued a short reply to AKEL’s accusation that linking Malas to the Christofias government was black and negative campaigning: “Evidently, they themselves admit that their governance, under which Mr Malas served, was black and negative. And it truly was.”

Anastasiades also had a dig at the outgoing AKEL government, saying it leaves behind a host of economic, political and social problems.

“Complacency, indifference, and apathy will lead us to another lost and disastrous five years. Cyprus cannot bear it.

It’s time to lead our country forward,” he said.

Meanwhile, AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou yesterday tried to appeal to those voters who represent the “political centre” in Cyprus, the majority of whom voted for Lillikas

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DISY chief Nicos Anastasiades in front of the cameras yesterday last Sunday. Kyprianou reminded them of the common struggles the centre and leftwing undertook in the past, working together under three presidents: Spyros Kyprianou, Tassos Papadopoulos and Demetris Christofias.

However, AKEL will have a hard time chasing those votes as Lillikas supporters appear to be heading towards a blank vote.

The Cyprus Citizens’ Movement, supporters of the Lillikas campaign, yesterday announced they will cast a blank vote on Sunday while the talk on social networking site Facebook is that a lot of Lillikas supporters plan to turn up at the polling stations on election day and place a Lillikas campaign sticker on the ballot paper.

Both Lillikas and the party that supported his bid, EDEK, have suggested they will not support either candidate on Sunday, but instead, will propose casting a blank vote.

For the record, blank votes are considered null and void and will not count when deciding whether any one can-

didate has garnered an outright majority of 50 per cent plus one votes in the second round.

According to reports, EDEK is heading towards a blank vote decision on the heels of Lillikas’ own initiative to do so, in fear that the party may be left behind.

POPULARITY Lillikas’ evident support among some in EVROKO and DIKO and also EDEK members makes it look increasingly likely that the former commerce and foreign minister will try to harness this popularity and form a credible opposition force for the next five years of either a DISY or AKEL-backed government.

EVROKO leader Demetris Syllouris proposed support for Anastasiades at the party’s central council last night.

However, EVROKO MP Nicos Koutsou yesterday held a press conference warning that those members of EVROKO who supported Lillikas in the first round would not support either of the two candidates

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on Sunday. “We call on everyone not to support either candidate, and unite with those who are against a bizonal, bicommunal federation so we can move towards having a clear political voice,” said Koutsou.

Meanwhile, a statement was released yesterday by a group claiming to be DIKO members who supported Lillikas last week, instead of their party leadership’s choice, Anastasiades.

The group alleged they represented tens of thousands of DIKO voters “who turned their back on the leadership’s choice”.

The Greens have already decided to hold a conscience vote in the second round while United Democrats leader Praxoula AntoniadouKyriacou yesterday met with both candidates, Malas and Anastasiades, noting that the party’s central council will convene today to decide what path to take on Sunday.

And for those voters still undecided, the two candidates will be holding a TV face-off debate on Friday night at 9.15pm.

CYPRIOT tour guides are being increasingly confronted with problems of accessibility for people with disabilities, to museums, archaeological sites and places of cultural interest, they said yesterday.

According to the Association of Tour Guide’s in Cyprus, there are around 50 million disabled people in Europe who would like to go on holiday but face many obstacles.

The association said it had decided to dedicate International Tourist Guide Day to more accessible tourism for people with disabilities.

It said that within the next 20 years, due to ageing populations, around 80 per cent of people in Europe would be caring for someone with mobility issues, either problems with vision, hearing or other types of disability.

“Millions of people, whether they have mobility problems or are older in age want to travel, to have fun and see new places,” the statement said. “It is a group of tourists who are travelling more and more now so general accessibility must be improved in tourist services,” it added.

The association said people with disabilities could not be attracted to Cyprus unless accessibility was improved in tourist areas. “Every link of the chain must work correctly,” it said. “Airports, hotel welcome areas, buses, cultural sites and entertainment and rest areas all must work together,” it added.

During the celebration of International Tourist Guide Day, the association also pointed out the meaning of accessible tourism.

“It is the right of every person in Cyprus to enjoy and have access to all the archaeological sites, museums and cultural places on the island,” it said. “Cypriot Tour Guides, who have the correct training and knowledge, can offer access to Cypriot Culture and the island’s archaeological treasures.”

Head of the European Network of Accessible Tourism (ENAT), Lilian Muller expressed her wish to abolish all of the hurdles that disabled people face.

“Accessible tourism is not a small, specialised market,” she said. “There has been a demographic explosion and we will all feel the result of it,” she added. “We must improve access now!” she concluded.

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Oppositon insists amount was inflated deliberately

By George Psyllides THE firm that conducted a due diligence on bank portfolios to determine their recapitalisation needs said it had used the inputs given to it by a steering committee – made up of foreign and Cypriot officials – sparking fresh criticism that the government and the Central Bank had deliberately allowed the amount to be inflated.

The issue came up after daily Politis published the contents of a confidential letter sent by investment managers PIMCO to Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades earlier this month, in response to his letter regarding the methodology used.

“We also note where assumptions that have been described as PIMCO inputs in your letter were, in fact, direct inputs from the steering committee,” the company said.

Five of the committee’s 10 members are Cypriots, representing the Central Bank, the finance ministry, and the cooperative banks supervision service.

PIMCO have come up with a worst-case scenario of some €10 billion on top of the €7.5 billion needed by the state as part of the bailout sought by Cyprus in June last year.

Though not yet official, if the figure is not reduced, it would likely result in the island’s debt being considered unsustainable, leading to additional measures like privatisations.

The opposition has long claimed that the Central Bank deliberately allowed the figure to become so high in a bid to confirm the administration’s position that the banks were to blame for the mess the economy is in.

Main opposition DISY said the question was whether it was a case of “unbelievable amateurism or unacceptable expediency on behalf of the government, which has saddled the economy and our society with an additional burden of billions.”

DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades said the banks were already facing a huge problem and the bankers’ responsibilities were great.

“However, inflating the problem for the sakes of political

expediency is criminal,” Georgiades said. The government claimed it was a selective and misleading leak aiming at covering up the banks’ responsibilities and shifting them to the Central Bank and the government.

Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou suggested that the contents of the letter – just over two pages – contradicted what the “instigators of the black propaganda” were trying to present.

To prove his point, Stefanou cited a line in the letter where PIMCO said that much of their analysis was based on “expert judgement and we should stress that such judgment is a necessary element of any bank due diligence exercise. The company added however that “having said this, the assumption for the decline in home prices during the forecast period was an explicit assumption provided by the steering committee to PIMCO.” But Stefanou said the rate of decline in property values was an area where the two sides disagreed.

“According to its judgement, PIMCO estimates the reduction in property values to be 25 per cent higher than what was agreed in the steering committee. This leads to additional capital needs of €1.9 billion,” the spokesman said.

In a statement, the Central Bank said it maintained its own views regarding the methodology and assumptions used by PIMCO. The Central Bank said it wrote the letter to PIMCO on February 1, asking the company to respond to the points the island’s banks disagreed with.

In the letter the Central Bank stressed that it was obvious that the banks were extremely displeased with PIMCO’s work, something that the regulator could not ignore. The banks had been informed about the methodology during meetings with PIMCO officials at the end of January.

“During the meetings, the banks expressed strong disagreement regarding the methodology followed by PIMCO,” the Central bank said. (see editorial page 13)

Louis Princess Beach hotel in Larnaca, which was closed for renovation, went up in flames on Tuesday night, at around 9.30pm, totally destroying the hotel’s restaurant and causing damage to other areas. The fire, which was put

out by the fire department, was found to be the result of arson. Several items have been retrieved from the scene for forensic testing. The cost of the damage has not yet been determined. Oroklini police are continuing investigations

PIMCO’s property forecasts ‘not clear-cut’

By George Psyllides THE CYPRUS Association of Valuers and Property Consultants yesterday rejected assumptions made by investment consultancy firm PIMCO that the decline in the real estate value would reach as much as 40 per cent this year.

Among the assumptions used by PIMCO in its report on the recapitalisation of the island’s banks, were the real estate prices, which it said would decline by 30 per cent in the baseline scenario and by 40 per cent in the adverse scenario, the Valuers Association said.

It said that: “projections on real estate values are rather difficult to make given the present uncertainty in the global and local financial market.”

It added that changes in real estate prices for the period of 2009-2012 varied according to the region or the nature of the property, which contradicts the gen-

eral approach used by PIMCO in its forecasts for the next three years. The association said that Nicosia and Limassol had seen relatively small drops in property values, though the downward trend is expected to intensify with no recovery expected in 2013.

The association said Nicosia was generally the most stable with relatively small changes in values, especially in central areas. House and flat values in the city recorded reductions of up to 20 per cent, while building plots saw a 15 per cent drop.

Commercial properties in the city saw a 10 per cent fall in value, the association said. Property values in areas outside Nicosia – Dhali, Tseri, Deftera – dropped by up to 30 per cent.

Limassol property values were more or less in line with those in the capital while large projects on the beachfront – residential and commercial – were slightly affected. Paphos was especially affected

by the downturn, with houses and flats seeing reductions of up to 40 per cent in their values while building plots fell by 25 per cent. Reductions in the value of commercial properties were estimated at around 25 per cent – 30 per cent in tourist areas. The values of houses and land in tourist areas fell by up to 30 per cent and 40 per cent for flats.

Forty per cent was the rate of reduction of property values in the Paphos countryside, the association said.

The situation was similar in Famagusta, with houses and building land seeing an up to 30 per cent reduction – flat values were down 40 per cent.

Commercial space saw a 25 per cent drop. A 25 per cent drop was seen in urban areas in Larnaca, as house and flat values in tourist areas like Dhekelia and Pervolia fell by 35 per cent.

The association said the estimates represented the average values and were not absolute for each area or property.

S&P: real risk of Cyprus default EAC employee embezzled €10,000 (continued from front page) raising the political heat.”

J.P. Morgan suggested that no one would be willing to risk the progress made in the eurozone’s periphery over the past few months, adding that there were enough market-friendly solutions to make Cypriot debt sustainable.

“Thus, our basecase expectation is that Cyprus and the troika reach agreement based on a combination of

market-friendly measures including ledging of gas reserves, a privatisation programme and subordinate bank debt burden-sharing. We give our benign scenario 70 to 80 per cent probability,” it said.

The benefits of harsher options such as sovereign debt write-down or deposit haircut were modest relative to potential contagion risk and EU policymakers were likely to opt for the risk-averse solution, J.P. Morgan added.

POLICE arrested a 42-yearold man yesterday after they received reports he had been using his Electronic Authority of Cyprus (EAC) company credit card to refuel his own vehicles for the last two years.

According to Famagusta Police spokesman, Giorgos Economou, Famagusta CID received reports the man was allegedly using his company credit card to refuel his own vehicles

when he should have been refuelling company vehicles instead.

Police estimate the man embezzled the amount of €10,000 in fuel over a period of two years they said.

The 42-year-old was questioned by police, admitted his guilt and was written up, police said.

He will be summoned to court at a later date to answer the charges brought against him

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New changes rolled out for motorbikers

By Poly Pantelides THE ROAD transport department has started rolling out a number of changes on driving licences, but yesterday claimed ignorance over possible EU sanctions for being two years late in implementing the relevant EU directive.

The legislation should have been implemented

by January 19, 2011 to ensure that driving licences within the EU are mutually recognised, as well as to maintain safety standards across the bloc.

But asked how Cyprus stood in relation to the ongoing legal proceedings against it, the head of road transport department Soteris Kolettas said he was not aware of any action taken against Cyprus.

“We are fully harmonised with the EU directive,” he said. Kolettas said he had “no clue” about any action against Cyprus in relation to this matter even though Parliament had expressed concerns over sanctions.

On June 21 last year the European Commission referred Cyprus to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to transpose the directive on driving licences.

“Cyprus has still not fully transposed this directive into national law, although it was required to do so by 19 January 2011,” a Commission news release said.

On November 21, the Commission reduced the proposed penalty to al-

most €6,505 per day, after Cyprus notified the commission of a “measure that partially transposes (the) directive,” another news release said.

When driving licences were discussed in parliament last May, the head of the communications committee, DIKO’s Antonis Antoniou warned that Cyprus could be sanctioned by the EU for failing to harmonise the law in time.

But Kolettas insisted yesterday he was not aware of any problems with the EU, or of any possible fines.

On June 22 – a day after the Commission referred Cyprus to the ECJ – amended legislation was published in the government’s official gazette but according to an announcement by the road transport department, the law became effective on January 19, 2013, two years after the deadline.

The changes – most already implemented – involve new plastic cards, maximum validity for a driving licence of 15 years for cars and motorbikes and three-year renewals for those over the age of 70, and new tests and age limits for motorbike licences.

Motorcyclists will now need to be pass a driving test at the age of 18 before being able to use motorbikes up to 125cc, and will not be allowed to drive on the motorway.

Motorcyclists will need to reach the age of seventeen and a half to get a learner’s licence for motorbikes up to 125cc, again without be-

CYPRUS TODAY Three arrests for drugs THREE MEN were remanded in custody for eight days by the Limassol District Court yesterday in connection with drugs charges and assaulting a police officer.

Police arrested the three men, aged 25, 23 and 24, on Tuesday at around 5.30pm after they stopped the car they were in.

Members of the drug squad went to search the car but the 23- year-old front-seat passenger got out and walked towards a shop car park where he tried to get rid of a bag containing half a gramme of cannabis, an electric precision scale, and €620.

When police attempted to search him, the 23-yearold allegedly attacked a police officer.

During a search of the car, police found and confiscated 116 packages containing about 200 grammes of cannabis in total. The three were arrested and detained for eight days.

Smoking fines Motorcyclists will now need to pass a driving test at the age of 18 ing allowed to take them on the motorway. But people will have to wait to drive bigger bikes with a power output of up to 35kW; minimum age is 20 for those with two years of motor-

bike experience.

The age limit for small motorbikes such as mopeds and scooters remains at 17, but would-be drivers need to pass a driving test and are not allowed

to drive on the motorway.

Plastic cards are still not available although an official with the road transport department said they would ask for tenders’ proposals next month.

‘Police should know better’

By Poly Pantelides THE OMBUDSWOMAN has issued a guideline to police to remedy the lack of understanding about appropriate action when holding trans people in detention, following a complaint by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that reported a trans woman had been kept in men’s holding cells.

The woman was arrested on suspicion of running a brothel in January but “lacking any instructions” police placed her alone, in an empty holding block reserved for minor boys.

She has since been released, but the office of the Ombudswoman, Eliza Savvidou, issued a report on how LGBTI

Ombudswoman issues guidelines to police on the holding of trans people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex) people should be treated.

“This particular case… has demonstrated awkwardness in handling similar cases since lacking any instructions, the sole criterion for treating the arrested woman as a man was her ID,” Savvidou said in her report.

Savvidou has recommended that police detain trans people in relation to their perceived gender identity, with sensitivity to the vulnerability of such individuals, who are

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often subject to discrimination and abuse.

There is also legal precedence in the European Court of Human Rights that has made it clear that people have an inalienable right of selfdetermination to define their gender, Savvidou said.

Although the Ombudswoman said the supervising police officer “chose the best possible arrangement” under the circumstances, she said it was clear the force needed to instruct its members about how to treat trans people under their care.

“It must be clear that every police member ought to know, respect and protect individual and social rights of all members of the public, as well as (know) the specific rights of all vulnerable social groups and provide every possible help and care to those who need it,” Savvidou said.

The Ombudswoman’s office is also investigating separate complaints by two trans women – an EU citizen and a recognised refugee – who have been unable to change their gender on ID and residence

documents. The NGO that filed the complaint, ACCEPTLGBT Cyprus, has previously criticised the interior ministry’s refusal to let trans people change their names or gender in official documents unless they have had reconstruction surgery. ACCEPT has said this violates people’s rights by intervening in their lives on various levels.

However, one of the complaints under investigation at the Ombudswoman’s office concerns a woman who has had surgery but is still facing difficulties in changing official documentation in Cyprus.

Savvidou’s report indirectly touched on this issue by clarifying that gender identity was a personal matter relating to how individuals perceive their gender “which may or may not coincide with the given gender at birth”. It is not necessary to have undergone genital reconstructive surgery to be a trans person although trans people may choose to do this, and may alter their appearance or behaviour, or refer to themselves in whatever gender is appropriate, the

Ombudswoman’s said.

Protecting LGBT people did not amount to introducing new rights, Savvidou said citing the council of Europe’s former human rights commissioner Thomas Hammarberg.

“This is a misunderstanding.

The universal declaration of human rights and the agreed treaties establish that human rights apply to everyone and that no one should be excluded,” Hammarberg said in 2008.

In 2006, the Yogyakarta principles were issued to clarify how human rights apply in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Savvidou said those principles indirectly bind Cyprus “since our country is anyway committed to abide by the international law codified in the principles”.

This includes treating people in detention with dignity and ensuring prisoners “participate in decisions regarding the place of detention appropriate to their sexual orientation and gender identity” (principle 9c). It also includes taking steps to train and raise awareness for police, prison personnel and relevant officials “who are in a position to perpetrate or prevent such acts” (principle 10c).

Police spokesman Andreas Angelides could not be reached for comment.

POLICE said yesterday that during January, they charged 529 people islandwide with breaking the smoking ban law.

The number was down compared to January 2012, when 575 people throughout Cyprus were charged with not complying with the smoking ban.

During the month police conducted a total of 3,276 inspections at various premises across the country, which resulted in 529 on the spot charges, while another 11 cases were given a criminal file.

Of the 529 persons accused, 269 were managers or owners, and customers of legal age.

Concerning the types of premises which charges were made against, 808 were pubs and bars, 624 were cafes and clubs, and 479 were restaurants.

Police will continue to patrol premises with the goal of creating anti-smoking awareness, rather than seeking to impose charges.

Paphos tyre shop in flames A TYRE shop in Thermopilon Street, at the entrance to the Paphos market, was set alight at around 5am yesterday, according to police.

The fire was spotted by members of a private security company patrolling the area by car.

Three fire trucks were needed to put out the fire, which was brought under control at around 6am. The cost of the substantial damage has yet to be evaluated.

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‘Broke’ Asil Nadir could be back in Cyprus within months Former fugitive finds the £5m needed to pay up JAILED Turkish Cypriot Asil Nadir who was ordered by a UK court in November to pay back £5 million of the money he stole from his Polly Peck business empire, has reportedly come up with the money despite telling British judges he was broke.

According to yesterday’s Daily Mail, the payment will pave the way for him to secure a prisoner transfer to Turkey and from there back home to the north of Cyprus for ‘house arrest’.

Nadir, 71, was told in November to come up with the £5 million or face another six years in jail.

He was jailed for 10 years in August after being found guilty of stealing £28.8 million from Polly Peck and its shareholders, and is currently incarcerated at Belmarsh.

He later claimed to be penniless after prosecutors demanded £60 million should be paid in compensation and interest to the administrators. His £1million-plus bill for a defence team was paid for by legal aid.

According to the Daily Mail, the UK Serious Fraud Office is convinced Nadir has hidden his money as he had rented a £21,000 per

month Mayfair home while employing a driver and security before and during his trial. But he claims his family paid for it all.

The paper said that his glamorous second wife Nur, 28, spent his trial shopping in designer West End stores and riding horses before leaving the country when he was jailed.

It also said the outstanding £5million compensation that he will pay was provided by his friend, airline magnate Hamit Cankut Bagana.

The Times said Nadir, who has Turkish and British citizenship, would try to head to Turkey and that negotiations between the two countries about repatriation were at an advanced stage.

“The suggestion is that once in Turkey he will quickly return to northern Cyprus to serve his time under “house arrest” if at all a source close to Nadir told the Daily Mail.

It said any deal would have to be signed off at Secretary of State level, which might leave the British government open to charges it was doing a favour for a disgraced former party donor.

Nadir fled from the UK to

Nadir, 71, was told in November to come up with the £5 million or face another six years in jail his native northern Cyprus in 1993 but returned in 2010 to face trial and ‘clear his name’.

Polly Peck, a leading stock exchange conglomerate, collapsed in 1990 after Nadir stole money which he sent abroad through a complex series of companies.

Lebanese terror suspect says he was a member of Hezbollah

By Peter Stevenson THE 24-year-old Lebanese suspect who has been held by police since the summer claimed yesterday in court that he has nothing to do with terrorism and never wanted to hurt anyone.

Police suspect him of spying, being part of a terrorist organisation and for plotting a terrorist attack on an Israeli target.

The defendant faces eight counts of conspiracy and intent to commit a crime and participation in a criminal organisation. The suspect is a Swedish national of Lebanese descent who was arrested in Limassol in July. He was taken to Limassol Criminal Court yesterday as the trial continues, where his testimony, which was translated into Greek, was read out.

He admitted he has been a member of Hezbollah for the last four years, claiming he was working as a member of the political party and not what many call the ‘terrorist’ branch, and although a Muslim, he has never supported fanatical Islam.

According to his testimony, he used the code name Wael and would receive orders from another Hezbollah member called Ayman, although he admitted he had no idea what Ayman looked like as whenever they met he would have his face hidden.

He also admitted that some of the orders he received in Cyprus were to locate places in Nicosia and Limassol where Israelis meet. He was told to get information about certain hotels in Ayia Napa as well as prices for renting a storeroom.

He was also asked to monitor Limassol’s old hospital and to find out the security

measures taken there and the procedure taken by a car to enter the parking lot, an event he photographed.

Asked about his continued visits to Larnaca Airport at the start of July 2012, shortly before he was arrested, the 24year-old stated that was due to the car he had rented having problems. He was unable to answer questions relating to the registration numbers of tourist buses which were found in his red notebook.

He revealed that before coming to Cyprus he delivered packages, whose content he was not aware of, he claimed, to Attalya in Turkey, Lyon in France and Amsterdam in Holland.

He claimed to be receiving orders without the reasons being explained to him and that his actions in Cyprus were while he was already taking part in business activities.

He did admit to receiving training in the use of firearms, although he claimed that was part of the training methods he learned to help protect his country. He also admitted that all his travel expenses were covered by Hezbollah.

“I never wanted to hurt anyone, I have no affiliation with terrorism and I am not a member of a terrorist or criminal organisation and I don’t think Ayman would use explosives to harm anyone,” he said during his testimony.

He submitted Hezbollah’s 2009 manifesto as evidence, stating that it does not contain any mention of terrorism.

The prosecution asked for time to study his testimony and the manifesto. The trial will continue today at 9.30am with the prosecution’s cross-examination.

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Thousands march against Greek austerity TENS of thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens yesterday as part of a nationwide strike against austerity that confined ferries to ports, shut schools and left hospitals with only emergency staff.

Beating drums, blowing whistles and chanting “Robbers, robbers!” more than 60,000 people angry at wage cuts and tax rises marched to parliament in the biggest protest for months over austerity policies required by international lenders.

In the capital, riot police fired tear gas at hooded youths hurling rocks and bottles during a demonstration, mostly of students and pensioners, which ended peacefully.

The two biggest labour unions brought much of crisis-hit Greece to a standstill with a 24-hour protest

strike against policies which they say deepen the hardship of people struggling through the country’s worst peacetime downturn.

Representing 2.5 million workers, the unions have gone on strike repeatedly since a debt crisis erupted in late 2009, testing the government’s will to impose the painful conditions of an international bailout in the face of growing public anger.

“Today’s strike is a new effort to get rid of the bailout deal and those who take advantage of the people and bring only misery,” said Ilias Iliopoulos, secretary general of the ADEDY public sector union, which organised the walkout along with private sector union GSEE. “A social explosion is very near,” he told Reuters from a rally in a central

Athens square as police helicopters clattered overhead.

The eight-month-old coalition of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been eager to show it will implement reforms promised to the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which have bailed Athens out twice with over €200 billion.

The government has cracked down on striking workers, invoking emergency laws twice this year to get seamen and subway workers back to work after week-long walkouts that paralysed public transport in Athens and led to food shortages on islands.

Demonstrations were also held in Greece’s second-biggest city, Thessaloniki, and on the island of Crete where dozens of protesters hit the streets waving black flags.

Pope may change conclave rules before departing

Bulgarian govt. resigns following broad protests PM will not seek to form new government

POPE Benedict may change Church rules governing the conclave where cardinals from around the world will meet next month to secretly elect his successor, the Vatican said yesterday.

Benedict was studying the possibility of making changes to two laws established by his predecessor Pope John Paul before he abdicates on Feb. 28, a spokesman said.

The changes may affect the timing of the start of the conclave.

By Sam Cage and Tsvetelia Tsolova

DOCUMENTS Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Benedict was considering making changes that would “harmonise” two documents approved by his predecessor.

One governs the period while the papacy is vacant, known as the “Sede Vacante,” and another is more specific about the running of the conclave after it begins.

A 1996 apostolic constitution by Pope John Paul, called “Universi Dominici Gregis,” stipulates that a conclave must start between 15 and 20 days after the papacy becomes vacant, meaning it cannot begin before March 15 under the current rules.

Some cardinals believe a conclave should start sooner in order to reduce the time in which the Roman Catholic Church will be without a leader.

Cardinals around the world have already begun informal consultations by phone and email to construct a profile of the man they think would be best suited to lead the Church in a period of continuing crisis.

Some 117 cardinals under the age of 80 will be eligible to enter the conclave, which is held in the Sistine Chapel.

A member of a Greek Communist trade union shouts slogans yesterday during a demonstration in the centre of Athens against austerity measures (AFP)

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov speaks in the parliament in Sofia yesterday

BULGARIA’S government resigned yesterday after mass protests against high power prices and falling living standards, joining a long list of European administrations felled by austerity during four years of debt crisis.

Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, an ex-bodyguard who took power in 2009 on pledges to root out graft and raise incomes in the European Union’s poorest member, faces a tough task of propping up eroding support ahead of an expected early election.

Wage and pension freezes and tax hikes have bitten deep in a country where earnings are less than half the EU average and tens of thousands of Bulgarians have rallied in protests that have turned violent, chanting “Mafia” and “Resign”.

Moves by Borisov on Tuesday to blame foreign utility companies for the rise in the cost of heating homes were to no avail and an 11th day of marches saw 15 people hospitalised and 25 arrested in clashes with police.

“My decision to resign will not be changed under any circumstances. I do not build roads so that blood is shed on them,” said Borisov, who began his career guarding the Black Sea state’s communist dictator Todor Zhivkov.

‘CAN-DO’ IMAGE A karate black belt, Borisov has cultivated a Putinlike “can-do” image since he entered politics as Sofia mayor in 2005 and would connect with voters by showing up on the capital’s rutted streets to oversee the repair of pot-holes.

But critics say he has often skirted due process,

sometimes to the benefit of those close to him, and his swift policy U-turns have wounded the public’s trust.

The spark for the protests was high electricity bills, after the government raised prices by 13 per cent last July. But it quickly spilled over into wider frustration with Borisov and political elites with perceived links to shadowy businesses.

“He made my day,” said student Borislav Hadzhiev in central Sofia, commenting on Borisov’s resignation. “The truth is that we’re living in an extremely poor country.”

The prime minister’s final desperate moves on Tuesday included cutting power prices and risking a diplomatic row with the Czech Republic by punishing companies including CEZ, moves which conflicted with EU norms on protection of investors and due process.

Berlusconi mails tax refund promise to Italians Belgium fears heist backlash SILVIO Berlusconi has caused outrage among political rivals by sending letters to millions of Italians promising to reimburse tax they paid in 2012, in a final drive for votes before elections this weekend.

The official-looking envelopes read: “Important notice: reimbursement of IMU 2012”, referring to an unpopular property tax brought in by the technocrat government of Mario Monti. “The refund will be available either through a transfer into your bank account, or to you personally at the counter of the post office,” the letters say.

Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani, whose centre-left coalition was leading in the last opinion polls published before a preelection blackout, called the

Silvio Berlusconi has made strong gains in the polls letter a “scam”.

“This is a way of campaigning which I just can’t accept. It’s time to be serious,” he said.

Former anti-mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia, who leads a small centre-left group, was even more scathing.

“With the letter sent to Ital-

ians promising money in exchange for votes, Berlusconi has committed one crime, possibly two,” he wrote on his website, calling for the centre-right leader to be prosecuted.

Berlusconi has made strong gains in polls since the start of the year in his campaign to return to power. He made the “shock proposal” to repay the levy in early February and has repeated it at every opportunity, hoping for a repeat of the lift he won with a similar pledge before the 2008 election.

Households in swing regions Sicily, Veneto, Campania and Lombardy, which could decide the outcome of the race for the Senate, received extended versions of the letter, according to the daily La Repubblica.

BELGIAN authorities scrambled yesterday to fix holes that allowed one of the biggest jewellery heists in history, while dealers said they feared it helped put at risk the country’s centuries-old dominance of the diamond trade.

Gun-toting robbers disguised as police stole diamonds worth some $50 million from a plane on a runway at Brussels airport on Monday evening without firing a shot, in an ice-cool operation that was over faster than a scene in an action movie.

They and the glittering loot fled into the night and are now assumed to be far away.

Junior minister for transport, Melchior Wathelet, yesterday ordered an audit of all security measures at the airport, including those concerning passenger protection.

The minister also asked OCAM, a body which analyses risks to the country such as from terrorism, to assess whether security surrounding the transport of diamonds and other valuable products was adequate.

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre, an industry federation, said those in the business were shocked by the theft and questioned how it could have taken place.

“The problem is that the Antwerp diamond sector could be at a competitive disadvantage to other diamond centres, which are keeping a jealous watch on Antwerp’s number one position in the trade,” said Caroline De Wolf, spokeswoman for the centre.

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will face Government loses out Ex-wife retrial in case that in 4G airwaves auction toppled minister Licences sell for less than the £2.3b predicted

By Paul Sandle BRITAIN’S mobile operators were the winners and the government was the loser in an auction of 4G airwaves that raised a less-than-expected £2.3 billion ($3.6 billion).

Telecoms regulator Ofcom had designed the sale to maximise the availability of 4G services, after the previous 3G auction in 2000 delivered £22.5 billion to the state, but left the industry indebted and unable to roll out new services for years.

“This is a positive outcome for competition in the UK, which will lead to faster and more widespread mobile broadband, and substantial benefits for consumers and businesses across the country,” Ofcom Chief Executive Ed Richards said.

All four existing network operators picked up blocks of airwaves for between £791 million and 225 million, as did new entrant BT Group, the regulator said yesterday.

Yet the Treasury had penciled in proceeds of £3.5 billion and although the total will rise slightly - after a final stage of bidding to allocate the bands of airwaves - it will still fall far short of what Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne had wanted.

The forecast, which the Treasury said had come from

A composite photo of logos for the major mobile phone companies (clockwise from top left) O2, Vodafone, EE and Hutchison 3G who were successful in the bidding process, after the auction of superfast 4G airwaves raised a smaller-than-expected £2.3 billion the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, had helped Osborne confound expectations in December by predicting government borrowing would not have to rise this financial year.

The opposition Labour party said the result showed Osborne was wrong to bank the cash to flatter his borrowing figures.

“He couldn’t bring himself to admit that borrowing was up so far this year, but the trickery has now badly misfired,” said Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.

BNP Paribas economist David Tinsley said the shortfall was not a huge deal in the context of Britain’s deficit, with £1 billion being less than 0.1 per cent of GDP, but

nonetheless it was more bad news for the public finances.

“It is certainly not going to help recent perceptions of the UK in terms of the fiscal position,” Tinsley said.

By contrast, there will likely be widespread relief among mobile operators that the amount paid is a fraction of the sum they were asked to cough up during the 3G licensing process, said analyst Matthew Howett at telecoms consultancy Ovum.

“The fact they didn’t have to pay billions more is without doubt a positive thing,” Howett said. “The costs of rolling out a network are significant.”

The operators’ outlays for spectrum licences in Britain are also not to be as painful as those of a recent

PM regrets ‘deeply shameful’ massacre DAVID Cameron yesterday became the first serving British prime minister to voice regret about one of the bloodiest episodes in colonial India, a massacre of unarmed civilians in the city of Amritsar in 1919.

The killings, known in India as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, were described by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian independence movement, as having shaken the foundations of the British Empire. A group of soldiers opened fire on an unarmed crowd without warning in the northern Indian city after a period of unrest, killing hundreds in cold blood.

Cameron’s visit and expression of regret for what happened stopped short of an apology - but made it clear he considers the episode a stain on Britain’s past.

Dressed in a dark suit, Cameron laid a wreath at a memorial to the massacre, a terracotta-coloured stone obelisk. He then stood in front of the monument in silence for a few moments. “This is a deeply shameful

event in British history, one that Winston Churchill rightly described at the time as ‘monstrous’,” Cameron wrote in a visitor book, referring to the former British leader.

The gesture, coming on the third and final day of a visit to India aimed at drumming up trade and investment, is seen as an attempt to improve relations with Britain’s former colonial possession and to court around 1.5 million British voters of Indian origin ahead of a 2015 election.

Before his visit, Cameron said there were ties of history between the two countries, “both the good and the bad”.

“In Amritsar, I want to take the opportunity to pay my respects at Jallianwala Bagh,” he had said ahead of the visit. Cameron also visited Amritsar’s Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine.

An inquiry into the massacre commissioned by the Indian pro-independence movement said around 1,000 people had been killed in the city in Punjab.

Number in work hit an all-time high late last year THE number of people in work in Britain hit an all-time high late last year, highlighting the continued resilience of the labour market in the face of a stagnant economy.

The number of people in work rose to 29.730 million

in the three months to December, the highest since records began in 1971, the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. Unemployment benefit claims also fell much more than expected in January.

But concerns about

economic growth remain, with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee more divided than expected over whether to provide more stimulus, according to minutes of its latest meeting.

Dutch auction that raised €3.8 billion, well above the €800 million analysts had predicted.

THE ex-wife of fallen British minister Chris Huhne will face a retrial for perverting the course of justice by helping him dodge a driving ban in 2003, after a jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday.

Huhne, once considered a likely successor to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as leader of the Liberal Democrats, pleaded guilty to the charge on February 4.

Huhne has been warned to expect a prison sentence. His sentencing has been deferred until the end of the retrial of his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, which is expected to start next Monday.

The inconclusive end of Pryce’s first trial was the latest twist in a long-running scandal that toppled Huhne from his cabinet post and has gripped the British public with salacious revelations about the private lives of a once powerful couple.

The allegation against the estranged pair is that they falsely informed police that she was driving his car when it was flashed by a speed camera in March 2003. She took penalty points on her licence which, if he had taken them,

Chris Huhne’s estranged former spouse Vicky Pryce would have resulted in a sixmonth driving ban.

The deception, which took place at a time when the couple were happily married, remained a family secret for eight years but came back to haunt Huhne after the acrimonious break-up of his 26year marriage to Pryce.

He abruptly left her in June 2010 when his long-term affair with bisexual former aide Carina Trimingham was about to be exposed in the press.

Months later, Pryce told two newspapers about the 2003 points incident in what the prosecution at her trial described as an act of revenge against Huhne.

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China: no technical proof for US hacking allegations Secretive Chinese military unit fingered by US company

By Ben Blanchard ACCUSATIONS by a US computer security company that a secretive Chinese military unit is likely behind a series of hacking attacks are scientifically flawed and hence unreliable, China’s Defence Ministry said yesterday.

The statement came after the White House said overnight that the Obama administration has repeatedly taken up its concerns about cyber-theft at the highest levels of the Chinese government, including with Chinese military officials.

The security company, Mandiant, identified the People’s Liberation Army’s Shanghaibased Unit 61398 as the most likely driving force behind the hacking. Mandiant said it believed the unit had carried out “sustained” attacks on a wide range of industries.

The Chinese Defence Ministry, which has already denied the charges, went further in a new statement, slamming Mandiant for relying on spurious data.

“The report, in only relying on linking IP address to reach a conclusion the hacking attacks originated from China, lacks technical proof,” the ministry said in a statement on its website (www. mod.gov.cn).

“Everyone knows that the use of usurped IP addresses to carry out hacking attacks happens on an almost daily basis,” it added.

“Second, there is still no internationally clear, unified definition of what consists of a ‘hacking attack’. There is no legal evidence behind the report subjectively inducing that the everyday gathering of online (information) is on-

line spying.”

As hacking is a cross-border, anonymous and deceptive phenomenon, by its very nature it is hard to work out exactly where hacks originated, the statement said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, asked about the US taking up its concerns about hacking with Beijing, said: “China and the US have maintained communication over the relevant issue”.

Unit 61398 is located in Shanghai’s Pudong district, China’s financial and banking hub, and is staffed by perhaps thousands of people proficient in English as well as computer programming and network operations, Mandiant said in its report.

The unit had stolen “hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organisations across a diverse set of industries beginning as early as 2006”, it said.

Most of the victims were located in the United States, with smaller numbers in Canada and Britain. The information stolen ranged from details on mergers and acquisitions to the emails of senior employees, the company said.

But the Chinese Defence Ministry said China’s own figures show that a “considerable” number of hacking attacks it is subjected to come from the United States. “But we don’t use this as a reason to criticise the United States,” the ministry said.

However, the Global Times, a widely read tabloid published by Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily, said China should be more active in publicly airing its complaints about hacking attacks, especially as the United States does so.

This handout photo released by Sea Shepherd Australia shows the Japanese whaling fleet’s factory vessel Nisshin Maru (L) colliding with

the fuel tanker Sun Laurel (C) and Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker (obscured) yesterday, as environmental campaigners from the militant Sea

Shepherd group say the Japanese whaling ship had “rammed” its vessels in a dangerous skirmish in the Southern Ocean.

(AFP)

Witness ‘heard Pistorius house row’ A WITNESS heard “non-stop shouting” in the home of South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius shortly before his girlfriend was shot dead, the detective leading the murder investigation said yesterday.

Warrant officer Hilton Botha, a detective with 24 years on the force, also told the Pretoria magistrates court in a bail hearing that police had found two containers of testosterone and needles in Pistorius’ bedroom.

The athlete’s defence team disputed the finding.

Pistorius, a double amputee dubbed “Blade Runner” because of his carbon fibre racing blades, sobbed uncontrollably as Botha presented his testimony about the death of Reeva Steenkamp, 29.

The law graduate and model was in the toilet of the athlete’s home when she was shot dead in the early hours of February 14 - Valentine’s Day. She was hit in the head, arm and hip.

The shooting and allegations that have emerged at the hearing have stunned South Africa and millions of people around the world who regarded Pistorius, who has no lower legs, as the epitome of triumph over adversity.

“One of our witnesses heard a fight, two people talking loudly at each other ... from two in the morning to three,” Botha told the court. Pistorius’ first call after the incident was to the manager of his high security complex at 3.19 am, Botha said.

In an affidavit delivered on Tuesday, Pistorius said he woke in the middle of the night and thought an intruder had climbed through his bathroom window

Pistorius’ defence team disputed the finding of testosterone containers and needles in his bedroom and entered the adjoining toilet.

The 26-year-old said he grabbed a 9-mm pistol from under his bed and went into the bathroom.

Pistorius - the highest-profile athlete in the history of the Paralympics - then described how he fired into the locked toilet door in a blind panic in the mistaken belief the intruder was lurking inside.

After four hours of testimony, the hearing was adjourned until today. The hearing is expected to conclude this week, after the defence and prosecution have outlined their central arguments. It may then be several months before a trial. If convicted of premeditated murder, Pistorius faces life in jail.

Botha, who arrived on the scene an hour after the shooting, challenged Pistorius’ affidavit.

“I believe he knew she was in the bathroom and he shot four shots through the door,” the detective said, adding the angle at which the rounds were fired suggested they were aimed at somebody on the toilet.

Pistorius had said he moved into the bathroom on his stumps - the reason he felt so vulnerable - but Botha said the shots went in a “top to bottom” trajectory, suggesting Pistorius was wearing his artificial legs when he pulled the trigger.

“It seems to me it was fired down,” he said.

One of the spent rounds was recovered from the toilet bowl, Botha said.

He also cited a witness on the upscale gated community near Pretoria where Pistorius lived as saying he heard a shot, followed 17 minutes later by more shots. Another witness spoke of a shot, followed by screams, followed by more shots, he said.

After vigorous questioning from Pistorius’ defence team, Botha estimated the distance between the witnesses and Pistorius’ home at 300 metres.

Lead defence counsel Barry Roux also disputed Botha’s reference to “testosterone”, saying the substance was a legitimate herbal remedy called “testo-composutim co-enzyme”.

Details on the make-up of testo-composutim co-enzyme were not immediately available, but administering testosterone as an anabolic agent is banned at all times under World Anti-Doping Agency rules for sports people.

Protesters set cars, truck on fire in India strike US immigration ruling not retroactive PROTESTING workers destroyed vehicles and damaged factories near the Indian capital, New Delhi, yesterday at the beginning of a two-day strike called by major trade unions over high prices.

About 400 striking workers threw stones at factories in the industrial hub of Noida, about 16 km (10 miles) east of the capital, to force them to close, a Reuters witness said.

Police baton-charged the workers to stop the violence. Seven cars and the fire truck were burnt out and a dozen cars smashed up.

“In my own factory, mobs climbed the gates and walls, broke and carried away computers, and damaged the external facade of the

building,” factory owner Pankaj Sadh told the NDTV news channel.

Violence erupted elsewhere in the country as workers, angry about high fuel prices in particular, tried to keep vehicles off the roads.

One union member was killed in the northern city of Ambala, media said.

Offices and factories were shut in many places and transport was disrupted. However, New Delhi and the business centre, Mumbai, were mostly unaffected and financial markets were open. The strike came as the beleaguered government prepared to present an austerity budget to parliament amid a corruption scandal in a big arms deal.

THE U.S. Supreme Court declined yesterday to apply retroactively a 2010 ruling that requires lawyers to tell clients who are not citizens that they can be deported if they plead guilty to certain criminal offences.

The 7-2 decision was a defeat for thousands of immigrants who might have been able to withdraw guilty pleas in cases alleging ineffective counsel. These cases predated the court’s 2010 ruling that immigrants should be told some consequences of guilty pleas.

Federal appeals courts had split on whether that ruling should apply retroactively.

In yesterday’s majority opinion, Justice Elena Kagan said that the March 2010 Padilla v. Kentucky ruling did not apply to cases that were already final after an appeal.

She wrote that it would not have been apparent to a typical judge before that ruling that the Sixth Amendment right to a competent lawyer extended to advising immigrants about deportation risks.

“So when we decided Padilla, we answered a question about the Sixth Amendment’s reach that we had left open, in a way that altered the law of most jurisdictions,” she wrote.

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Russia, Arab League see opening of Syria dialogue Lavrov and Elaraby say they are heartened by the signs

By Gabriela Baczynska RUSSIA and the Arab League see signs of hope that the rival sides in the Syrian civil war are willing to start talks to end nearly two years of conflcit.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and visiting Arab League head Nabil Elaraby said yesterday they were encouraged that both the Syrian government and the opposition had voiced readiness for dialogue.

“There have been signs of a positive tendency to start dialogue and both the government representatives and the opposition have begun speaking about this,” Lavrov told a joint news conference with Elaraby.

“For now both sides still come up with preconditions but, according to our common view, once there is the key common readiness to start dialogue, then agreeing parameters for this process is just a matter of diplomatic art,” he said.

Russia, a long-standing ally

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) speaks with Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby before the start of a Russian-Arab League meeting in Moscow yesterday (AFP) of President Bashar al-Assad and Syria’s main arms supplier, has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions that would out pressure on the Syrian government to cease violence in which some 70,000 people have been killed.

Syrian Foreign Minister

Walid al-Moualem is due in Moscow next Monday and Lavrov said the head of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, Moaz Alkhatib, would likely visit in March.

Alkhatib has said he is willing to negotiate with a deputy of Assad, but the aim of

such talks would be to find a way to allow the president safe passage into exile and set up a transitional government.

“We welcome the initiative by ... Alkhatib who proposed to start a dialogue with the government and I think we

will be able to reach this goal,” Elaraby said after talks that also included foreign ministers from Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and Egypt.

The Cairo-based Arab League in November welcomed the creation of the Syrian National Coalition, but stopped short of giving it full recognition as the representative of the Syrian people.

“Russia has very good relations with the government in Damascus and we hope it will use that to convince them that this conflict can only be solved in a peaceful way,” Elaraby added.

Russia, accused by the West and some Arab states of shielding Assad in the conflict, says calls for his departure should not be a precondition for peace talks and that Syrians should decide their own fate without foreign interference.

“It is very important that opposition leaders’ readiness for dialogue is met with confirmation by the government that they are ready for dialogue too,” Lavrov said.

“Now it’s time for words to be confirmed by deeds.”

In the course of the conflict, which started as a clampdown on street protests against the rule of Assad in March, 2011, before descending into civil war, the Arab League has also called on Moscow to halt arms sales to Damascus.

But Russia’s export agency said earlier in February it would continue delivering weapons to the government army.

Dubai denies Britons’ torture allegations Islamic beards go-ahead THREE Britons held in Dubai on drug charges say they were tortured by police after their arrest while on holiday in July 2012, a human rights group said yesterday, drawing a swift denial from authorities in the Gulf Arab emirate.

Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh, all 25 years old, say police subjected them to beatings and threatened them with guns, according to Reprieve, a Londonbased legal charity which campaigns for prisoner rights.

Dubai police denied any torture had taken place. A source in the police said they were aware of the allegations and that they had had dealings with the British consulate regarding the case.

A neutral party was appointed to investigate if any torture had taken place, but had found the claims to be untrue, the source said. Dubai’s public prosecutor was also aware of the

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case and the investigation, the source added.

Reprieve said Williams had electric shocks administered to his testicles, adding that a Reprieve lawyer had met the three men in prison and drawn up draft witness statements.

“They pulled down my trousers, spread my legs and started to electrocute my testicles.

It was unbelievably painful. I was so scared.

Then they took off the towel and I could see that there was a gun pointed at my head,” Williams was quoted as saying.

The three men say they were also forced to sign documents in Arabic, a language none of them speak, Reprieve said.

A spokesman for the British Foreign Office confirmed that Britain had been providing consular assistance to three British nationals detained in July 2012 in the United Arab Emirates. “We have also been in close contact with Reprieve,” he said.

AN Egyptian court ruled yesterday that policemen may grow beards, ending a decades-old convention barring them from making what is often seen here as a display of Islamic piety.

Dozens of police officers were suspended from work in February for breaking the de facto ban on beards introduced under deposed President Hosni Mubarak. They had protested outside the Interior Ministry, calling on Islamist President Mohamed Mursi - who is bearded himself - to secure their reinstatement.

Cairo’s High Administrative Court rejected a request by the Interior Ministry to let it suspend officers who defied the unwritten rule. “The court ruled ... police officers have the right to grow beards,” judge Maher Abu el-Enin said.

Mubarak used the police to crush Islamist groups he saw as enemies of the state. During his rule, sporting any kind of beard precluded Egyptians from holding senior government posts.

Yesterday’s decision backed a similar ruling by a lower court and the decision makes the verdict final. The Interior Ministry’s spokesman was not immediately available to comment.

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WORLD TODAY Assistance for kidnap probe FRENCH special forces have arrived in northern Cameroon to help locate a French family who were kidnapped on Tuesday and moved to Nigeria, a local governor said yesterday.

The abduction of three adults and four children highlights the risk to French nationals and interests in Africa since Paris sent forces to Mali to oust Islamist rebels.

“French special forces came in yesterday from N’Djamena to help with the investigation. They left yesterday and came back today,” Augustine Fonka Awa, governor of Cameroon’s Far North Region, told Reuters by telephone.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday evidence pointed to Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram as being the kidnappers, but there did not appear to be a direct link to France’s intervention in Mali.

Footballer killed A SYRIAN football player has been killed in a mortar attack near a stadium in central Damascus and several others injured.

The attack was the second in as many days in the capital.

The official SANA news agency said the mortars landed in an area housing the Tishrin Stadium and a hotel next to it in the central Baramkeh district. Some players were practising in the stadium at the time.

The player killed, 19year-old Youssef Suleiman, was a striker with the Homs-based alWathbah club. He was wounded inside the hotel as some players were getting ready to go out and join the practice and died later in hospital.

Guilty plea FORMER U.S. congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a civil rights leader and a one-time rising star in Democratic politics, pleaded guilty yesterday to misusing about $750,000 in campaign money.

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Business Record Japanese trade deficit

‘Growth without relaxing austerity’

A REBOUND in Japan’s exports in January failed to keep pace with growth in imports, leaving a record 1.63 trillion yen (£11.2billion) trade deficit for the month.

The provisional data released yesterday morning shows exports for the world’s third-biggest economy rose 6.4 per cent to 4.8 trillion yen (£33 billion) in January from a year earlier, the first year-onyear increase in eight months, while imports jumped 7.3 per cent to 6.43 trillion yen (£44.5billion).

A weakening in Japan’s currency over the past few months has helped boost export shipments by making its products more price competitive overseas.

But it has also inflated the value of resource-scarce Japan’s imports of crude oil and other commodities, which offset a recovery in demand for Japanese-made vehicles and machinery.

This trend is hindering Japan’s long-time strategy of relying heavily on exports to drive growth and adding to pressure to find fresh momentum through stronger domestic demand at a time when the workforce is ageing and shrinking and corporate investment remains feeble.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December, vowing to boost the economy by restoring Japan’s export competitiveness, while at the same time stimulating demand at home through higher public works spending.

He has also promised to push ahead with politically tough reforms needed to sustain growth in the longer term.

Trade with the US and major Asian trading partners rose as the global recovery strengthened and the economic impact of friction with China over a territorial dispute appeared to recede, but trade with European countries remained weak.

PRIME Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged yesterday to pull Spain out of its painful recession without relaxing his drive to cut the country’s high public deficit.

He struck a difficult balance that may please neither voters, who are fed up with austerity, nor Spain’s European partners, who did not get from him the new reform agenda they have been seeking.

In his first state-of-the-nation speech since taking office in December 2011, Rajoy said the deficit had dropped below 7 per cent of gross domestic product last year, still above the European Union’s short-term target.

He also announced new incentives for employers to hire young people - youth unemployment is 56 per cent - and cut taxes for small- and medium-sized companies.

At the same time, he told parliament he would remain strict on deficit cutting while implementing tough reforms to the labour market, financial system and public finances.

But he fell short of meeting demands from the EU and European Central Bank to lay out an ambitious legislative plan of further structural reforms to the economy.

Rather than beginning his speech to parliament with a list of accomplishments, Rajoy went straight to the heart of the country’s deep economic crisis, recognising the human suffering caused by a 26 per cent unemployment rate.

“The first objective of this government is to turn around this situation ... The reality is terribly hard, no green shoots or passing clouds or early spring,” Rajoy said.

But there would be no let up in the austerity that has prompted mass protests.

“To those who are asking for relaxation, not a minute of relaxation or calmness.

This has just started. The road to creating jobs is a long one,” Rajoy said.

Spain’s economy is expected to shrink in 2013 for a second year in a row. Although exports have jumped, retail sales have fallen for 30 straight months as spending cuts and high unemployment have hit domestic demand.

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Employees of the Lufthansa Revenue Services demonstrate at the company’s facility in Norderstedt, northern Germany, after announcements yesterday that Lufthansa will shut down its Schleswig-Holstein department in Nor-

derstedt until 2017. A spokesman of German trade union Verdi services has said they intend to fight “by all means” against job cuts and plant closures planned in Germany

by Lufthansa airline group (AFP)

BoE chief joins QE supporting minority King, Fisher and Miles vote to raise QE to £400 billion

By David Milliken BANK of England Governor Mervyn King (inset) and two other officials voted to restart government-bond buying earlier this month, showing the bank closer than expected to taking more action to lift economic growth.

Minutes of the bank’s last meeting, released yesterday also reveal the central bank is thinking about how to boost non-bank lending to the economy. The pound fell to an eight-month low as the bank confirmed it was in no hurry to force inflation back to its 2 per cent target.

“The (policy) committee agreed that it was important to communicate clearly its willingness to bring inflation back to the target over a longer time horizon than usual,” the minutes said.

Britain’s economy has been stagnant for two years, but the central bank now sees a sluggish recovery. Unemployment data released at the same time as the minutes again showed a record number of people in work.

Many economists had large-

ly written off the chance of more asset purchases - or quantitative easing (QE) - especially after King last week stressed that monetary policy was near the limits of what it could do to boost growth. He also forecast inflation would remain above target until early 2016, even without additional stimulus.

But it now turns out that at the central bank’s February 6-7 Monetary Policy Committee meeting, King and Paul Fisher, the bank’s executive

director for markets, joined long-standing dove David Miles in arguing for an increase in bond purchases to £400 billion ($618 billion) from £375 billion.

“A case could ... be made for undertaking additional asset purchases at this meeting,” the minutes of the ninemember committee said.

“The degree of slack in the economy, and the likely positive response of supply capacity to increased demand, meant that higher output

growth would not necessarily lead to any material additional inflationary pressure.”

The policy committee also said that they still believed that asset purchases still had the ability to help the economy by lowering interest rates and encouraging investment in riskier assets.

February marks the fourth time King has been in a minority since he became governor in 2003. While unusual, it is not the shock it would have been be at most other central banks as MPC members are encouraged to make differences in view public.

The last time King was in a minority was in June last year - when there was also a 6-3 split - and in July a majority of the MPC joined King in backing a £50-billion increase in asset purchases.

“February’s UK MPC minutes provide another clear demonstration of the committee’s increasingly flexible approach to inflation targeting,” said Samuel Tombs of Capital Economics. “More QE is likely this year, particularly if GDP growth continues to fall short of the Committee’s expectations.”

Credit Agricole aims for a positive 2013 after suffering historic loss CREDIT Agricole yesterday posted its biggest full-year loss since it went public 11 years ago, hit by unexpected costs from exiting Greece, weaker revenues and hefty asset writedowns.

Investors warmed to the French bank’s promise of a turnaround in 2013 and a pledge to cut €650 million

from costs by 2016 through savings on back-office technology, equipment and real-estate.

But it will pay no dividend after posting a net 2012 loss of €6.5 billion tax demand linked to the sale of Greek unit Emporiki.

Chief financial officer Bernard Delpit

said the bank expected to post “significantly positive” results in 2013.

Credit Agricole shares were up around 4.4 per cent, to €7.67, by 1612 GMT, with investors buoyed by the optimistic outlook and a promise of a strategic plan in the fall with financial targets.

Rajoy struck a difficult balance that may please neither Spanish voters nor his country’s European partners

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Opinion

Central Bank boss washes his hands of PIMCO affair THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank, Panicos Demetriades, has learnt one thing from the man who appointed him – avoiding taking responsibility for his actions and decisions.

This was evident, not for the first time, in the statement issued by the Central Bank yesterday in response to a letter from PIMCO to the Governor, published by Politis.

The letter, which was a point for point reply to an earlier letter by Demtriades, complaining about the methodology and assumptions used by PIMCO in calculating the recapitalisation requirements of the banks, clearly states that “assumptions that have been described as PIMCO inputs in your letter were, in fact, direct inputs from the Steering Committee (SC).”

The decisive role played by the SC in determining the modelling approach, methodology and assumptions is repeatedly mentioned in the letter. For instance, “the assumption for the decline in home prices during the forecast period was an explicit assumption provided

by Steering Committee,” it said. PIMCO’s “modelling approach has been the subject of a thorough and lengthy peer review by the SC.” Yesterday’s statement by the Central Bank presented Demetriades as just an observer, who had nothing to do with the inputs of the SC. “The Central Bank, as is well-known, maintains its own views regarding the methodology and assumptions used by PIMCO,” said the statement, giving the impression it had no say, despite being represented on the SC. Of course, the Governor chose not to sit on the SC and nor did his right-hand man, the newly-appointed Deputy Governor. The Central Bank was represented by a technocrat, because the Governor was way too busy to waste his time attending meetings of the SC which decided the assumptions and methodology that would determine the re-capitalisation figure PIMCO would arrive at.

That the assumptions and methodology agreed by the SC, would inflate the recapitalisation figure by a few extra billions, did not bother the Governor. In his original letter he had conveyed the banks’ “extreme disappointment with PIMCO’s work, a fact that could not have been ignored by the Central Bank.”

Again, the Governor acts like a disinterested third party, who we were informed by yesterday’s statement, arranged a meeting between representatives of the banks and PIMCO and then conveyed the complaints of the former to the latter.

He had no responsibility for anything. Yesterday’s statement listed the organisations represented on the SC – it was not the first Central Bank statement to do this – in order to remind us that the Central Bank was just one of many representatives and therefore unable to influence the committee’s decision.

Maybe this was the case, but a Governor with a sense of duty and a commitment to protecting the banking sector, would have at least sat on the committee and done his best to moderate the assumptions for PIMCO’s study.

Demetriades washed his hands of the procedure so he could avoid any responsibility for the high recapitalisation figure and put the blame on PIMCO and the Steering Committee. Perhaps we should not have expected anything more from a Christofias appointee.

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H A L F- C E N T U R Y before the invention of email, T. S. Eliot asked, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” If he were alive today, contemplating an electronic inbox on a flickering computer, he might well have added, “Where is the information that has been lost in trivia?”

It is one of the paradoxes of our times that inventions meant to make our lives easier inevitably end up slowing us down.

When email first entered my life, I was thrilled; instead of letters piling up for months as I struggled to find the time to pen replies, faxes not going through, and telegrams that cost an arm and a leg, I now had a costfree means of communicating instantaneously and efficiently. I became an avid and diligent emailer.

And how I regret it.

I get over three hundred emails a day, sometimes twice that. Some are urgent (but not necessarily important) work-related questions.

Some are from friends; because I am an Indian MP, many are from job-seekers, favour-demanders, and petitioners. Some are one-line queries; others are lengthy documents requiring perusal and comment.

Many are unsolicited junk mail, offering products and services that I never asked for and do not need; and though an efficient filter catches many of them, it also catches some “real” mail.

Some are mass mailings, both interesting (like an international affairs mailing list to which I subscribed years ago, when I innocently believed that I would have time to read its contents) and diverting (like my daily update of Doonesbury).

An astonishingly large number are jokes – both verbal and visual – of varying quality. Many are campaigns – I received several thousand emails recently from Muslim students who do not want exams to be administered on Fridays.

And increasingly, some are viruses that have infected friends’ address books, with attachments that, if opened, could destroy my computer.

Because they are on the screen, I feel obliged to go through them all, if only to make sure that I do not need to read them.

And this is a chore that takes more and more of my time. When email first came into vogue, one could spend 15-20 minutes a day on it; now it consumes 2-3 hours.

And, because one’s other work does not stop, those are hours added to one’s workday, and therefore subtracted from one’s personal life. A convenience has become a burden.

When I am at my computer, I find myself neglecting more important matters

An estimated 294 billion emails were sent daily in 2010 that have arrived by ‘snail mail.’ Emails automatically become urgent, because I know that if I do not reply to one immediately, it will soon be swamped by 200 others. I find myself scrambling to attend to utterly trivial emails only to get past them to the (possibly) important ones that lie behind.

The result is “information fatigue” – a palpable sense of exhaustion, coupled with

‘Because they are on the screen, I feel obliged to go through them all, if only to make sure that I do not need to read them. And this is a chore that takes more and more of my time’

persistent anxiety about coping with the sheer volume of material to be digested, compounded by an evershortening attention span in the face of the ceaseless barrage of data. Like Eliot, I felt that I understood more when I knew less, and knew more when I had less information to process.

This is a global problem – an estimated 294 billion emails were sent daily in 2010, and the figure continues to increase. As technology advances, it has become more and more difficult to escape it.

No longer is email confined to a desktop computer at the office; the advent of smart phones has allowed people to check their email wherever they are.

It is almost enough to have one longing again for the day when information was a scarce resource and one had to go out to find it. Now so much information is so readily available that the challenge is to sift the wheat from the chaff.

To paraphrase Kipling, it is clear that the email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

Addiction to email is increasingly being recognised as a malady. The British national lottery operators, Camelot, once tried to ban email on Fridays; they wanted staff to talk to each other at least one day a week.

But the experiment was abandoned within a month: people have grown so accustomed to the convenience of copying messages to multiple recipients that walking to their desks is now an unfamiliar idea.

Part of the problem is that we allow ourselves to be persuaded that new inventions will only make our lives more

convenient, rather than also adding to our burdens.

Just as the telephone did not supplant the postal system, email sits alongside prior methods of communication. Now we have more means of reaching each other than ever, but with less worth saying.

Indeed, there is an inverse relationship between the difficulty and expense of communication, on one hand, and the quality of what is communicated, on the other.

When telegraph operators were paid by the word, and there was always the risk of garbled transmissions, messages were crisp, succinct, and to the point.

When neither length nor complexity affects the cost of a message, however, the field is open for irrelevant and unnecessary communication.

Without even the price of a stamp to deter the prolix, the unmanageable tsunami of email threatens to drown the world in information, unless the servers, switches, and wires that sustain the system burn out first. Ease of replication permits matters to get out of hand very quickly.

I have finally given up trying to cope. I have decommissioned my email account and set up an auto response that gives emailers ten other options to reach people who can help them (including bringing messages to my attention).

So far, it hasn’t made much of a difference: emails continue to flood the decommissioned mailbox. But it has helped me: I no longer feel obliged to reply.

Shashi Tharoor is India’s Minister of State for Human Resource Development © Project Syndicate 2013

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Showbiz

Oscar voting closes after fierce studio campaigns

Brits ‘to rewrite wrong’ over Adele

First online balloting system in 85-year history

The boss of the Brit Awards has said this year’s ceremony will make up for last year’s howler which saw Adele cut off in her prime as she accepted the biggest award of the night.

David Joseph, the Brits chairman, said the ceremony would “rewrite that wrong”.

Adele was memorably interrupted by host James Corden as she collected her second trophy of the night, for best album for 21, over fears the event would would overrun its live time slot on ITV. James, again hosting the bash, has admitted he has no idea whether there are contingency plans in place if timings go awry again.

In an interview Joseph expressed his concerns over the incident, which saw Adele making a one finger gesture on camera after being wound up.

He told The Guardian: “How can you take an artist who has made the biggest cultural impact musically this country has seen globally for some time and cut her off in the middle of her speech? I very much to this day question what was happening in that control booth. I can hint something is going to happen this year to rewrite that wrong.”

Joseph, the chief executive of music giant Universal’s UK operation, added: “I’d stay tuned to this year’s show to see if there is any form of squaring of that circle.”

Organisers have introduced a new award this year recognising global success, which is expected to go to Adele, although she faces competition from One Direction and Mumford And Sons. The 2011 release date of her album means she was ineligible for a number of categories, although her Bond theme Skyfall is in the running for best single.

The event at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, south-east London, on February 20 is shown live on ITV and could see Amy Winehouse pick up a posthumous Brit Award after she was shortlisted for best British female against acts including Emeli Sande.

Sande, Mumford & Sons and Mercury Prize winners Alt-J lead the nominations, competing for three awards each.

By Jill Serjeant VOTING for Sunday’s Oscars, the highest honours in the movie industry, closed on Tuesday evening after a big-spending campaign by Hollywood studios and the first online balloting system in the 85-year history of the Academy Awards.

More than 5,800 movie industry professionals who are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were invited to vote in 24 Oscar categories, starting on February 8 and ending at 5 p.m. PST on Tuesday (1:00 a.m. British time on Wednesday).

The results will be tabulated at a secret location by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, who deliver the envelopes with the winners’ names from backstage at the February 24 Oscars ceremony, televised live from Hollywood.

With the races for Best Picture, Director, Actress and Supporting Actor considered too close to call by awards pundits, movie studios have been blasting newspapers, radio, trade publications and television with promotions for their nominees.

The Los Angeles Times esti-

Director Ben Affleck, whose film Argo is nominated for best picture, arrives at the 85th Academy Awards nominees lunch in Beverly Hills mated that Warner Bros., the studio behind Argo, and Walt Disney Co, which is distributing Lincoln, had spent about $10 million each in Oscar campaigns in recent weeks.

The two movies are locked in a tight contest for the top Oscar prize - Best Picture.

PricewaterhouseCoopers say there has never been a security breach in the secret voting in the 79 years it has worked with the Academy on the balloting process.

This year, the accounting

firm faced another challenge - the introduction of online voting for the first time, alongside the option of traditional paper ballots mailed out to Academy members around the world.

“It’s a very robust system with a number of security features,” Rick Rosas, who has worked on the Oscars with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2001, told Reuters of the electronic method.

He said more than half of the Academy’s members

voted online.

The online system was hit by glitches and complaints from some of the Academy’s members, most of whom are over 50 years old, when the system went live in December for Oscar nomination choices.

Some members reported problems with passwords and user names and voting for Oscar nominations was extended by 24 hours. The Academy later reported a high turnout of voters.

The move to electronic voting is aimed at speeding up the Academy Awards process, especially for members who work or live overseas.

Steven Spielberg’s presidential drama Lincoln goes into Sunday’s Oscar ceremony with a leading 12 nominations, including Best Picture, followed by Life of Pi with 11, musical Les Miserables and comedy Silver Linings Playbook with eight apiece, and Iran hostage thriller Argo with seven.

Morrissey requests meat- Jacko’s son lands US TV gig free LA concert venue

By Eric Kelsey BRITISH singer Morrissey has convinced a Los Angeles concert venue to not sell meat at concessions during his performance next month.

The long-time animal rights activist and former singer for 1980s rock group The Smiths urged the Staples Centre arena to shutter the concession stands of fast food chain McDonald’s and to halt the sale of meat by other outlets at the venue for his March 1 performance.

“We respect Morrissey’s lifestyle and his concern for the wishes of so many of his fans and are happy that we are able to honour his requests in this manner,” Lee Zeidman, the arena’s general manager, said in a statement this week.

Staples Centre operator Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) said the arena will also roll out a special line of meatless food concessions, including vegan sloppy Joes, vegan sushi, and hummus and pita bread.

“I don’t look upon it as a victory for me, but a victory for the animals,” the Irish Blood, English Heart singer said earlier this week.

AEG and its promoter subsidiary Goldenvoice will donate a portion of ticket sales from the show to the animal rights group PETA, Morrissey said.

Morrissey, 53, who co-wrote The Smiths’ 1985 song Meat Is Murder, postponed a series of concerts on his North America tour last month after being hospitalised for a bleeding ulcer.

He is expected to relaunch the tour with a performance on US late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! next week.

Prince Jackson, 16, made his debut on Entertainment Tonight

THE teenage son of late pop star Michael Jackson has signed up to be a correspondent for the Entertainment Tonight television show, following in the footsteps of his show business family.

Prince Jackson, 16, made his debut on Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, interviewing actors James Franco, Zach Braff and director Sam Raimi as they promote their upcoming film Oz the Great and Powerful, the programme said.

Prince, who was born Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., is the oldest of Michael Jackson’s three children.

Jackson told the syndicated tabloid news show that he wants to eventually get into the film business.

“I’m looking to become wellrounded as a producer, director, screenwriter and actor,” he said.

Jackson’s sister Paris, 14, signed up in 2011 to star in a movie called Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys, based on a young adult fantasy novel.

Adele made a one-finger gesture on camera after being wound up

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Efforts by leading impresario rewarded FRESH from the recordbreaking ‘Fusion’ tour of Cyprus in January and a ninenight programme in Norway recently, the island’s leading music impresario, Andrew Oliver, declared himself somewhat exhausted but elated with the successes of his concerts so far this year.

Tickets for the two new Oliver March offerings – ‘Firebirds’ based around '50s rock’n’roll and ‘Flowers’, the music of American mega-stars Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand - have been on sale a mere three weeks and already one performance has sold out.

Demand is such that a second show has been scheduled for that village, commented a spokesman for the Oliver marketing team. “This means Andrew is ‘doubling up’ and doing one performance of rock’n’roll in the afternoon and a second of ‘Flowers’ in the evening. This is far from easy and it takes a great deal of professionalism, not to mention energy.”

In Oliver’s own words: “With 'The Firebirds', I’m portraying the wild, irreverent rocker along the lines of The Killer (Jerry Lee Lewis); hitting the piano keys as hard as possible with great animation ... with 'Flowers' I am the cool, calm, musical director in the style of Marvin Hamlish; my job here is to make Tina and Ross look good and hold it all together in a very slick, understated manner.”

Meanwhile, Oliver is also be planning his April overseas tour and booking The Barrie Rowe big band sound into outdoor amphitheatres and indoor concert halls for May. for more information, contact the Andrew Oliver Ticket Hotline Tel: 99832538. www. andrewoliver9.co.uk

Moustaches and fundraising The 'Movember' challenge, whereby men grow out their facial hair to raise awareness and funds to tackle prostate cancer, once more had local adherents this year.

For a second year running, students at the medical school St George's, University of London-University of Nicosia, took part in the effort, with a range of events organised as well as the obligatory moustaches grown.

The efforts raised €1,517.85 for the Oncology Centre of the Bank of Cyprus, toward prostate cancer research

A U.S. production company is in town to report on the business and investment opportunities in Cyprus.

“There is no better time to bring money into the country than in a moment of crisis,” said Allison Adeyanju, a programme coordinator for US-Television.

Adeyanju and Ben Abbes Jihad are currently in Cyprus to prepare the groundwork for the video.

US-Television is preparing a 30-minute video on Cyprus, providing a brief overview of the general situation here, while focusing the remainder of the programme on how Cyprus will claw its way out of the crisis, utilising the opportunities available across various sectors of the economy, including tourism, finance, construction and gas.

A third of the video will also be dedicated to company profiles of the leading players in the Cypriot market.

The video will be ready for broadcast by early April on Fox 5 cable television in the US, mainly in New York and Washington, making it available to potentially 20 million households.

According to Adeyanju, the company will also email a newsletter with a link to the video to its database, made up of “1.7 email addresses of CEOs and top sheiks around the world”.

“It’s a delicate moment for Cyprus,

card to benefit local travellers

Allison Adeyanju (L) and Ben Abbes Jihad (R) are programme coordinators for USTelevision

and we want to dedicate a part of the video to how the new government plans to get the bailout, sign the MOU and pay back the loan,” said Jihad.

The ultimate aim, of course, is to provide an opportunity for Cypriot businesses to promote investments and opportunities in Cyprus by spon-

soring the video.

“Our US viewers are big on luxury tourism and the energy sector,” noted Adeyanju.

The last video on Cyprus produced by the company was completed in 2010 and can be viewed on the website: www. us-television.tv.

D. TRAVEL N. Outlet Ltd (DTNO), a travel organisation based in Nicosia, has signed a sole General Sales Agreement for Cyprus with SaveMoneySIM, which will benefit the company with an add-on product for its clients travelling abroad.

SaveMoneySIM is an international group of companies founded in January, 2007 - a year coinciding with the promotion of unified travel SIM cards to the Russian market. Today the company is one of the leaders in the sphere of international mobile communications in Russia. SaveMoneySIM is one of the biggest representatives of Estonian communications provider Top Connect.

The product is a universal SIM card, which saves money on roaming with 5 million subscribers.

CTO participates in EU Leonardo da Vinci meeting Spain gathering to further ECOTOUR endeavour THE Cyprus Tourism Organisation recently participated in the partner’s meeting of the European project “ECOTOUR”, in Spain, which is a Leonardo da Vinci transfer of innovation programme co-funded by the European Commission.

CTO was represented by Ms Maro Kazepi, Tourist Officer A’, Project Coordinator at CTO Strategy Department. The project aims to improve the skills and competency of ecotourism stakeholders in Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania and Spain, while at the same time encouraging ecotourism development in project countries in particular and Europe in general.

The project started in October 2011 and will be completed in September 2013. The final product of the project will be the development of an ecotour-

ECOTOUR aims to improve the skills of ecotourism stakeholders in Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania and Spain ism training programme in Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania and Spain.

ECOTOUR is implemented by a consortium of eight partners from four EU countries: Cyprus, Spain, Estonia, and Lithuania. The consortium includes education and training organisations,

enterprises and authorities responsible for tourism development. The Cyprus partners include the Cyprus University of Technology (lead partner), the Cyprus Tourism Organisation and X-Panel company.

The project is for people in tourism: entrepreneurs

and managers of tourism SMEs. The training product might also be used by tourism policy makers, students, or people living in rural communities that would learn how to present and transfuse their knowledge about the surrounding countryside and local

culture to tourists.

For further information on the ECOTOUR project, you may contact Ms Maro Kazepi, Tourist Officer A’, Strategy Department - Cyprus Tourism Organisation at: Maro.Kazepi@visitcyprus.com or call: 22-691216.

PrimeTel donation in support of cancer patients PRIMETEL has offered PASYKAF representatives a donation worth €1,000.

Last December, PrimeTel decided not to give gifts to its partners but to raise money and offer it to non-profit organisations instead.

It is not the first time PrimeTel has contributed to charity and non-governmental organisations that have as their mission to bring about a better tomorrow for our fellow human beings.

On receiving the cheque from PrimeTel Public Relations Officer Pantelis Stylianos, Maria Botsari, representing the Cyprus Association

of Cancer Patients and Friends, as well as other organisations, thanked PrimeTel "which once again supports the work of the association and shares the daily struggle of many individuals around us.

"Such actions by large organisations literally offer life to our fellow citizens who are struggling with cancer, to volunteers (who help them) and to all those working to alleviate the suffering of patients."

For more information about PrimeTel, visit www.primetel.com.cy click, dial 133 or visit a PrimeTel service centre

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UNO Temple has lived in LA for four years but still doesn’t drive a car.

Given that it’s nearimpossible to navigate the Southern California sprawl without one, I’d venture that makes her either abnormally wilful, or successful enough to take cabs everywhere. Possibly both. She’s determined, certainly: she left her family in England for Hollywood aged 19. Her parents were upset to see her go, she says, “But I’m a stubborn f***. I wanted to do it, so I did.”

She’s also an undeniable success. She appeared in three features at last month’s Sundance Film Festival: as a stripper-turned-nanny in the comedy Afternoon Delight; as porn star Linda Lovelace’s ‘only normal friend’ in the biopic Lovelace; and as a young woman losing her marbles in Magic Magic, a psychologi-

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cal horror set in Chile. Today she’s just returned from a day’s shooting for Sin City 2 in Austin, Texas, directed

by Robert Rodriguez. In her brief career, Juno has already worked with some of the world’s greatest directors, including Richard Eyre and Christopher Nolan, and the 23-year-old won the BAFTA Rising Star Award for her role as Dottie, the Southern naïf subject of Matthew McConaughey’s unhealthy fascination in William Friedkin’s Killer Joe. Previous winners include James McAvoy and Tom Hardy, though this year’s shortlist was comprised almost entirely of women, including Andrea Riseborough and Elizabeth Olsen.

Sitting outside a café close to her home - a little cottage with a porch in Los Feliz village, three miles from Holly-

wood - sipping from a bowl of strong coffee, and wearing a grungy ensemble of ripped jeans, sizeable jewellery and a baggy sweater over a Cranberries T-shirt (she would have been four years old when ‘Linger’ was released in 1993), Juno speaks quickly and eagerly. Her hair, naturally blonde and curly, has been straight and scarlet since last year, when she shot Horns, a supernatural thriller with Daniel Radcliffe.

“I’d love to have it candyfloss pink,” she says, “but I’m not sure that would help me at auditions.”

Although she’s yet to get her Green Card, the young actress could reasonably claim the US as her spiritual home as well as her geographical one. She has an American boyfriend, actor Michael Angarano, a child star who played Jack’s son Elliot in Will & Grace. Her parents, the director Julien Temple and his producer wife Amanda, visited the Grand Canyon while Amanda was pregnant.

There, they came across a rock formation called Juno Temple, after which they named their first child.

But her West Country childhood sounds so idyllic that it’s a wonder she ever left home.

She grew up in the family’s 600-year-old farmhouse in Somerset with brothers Leo, 19, a budding poet, and Felix, 13. Her parents indulged her wild imagination: she was besotted with Alice in Wonderland, so Julien planted a sloping hedge in the garden that she could walk alongside and experience the sensation of shrinking, just like Lewis Carroll’s heroine. When she was learning to read, her father

At primary school, Juno convinced her entire class that there were invisible giants hiding on the roof, and herself that she could see fairies would take her out on their pond in a rowing boat, where she would recite passages from Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories. “I’ve never wept as much in my life as the first time I read The Nightingale and the Rose,” she recalls.

Julien’s office was stacked floor to ceiling with books; education was imperative in the Temple household. “My dad says: ‘Knowledge is the key to life.’”

At primary school, Juno convinced her entire class that there were invisible giants hiding on the roof, and herself that she could see fairies. “I really did see one once,” she insists. “I stand by that. I saw a weird thing dancing in front of a grave-

yard at dusk when I was about eight.” When pressed, she admits that it might have been fireflies. Her strict secondary in Taunton didn’t agree with her, so at 16 she transferred to Bedales in Hampshire, alma mater of Daniel Day-Lewis and gen-

erally considered Britain’s most liberal public school.

Juno calls it “a really creative school, very freeing”.

If acting hadn’t gone so well so early, Bedales might have sent her down another path: lingerie design. “At school I did a fashion project inspired

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by Dita Von Teese,” she says.

“I have been obsessed with lingerie since I was 14. It’s a powerful thing: whatever you’re wearing, you can feel like a woman underneath. I love the idea of a female politician wearing really great underwear under her suit.”

She gave up a place at the London College of Fashion to pursue acting, but still draws, and shows me a couple of skilfully sketched designs for cow-print underwear on her iPhone.

She caught the acting bug just after she caught chick-

enpox, aged four. Contagious and confined to the house, her father sat her in front of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête. “It stopped me from scratching,” she says, and it started her on the path to the big screen. Her father, best known for rock docs such as

Glastonbury, and the David Bowie/Patsy Kensit film Absolute Beginners, gave Juno her first acting job, a small part in his film Vigo: Passion for Life, when she was eight.

But he left her performance on the cutting-room floor and gave her a toy dinosaur as consolation. Three years later he cast her again, in his Coleridge biopic Pandaemonium, and made her perform opposite a live bear. Then, in 2005, she attended an open audition for Notes on a Scandal, the film adaptation of Zoe Heller’s novel, and found herself playing Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy’s daughter. The film’s director, Richard Eyre, said the 15-year-old

was “very self-possessed, and obviously fantastically well brought up... intelligent and very droll, with such a grace about her”.

She followed Notes with parts in two other British hits, Atonement and St Trinian’s, and has continued to mix big roles in interesting independent films with smaller ones in studio blockbusters, most memorably Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises last year, as Catwoman’s flatmate. She recently finished shooting Maleficent with Angelina Jolie, the tale of Sleeping Beauty told from the point of view of the wicked queen, and she’s due to play Princess Margaret, with The Iron Lady’s Al-

exandra Roach as Princess Elizabeth, in Girls’ Night Out, a fictionalised story of the young princesses joining the revellers on The Mall as they celebrate VE Day. But it is her breakthrough role in Killer Joe that has everyone talking. Of its director William Friedkin, she says, “Killer Joe got an NC17 rating, and he could have cut around that but he didn’t want to. I love him for that.

He’s been [making films] so long he should be allowed to put out whatever movie he wants. He rehearses a lot, then only does one or two takes of everything. He doesn’t dawdle. He’s 77, but he’s a firecracker.” As is she.

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films

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

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

Telephone nos: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 Rio Limassol: 25-871410

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.

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

Upside Down (K) Rio 5 at 10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Love in the End (K) 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

Upside Down (K) 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

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

Love in the End (K) 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

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

Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm.

Faust (in German, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight and tomorrow at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society.

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

The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.10pm Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Rio Paphos: 26-207000

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

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

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

Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm

Argo (12) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3p

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 at 3.20pm

Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

The Impossible (12) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm

Short Films from the Drama Film Festival Rialto Theatre 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 (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Love in the End (K) 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

LIMASSOL

Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30 and 4.20pm

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

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

Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends 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, tonight only at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society.

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

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 5.30pm, weekends only 3.30pm

PAPHOS

Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm

A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 1 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3.30pm.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm

Upside Down (K) Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends also at 4pm

Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 3pm

Love in the End (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekdays at 5.45, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends at 6.15, 7.45 and 9.45pm

listings Today Music Alkistis Protopsalti Famous Greek singer performs live with new and old songs accompanied by George Perris. February 21-22. Lanitis Carob Mill Complex, Vasilissis Street, Limassol. 10pm. €40 including first drink. Online tickets at www.tickethour.com.cy Musica Live IV Come to see and hear more than 200 students and professional musicians on stage, performing a variety of well-known repertoire for choir, band and orchestra. February 21.

Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia.

7.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-313010 Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy.

February 21. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959

Other Events Drama’s Festival Travels Screenings of awarded short films from the Drama International Short Film Festival in Greece. February 21.

Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. free. Tel: 77-777745. E-ticket: www. rialto.com.cy

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

Tomorrow Music The Faces of Love Concert with English and Greek love songs featuring the distinctive voice of Elli Paspala accompanied by pianist Takis Farazis February 22.

Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm.

Tel: 77-777745. E-ticket: www.rialto. com.cy Back to the ’90s DJ Mario plays the best hits of the 90s. February 22. 7 Seas, Columbia Plaza, 223 St. Andrews Street, Limassol. 10.30pm. Free. Tel: 25-278000

Ongoing Other Events Drama’s Festival Travels Screenings of awarded short films from the Drama International Short

Film Festival in Greece. February 19-20. Cine Studio, (University of Nicosia), 46 Makedonitissas Avenue.

9pm. Free. Tel: 96-420491 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

Theatre 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 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 Theatro presents play by Thanasis Theologis based on the life of the famous dancer. Until February 24. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15/10. Tel: 22312940/22-421609 Nursing Home the Cherubim Theatre Anemona celebrates its tenth anniversary with comedy by Nearchos Ioannou. Until March 17.

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

Until March 17. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every

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

In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents a theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910 The Children of Cain Theatro Ena presents the psychological thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos.

Until March 31. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

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, Nico-

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

sia. Visiting hours: Monday-Sunday: 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 Da Vinci Machines – An exhibition of Genius Exhibition displaying more than 60 interactive machines from Da Vinci original drawings, 15 high quality reproduction artworks, giant art panels and rare copies of Leonardo codices. Until February 28. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Vasilissis Street, Limassol. Tel: 25-342123 Lush Art in Austere Times Fifth edition of group exhibition featuring works at affordable prices.

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

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Antreas Moyseos Solo photography exhibition. Until March 1. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 Past & Present Group etching, printing and poster exhibition. Until March 2. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia.

Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm.

Tel: 22-424983

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LTAS flies high with Aladdin Limassol Theatre Arts School (LTAS) is taking a magical carpet ride this weekend – and everyone’s invited.

Back by popular demand, the LTAS group who brought audiences the highly praised Beauty and the Beast is presenting Aladdin for its big annual performance. Performances will take place on Saturday and Sunday at 3pm and 6.30pm. A closed premiere performance for an invited charity audience will also take place on the Saturday.

Young performers aged three to 18 have been working on the show for months under the direction of their teachers. The cast will show you “A Whole New World” as they lead you on an adventure-filled journey to the ancient city of Agrabah, where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail...

The show sets out to bring fresh excitement to lovers of musicals. The Disney story tells the tale of the street urchin Aladdin who finds a lamp, which contains a magical genie. It pops out when he rubs the lamp and, from then on, the pair get up to all sorts of japes. Aladdin, Genie and Jasmine, the lovely princess, educate and entertain the audience through their thrilling quests. The evil Jafar adds a villainous presence to the tale as he plots against our hero.

There is never a dull moment in this production, with plenty of mischief and mayhem, audiences’ spirits will soar with excitement and the performance is not short of humour and fun dance routines. Most of all, the tuneful, Academy awardwinning score with songs including ‘Friend Like Me’, will certainly make this school production a favourite for all ages.

For those not familiar with LTAS, it’s a thriving stage school for kids, which aims to identify talent, nurture that gift and enable each student to reach their full potential. Under the expert guid-

Coming Up Music Bringing back the “feel good” factor Paphos Voices is a newly-formed group, the members of which have already established themselves as accomplished singers with other Paphos choirs.

Sixteen in number, and with highly-talented accompanist Nadia Iotova, they are hoping to make a fresh impact on the Paphos musical scene with songs and choruses that are familiar, but not hackneyed.

Definitely not a “rock” choir, they are aiming to re-introduce a “feel good” factor to musical evenings by performing selections from light opera and operettas that have been somewhat neglected over the past years, by composers such as Strauss, Offenbach, Sigmund Romberg, Ivor Novello, Franz Lehar and,

ance of an ex-West End performer and a team of professionals, LTAS seeks to build confidence and communication skills as well as vocational development in the following disciplines: Musical Theatre, Dance, Drama, Singing (Vocals), Communication (Public Speaking/Confidence building), Musical Instruments (Piano/keyboard).

LTAS combines traditional theatre training with up-to-the-minute performance techniques.

Students learn their skills through both practice in class and performance opportunities outside, with a strong emphasis on discipline and learning how to meet any occasion encountered with confidence.

Their productions have been praised for their quality and their ability to give students valuable exposure to the profession. As well as varied and regular performance opportunities, LTAS prepares students for auditions (including those for vocational Stage Schools in the UK post 16 years and post 18 years) and provides filming experiences/training, recording opportunities and casting for TV work.

Regular workshops are also organised for the students.

Classes are available after school during the week and on Saturdays for children from the age of three years. There are three terms in the academic year and children are welcome to join classes at any time.

Aladdin Limassol Theatre Arts School (LTAS) presents its big annual performance for 2013. February 23-24. Limassol Theatre Arts School, 13 Panathineon Street, Ayia Zoni. 3pm & 6.30pm. €10 adults/€5 children. Tel: 99784927/99-324123. Email: limassol.arts@gmail.com, admin@limassolarts.com. www.limassolarts.com

of course, Gilbert and Sullivan.

Some joyous classical choral music will also be in their future repertoire, together with traditional songs and madrigals that were, and still are, widely sung by famous choral societies throughout the United Kingdom.

All the members are of equal status in that there is no overall leader or conductor. Each member has the right and opportunity to contribute to the smooth running of the choir, using their musical knowledge and skill to help maintain a professional standard of singing. Formality will be kept to a minimum, the aim being to look and sound elegantly pleasing rather than mimicking the standardised format of other choirs.

Their debut concert, A String of Pearls, takes place on Saturday, and will be a delightful mixture of operetta and opera choruses. The first half of the programme will be light-hearted excerpts from the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, once a prerequisite of all choral

By Ledha Socratous societies everywhere, but now seldom heard. Beginning with the declaration ‘Hail Poetry!” from The Pirates of Penzance, the programme has songs from The Mikado, The Sorcerer, Utopia Ltd, Iolanthe, Trial by Jury, H.M.S.Pinafore and ending with the sparkling finale from The Gondoliers.

After the Interval come lovely choruses from the operas of Wagner, Verdi, Gounod Borodin and Humperdinck. The programme concludes with familiar melodies by Offenbach, Franz Lehar and finally Johann Strauss.

Taking place at the Palia Ilectriki Centre, the tickets will be a mere €5, which is hoped will encourage a substantial audience to come and sample this musical venture.

A String of Pearls Paphos Voices present musical gems from the world of opera and operetta.

February 23. The Palia Ilectriki Centre, Paphos. 7.30pm. €5. Profits will be donated to local charities. Tel: 99-771548/990065286

By Anita E.Dye

Tomorrow Music Love in all shapes and sizes Love songs come in all guises.

Some are soppy (come on down, Celine Dion!), some are filled with yearning, some are heartbroken, hurt, even angry. You could spend a whole night listening to nothing but love songs - and, just in case you didn’t get the chance to celebrate this Valentine’s Day, the Rialto Theatre in Limassol gives you (and your loved one) a chance to do exactly that, presenting a live concert dedicated to love songs from all over the world.

Known for her incredible talent

and instantly recognisable voice, Elli Paspala will give new life to the most beautiful Greek and foreign love songs, accompanied by composer-jazz piano soloist Takis Farazis.

This touching concert is both tender and explosive. Aptly named “The Faces of Love”, during the evening Paspala and Farazis will attempt to awaken within the audience memories of being in love and love lost, with songs by Manos Hadjidakis, Stavros Xarchakos, Stamatis Kraounakis, as well as songs by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison.

The Faces of Love Concert with English and Greek love songs featuring the distinctive voice of Elli Paspala accompanied by pianist Takis Farazis February 22. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. Tel: 77-777745. E-ticket: www.rialto.com.cy

NIGHTLIFE Raves, grunge, Britpop... is it 90s nostalgia already?

Bust out your scrunchies, runchies, id wash bumbags and acid he jeans, because the ’90s are back!

After the great success of Volume 1, 2, 3 & 4, Choice FM is Back for Volume 5 and taking everyone back to the ’90s ng tomorrow evening za’s at Columbia Plaza’s 7Seas, for a nightt of d by classic hits mixed none other than the 90s expert DJ Mario.

In an era where there was no social networking, we watched the latest videos on TV instead of YouTube and we bought CD’s at record stores instead of downloading songs from iTunes, the political and economical climate in Europe and the US was relatively peaceful, allowing 90s kids to grow up worry free and able to fully embrace and enjoy the culture around them.

As the 90s went along, key parts of its culture and spirit were captured and fuelled by the music that accompanied it. As with any decade, some songs were so integral to the experience that they became a reminder of what living at the

time was like.

This was the decade that sp spawned the nonstop rav rave, had us rockgru ing out to grunge, bouncing to Britpop, and blowing our whistles to techno. So if you love 90s music and ‘wannabe’ dancing to the very best pop from that great decade, then get yourself to 7Seas tomorrow, for a night of non-stop 90s floor fillers. The 90s has made a phenomenal comeback recently in both the music and fashion worlds, so it only seems right to take a nostalgic tour through some of the landmark tracks that defined not only the decade, but also dance music itself. Don’t forget your glow stick!

Back to the 90s DJ Mario plays the best hits of the 90s.

February 22. 7 Seas, Columbia Plaza, 223 St. Andrews Street, Limassol.

10.30pm. Free. Tel: 25-278000

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

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Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Local cultrual show.

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Mazi Sto CyBC Local talk-show.

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News Kaftes Piperies

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Paizoume Kypriaka

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

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Ego Ki Esi (rpt)

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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Dogs 101 (rpt)

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NRG Zone Motor Sports UEFA Europa League

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UEFA Europa League Live coverage of Olympiakos v Levante.

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Post-game analysis.

Concert By Yannis Markopoulos With News at 23.30.

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

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Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Eilikrina News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Greek Series TBA Eheis Meson Local investigative show.

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Yia Sena Local talk-show.

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News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amatuer chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

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Oi Vasiliades News Klemmena Oneira

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FILM: The Departed

Greek drama series.

Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil over when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy’s identities. Gangster thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. 2006.

Greek drama series.

With News at 18.00.

Local comedy series.

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Pre-game analysis.

News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

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A guide to different types and breeds of dog featuring expert opinions from trainers, groomers and vets.

Live cookery show.

New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

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Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Current affairs show.

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx DW-TV’s magazine show, bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

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

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ANTENNA

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News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Local drama series.

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Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.30 11.20 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.45 19.30 20.20 21.15

Protoselido Eleni Mila Mou (rpt) Vassiliki (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Pame Paketo

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.35

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

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CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Veritas’.

Mac is found at the harbour in Jersey City, having narrowly escaped from a sinking car, but he is only able to recall scant details of his kidnapping.

However, the team resolves to track down his abductor and believes CCTV footage of the suspect is just the lead required.

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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV To Kleidi Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

Talk-show that deals with human interest stories.

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

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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, a scientist, Walter Bishop, and his son Peter investigate unexplained events with paranormal or terrorist connections.

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Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

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News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Sharpshooter A CIA assassin hired for one last job before his retirement suspects he has inadvertently become involved in a conspiracy. Action thriller, with James Remar. 2007.

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FILM: Trapped!

Two kidnappers force an Internet security specialist to locate a woman hidden in the Witness Protection Programme. Thriller, starring Alexandra Paul 2007.

FILM: The Great Fight The rare story of an autistic sauvant, whose prodigious skill is fighting - and maybe more.

Adventure, starring Robert Loggia. 2011.

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FILM: Blue Blood Classic film noir in the style of the 40s and 50s, starring Bill Sage, and Roy Scheider.

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The Avengers (Novacinema1, 19.25)

01:25 The Weakest Link 02:10 EastEnders 02:40 Doctors 03:10 Casualty 04:00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 04:30 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 05:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 05:45 One Foot In The Grave 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Robots 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Spot’s Musical Adventures 07:45 The Large Family 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Robots 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 The Large Family 09:05 Me Too! 09:25 ‘Allo ‘Allo!

09:55 One Foot In The Grave 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:10 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Casualty 13:00 Bleak House 14:00 Outcasts 14:50 The Weakest Link 15:35 EastEnders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Casualty 17:25 Bleak House 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 New Tricks 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Beautiful People 23:20 Dad’s Army 23:50 Friday Night Dinner 00:15 Last Man Standing

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

Poker: European Poker Tour 01:00 Cross Country Skiing: World Championship

Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Rides 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Extreme Fishing 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Off The Hook 00:00 Trouble In Paradise 01:00 Kidnap And Rescue 01:55 Extreme Fishing 02:50 River Monsters 03:50 Off The Hook 04:50 Trouble In Paradise 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Cross Country Skiing: World Championship 12:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 13:30 Cross Country Skiing: World Championship 15:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 17:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 18:30 Cross Country Skiing: World Championship 19:45 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 21:00 Fight Sport: Fight Club 00:00

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Melissa & Joey 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Melissa & Joey 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Scandal 12:50 Castle 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Tough Love Miami 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Melissa & Joey 17:15 Scrubs 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 18:30 Tough Love Miami 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 Castle 22:40 Melissa & Joey 23:05 Scrubs 23:30 Scandal 00:20 Castle 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Melissa & Joey 03:10 Scrubs 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 04:50 Tough Love Miami

07:30 Five Days One Summer 09:20 Rudo Y Cursi 11:15 Love Child 13:00 Things That Hang From Trees 14:45 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 16:20 Consenting Adults 18:00 Just Go With It 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Bitch Slap 23:00 Secret Life 00:25 Hustler Tv 03:10 Up In The

Air 05:00 Doors, The: When You’re Strange 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships 19:00 2011 American Le Mans Series 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 World Football Rivalries 23:00 Global Rallycross Championship 00:15 Planet Speed 00:45 Uca/ Uda College Cheerleading Championships 01:15 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 World Football Rivalries 04:00 Best Classic Premier League Games 06:00 World Football Rivalries

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Eastbound & Down 08:30 Hawai Five 10:00 Friends 10:30 Gossip Girl 11:15 Fringe 12:50 Supernatural 13:40 According To Jim 14:30 Hawai Five 16:00 How To Make It In America 16:30 Chuck 17:15 Borgias I, The 19:05 Supernatural 19:50 Two And A Half Men 20:35 Friends 21:00 Closer, The 21:45 Five Days 22:50 C.S.I. Miam 23:35 Bones 00:20 Hole, The (2009) 01:50 Eye Of The Dolphin 03:30 How To Make It In America 04:00 Chuck 04:40 Borgias I, The 06:30 Supernatural

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 That Darn Cat 09:45 Flypaper 11:30 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li 13:15 Officer And A Gentleman, An 15:20 Another 48 Hrs 17:00 Kardia 18:30 King Solomon’s Mines 20:15 Nobody 22:00 Beautiful (2009) 00:05 Daring! Tv 03:35 Action Zone 04:05 Two Tickets To Paradise 05:40 Cash

06:35 The Hours 08:35 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years 10:05 We Bought A Zoo 12:10 The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Show 14:20 Mad On Novacinema 15:00 Bounce 16:50 Cine News 17:20 Cowboys & Aliens 19:25 The Avengers 22:00 The Deep Blue Sea 23:45 Chronicle 01:20 Meskada 03:05 Jude

05:05 Underworld: Awakening 06:35 Shampoo 08:25 The Vow 10:10 My Life So Far 11:45 Thor 13:45 Beastly 15:15 Notting Hill 17:30 Hollywood 1 On 1 18:05 The Color Of Money 20:10 Your Highness 22:00 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas 00:05 The Ides Of March 01:50 Dream House 03:25 Cine News 04:10 The Beaver

18:50 Captain America: The First Avenger 21:00 O Elias Tou 16ou 22:40 Cine News 23:00 The Following - 23:50 C.S.I. 00:40 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

18:40 Melancholia 21:00 Mpilompa 22:50 Trust 00:40 Never Let Me Go

01:00 Asp Surfing World Championships Billabong Pipe Masters: Hawaii 01:30 Courtside Jones 02:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Minnesota At Ohio State 04:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Wisconsin At Northwestern 06:00 Courtside Jones 06:30 Asp Surfing World Championships Billabong Pipe Masters: Hawaii 07:00 Playing Lessons 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Golfnow - Washington D.C. 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Golfnow – Arizona 10:00 Sports Unlimited 11:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Minnesota At Ohio State 13:00 Pass Time 13:30 101 Cars You Must Drive Wankels And Wankers 14:00 Pinks All Out Phoenix 15:00 Asp Surfing World Championships Billabong Pipe Masters: Hawaii 15:30 Courtside Jones 16:00 Tba 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Apollon Vs

Omonoia 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 22:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Wisconsin At Northwestern 24:00 Pass Time

06:00 Only Hits08:00 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 McCafé Music Project 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV The Hard Times Of RJ Berger 21:00 MTV Underemployed 23:00 MTV Flash Prank 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

07:00 On the Town 08:35 Quo Vadis 11:20 Little Women 13:20 The Wings of Eagles 15:05 The Wreck Of The Mary Deare 16:50 Please Don’t Eat The Daisies 18:40 The Belle Of New York20:05 The Year of Living Dangerously 22:00 The Gypsy Moths 23:44 The Dirty Dozen 02:10 Flareup 03:50 Clash By Night 05:35 Suzy

By Preston Wilder

Bitch Slap (LTV, 21.00) “Three bad girls travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from an underworld kingpin,” says the synopsis - which sounds like the kind of thing bad girls would do. They’re the Sex Bomb, the Psycho Slut and the Stripper, according to the trailer, though their names are actually Trixie, Hel and Camero (played by Julia Voth, Erin Cummings and America Olivo respectively) - and the film seems to be trying for a Kill Bill vibe with a dash of Charlie’s Angels, though it also recalls 60s legend Russ Meyer who made a film called Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and had an obsession with big breasts. The girls in this case also have impressive bosoms, invariably showcased in tight-fitting

clothes - and they also wield weapons, punch men unconscious, use their sexuality, annoy random nuns and do all the other things bad girls do. “Essentially, it’s a catfight that lasts for about 100 minutes,” notes a man from Edinburgh at the Internet Movie Database.

He says that like it’s a bad thing. Made in 2009.

The Deep Blue Sea (Novacinema1, 22.00) All the men are children here: the middle-aged husband (Simon Russell Beale) dominated by his monstrous mother, the sporty, rather oafish lover (Tom Hiddleston, a.k.a. Loki in The Avengers), even the overgrown-schoolboy friend who looks very shocked and

The Deep Blue Sea

says: “But you gave your word!”. He’s talking to Hester (Rachel Weisz, in a flawless performance), who’s torn between husband and lover - though not really torn because she loves the latter and happily leaves the former, it’s just that Love makes her do mad, self-destructive things. This adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play, set in early-50s Britain, is gorgeous to look at - the style reflecting Hester’s complex emotional world, clotted with yearning - and full of delicious details like the grumpy man who says he only gives respect to those who’ve earned it, “with everyone else I’m civil”, but it’s really Weisz’s show, modulating beautifully from beginning to end. Possible best scene: huddling in the Tube, with ‘Molly Malone’. Made in 2011.

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1 A little bit of a fight (5) 4 Show the way to behave (7) 8 Little wonder (6,7) 9 Hurried from the Andes (8) 10 Move slowly through Winchester (4) 12 Stern guide (6) 13 What an arable farmer likes to see just happen (4,2) 16 Steal from gaol (4) 18 Agreeable, rustic, about 50 (8) 21 How gymnasts go when in love? (4,4,5) 22 Take another partner for better or for worse (7) 23 Diverted from outer road (5)

1 Smart sound of a cane (5) 2 Gave no answer (7) 3 Considered small lake with curious reed (8) 4 Office imitator? (6) 5 High time (4) 6 In fun I only took part of the combination (5) 7 Playthings jump in store (7) 11 Break one’s nose (8) 12 American farmer hurried with pop singer (7) 14 High level prize, gold (7) 15 Likely to drop off (6) 17 Spell march wrongly (5) 19 State alternative preference (5) 20 Perform or entrance (4)

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Answers to crossword 2317

HOROSCOPE

CRYPTIC: Across – 6 Starch-reduced; 8 Romance; 9 Cliff; 10 Ethic; 12 Dustbin; 13 Liberty; 15 Crete; 16 Vital; 17 Remorse; 19 Learn the ropes. Down – 1 Calm; 2 Scenic; 3 Free; 4 Edicts; 5 Scribble; 6 Street-level; 7 Defenceless; 11 Habitual; 12 Day; 14 Ruling; 15 Camera; 17 Ruhr; 18 Ripe.

QUICK: Across – 6 Kitchen-garden; 8 Outplay; 9 Topic; 10 Bible; 12 Faction; 13 Squalid; 15 Logic; 16 Gated; 17 Bicycle; 19 Three-cornered. Down – 1 Stet; 2 Shelve; 3 Envy; 4 Mastic; 5 Adopting; 6 Know by sight; 7 Nicene Creed; 11 Blustery; 12 Fad; 14 Ladder; 15 Lacuna; 17 Boot; 18 Curb.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Spread your charm as you go through today’s activities. If you do, you’ll find that doors can spring open for you and good things begin to happen. You may feel in a dreamy mood though, and find it harder to focus on details. If you have any inspired ideas, it may be helpful to get feedback from a trustworthy friend. Tonight you may relish an evening in.

You might not be all that sharp today if you’re spending money, so try to be careful. Be sure to include entertainment in your agenda as there are so many options for fun in your life. You might also notice that you are having a lot of dreams and fantasies. Sort through those that might be doable and get into action - you won’t regret it.

Family issues may be complex, and trying to resolve them even more difficult. It also won’t help if someone isn’t telling the truth, or if the obvious is being glossed over or ignored. If you despair of ever getting things sorted out, it helps to stick to your own truth through thick and thin.

Your partner may be very supportive at this time.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Try to keep your feet on the ground where business interests are concerned. Curtail an inclination to worry though, as eventually things should work out fine. Be careful, as one friend or business associate may need to be handled with tact, while another may be very helpful to you. Tonight, you may be in the mood to go out and enjoy yourself.

It might help not to mix business with pleasure, especially as your judgement may be flawed. As the Sun connects with Neptune in your relationship zone, you may find that the people you spend most time with might either inspire or frustrate you - perhaps both. You may find creative and spiritual types the best folk to be around.

Give your imagination free reign and see how many inspired ideas you can come up with. What you might want to avoid are any plans that could be based on dubious thinking. Likewise, avoid get-rich-quick schemes, as these too could be a source of loss or disappointment. Creative thinking gets a gold star, so dust off a pet project and get going.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Be careful what you wish for today, especially when it comes to major goals. You may have some big ideas, but they could be a tad unrealistic at this stage. However, career and business interests seem to be encouraging, so it is still worth your while to take the initiative. You may hear some upbeat financial news that you’ve been waiting for.

Make sure that common sense is your guide while doing your tasks and chores. You may feel like following your heart which is fine, but do so after you’ve finished all you need to get done. You may be in the mood to act on your whims and avoid anything associated with hard work. Balance is the key, and perhaps have a workout or a walk in nature.

Deceptive trends indicate that you should be careful when it comes to financial dealings. This may not be the best day to purchase that big ticket item as it might be disappointing. Shopping in general could be fraught, as you could come back with impractical items you don’t really need.

Give yourself a limit, then enjoy spending within that.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

The Moon in your sign may give you extra feistiness and attitude today. If you feel like making a crucial move, you may find you are luckier than expected. So carefully worth the risk. Travel may have romantic overtones as the Sun aspects Neptune, meaning that you may put someone on a pedestal even if they don’t deserve to be there.

It’s one of the best times for following your creative impulses and seeing where this leads. As the Sun conjuncts Neptune today, you may be inspired with an idea that could be your best artistic or crafty creation yet. If you’re looking for some fun, beware of a temptation to gamble or take a risk that might not be a good move. Be practical!

With a major focus on your sign as well as the Sun connecting with Neptune, you seem to be open to other people’s energies and moods. You might pick up their happiness or their sadness, or even your best friend’s headache. It might help to get some space to yourself once your day is over in order to take stock and sort out what’s important and what’s not.

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

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4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heating-independent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor,

on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website) 6. 2 bedr new luxury apartment, modern nicely furnished, storage heaters, 2 a/c, 100sq.m, big covered verandah with nice view, covered parking off Digenis Akritas street near Debenhams shop, walking distance to the centre. PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EXPENSES. – Lykavitos €450 (A1LYK0020-R) (photos in the website) 7.

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CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, February 21, 2013

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Sport Defending champ Radwanska through in Dubai

By Matt Smith WORLD number four Agnieszka Radwanska overcame a misfiring serve to beat Kazakh teenager Yulia Putintseva 7-5 6-3 in the second round of the Dubai women’s tennis championships yesterday.

The Pole, who received a first-round bye, lost three of her first four service games on an overcast centre court and she will need to improve if she is retain her Dubai title, with Petra Kvitova awaiting her in the next round.

“For me, the first match is always a bit tricky,” Radwanska told reporters. “I didn’t hit on the centre court here this

year, and I was just practising outside - it was actually much faster. I was surprised - the ball is just not going anywhere and it was tough for me.”

Serving at 3-3, Radwanska saved four break points after falling 0-40 behind, but Putintseva was undeterred and she earned another break point with a forehand winner down the line that fizzed past the advancing Pole. Rattled, the 2012 Wimbledon finalist double-faulted to fall 4-3 behind.

Radwanska, 23, responded by coming to the net more frequently to force Putintseva, ranked 101 in the world, to play on the back foot.

The Kazakh, seeking her third victory

over a top-50 player, was found wanting and Radwanska broke for 4-4, with six out of eight games going against serve.

Putintseva, who beat Britain’s Laura Robson in an all-teenage first-round battle, prefers brute force over finesse and although a fast hitter, she consistently played the ball too short.

The Pole was too out of sorts to fully exploit her opponent’s shortcomings but as the overcast sky gave way to a muggy desert sun she also upped the playing temperature on court, earning two set points with a flat forehand winner down the line. She needed only one as a tempestuous Putintseva smashed an attempted winner long.

World No.4 Agnieszka Radwanska wasn’t at her best

New Williams drives into dispute FIA questions legality of car’s exhaust

By Nick Mulvenney

By Alan Baldwin

IN BRIEF

WILLIAMS rolled their new Formula One car out of the garage and straight into a dispute over the design of its exhausts.

The last of the 11 teams to show off their 2013 car, the former champions had barely started testing the FW35 before it emerged that the sport’s governing body disagreed with their interpretation of the rules.

“The team spoke with the FIA and they gave us their view,” said a spokeswoman at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

“The team are now seeking further clarification on this and a decision as to whether this design will be carried forward will be made before the first race.”

The season starts in Australia on March 17, with one more four-day test scheduled for Barcelona after the current one ends tomorrow.

Teams can put all sorts of aerodynamic and technical innovations on their cars in testing with the FIA only declaring them to be ‘illegal’ once they are presented for grand prix scrutineering.

All teams are constantly

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The last of the 11 teams to show off their 2013 car, former champions Williams had barely started testing the FW35 before it emerged that the sport’s governing body disagreed with their interpretation of the rules seeking advice from the governing body, however, as they search for possible loopholes or seek to deny rivals any suspected advantage.

Caterham have already drawn critical comments from rivals for their exhaust design, with Lotus technical director James Allison saying at the previous test that he expected to see changes before Melbourne.

The FIA concern is believed to be over the use of bodywork behind the exhaust exits that harnesses the gases for aerodynamic

advantage.

The technical debate followed a confident rollout

by Williams, who won with Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado at the Barcelona track last year.

“Given the rule stability over the winter, I’m pleased with the gains that we’ve been able to make with this car,” said technical director Mike Coughlan. “It’s a better, more refined Formula One car than the FW34.”

Founder Frank Williams, whose team are the second most successful in terms of constructors’ champion-

ships (nine) but finished eighth last year, saw a step forward.

“Williams has been at the top many times over the last 30 years. It’s the nature of the sport to have ups and downs, but when we are down we always fight our way back,” he said.

Maldonado has a new team mate this year in Finnish rookie Valtteri Bottas, previously the reserve.

Susie Wolff, wife of shareholder and new Mercedes team executive director Toto, is the development driver and was first to drive

the new car in a shakedown at the nearby Idiada track before Maldonado took over for the second pre-season test.

Reliability work over the winter had been promising, with the gearbox alone completing 3,200km on the dyno at the factory.

“This season we must be even more competitive which I believe is possible,” said Maldonado, who got married over the winter break and also has a new race engineer.

“My goal is to help take the team back to the top.”

THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) is banking on this year’s British and Irish Lions tour breaking attendance records after huge demand for tickets on the opening day of general sale.

Tickets for eight of the nine matches were up for grabs with the games against the Wallabies in Sydney and Melbourne selling out in 15 minutes and the opening Test in Brisbane following suit after just five minutes.

The allocation for the tour match against New South Wales Waratahs at the Sydney Football Stadium was also sold out, leaving only tickets for the tour matches in Perth, Brisbane, Newcastle, Canberra and Melbourne up for grabs.

“To see allocations exhausted for the three Test matches and for the Lions match against the Waratahs is a wonderful endorsement for what will be a truly memorable visit by one of international sports’ most iconic teams,” ARU chief Bill Pulver said.

“Twelve years ago there were 300,000 tickets sold for the nine matches. In 2013 we are hopefully on track to reach close to overall attendance numbers of 400,000 for the same number of games.”

Gallinari proves golden for Nuggets in Celtics win

Wrestling rolls dice, selects Las Vegas for world champs

Mayweather signs record deal with Showtime/CBS

SHARP-SHOOTING Danilo Gallinari made a vital contribution on his return to action as the Italian forward led the Denver Nuggets to a 97-90 victory over the Boston Celtics.

Gallinari had missed two games through illness but with the regular season resuming after the All-Star break, his 26 points, laced with four three-pointers, helped the Nuggets snap a three-game losing streak.

With the game tied 84-84 midway through the fourth quarter, Gallinari drained his final three-pointer and the home Nuggets rode the momentum with a 10-2 run that put them in position to close out the win.

LAS Vegas will host the 2015 world wrestling championship in the first qualifier for what could be wrestling’s final appearance as an Olympic sport in the 2016 Rio Games.

The sport’s governing body selected Las Vegas over bids from several other cities including Tehran, New Delhi,Panama City, and Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Wrestling was left in a state of shock last week after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a recommendation to drop the sport from the 2020 Games.

EIGHT-TIME world champion Floyd Mayweather has left HBO in favor of a 30-month, six-fight deal with Showtime and its parent company CBS in what is being called the richest pact in boxing history.

Financial terms of the deal between the undefeated boxer and Showtime/CBS, announced in a statement by Mayweather Promotions, were not disclosed.

Widely recognised as boxing’s top pound-for-pound fighter, Mayweather (43-0, 26 KOs) has been a part of boxing’s four biggest non-heavyweight pay-perview events

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Cook anchors easy victory for England over NZ

By Nick Mulvenney

Captain’s knock sets up one-day decider

By Greg Stutchbury ALASTAIR Cook’s patient knock of 78 anchored a wellexecuted England run chase of 270 to beat New Zealand by eight wickets in the second one-day international at McLean Park, levelling the three-match series at 1-1 yesterday.

England’s bowlers, particularly James Anderson, had done a superb job to dismiss New Zealand for 269 in 48.5 overs at a small venue with short square boundaries, where a score of at least 300 was needed to set a competitive total.

Joe Root (79 not out) then picked up from where Cook left off when the captain was dismissed by Tim Southee, while Jonathan Trott finished on 65 not out as England easily chased down the total for the loss of two wickets in 47.4 overs.

“I thought the way we bowled up front was outstanding,” Cook said. “Steve Finn and James Anderson bowled really well and we gave them nothing, took some wickets and put them under pressure.

“We knew that 270 was below par on that wicket and that if we kept our heads

while batting, and kept wickets in hand then, as it proved, it was quite an easy chase.”

England’s victory ensured the series finale at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday would be a decider after New Zealand won the first match in Hamilton on Sunday by three wickets.

New Zealand’s innings was dominated by Ross Taylor’s 100, his seventh one day international century, and a brutal 74 from 36 deliveries by captain Brendon McCullum, but it was well short of a ground that consistently yields innings in excess off 300.

“I think we were probably 20 runs under par,” McCullum said.

“At 270, I thought we were still a chance if we got early wickets but we weren’t able to get them... (and) they played brilliantly to knock off 270 reasonably comfortably.”

Taylor, who was dumped as captain by coach Mike Hesson in December and chose not to tour South Africa, had barely played any cricket since and had looked rusty in his return to the international scene.

The 28-year-old took a little time to get into his stride

and also curbed his attacking instincts to anchor the innings after Anderson and Finn had put the hosts under immense pressure.

Taylor combined with Kane Williamson (33) in a 72-run partnership, then 52 runs with Grant Elliott (23) for the fourth wicket before the latter was dismissed by Finn in the first over of the batting powerplay to leave New Zealandstruggling at 143-4 in the 36th over.

McCullum, however, then thrashed nine fours and four sixes in a 44-minute knock that included a 100-run partnership with Taylor, 77 of which came in 5.5 overs.

McCullum’s dismissal then sparked a collapse with the final five wickets falling for 26 runs as Anderson returned to mop up the tail and finished with impressive figures of five for 34.

“I’m delighted with the way I bowled,” Anderson said. “I think we bowled pretty well as a unit.

“It’s a good pitch... and we knew that if we hit our areas then we would get some rewards.

“We got some early wickets and just stuck to our tasks... and kept them under 300 (which) we knew we could chase down.”

Alastair Cook’s patient knock of 78 anchored a well-executed England run chase of 270 at McLean Park

Stricker U-turn on ‘belly’ putters

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

American Steve Stricker, widely regarded as one of the game’s best putters, said he had changed his view

STEVE Stricker and Jim Furyk joined a growing chorus of players backing the idea of the PGA Tour adopting a local rule to ignore a proposed ban on putters anchored to the body.

American Stricker, widely regarded as one of the game’s best putters, said he had changed his view after consistently opposing the use of long putters and that he would not be surprised to see the tour dig in its heels.

Fellow veteran Furyk, like Stricker a member of the tour’s policy board, disagreed with the proposed ban while he supported ‘bifurcation’ whereby professionals and amateurs could play under different rules.

“It’s kind of confusing,” Stricker told reporters while preparing for the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at Dove Mountain.

“I’m really not for the long putter, but I’m really not for the change, either. The timing is bad. We’re at a point

in time when we really don’t need to be messing around with it.

“I don’t know if that’s going to happen, don’t even know if the USGA is going to go ahead with the rule change. But I can see the (PGA) Tour adopting the rule saying that it’s okay for players to use a long putter.”

In November, the game’s governing bodies proposed a ban on players anchoring putters to their body, saying they wanted to outlaw the practice by 2016 in order to preserve the ‘skill and challenge’ of putting.

Players and the golfing community were then given 90 days in which to discuss that proposal by the Royal and Ancient (R&A) and United States Golf Association (USGA), a period which concludes at the end of this month.

The announcement by the rulemakers came after three of the past five major champions had used ‘belly’ putters - Keegan Bradley (2011 PGA Championship), Webb Simpson (2012 US Open) and Ernie Els (2012

Open Championship).

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem discussed the proposed ban on a conference call with his 16-member player advisory council on Monday, and afterwards with the tour’s policy board.

“Our game out here on tour is pretty strong,” said Stricker, a 12-time winner on the US circuit. “There are a few players that have won majors with a long putter, and they’re faces of our tour.

“And to take that away, I think, is not a good thing for our tour or our sport at this time.”

Furyk, who won his only major title at the 2003 US Open, told Golf Week magazine he was opposed to any change given that long putters had been in use for the last 40 years.

“I disagree with the rule,” Furyk said. “I think it’s just been too long. But I wouldn’t want to do something differently from the USGA, as well, because that opens a whole new can of worms in the world of golf.”

NICK D’Arcy believes his fellow swimmers have to take responsibility for Australia’s disappointment in the London Olympic pool last year rather than blaming coaches and team management.

The controversial 25-yearold, who swam well outside his personal best to crash out of the 200 metres butterfly in the semi-finals in London, said the review of team culture released on Tuesday was deliberately inflammatory.

The Bluestone review said team management had failed to prevent a ‘toxic culture’ from developing in the swimming squad, which produced Australia’s worst Olympic results in 20 years.

The review said abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs, as well as flouting of curfews and bullying, had gone unchecked and contributed to the underperformance.

“Some of things outlined there were designed to be inflammatory more than anything else,” D’Arcy told Triple M radio yesterday.

“I think we’re just trying to look for excuses and trying to pass the buck. I certainly didn’t perform the way I would have liked to. I take full personal responsibility for that.”

D’Arcy is no stranger to controversy having been expelled from the team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics for attacking a team mate in a bar and breaking his jaw, nose and eye socket.

After some outcry, he was allowed to swim in London despite having declared himself bankrupt when his victim won A$180,000 in compensation in a civil case in 2011.

He was also forced to leave the London Olympic village straight after his event last year as punishment for posing with firearms and posting the pictures on social media in the run-up to the Games.

Nevertheless, he said he thought the barrage of criticism aimed at head coach Leigh Nugent since the Bluestone review and another independent review with a wider remit were published on Tuesday was misplaced.

“Leigh Nugent did a wonderful job. He was always there to support and offer guidance to athletes,” he said.

“I think that the framework was there for us. We just didn’t come through on the day.”

D’Arcy said allegations of bullying had to be taken in the context of what had always been an intense environment.

“When you get that number of boys together, you are going to have that little bit of friction especially in that sport - they’re all kind of alpha males and those kinds of strong personalities,” he added.

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Liverpool ‘must recreate Anfield glory nights’ to overcome Zenit

Rested Lampard to miss Sparta showdown

Skrtel: Reds can overturn two-goal deficit

By Simon Peach

THE Anfield crowd could prove decisive for Liverpool if they are to overcome Zenit St Petersburg in tonight’s Europa League clash according to Martin Skrtel.

Brendan Rodgers’ side must overhaul Zenit’s first leg advantage after goals from Hulk and Sergei Semak fired the Russians to a 2-0 victory.

Slovakian international Skrtel played for Zenit before his move to Merseyside, and the defender believes a sell-out crowd at Anfield can help Liverpool turn the tie on its head.

He told Liverpoolfc.com: “The atmosphere at Anfield in European games is always special and the game on Thursday will be even more because we lost the first game and the crowd feel we need their help. I’m pretty sure they will help us.

“In football everything is possible. We’ll play at Anfield - we know the fans will be behind us and they’ll help us to get into the next round.

“It’s not going to be easy but if we can get an early goal that will help us a lot.

Then just try to play our game, create chances and take them. We believe we can beat them at home.”

Despite the disappointing result in the Petrovsky Stadium, Liverpool created enough opportunities to en-

A lot of work to do: Liverpool were beaten 2-0 by Zenit St Petersburg in their Europa League Last 32 first leg in Russia courage Skrtel that Zenit’s two goal lead can be cancelled out on home soil.

“It could be better. We lost the first leg 2-0 and that was not the best result for us.

“We controlled the game and created four or five chances. Unfortunately we couldn’t take them and score a goal. That gives us belief for the next game - we created chances away so we’ll definitely create them at home.

We just need to take them.

“But we’ve still got to play at Anfield - as we lost in Russia 2-0, the same can happen to them at Anfield. We still

have a shot and we will do everything possible and try our best to get a result and get us to the next round.”

Jose Enrique also stressed that Liverpool must avoid conceding an away goal as they push forward in search of the goals they need to progress to the last 16 of the competition.

An away goal for Zenit could essentially kill the the tie and the Spaniard admits his side must improve on their recent defensive displays.

“We have really good players and I think we can score

a lot of goals. The problem this season has been conceding goals,” Enrique told the Liverpool Echo.

“It’s so important to keep a clean sheet against Zenit.

They spent a lot of money so they have good players but we have to stop them scoring. We need to concentrate throughout.

“It is our most important game of the season and we have a good chance even though we lost the first game 2-0.

“The atmosphere will be really good and if we score early then our confidence

will grow.

“It will be the biggest European game I’ve ever played in. We know we have to score at least two but we can do it.

“I think we are playing well.

Even in the defeats to West Brom and Zenit, it was the same. We had many chances but we didn’t take them and our mistakes cost us two goals.

“The manager’s style of play is working and at home we’ve been doing well. We just have to try to make sure those errors don’t happen again.”

Lloris says Lyon v Spurs feels like a Champions League match

France keeper Hugo Lloris is likely to face former club Lyon

SPURS goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has said tonight’s Europa League match against Lyon feels like a high-profile Champions League game.

Andre Villas-Boas’ men will defend a 2-1 advantage from the first leg when they meet the French giants at the Stade de Gerland. The winners will play either Inter Milan or Romania’s Cluj.

Lloris joined Tottenham for £12 million from Lyon in the summer, and was rested for the first leg at White Hart Lane, with Brad Friedel playing in goal. He is keen to return for the second leg against his former club, and expects the match will indicate how Spurs will fare if they qualify for next season’s Champions League.

The France captain told the Evening Standard: “It could almost be a Champi-

ons League game between two top sides in Europe.

“For us, it’s a good test to play against a good team, we have a chance and we have to take it.

“Many players left Lyon in the last transfer window and the situation at the club isn’t easy at the moment but they can trust in their academy and still have great players like Lisandro Lopez and Bafetimbi Gomis.”

Even though Lyon are not as powerful as they have been over the last decade, when they were regular Champions League contenders and won seven consecutive Ligue 1 titles between 2002 and 2008, Remi Garde’s side are still second in the French league.

It is clear, too, that Lloris is still held in high regard at his former club.

At White Hart Lane, their fans taunted Friedel by chanting Lloris’ name at frequent intervals.

Lloris told the Spurs programme: “I received a lot of calls and messages after the draw was made and I have a lot of friends who are still at Lyon.

“It’s not easy because I have good relationships with all my former teammates but that’s life.

“On the pitch there are no friends. We will all give our best to try to pick up the victory.

“We have ambition in this competition and we want to win.

“The Europa League is difficult - it’s a long tournament with good teams in it but we have a strong side and we believe we can do something in this competition.”

FRANK Lampard will have to wait to score his 200th goal for Chelsea as interim manager Rafael Benitez has chosen to rest the midfielder for tonight’s Europa League tie against Sparta Prague.

Lampard’s Stamford Bridge future may be in doubt but the 34-year-old’s goalscoring prowess is not, having fired five goals in his last six games for the Blues.

That run has seen Lampard move just three goals shy of Bobby Tambling’s all-time record of 202 for Chelsea - a target Benitez fully expects Lampard to pass before his contract runs out at the end of the season.

However, the midfielder will not be able to add to that haul tonight as Benitez plans to rest him for the last-32 tie with Sparta, for which the west Londoners boast a one-goal lead from last week’s first leg.

“Lampard will not be in the squad because we have to manage it a little bit,” he said, with Sunday’s trip to second-place Manchester City clearly in mind.

“If he can score a lot of goals it will be fantastic for him and will be fantastic for us.

“Everybody knows that he is close. I am sure they will try to help if they have a chance. If we have a penalty, he can take it and things like this.

“But the main thing is he’s doing well, scoring goals.

We have more competition now and that’s good for me. It’s a problem, but a good one because we have too many games, so to have many players available is good.”

Lampard has impressed Benitez since his November arrival, scoring a goal in almost every other game under the interim boss.

His importance to the side is clear and similar to the role played by Steven Gerrard during the Spaniard’s time at the Liverpool helm.

“In terms of liking to score goals and their timing getting into the box is really good, that’s their similarity,” Benitez said.

“Both are offensive midfielders who can score every game. They can take penalties, free-kicks and can still score in open play.

They are two great players.

“It’s important to have these kind of players, they are good professionals, who train properly and stay fit.

He’s doing that so I have to manage him.”

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Champions League

Wenger has few options to save Arsenal’s season

‘Textbook’ Bayern set sights on elusive final victory

Manager accepts Gunners were outclassed

BAYERN Munich’s sparkling 3-1 victory at Arsenal in their Champions League round of 16 first leg on Tuesday confirmed the German side’s focus is firmly set on making amends for two final defeats in the last three years.

Bayern will be hoping their trip to London was not the last this season with the Champions League final being held in the English capital in May. “This was a superb performance, a top game from us,” Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said yesterday as the team gathered in their London hotel. “Although we still have to have a lot of respect for the second leg in March.

Where other teams may have buckled under they weight of unfulfilled expectations after losing finals in Madrid in 2010 and more importantly last year in their home stadium, Bayern look to have become even stronger.

A string of good transfers in the off-season, including holding midfielder Javi Martinez, who has formed an efficient partnership with Bastian Schweinsteiger, and top-scorer Mario Mandzukic have added considerable depth to their squad.

They have now won all six of their games this year, dominating each one from the start.

With a 15-point cushion in the league and the domestic title all but sewn up, Bayern have the luxury of switching their focus to winning the European title for first time since 2001.

In the past two seasons, Bayern have been forced to play second fiddle to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.

This campaign, the Bavarians have led from the front and maintained their purpose despite the possible distraction of securing the services of the highly sough-after former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola for next season.

With only one goal conceded in their last six games and their two-season title drought seemingly set to end in May, Bayern look well-equipped for the return leg on March 13.

“This was a texbook performance in the first half.

I have not seen a Bayern team that has played as good as we did in the first half hour,” club boss Uli Hoeness said as he heaped praise on his players.

“We still have a lot to do until the final. But right now I am dreaming only of the quarter-finals,” Hoeness added .

By Mark Meadows LONG-STANDING Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger can do very little to salvage even pride from what looks like being another trophyless season after Tuesday’s 3-1 Champions League home defeat byBayern Munich.

The last-16 first-leg loss exposed the lack of strength in depth which has contributed to the Londoners going out of both domestic cup competitions, lying fifth in the Premier League and looking poised to bow out of Europe.

Bundesliga leaders Bayern had the luxury of bringing on Dutch World Cup runnerup Arjen Robben and prolific Germany striker Mario Gomez in the second half but a glance at Arsenal’s bench showed no such riches and Wenger’s hands are largely tied.

The Frenchman, at Arsenal since 1996, failed to bring in attacking quality in the January transfer window and the club look doomed to an eighth season without a trophy, leading fans to question whether they still have the right man in charge.

Wenger accepted the Gunners had been outclassed by Bayern in the first leg of their last-16 tie at the Emirates Stadium.

“The quality of my players is there, but they are not get-

ting reward for their efforts,” he said.

“I still have confidence in my players and in my team but on this evidence there is clearly work to be done.

“However, you have to give Bayern credit for their class.

In patches in the first half, it was a difference of quality in their display to ours.”

The indefatigable Jack Wilshere is carrying the team almost alone but the midfielder jumped to the defence of Wenger, who won three Premier League titles in 1998, 2002 and 2004.

“It’s nothing to do with the manager - he puts us on the pitch, it’s down to us to perform,” he told reporters.

“The players have to take responsibility, we’re man enough to take it. The manager has been here 16 years and he’s done a great job so you can’t question him.”

However, celebrity fans such as British US talk show host Piers Morgan and golfer Ian Poulter are among those to have called for Wenger’s departure and it is difficult to see what the manager can do to ease the pressure.

First-half strikes from Toni Kroos and Thomas Mueller already had Arsenal against the wall but Mario Mandzukic’s bizarre third goal after Lukas Podolski had pulled one back against his old club means last-16 progression looks impossible.

Not even a 2-0 win in Mu-

nich in three weeks’ time will be enough, though that looks highly unlikely given Arsenal’s current naivety in defence and fickleness in attack.

Thomas Vermaelen, still easily Arsenal’s best centre half despite some lapses this term, had to switch to left back following Wenger’s bungled attempts to fill the role and that left Per Mertesacker coming back into the heart of the backline.

The tall German lumbered about like a zombie butler in a horror movie, a pale imitation of the man Bayern would have remembered from his Bundesliga days.

Midfielder Aaron Ramsey again looked out of his depth and main striker Theo Walcott proved for the umpteenth time that despite a lucrative new contract he is not the finished article.

Arsenal’s best hope came from substitute Olivier Giroud, who had one decent chance to cut the deficit.

However, the striker is hardly in the class of Robben and Gomez despite a great season with French champions Montpellier.

The Gunners are four points off the fourth and final Champions League spot in the Premier League and if Wenger cannot reach that goal with his limited means for manoeuvre, the calls for change will reverberate around the Emirates.

By Karolos Grohmann

It’s all gone wrong: Arsenal’s trophyless run looks like stretching to eight years after defeat to Bayern Munich

Malaga can breathe life into Porto tie thanks to defence

By Mark Elkington

Joao Moutinho (left) scored the only goal to give Porto a narrow advantage for the second leg on March 13

MALAGA’S forwards have their defence to thank for giving them a chance to redeem themselves against Porto and for keeping alive their Champions League quarter-final hopes.

Competition debutants Malaga have been one of the surprise teams this season, their attractive brand of possession football winning widespread praise, but they ran into a wall in Porto and lost Tuesday’s last-16 first leg 1-0.

Double European Cup winners Porto starved the visitors of the ball and Joao Moutinho scored the only goal, albeit from an offside position, to give the Portuguese side a narrow advantage for the second leg on March 13.

“We played one of our worst games of the season in attack,” Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini told a post-match news confer-

ence, after his side failed to register a shot on target.

“But taking into account how the game progressed, with all the possession they had, Porto didn’t do us too much damage.

“We hope that in a more normal game, where we see more of the ball, we will turn this around.”

Malaga, who are fourth in La Liga, have the Spanish league’s tightest defence and, in Willy Caballero, one of the most in-form goalkeepers.

However, it is in midfield and up front that Malaga have usually caught the eye, with the ball-playing talents of Spanish under-21 international Isco standing out.

Freeing the playmaker from the straightjacket Porto managed to keep him in on Tuesday will be key to their hopes of overturning the result in the second leg.

“Considering what happened, the best thing about

the game was the result,” Isco told reporters.

“At 1-0 I think we are capable of turning the tie around at the Rosaleda.

“They played a very tough game, very tactical, and they barely let us breathe.

They didn’t give us a minute to play our football.

We couldn’t find the space, but 90 minutes are very long and we can turn this round.”

Malaga’s experienced midfielder Julio Baptista, an influential figure in the dressing-room after spells at Real Madrid, Arsenal and AS Roma, said: “We let Porto play and didn’t manage to play ourselves.

“They were better than us but the knockout rounds aren’t settled in 90 minutes,” added the Brazil international, back after almost a year out with injury.

“Nothing is decided yet and we still have the return match. We certainly have to be a lot better then we were today.”

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Milan strangle Barcelona to seal shock win over favourites Muted Messi struggles to make his mark AC Milan 2 Barcelona 0

By Brian Homewood

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hotly-protested goal by Kevin-Prince Boateng set AC Milan on their way to a shock 2-0 win over Champions League favourites Barcelona in their last-16 firstleg tie last night.

Barcelona, who eliminated Milan last season, surrounded the referee claiming Cristian Zapata had handled the ball before it landed at the feet of Boateng who smacked it into the net in the 57th minute.

Barca, who had dominated possession in their familiar style, lost their grip on the game after the incident and were sunk by a second goal from Boateng’s fellow Ghanaian Sulley Muntari.

“It’s very bad (for the return leg),” Barcelona defender Gerard Pique said in an interview with Spanish television broadcaster Canal Plus.

“The first half wasn’t bad

Ecstasy: Kevin-Prince Boateng celebrates after opening the scoring, but Barca were furious over a handball that wasn’t given and we controlled the game but when they scored the first goal we lost that control and they were able to take their second chance.

“We have to improve and learn and try to turn things around at the Camp Nou.

“There is no excuse from the pitch or the referee.

We’ll look forward to the return leg now and try to win,” he added.

The return leg is on March 12.

Even Barcelona top scorer

Lionel Messi, who has netted in the last 14 La Liga matches, struggled to make his mark with a muted performance against Milan.

Milan had failed to win in their previous seven meetings with Barcelona and

started as rank outsiders with a team mostly assembled during the course of the season.

Muntari fired a warning shot with a dipping 30-metre volley which flew over the crossbar after five minutes

and Stephan El Shaarawy should have done better when he was sent clear by Boateng’s flicked pass.

The teenage forward failed to control the ball as he raced towards goal, allowing Carles Puyol to intercept.

From the corner, Boateng hooked the ball just wide of the far post, giving Barca their first scare.

Barca, who could have had a penalty when Dani Alves’ whipped cross clearly hit Philippe Mexes’ outstretched arm, took control with their familiar slick passing, although they did not create many real openings.

It was Milan who were more dangerous as a low diagonal cross into the area from Zapata eluded El Shaarawy just before halftime.

The second half started with more Barcelona possession before Milan struck the first blow. A short free kick was played by Riccardo Montolivo, his low shot struck Jordi Alba, ricocheted against Zapata’s outstretched arms and fell to Boateng to sweep into the goal.

Barca protested furiously and were unsettled as the match degenerated into a niggly affair, with the visitors infuriating by crowd at one point by keeping possession after a drop ball.

Andres Iniesta was close to equalising with a shot which swerved wide but instead Milan added another goal when a well-worked move ended with Muntari firing into the far corner of the net in the 80th minute.

Drogba impresses but Galatasaray held Galatasaray 1 Schalke 1

By Darren Butler

Didier Drogba (left) linked up well with Burak Yilmaz, who scored his seventh Champions League goal of the season

DIDIER Drogba impressed on his Champions League debut for Galatasaray but the Turkish side were held to a 1-1 draw by Schalke 04 after an entertaining last 16 first leg last night.

The Ivory Coast striker, last year’s Champions League hero for Chelsea who moved to the Istanbul club last month after a spell in China, linked up well with Burak Yilmaz in attack.

Yilmaz scored his seventh goal in seven Champions League matches, putting Galatasaray ahead in

the 12th minute when he picked up a pass from Selcuk Inan and flicked the ball around a defender to power in a shot past keeperTimo Hildebrand.

Schalke equalised in the closing seconds of a pulsating first half. The visitors broke quickly, Jefferson Farfan passing across the goal to Jermaine Jones who side-footed past Fernando Muslera, leaving the German side well placed ahead of the second leg.

Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder, another big-name acquisition by ambitious Galatasaray, was substituted after the first half.

Schalke, in poor form in the Bundesliga, began strongly with Jones cutting in from the left and firing in a shot, forcing a save from Muslera in the first minute.

But spurred on by the passionate home fans, Galatasaray soon began to demonstrate their attacking power in what was an open game from the outset.

The visitors had a chance to equalise soon after Yilmaz’s opener, but KlaasJan Huntelaar failed to steer the ball in at the far post.

Hamit Altinop nearly doubled the home team’s lead in the 18th minute with a powerful shot which ricocheted of the bar after Hildebrand saved an effort from Drogba, who took the winning penalty for Chelsea in last season’s final shootout against Bayern Munich.

Yilmaz had another chance to score in the 38th minute when Drogba put him through on goal but Hilde-

brand blocked his shot.

The match continued to alternate attacks in the second half and Farfan had a chance to put the visitors ahead in the 55th minute but his effort was blocked

by Sabri Sarioglu.

In the final stages, Galatasaray pressed harder for an equaliser while Schalke looked to hang on for a draw.

Yilmaz had a great chance to put Galatasaray back ahead in the 77th minute but he fired wide of the Schalke goal.