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RESIDENT NICOS Anastasiades yesterday accused UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer and his team of undermining the president’s credibility and the prospects of resuming peace talks in a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Anastasiades threatened to pull out of the UN-planned dinner between himself and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu on May 29, unless the UN chief could provide personal assurances that it would be a “social event” only.

The two-page letter, revealed by state broadcaster CyBC last night, is dated May 17, 2013. In the letter, Anastasiades assures the UN chief of his commitment to the peace process.

He refers to the message sent to Ban via Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides recently in New York, regarding the need to postpone the resumption of peace talks until autumn so Anastasiades could focus on the pressing economic crisis.

The president further reminds Ban in the letter that it was the Turkish Cypriot side that had abandoned the peace

talks in March 2012, using Cyprus’ EU presidency as an excuse, despite the readiness of then president Demetris Christofias to continue the talks.

Getting to the crux of the matter, Anastasiades then refers to Downer’s invitation to himself and Eroglu to attend a dinner hosted by the UN, which he argues, was clearly presented as a social event.

According to CyBC, the president writes to Ban: “I regret to express my disappointment with the handling of this issue by your special adviser who with actions and words creates expectations of a meeting of high political importance.”

Additionally, in an effort to achieve this goal, Downer’s associates are “giving inaccurate information which serves to undermine my credibility and the prospects of resuming peace talks”.

Anastasiades concludes the letter warning that he would seriously reconsider his presence at the dinner unless he receives explicit assurances from Ban, not his special adviser, about the social nature of the dinner. Invited to comment on reports of the letter, Stylianides said the government

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RUSSIAN WARSHIPS DOCK IN LIMASSOL

Three warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet entered Mediterranean waters for the first time in decades, docking in Limassol port yesterday. The ships will remain in Cyprus until Monday (CNA) FULL STORY PAGE 3

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ON THIS DAY MAY 18 1804

35 years ago, Saturday May 18, 1978

Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced that it has made representations both to Greece and to the Council of Europe against the publication in Greek papers of the Human Rights Commission’s report which charged Turkish troops with atrocities in Cyprus during and after the invasion.

1950 Twelve nations agree on a permanent defence organisation for the US and Europe.

45 years ago, Monday May 18, 1968 1964 Scores of youths are given prison sentences following violent clashes between gangs of Mods and Rockers.

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1980 Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, erupts after being dormant for 123 years, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.

1994 Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians take over.

President Makarios has declared that the Cyprus government will keep the door open for talks despite the recent discovery of Turkish Cypriot attempts to move arms from one part of the country to another. The president, said the transportation of arms by Turks from one part of the island to another accentuated criticism from Greek Cypriots against the peace measures.

55 years ago, Tuesday May 18, 1958 Inspired by nationalist fervour in the Moat of Nicosia, Turkish leaders rededicated themselves to the partition cause yesterday during celebrations of the anniversary of the start of the struggle for Turkish Independence on May 19, 1919. Dr Fazil Kutchuk, leader of the Cyprus Turkish Party said: “In our struggle for partition we are determined to shed the last drops of our blood”.

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Historic visit by Russian ships Defence minister to go aboard today

By Peter Stevenson THREE warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet entered Mediterranean waters for the first time in decades, docking in Limassol port yesterday.

“The task force has successfully passed through the Suez Channel and entered the Mediterranean. It is the first time in decades that Pacific Fleet warships enter this region,” Captain First Rank Roman Martov told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

The fleet, including the destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the amphibious warfare ships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi, the tanker Pechenga and the tugboat Fotiy Krylov left the port of Vladivostok on March 19 to join Russia’s Mediterranean task force.

Cypriot Defence Minister Fotis Fotiou is due to visit the

warships today after receiving an invitation from the Russian ambassador to Cyprus.

Sigmalive reported yesterday that it is likely the ambassador would ask for permission from the Cyprus government to allow other ships from Russia’s Mediterranean task force to dock in Limassol. It was reported that the 300 sailors from the vessels currently docked there, would receive permits to visit the coastal town.

The ships are expected to set sail from Limassol around noon on Monday after being refuelled.

Last year, two warships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet docked at Limassol as tensions rose in Syria. That was the first time in at least ten years that any Russian warship had docked in Cyprus.

The arrival of the Pacific Fleet is a new first.

“The continued presence of Russian warships close to Syria demonstrates the Kremlin’s desire to keep up the Russian navy colours in the area to indicate that Russia stands by its attitude that the Syrian crisis should be resolved within the country by the country’s existing political forces,” Igor Korotchenko, editor in chief of the Russian monthly journal National Defence said in an interview.

He added that he did not foresee the vessels taking part in any evacuation of the many Russian citizens in Syria.

The Russian foreign ministry has been talking about the possibility of such an evacuation. At the end of January, a contingent of 77 people, mostly women and children, were evacuated from Syria via Beirut by two Russian emergency flights.

One of the ships just after docking “Should such a need arise,” Korotchenko said, Russian citizens would be evacuated by plane.

Russian’s wider Mediterranean task force includes the large anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, the salvage/ rescue tugs Altai and SB-921 and the tanker Lena from the Northern and Baltic Fleets, as well as the Ropucha-II Class landing ship Azov from the Black Sea Fleet.

The task force may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said last Sunday.

The Russian defence ministry said in April that Moscow had begun setting up a naval task force in the Mediterranean. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said in March a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean was need-

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ed to defend Russia’s interests in the region.

A senior defence ministry official said the Mediterranean task force’s command and control agencies would be based either in Novorossiysk, Russia, or in Sevastopol, Ukraine.

Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, head of Russia’s parliamentary defence committee, previously told RIA Novosti that the Mediterranean task force should be comprised of ten warships and support vessels as part of several tactical groups tasked with attack, antisubmarine warfare and minesweeping.

The Soviet Union maintained its fifth Mediterranean Squadron from 1967 until 1992. It was formed to counter the US Navy’s sixth Fleet during the Cold War, and consisted of 30-50 warships and auxiliary vessels.

UNSCRUPULOUS individuals have been going door-todoor in Paphos falsely asking for money to help five-yearold leukaemia sufferer George Philippides who is due to go to Germany to receive a bone marrow transplant.

The fake collection has been going on for around 20 days with the culprits asking people to give no less than €20.

The boy’s family, while they did issue a plea for bone marrow donors – two were found on Monday – never asked for cash.

“As a family we have not asked anyone for help. The family and friends will financially support my grandson’s trip to Germany. It is up to the doctors now as to when the transplant will take place,” Philippides grandfather, Iacovos Philippides said yesterday. Young George and his parents will spend about 200 days in Germany for the boy to have the transplant and also recover.

“This is a crime against humanity and a crime against the goodness of Cypriot society. We have received so much help from people while we were looking for a bone marrow donor that it is shameful to think that some people are taking advantage of that goodness for their own financial gain. It also puts shame on our family. A friend of mine told me about this false fundraising and I also told a friend of mine who is in the police force in Paphos,” Philippides said. Police are now investigating.

Philippides said that he wants people to be warned so they do not give money to criminals during these hard times.

“When a donor was found for George we received many messages of joy and we also felt very happy to know that our search for a donor also helped other children who are going through similar problems,” Philippides went on to say.

Five viable bone marrow donors for Philippides who is suffering from leukaemia, were found earlier this week.

The donors were found in Germany, Israel and the USA but only two were currently available.

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Trashing the banks to win election votes

By Poly Pantelides

Former central bank governor launches scathing attack on previous government

By Stefanos Evripidou FORMER CENTRAL Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides yesterday accused his successor and the previous government of launching an assault on the banking system to win votes in the presidential elections at the cost of the destruction of the economy.

In a live link-up from America with a conference on the euro organised by the Tassos Papadopoulos Centre for Studies yesterday in Nicosia, Orphanides was scathing about the responsibility of the Demetris Christofias government and current central bank governor Panicos Demetriades for today’s economic mess.

He argued that the economic consequences of the past five years were so severe that during that time, real GDP per person fell cumulatively by more than 10 per cent. Following the latest damage to the economy, the decline in GDP is projected to continue.

“In five-short years, Cyprus had become a case study on how destructive economic populism can be,” said Orphanides.

He quoted German economist Rudi Dornbusch who said: “Populism always ends in tears.”

Despite being at the helm of the central bank from May 2007 to May 2012, Orphanides maintained the bulk of the blame for today’s crisis rests mostly with the Christofias government, though he also had a dig at his successor for allegedly undermining the independence of the central bank by following the AKEL party line.

In his live address to the conference, the former governor noted that when Cyprus joined the eurozone in 2008, it had the respect of its peers.

“Five years later, the economy is in shambles. For two whole years, Cyprus has a government with no access to markets. Euro deposits in Cyprus are unequal to euro deposits elsewhere. How could this happen?” he asked.

Orphanides, who now teaches at MIT in the US, noted that unlike other southern European countries that ran into trouble and applied for a bailout in recent years, when the Cypriot government ran into problems in May 2011 when it was shut out of international markets, it refused to follow the rules.

Instead of seeking help immediately, it waited a full year to request a bailout, on the same day in fact that Spain asked for financial assistance.

However, unlike other EU countries in trouble, the Cyprus government “refused to finalise an MoU”. In contrast, Spain completed its agreement on July 20, 2012, three weeks after it had asked for help.

“When financial markets raised red flags, the government had a choice to fix the problem, regain credibility and restore sustainability or make the problem worse. “Faced with this choice, the government assaulted the banking sector that was already weakened by the global crisis. By the time the five-year term of this government had ended, it had also succeeded in destroying the economic model of the country,” he said.

Orphanides presented in a slide show a letter dated May 18, 2010, from the central bank when he was at the helm, to the government warning of the looming economic and banking crisis.

“Unfortunately for the Cypriot public, the government dismissed all these warnings.

Not heeding the ECB warnings was particularly costly,” he said.

The former governor argued that in 2011 while everyone else was taking note of the widening fiscal problems and credit downgrades in Cyprus along with the deteriorating situation in Greece, the government imposed a levy on banks to raise more revenue and continue spending.

“By May, the situation had deteriorated but the Ministry of Finance denied it. There was a reason for the denials.

The Ministry of Finance was trying to avoid disclosing the deterioration of the country’s finances prior to the parliamentary elections in late May.” He added: “The government’s plan was successful.

However, the country was to pay a huge cost. The government had lost control of its financing.” Orphanides argued that anyone with access to market data “could see the tsunami coming”.

He further noted that the regulatory authority under his leadership had been providing information to stakeholders on the worsening situation.

Instead of taking urgent action, the government and ruling party focused on “winning an extra seat in parliament”.

And unlike, Greece, Ireland and Portugal who when in a similar situation had requested financial assistance from the EU and the IMF, and despite the catastrophic consequences of the Mari explosion, Cyprus waited another year to seek help.

In a likely dig at his successor, Orphanides added: “Advisers, including academics based abroad, were drafted to criticise those calling for action and argue that what was needed was more spending. The country was falling apart.”

Orphanides further argued that the island’s two biggest banks were capable of handling a haircut of Greek bonds of up to 21 percent but the Eurogroup’s decision to revise that amount upwards was “a huge blow to the banking system in Europe” and cost Cypriot banks the equivalent of 25 per cent of Cypriot GDP. “With the economy tanking and no access to markets the sovereign faced default,” but instead of requesting EU/IMF assistance, Christofias sought a bilateral loan from Russia worth about 15 per cent of Cypriot GDP. “Once again, the government chose to delay taking corrective measures and make the problem worse.”

Orphanides accused the

Former central bank boss Athanasios Orphanides previous government of attempting to delay everything beyond the February 2013 elections. A plan which might have worked, had it kept its sovereign ratings at investment-grade or at least, its credibility.

One last chance to save the country presented itself in April 2012 when Orphanides arranged for then finance minister Vassos Shiarly to hold talks with the ECB in Frankfurt about adopting measures similar to what an MoU would have demanded and in this manner avoid a formal support mechanism.

“Unfortunately, his plan was deemed too politically costly for the communist party and resoundingly rejected. The president’s public dismissal on June 1, 2012 pushed Cyprus over the cliff. Shortly after, government bonds no longer met the ECB eligibility criteria.

“Cyprus became the first country in history whose central bank refused to accept its bonds for monetary policy

purposes for many months.”

When the government finally asked for help on June 25, 2012, “it chose not to complete the MoU” while “simultaneously, it intensified its assault on the banking system as a platform for the (presidential) election”.

Orphanides then charged AKEL with effectively securing control of the central bank by replacing him with Demetriades, so that “the government and central bank could engage in a coordinated campaign against the banks as part of the February 2013 presidential election campaign”.

“The goal was to create a negative image that could be used to claim that the only reason the government had to seek EU/IMF assistance was problems with the banks,” he said.

The campaign was so successful that it created the image the only way to recapitalise the banks without burdening the public debt was through a ‘bail-in’, he argued.

THE GOVERNMENT expects borrowing rates to fall in line with a reduction in deposit interest rates, the spokesman said yesterday.

Christos Stylianides was speaking after a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades, the finance minister and bank brass. The Central Bank governor was out of the country and did not attend.

“For the first time in years we have had a fundamental reduction in deposit interest rates, which anyone who knows fundamental economics understands, comes with an analogous reduction in borrowing rates because of market rules,” Stylianides said.

He added that yesterday’s discussion made clear that the reductions, both real and expected, would offer funding solutions to “productive sectors of the economy”.

Stylianides said they could not intervene in the free market, conceding however that both government and the banking regulator believe that lower interest rates would benefit the market.

Ruling DISY leader Averof Neophytou said that his party had submitted a bill to penalise banks imposing over than a 3.0 per cent interest rate on deposits.

He said he hoped efforts by the government and the Central Bank bore fruit so it would not be necessary to pass the bill into law.

If interest rates drop, then many more borrowers, households, and small to medium size businesses will be able to service their debt reducing negative impact to the whole of the economy and the banking sector, Neophytou said.

Anastasiades also met yesterday with the planning bureau’s executive team to discuss its new role in light of Cyprus’ agreement to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its international lenders.

The planning bureau is getting a fancy new name, and will now be referred to as the General Directorate of European Programmes, Coordination and Development. This is to reflect its upgraded duties, Stylianides said.

The Directorate, formerly known as the Planning Bureau, will be in charge of monitoring the MoU’s implementation and coordinate development policies set by the government.

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Shiarly: no excuse for spending money you don’t have

CYPRUS TODAY Capital controls relaxed further THE TWELFTH decree on capital controls was released yesterday with two new relaxations.

These include the increase in amount of non-cash payment or money transfer from €10,000 to €15,000 per month per natural person in each credit institution regardless of the purpose. And an increase from €50,000 to €75,000 per month per legal person in each credit institution regardless of the purpose.

It is prohibited to terminate fixed term deposits prior to their maturity unless the funds are used to repay a loan and/or overdraft and/or credit card within the same credit institution. The finance ministry also released the third decree on foreign bank exemptions which included the names of four new banks. These are BLOM Bank SAL, Lebanon and Gulf Bank SAL, OJSC Promsvyazbank, Russian Commercial Bank (Cyprus) Ltd. Originally Bank of Beirut SAL, Banque BEMO SAL, Banque SBA, Barclays Bank PLC, BBAC SAL, Credit Libanais SAL, Jordan Ahli Bank plc, Privatbank Commercial Bank had been exempt from capital controls.

EU Commission had been warning Cyprus since 2010

By Poly Pantelides THERE is no excuse for spending money you do not have and creating huge fiscal deficits, especially when excluded by international markets, former Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said yesterday.

Shiarly was summoned for the second time to the committee of inquiry that is probing the circumstances leading to the country’s banking crisis culminating in a haircut of the deposits and the winding down of island’s the second-biggest bank Laiki, and the restructuring of the biggest, Bank of Cyprus.

Asked whether he agreed that Cyprus’ finances kept deteriorating in the run-up to a bailout agreement in March, Shiarly said there was “a systematic collapse of the economy, partly because of the international financial situation consequently making something of the sort expectable”. But he added there was “no excuse for creating huge fiscal deficits and spending money you do not have, especially when you realise that international markets have already excluded you”.

Shiarly – the third and last

finance minister in the Demetris Christofias’ administration - took over from Kikis Kazamias in March 2012, almost a year after Cyprus was no longer able to borrow from international markets because its sovereign rating level reached “junk” level.

Cyprus secured a €2.5 billion loan from Russia to get by, a move which Michalis Sarris, former finance minister who negotiated the March bailout, said was a mistake because it allowed the government to continue spending more than it was earning and avoid implementing structural changes.

Asked yesterday if he agreed, Shiarly said the loan “was a small part of actions that were necessary to keep the state going”. But he said Cyprus’ problems could only have been solved by an EU bailout. Every month during his ministerial term that ended in February loomed under the threat the government would not meet its obligations, he said. It was only in February that he could confirm the state could survive until the end of May, Shiarly added.

But the European Commission had been warning the government since 2010, he said. “We would have seen better results if we heeded

A more modern co-op sector THE NEW law aimed at enabling cooperative banks to raise capital paves the way for better running, more modern entities, the co-op banks’ supervisor said yesterday.

Constantinos Liras, Commissioner for the Cooperative Societies’ Supervision and Development authority, said that by having the right to issue shares, co-ops would be able to better run their finances in the future.

Parliament on Thursday approved government-drafted legislation making it mandatory for cooperative credit institutions to issue shares for the purposes of raising capital, converting them from unlimited liability to limited liability companies. Liras said that rather than having to undergo this step separately for all 92 co-ops, the move expedited the process, paving the way for “better-run, more modern” bodies.

Future steps include rationalising expenses, and merging smaller co-ops into bigger bodies, Liras said.

Former finance minister Vassos Shiarly those warnings but it was the Greek sovereign debt write-down in May 2011 that broke the camel’s back,” he said.

“With the benefit of hindsight I conclude that I saw no substantial evaluation of the consequences of the write-down being done by either the Central Bank or the finance ministry,” Shiarly added.

At that point, the government should have immediately applied for EU support but instead opted for the intermediary solution of a Russian loan that could not act as a solution, he said.

Shiarly also defended the

Cost cutting pays off in first quarter

By Peter Stevenson PUBLIC FINANCES recorded a surplus of €44.2m during the first quarter of 2013 due to a reduction of government expenditure by 17.2 per cent.

Despite a reduction of 7.6 per cent in income, cost-cutting measures by the government led to a surplus of €44.2m according to the Statistical Services which had reported a deficit of €148m during the first three months of 2012.

The surplus was mainly due to a decrease of 6.9 per cent in civil servant salaries, a decrease of 23 per cent in social benefits and a 21.8 per cent decrease in government operating expenses.

State revenue during the first three months of 2013 came to €1.6 billion which is 7.6 per cent less than the corresponding period in 2012, while state expenditure, which came to €1.56 billion, decreased by 17.2 per cent since the first quarter of last year.

The main sources of state revenue during the period between January and March of 2013 were taxes on production and imports, which came to €451 million, 25.1 per cent less than during the same period in 2012.

The government also received €244 million

from VAT which was 28.5 per cent less than in 2012 and €411 million from income tax which was also 22.8 per cent less than last year.

Revenue from state services came to €270 million which is 147 per cent higher than during the corresponding period of 2012.

The main areas of state expenditure during the first quarter of 2013 were employee salaries, including civil servant pensions, which came to €609 million, a 6.9 per cent decrease from 2012. Social benefits were down 23 per cent, reaching €449 million while operating costs came to €156 million which was 21.8 per cent less than the first three months of last year.

During the fourth quarter of 2012 there was a deficit of €538.5 million, compared to a deficit of €592.4 million during the corresponding period of 2011. Total revenue increased by 7.7 per cent from the same period of 2011, while total expenditure had increased by 3.7 per cent.

In 2012 public finances recorded a deficit of €1.1 billion, which corresponds to 6.3 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Overall, last year, expenditure rose by 0.1 per cent compared to 2011, while revenue also increased marginally by 0.2 per cent in comparison to the previous year.

decision to continue supporting the former Laiki bank landing it with billions in emergency liquidity assistance, equivalent to over half of the country’s economic output. It was not political expediency in light of a change of government in February, he said. Laiki needed to be supported because if it was allowed to collapse, the state would be unable to cover insured depositors.

AG drops out of appeal case ATTORNEY-general, Petros Clerides will not be defending President Nicos Anastasiades in the appeal case involving former deputy governor of the Central Bank, Spyros Stavrinakis. On April 9, the President cancelled Stavrinakis’ appointment which led to legal proceedings. The government is now expected to appoint a private lawyer. Legal services have returned all of the relevant paperwork and documents. Stavrinakis had been controversially appointment by former President Demetris Christofias on February 4. According CyBC Clerides decided to step-down because he had initially expressed the view that the decision to appoint a deputy governor was justified due to the financial situation on the island.

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No turning back on med school Controversial project going ahead because it’s ‘necessary’

By Peter Stevenson THE GOVERNMENT believes the time has come to open the University of Cyprus’ medical school, according to spokesman Christos Stylianides.

Speaking at the Presidential Palace, Stylianides told reporters that the government’s plans remain the same as they were in President Nicos Anastasiades’ pre-election manifesto. “DISY does not oppose the opening of the medical school but had requested the opening be delayed and it is up to parliament to decide the matter,” he said.

He added the government felt it necessary for the medical school to open, as planned, in September “despite the cost” as it was “a necessity for the island”.

DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous has submitted a bill to parliament to postpone plans to set up the medical school and said this week that Cyprus faced a choice “of either getting real and actually looking at the country’s situation or else – and I’m willing to bet on this – destroying ourselves”. He said it would cost the state €100 million a year to run the medical school, and that each student would cost

€1 million for full training, and that the country could not afford it right now.

The Cyprus Medical Association said on Wednesday that despite the crisis, matters of education and health needed to be treated differently and “with more sensitivity”. A medical school would contribute to upgrading the country’s medical practice improving health care provision, the association said. Cyprus already has a private medical school.

At the same time it was announced on Thursday that four new rural ambulance stations that were due to go on line, would now be axed after spending €500,000 on training 49 paramedics. The new service would also only have cost a fraction of what the medical school will cost each year.

The UCY medical school was the most popular choice for the 9,271 prospective schoolleavers who took their exams yesterday according to the head of the examinations office at the Education Ministry, Terpsa Constantinidou. Of those 9,271, a total of 586 chose the medical school while 6,244 took exams for universities and institutes of higher learning in Greece and Cyprus. (see editorial page 13)

The UCY medical school was the most popular choice as exams began yesterday

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‘Rent reductions are needed’ MPs say MPS HAVE stressed the need to freeze or reduce rents in both industrial and residential areas.

During the House Commerce and Interior Committee meetings, deputies discussed AKEL’s proposal to reduce rents by 25 per cent due to the current financial crisis.

Parliamentary parties aim to conclude their discussions by Thursday so the problem of business sustainability can be dealt with. The reduction of rent and burden sharing are necessities according to the House Interior Committee head, Yiannos Lamaris.

“The change in legislation that we talked about today included both industrial and residential property,” he said, adding that the committee’s proposals would be handed over to the relevant parlia-

mentary groups, who will decide their fate on Thursday.

Changes were made to the original proposal from AKEL as it had been deemed unconstitutional.

He went on to say that a reduction of 20 per cent was discussed instead of the original 25 per cent. “We must also take into consideration any reductions in rent that property owners made of their own volition, or if they avoided increasing rent despite contracts to the contrary,” Lamaris said.

In cases where property owners refuse to comply with the new law, Lamaris revealed that tenants would be within their rights to pay the reduced rent if the law was passed.

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titled by law to pay their next rent according to the prices set by the proposed legislation,” he said.

Lamaris added that if up until 18 months ago, a landlord and a tenant had decided to reduce rent, the percentage of that reduction would be deducted from the new amount which would be determined by any new law. A deduction would also be made in cases where landlords had not increased their rent, despite legally being permitted to raise rent by eight per cent every five years.

He concluded saying that if a tenant had not paid his rent for the last two months then they would not be able to take advantage of the proposed reductions. DIKO MP, Angelos Votsis said that the political powers needed to help small businesses.

He expressed the hope that common ground would be found.

Police plea POLICE are searching for a number of people who were caught on the GSP Stadium’s CCTV surveillance cameras causing trouble during the APOEL – AEK Larnaca football match on April 27.

Anyone who may know the people involved or can help locate the alleged troublemakers is asked to contact Nicosia CID, their closest police station or call the Citizen’s Helpline 1460.

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Home Anastasiades says envoy’s associates were ‘undermining his credibility’ Eight

years for soldier’s killer

Downer’s in the dog house over dinner with the leaders (continued from front page) wanted to stress that the May 29 dinner meeting between Anastasiades and Eroglu would be a social function.

“This is the type of meeting which has been agreed on,” he said. The letter comes a day after the government confirmed it had received a 77-page document from the UN containing the convergences achieved between the two sides during the period 2008-2012, when Christofias was in power.

Ruling DISY leader Averof Neophytou yesterday told reporters that it was becoming clearer day by day that the UN has begun preparations on the Cyprus problem talks.

Neophytou said it appeared other countries interested in playing a role in the Cyprus problem were making the same preparations, adding: “I believe the government, the president, will take the necessary measures and steps so as not to be surprised.”

He confirmed reports circulating earlier in the day that efforts were underway

to transform the planned dinner between the two community leaders from a social meeting to one with substantial political content.

DIKO leader Marios Garoyian said he had recently observed a flurry of activity from various players in the international community led by Downer to speed up the peace process.

He said the codification and presentation of past convergences was a clear attempt to lock in those convergences, despite the fact polls have shown Greek Cypriots are against a number of provisions in the document.

EVROKO leader Demetris Syllouris said Downer must go, or else a solution would never be found in Cyprus, adding that he would put pressure on the president to pursue this option.

EDEK leader and House President Yiannakis Omirou said Anastasiades needs to make clear that he doesn’t accept the convergences document as an interim agreement or basis to continue talks.

Unpopular at the moment: UN special envoy Alexander Downer Meanwhile, according to a Reuters report from Washington in the early hours of yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he saw a good opportunity for progress towards ending the division of Cyprus, a move that could further the exploitation of natural gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean.

He was speaking after his meeting with US President Barack Obama.

“We believe that there is a lot of opportunity to reach an agreement on the Cyprus issue, and this is an area which we continue to focus on,” Erdogan said at a news conference with Obama Development of Cyprus’ offshore Aphrodite gas field, which may contain 5 trillion to 8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas, could reverse

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its financial fortunes. But Turkey has strongly warned it against exploiting the gas before a settlement is reached.

Turkey has meanwhile drilled exploratory onshore oil wells on the north of the island that have shown trac-

es of hydrocarbons, further exacerbating the tensions.

“We’re optimistic, we’re working for a solution and we are asking the United States to apply diplomatic support,” a Turkish official said ahead of talks between Erdogan and Obama.

A UK tourist was yesterday jailed for eight years for the manslaughter of a British soldier in Ayia Napa last year.

David Lee Collins, 19, from Manchester, was stabbed to death after a fight broke out in a nightclub in the popular resort last November.

Mohammed Abdulkadir Osman, 20, originally from Somalia but believed to have been living in London, admitted manslaughter at a court hearing in Larnaca on April 22 and returned for sentencing yesterday.

Two other UK teenagers were acquitted of all charges.

Collins, from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was stationed at the British base of Dhekelia.

He was off duty with three other soldiers when they became involved in a brawl with three British holidaymakers in the early hours of the morning. He was stabbed the day before he was due to fly out to Afghanistan.

The fatal confrontation happened near Ayia Napa’s central square – an area long out of bounds to all British forces personnel between 5pm and 10am because of previous incidents.

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Crowds break up Georgia gay rights rally

By Margarita Antidze PRIESTS and thousands of other Georgians broke through police barricades and forced gay rights activists to flee yesterday, cutting short their rally to mark the international day against homophobia.

Holding banners saying “Stop Homosexual Propaganda in Georgia!” and “Not in our city!”, the demonstrators swarmed into a square in central Tbilisi where about 50 Georgians were rallying in support of gay rights.

Police escorted the gay rights supporters onto buses and drove them away to avoid violence.

Several people, including some jour-

EUROPE TODAY MP evicted GREECE’S parliament evicted a far-right lawmaker for insulting rivals in a tumultuous debate yesterday that prompted jeers of “Heil Hitler” from a leftist deputy and bolstered calls to crack down on the nationalist Golden Dawn party.

Tapping into resentment over budget cuts and illegal immigration in the crisishit country, Golden Dawn has emerged from obscurity to become Greece’s third-biggest party, polling nearly 12 per cent. Greece’s conservative-led government is drafting anti-racism legislation in an effort to rein in the party which it says abuses parliamentary immunity to incite racial hatred with anti-immigrant speeches.

The parliament speaker ordered Golden Dawn lawmaker Panagiotis Iliopoulos to leave the chamber because he had called other deputies “worthless” and “cattle”. “We’re not obliged to listen to their hate speeches,” said Speaker Yannis Dragasakis.

Over $1m heist MORE than $1-millionworth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town, police said yesterday.

The jewels were in the safe of the room rented by an employee of Chopard, a luxury jeweller, the source said on condition of anonymity.

nalists, received minor injuries, Georgian media said.

“We won’t allow these sick people to hold gay parades in our country,” said Zhuzhuna Tavadze, brandishing a bunch of nettles and adding that she was ready to fight.

‘DISAPPOINTED’ “It’s against our traditions and our morals.”

Later in the evening, rowdy crowds took to the streets and started shouting at people they thought might be homosexual.

Gay rights activists said they were disappointed.

“These people (gay rights demonstra-

tors)should have the right to express their views and to hold demonstrations,” said Nino Bolkvadze, a lawyer of the Identity non-governmental organisation.

Georgia is a former Soviet republic of 4.5 million people, most of whom are Orthodox Christians. There are only a few cafes or bars in the capital Tbilisi where gays meet.

Yesterday, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, urged authorities not to allow the gay rights rally, saying it was “a violation of the majority’s right” and “an insult” to Georgian traditions.

He has previously described homosexuality as an “anomaly and a disease”.

A policeman helps an injured man during the clashes at the attempted rally in Tbilisi yesterday

El-Mahroug recounts details of notorious parties in court Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ gatherings in the spotlight THE Moroccan woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has testified that a young woman attending one of his “bunga bunga” parties dressed up like a nun, danced provocatively and stripped down to her underwear for the thenpremier at his in-house disco.

Karima el-Mahroug gave evidence yesterday in the trial in Milan of three former Berlusconi aides charged with recruiting her and other women for prostitution.

They deny the charges. The trial is separate from one in which Berlusconi himself is charged with paying for sex with a minor and trying to cover it up.

El-Mahroug, known as Ruby, has spoken to the media but has never publicly given sworn testimony. Both she and Berlusconi deny having had sex.

The three Berlusconi aides - Emilio Fede, an executive in Berlusconi’s media empire; Nicole Minetti, a former dental hygienist, showgirl and local politician, and talent agent Dario “Lele” Mora - are accused of recruiting women for prostitution at the par-

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El-Mahroug’s (standing in this artist’s impression of the courtroom) testimony confirmed the sexual atmosphere at Berlusconi’s infamous ‘bunga bunga’ parties ties and abetting prostitution, including of a minor.

El-Mahroug’s testimony confirmed the sexual atmosphere at Berlusconi’s infamous “bunga bunga” parties, which were filled with beautiful young women. Many of those women have said they received money from the billionaire media mogul.

Dressed soberly with her hair pulled back, ElMahroug said she first made contact with Berlusconi’s inner circle when she participated in a beauty contest organised by Fede in Sicily when she was 16.

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After that she made her way to Milan, hoping to find work. She wound up landing a job as a hostess in nightclubs, earning around €100 (£85) a night.

Eventually, she ran into Fede at a restaurant, where she reminded him of his promise in Sicily to help her. Shortly thereafter, she was invited to a dinner party - at Berlusconi’s villa outside Milan.

She testified that she met the premier that night - on Valentine’s Day in 2010 - and that he gave her an envelope of €2,000 to €3,000 (£1,700 to £1,970), saying it was “a little

help” and asking for her telephone number, which she gave him.

At that party, she said, she introduced herself as Ruby and told other guests that she was Egyptian, that her mother was a famous Arab singer and that she was related to then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

She was 17 at the time but had passed herself off as being 24.

El-Mahroug confirmed what other witnesses have testified previously: that at some of the soirees, young female party guests had

dressed up like nuns and danced for Berlusconi and then stripped down to their underwear.

She said Minetti, one of the defendants, had dressed up like a nun at that February 14 party and lifted her costume to show off her legs as she danced in Berlusconi’s in-house disco, which was outfitted with a lap-dance pole.

El-Mahroug demonstrated from her seat how Minetti had raised her hemline. She said Minetti eventually took off her costume and was in just her lingerie.

She said other girls dressed up as President Barack Obama and a Milan magistrate who is leading the prosecution against Berlusconi in the sex scandal.

“The girls who were dressed in costumes approached him in a sensual way as they danced. They raised their skirts,” she testified. She added: “I never saw contact.”

El-Mahroug said she visited Berlusconi’s mansion, Arcore, a half-dozen times, and that each time she was given an envelope with money, always in €500 bills (£425 each). The second evening she went she said she was given around €2,000 (£1,300).

Prosecutors in Berlusconi’s separate trial have said her testimony is unreliable and are relying on her sworn statements.

The defence had initially called her as a witness, but then changed its strategy and didn’t call her. That trial is nearing a verdict.

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identify ‘Fire and rescue services Detectives ‘people of interest’ could save £200m a year’ in McCann case Reduction in call outs not matched by expenditure

By Catherine Wylie FIRE and rescue services in England could save up to £200 million a year if they were operated more efficiently, according to a report.

In the last decade there has been a 40 per cent reduction in call outs and incidents, and accidental deaths from fires in the home have reached an all time low - yet expenditure and fire-fighter numbers have remained broadly the same.

The independent report by Sir Ken Knight, former chief Fire and Rescue adviser for England, found that services continue to spend according to the budget they

A firefighter attends a training session at Kingsway Fire Station, Derby in this February 18, 2013 file photo are given rather than the risks they have to manage.

Significant variations exist between how the 46 different fire authorities operate, with the cost per head of providing a service almost double in some areas to that

of others, the report said.

It went on to say that this does not seem to be related to whether they are large or small, rural or urban, deprived or affluent.

The report says that if those authorities spending

above the average found ways to reduce their spending to the national average, then the money saved or reinvested could amount to nearly £200 million per year.

The report identified that the 46 fire and rescue authorities across England each had their own management structures, senior leaders and operational differences.

This often leads to widespread duplication of the design, commissioning and evaluation of fire-specific products and demonstrates the potential for much closer co-operation and reconfiguration of services, the report said.

In conducting the review, Sir Ken also found that fire and rescue authorities had high levels of capital reserves.

Between 2008 and 2012 total reserves held by stand-alone fire and rescue authorities increased from just over £200 million to more than £400 million - and the report said this highlights the potential for investing in spend-to-save type projects.

SCOTLAND Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed yesterday.

Investigators carrying out a review of the case have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry.

Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said there were a “good number” of individuals who should be questioned.

Yesterday he urged the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads identified by the British review.

DCS Campbell, speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, said: “There are a lot of people of interest.

There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”

He refused to give numbers but said there was “more than a handful” of names of “people of interest”.

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The official Portuguese inquiry was shelved in 2008 but Scotland Yard launched a review of the case in 2011 after David Cameron responded to a plea from Madeleine’s parents.

Last year the review team led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said it had identified 195 potential leads after examining a huge bundle of material. Yesterday DCS Campbell said “further investigative and forensic opportunities” had been identified.

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Argentina’s Videla dies in prison, aged 87

WORLD TODAY Re-election run hinted at COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos hinted yesterday he would seek re-election next year to ensure continuity of his policies - including peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels - though he did not explicitly announce his candidacy.

“I want clearly and firmly to see that the government’s policies continue after August 7, 2014,” Santos said, referring to the date a new administration would take office.

“I want the peace policy re-elected, I want the housing policy re-elected, those that have reduced poverty - re-elected,” he told reporters in Bogota.

Santos took the greatest risk of his political career last year by launching peace negotiations with the nation’s biggest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the hope of ending five decades of war.

Talks have dragged on for almost seven months without reaching accord on the first of a five-point agenda, putting in doubt Santos’ goal that the two sides will reach agreement this year.

Former dictator unrepentant for ‘dirty war’

By Hugh Bronstein

Mayor denies smoking crack TORONTO Mayor Rob Ford denies allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, his lawyer told the Toronto Sun yesterday.

Reporters for the Toronto Star, a rival Canadian newspaper, and Gawker Media, a US media outlet, said they had seen a video that appears to show Ford smoking crack.

The lawyer, Dennis Morris, told the Toronto Sun that the mayor is denying “any such allegation.”

The video is allegedly being shopped around for $100,000 by people said to be involved in the drug trade. Reuters could not independently confirm the existence of the video.

Camps attacked NIGERIAN forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard militant camps in the northeast yesterday, their biggest offensive since Boko Haram began an insurgency almost four years ago to try create a breakaway Islamic state.

Defence spokesman Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade said in a statement that troops had destroyed several Boko Haram camps and weapons stockpiles in forests around Borno state, epicentre of the uprising and relic of a medieval Islamic empire.

Argentine Army General Jorge Videla, leader of the 1976 military coup that began the seven-year “Dirty War,” is seen in uniform in Buenos Aires, in this undated file photo

JORGE Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died yesterday, aged 87.

Videla was the first president to head the military junta that “disappeared” thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes, including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centres.

He died of natural causes in his jail cell in a prison outside the capital, Buenos Aires, a government spokesman said.

“Videla presided over a government that engaged in one of the most cruel repressions that we have seen in Latin America in modern times,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Latin America for USbased Human Rights Watch.

“He was arrogant to the end and unwilling to acknowledge his responsibility for the massive atrocities committed in Argentina,” Vivanco added.

“Many of the secrets of the re-

pression will die with him.”

Rights groups say up to 30,000 people were “disappeared” - a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered - during the dictatorship, which began in March 1976 when Videla and two other military leaders staged a coup against President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, the widow of former leader Juan Domingo Peron.

TARGETS Argentina’s left-wing guerrilla groups such as the Montoneros had been weakened by the time Videla came to power.

He targeted union organisers, students, journalists and anyone else perceived to be associated with communism.

Last year Videla told an Argentine journalist that the crackdown he oversaw was the price that Argentina had to pay in order to remain a republic. “War, by nature, is cruel,” Videla said. “An internal war, between brothers, is especially cruel.”

Videla was born in the town of Mercedes to a middle-class family in 1925. He followed in the footsteps of his father, an army colonel, enlisting in the military academy where he

was well-respected.

Following the coup of 1976, the mustachioed Videla headed a three-man military junta and he led the country until 1981.

The junta pledged to end left-wing subversion, put the economy in order and respect human rights. Videla said several times that the aim of his government was to return Argentina to democracy.

However, he conditioned that on the “Process of National Reorganisation,” in which the military planned to foster sweeping reforms to reduce the state’s role in the economy and rid Argentina of the influence of former strongman Peron. He quickly suspended the normal functions of Congress, local government and the Supreme Court, and oversaw the worst excesses against those suspected of left-wing activities.

When Videla was succeeded by army chief Roberto Eduardo Viola in 1981, the political balance inside the armed forces began to crumble but Argentina was still deeply entrenched in military rule. It remained so until the catastrophe of the Falklands War against Britain in 1982 eroded the military’s power.

Rough re-introduction to gravity BACK on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a fivemonth stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston.

Hadfield became a social media rock star with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and a continuous stream of commentary on Twitter about his life in orbit.

But living without gravity for five months has left him feeling dizzy, weak and prematurely aged. A veteran of three space flights, he is wearing a pressure suit under his clothes to help his circulation as his body re-adapts to getting blood back to his brain.

“Without the constant pull-down of gravity, your body gets a whole new normal, and my body was quite happy living in space without gravity,” Hadfield, 53, said in a video conference call with Canadian reporters on Thursday, three days after returning to Earth.

The video conference was posted on the Canadian Space Agency’s UStream channel.

“Right after I landed I could feel the weight of my lips and tongue ... I hadn’t realized that I had learned to talk with a weightless tongue,” he said.

He is suffering overall body soreness, par-

ticularly in his neck and back which are again having to support his head after months in weightlessness.

“It feels like I played full-contact hockey, but it’s getting better by the hour,” Hadfield said. “The subtle things and the big things are taking some re-adaptation to get used to and they are coming back one by one.”

Hadfield, who is the first from Canada to command a space station crew, NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko landed in Kazakhstan on Monday. He and Marshburn were then flown to Houston to begin rehabilitation.

As a departing finale Hadfield created a music video rendering of Bowie’s classic “Space Oddity,” which as of yesterday had 13 million hits on YouTube.

Hadfield, who is the lead singer and bass guitarist in the all-astronaut rock band Max Q, said it is too early to think about what he will do next.

“For now, I’m still trying to stand up straight.

I have to sit down in the shower so I don’t faint and fall down, and I don’t have calluses on the bottom of my feet yet, so I’m walking around like I walked on hot coals,” he said.

It usually takes about three weeks until a returning astronaut can return to driving, according to the Canadian Space Agency.

Living without gravity for five months has left Hadfield feeling dizzy, weak and prematurely aged

Outgoing IRS chief admits scandal-exposing question planted THE outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged yesterday that the tax agency planned its initial disclosure about having targeted conservative groups through a planted question at a lawyers’ conference.

Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told lawmakers during a Cap-

itol Hill hearing that the questionand-answer session that exposed the tax agency’s targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny had been carefully planned.

“It was a prepared Q and A,” Miller said when asked about IRS official Lois Lerner’s response to a question from a lobbyist at an

American Bar Association conference last week.

When pressed whether the question was planted in advance, Miller said, “I believe that we talked about that, yes.”

Miller did not elaborate on why the IRS chose such a strategy to reveal what has become a scandal

over whether the tax agency treated some conservative groups fairly.

Miller was fired on Wednesday as the White House sought to stem criticism over the IRS matter.

On Thursday, Obama chose White House budget official Daniel Werfel to replace Miller as acting commissioner.

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World WORLD TODAY Twin Iraq blasts kill 43 TWO bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.

Attacks on Sunni and Shi’ite mosques, security forces and tribal leaders have mounted since troops raided a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk a month ago, and fears are intensifying of a return to all-out conflict.

The increasingly sectarian civil war in neighbouring Syria is emboldening Iraqi Sunni insurgents and straining relations between the two Muslim groups in Iraq, where tensions are at their worst since US troops pulled out at the end of 2011.

Meanwhile, another eight people were also killed and more than 20 wounded yesterday when a roadside bomb hit people gathering for the funeral of a Sunni Muslim cleric killed in Baghdad in an attack a day earlier.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Gaza crossing blocked EGYPTIAN police blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip yesterday in protest against the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said.

Officers strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence, locals told Reuters.

Gunmen abducted the seven police and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of el-Arish and Rafah on Thursday, demanding the release of imprisoned militants in exchange for the men.

Three of those abducted have worked at the crossing, locals told Reuters.

Hardline Islamist groups based in North Sinai have exploited the collapse of state authority after the 2011 uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak to launch attacks across the border into Israel and on Egyptian targets.

Hold Syrian peace summit soon, urges Ban UN: refugee numbers exceed 1.5 million

By Darya Korsunskaya A PROPOSED international conference to try to stop Syria’s civil war should be held as soon as possible, UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said yesterday, but no date has yet been agreed for a meeting that appears to face growing obstacles.

Ban spoke as UN officials announced that the number of refugees fleeing the fighting in Syria, a conflict that has claimed the lives of 80,000 people over the past two years, had exceeded 1.5 million as conditions there deteriorate rapidly.

Western leaders have been cautious about the prospects of the talks achieving any breakthrough, and Russia’s desire that Iran should attend could complicate matters because of potential opposition from the West. The main Syrian opposition, expected to decide its stance next week, has previously demanded President Bashar al-Assad’s

exit before any talks.

A rising death toll, new reports of atrocities by both sides, suspicion that chemical arms may have been used and the absence of prospects for a military solution have all pushed Washington and Moscow to agree to convene the conference.

‘MOMENTUM’ “We should not lose the momentum,” Ban said of the proposal to bring the Syrian government and opposition representatives to the conference table. “There is a high expectation that this meeting should be held as soon as possible,” he said after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Lavrov agreed: “The sooner the better,” he told a joint news conference with Ban, who was due to meet President Vladimir Putin later in the day, yesterday.

Iran is a US foe and the main regional ally of Assad’s government, which

Turkey detains prime suspect in bombings TURKISH police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said yesterday.

Turkey has accused Syria of involvement in the two bombings last weekend in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, which fanned fears that Syria’s civil war is dragging in neighbouring states.

Damascus denies any role.

Hatay governor Celalettin Lekesiz said police had detained a man identified only by the initials M.G. shortly before midnight on Thursday in Samandag district, near the Syrian border, and that he was being treated as a prime suspect.

Huseyin Celik, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling AK Party, said the two vehicles used in the bombings were registered to the detained man, and that he had driven one to a blast site in Reyhanli.

State-run broadcaster TRT reported yesterday that Reyhanli’s police chief had been

Rescue officers work at the site of blast in the town of Reyhanli on May 14, 2013 dismissed. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said this week he did not think the attacks were the result of a weakness in the intelligence services, but that there may have been a “disconnect” between them and the police.

Lekesiz said police were still searching for two other suspected perpetrators, who along with M.G. had been trying to cross over into Syria from Samandag but had failed because of stepped-up security along the border.

‘Russia sends Syria anti-ship missiles’ RUSSIA has sent Syria advanced anti-ship missiles, US officials told Reuters yesterday, bolstering Syrian defences despite pleas from Washington and elsewhere to stop supplying President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

One of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the latest Yakhont surface-to-air missiles were delivered recently. The transfer of the missiles was first reported by the New York Times.

There was no immediate comment from the Russian government.

The disclosure comes just over a week after US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that he raised the issue of arms transfers to Syria during talks in Moscow this month.

The Russian arms transfer could intensify a push by some lawmakers in Congress for the United States to deepen its role in Syria.

has also received support from Russia.

“Moscow proceeds from the position that all the neighbouring countries, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the participants of the first Geneva conference, must be invited,” Lavrov said, referring to an international meeting on Syria held last June.

Last year’s Geneva talks produced a deal that a transitional government should be created in Syria, but the United States and Russia disagreed over whether that meant Assad must leave power.

Moscow says his exit must not be a precondition for a political solution, but most Syrian opposition figures have ruled out talks unless Assad and his inner circle are excluded from any future transitional government.

Lavrov said opposition par-

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was imperative to hold the proposed international conference to halt Syria’s civil war as soon as possible ticipation would be crucial.

“The main thing now is to understand who, from the Syrian sides, is ready to take part in this conference - without that, nothing will happen at all,” he said.

“And the second task is to determine the circle of participants from other countries in addition to Syria.”

The United States said on Thursday that it was not ruling anyone in or out of the

conference, while France voiced opposition to Iranian participation. Pressure has grown on Western countries to act after reports that Assad’s forces used chemical weapons, which US President Barack Obama and other Western leaders have described as a “red line”.

The White House says it believes Syrian forces probably used poison gas but the evidence is not certain.

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Business ‘Policy to stay loose as long as required’

US consumer sentiment rebounds in early May

THE European Central Bank will keep its loose and growth-supportive monetary policy stance in place for “quite a long time”, ECB executive board members said yesterday.

With the eurozone economy stuck in recession, the ECB cut its main refinancing rate to a record low of 0.5 per cent and extended its provision of unlimited funds to banks by a year at its May policy meeting, Inflation fell to a threeyear low of 1.2 per cent in April, allowing some room for manoeuvre.

The ECB’s Joerg Asmussen told journalists in Berlin the bank’s monetary policy would remain expansive for as long as needed.

His colleague Benoit Coeure hit a similar tone when speaking at a conference in Orleans in France, saying the ECB was committed to providing the eurozone with abundant liquidity for as long as necessary.

“We are saying that because we are well aware that rigidities and difficulties of transmission in the eurozone mean that the monetary policy will have to stay accommodative for quite a long time,” Coeure said.

The ECB’s record low interest rates do not reach eurozone countries evenly because funding costs for banks in the periphery are higher than in the eurozone’s core countries. That makes it more expensive for households and companies to borrow.

ECB President Mario Draghi said last week the bank would monitor incoming data closely and would be ready to cut rates again, including the deposit rate currently at zero, which would mean it would charge banks to keep their money overnight.

Consumer outlook most positive since July 2007

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U.S. CONSUMER sentiment rebounded in early May to the highest level in nearly six years, an encouraging sign after recent data that has suggested economic growth is cooling.

A gauge of future economic activity released on Friday also suggested the expected slowdown would be temporary, with the index rising to a near five-year high in April.

Economists expect growth will likely slow in the second quarter from the 2.5 per cent pace at the beginning of the year as tighter fiscal policy starts to bite. But recent stronger than expected improvement in several areas, including the labour market and retail sales, has suggested the recovery remains resilient.

“We’re still definitely on the recovery path. We expect that this is going to be a very long and gradual recovery,” said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Florida.

“Most economists are looking for stronger growth in the second half of the year and into next year.”

The Thomson Reuters/ University of Michigan’s preliminary reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment rose to 83.7 from 76.4 in April, topping econo-

Economists expect growth in the US will likely slow in the second quarter, but recent stronger than expected improvement in several areas, including the labour market and retail sales, has suggested the recovery remains resilient mists’ expectations for 78.

It was the highest level since July 2007.

Americans felt better about their financial and economic prospects, but the gains were particularly seen among upper-income households.

More consumers gave a favourable view of their personal finances than in anytime since 2007, with the largest gains among households in the upper third of income levels. More respondents also thought the economy would continue to improve in the year ahead.

Higher earners more frequently reported having less

debt and higher asset values, though consumers were still not that much more optimistic they would see higher income in the year ahead.

Upper income households are more likely to be invested and therefore reap the benefits of the stock market rally that has taken the market to record highs this year.

Since the beginning of 2013, the benchmark S&P 500 is up about 16 per cent.

The rise in stocks may also be offsetting any hit to consumers following the expiration of the payroll tax holiday at the beginning of the year, which raised taxes for

many Americans.

“For (upper income) people, the payroll tax and gasoline prices didn’t really matter much, but stock prices and home prices rising, that’s a big, big plus,” said Brown.

The barometer of current economic conditions jumped to 97.5 from 89.9, the highest since October 2007, while the gauge of consumer expectations gained to 74.8 from 67.8.

Shopping plans were similarly encouraging, with the gauge of buying attitudes for durable goods rising to 148 from 137.

Yesterday’s reports gave a boost to stocks with Wall Street trading higher in the mid-morning. The dollar rose against the euro and yen shortly after the data, while Treasuries prices fell further.

A separate report from the Conference Board showed its Leading Economic Index increased 0.6 per cent to 95.0 last month, the highest level since June 2008. The index had slipped 0.2 per cent in March.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected the index to rise only 0.2 per cent in April.

Schmidt to meet Cameron Turkey hails new rating, but fears money flows

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GOOGLE Inc’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday as a participant of an advisory group just days after UK lawmakers lambasted the Internet company’s tax affairs.

The meeting is a routine one and has been long-planned, will include other high-profile business people, and tax evasion is not on the agenda, a government source told Reuters.

TURKEY hailed its second investment grade rating yesterday, seeing it as a seal of approval from international markets for a decade of economic reform.

Investors joined in, driving sovereign bond yields to record lows.

Government enthusiasm was tempered, however, by some concern that the move, coinciding with a visit by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to Washington, might trigger over-large capital inflows into the lira currency.

Moody’s assigning a Baa3 rating with a stable outlook to Turkey late on Thursday, making it eligible for inclusion in a number of investment-grade only bond indices and adding to the economy’s switch from an emerging market to a developed one.

Fitch Ratings lifted Turkey to investment-grade in November, while Standard & Poor’s

FUELLING TAXATION DEBATE Google faced angry questions on Thursday from British lawmakers investigating its tax affairs over whether it had misled parliament in testimony last year, adding fuel to a debate on taxation that has risen to the top of Britain’s political agenda.

Google’s Northern Europe boss, Matt Brittin, was called back to testify to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee after a Reuters investigation showed the company employed staff in sales roles in London, even though he had told the committee in November its British staff were not “selling” to UK clients.

Prominent parliamentarians have questioned Schmidt’s continued status as a member of Cameron’s Business Advisory Group given what some of them have classed as his company’s “amoral” attitude towards paying tax.

The group meets quarterly to give Cameron high level advice on critical business and economic matters facing Britain.

Moody’s assigned a Baa3 rating with a stable outlook to Turkey late on Thursday rates Turkey one notch below.

Since his conservative, promarket AK Party first came to power in 2002, Erdogan has transformed a crisisprone economy with chronic inflation into Europe’s fastest growing country, tripling per capita income, in stark contrast with neighbouring

eurozone member Greece, which Moody’s rates 11 notches lower.

The largely Muslim country’s success coincides with economic disarray in the European Union, which Turkey has long sought to join despite strong opposition from many in the bloc.

“Turkey long deserved this rating, or an even higher one, both economically and politically. I see this as a delayed recognition of what we deserved,” Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said in a statement.

“We now expect much greater investments, both in terms of direct and portfolio investments. The central bank needs to be ready for the pressures this will exert on the lira,” he said.

Turkey’s two-year benchmark bond yield hit an all-time low of 4.61 per cent, extending Thursday’s falls after the central bank cut key interest rates by 50 basis points

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Opinion

The government needs to get its priorities straight IT IS DIFFICULT not to share the anger of deputies over the government’s decision not to open the four regional ambulance stations that are ready for operations, because of the freeze on new recruitments in the public sector. The 49 paramedics, who received a year’s training at a cost of €500,000 to the taxpayer, in order to man the four stations, will not be hired because of the recruitment freeze, which has been blamed on the troika.

Blaming everything on the troika is convenient for the government, but the fact is that while the troika may set state spending targets, it does not decide what the spending priorities should be. This is decided by the ministry officials and minister. For instance, the troika did not stop the government funding the Medical School of the Cyprus University, a vanity project that would cost tens of millions of euros to operate. Why had the troika not applied the recruitment freeze to the Medical School, the payroll of which would be several million euros but prevented the opening of four ambulance centres the operation of which would cost about €500,000?

It is obvious that this misguided decision was taken by the government presumably because the opening of the Medical School was an election promise of President Anastasiades.

But we fear the government has got its priorities wrong. Ambulance stations manned by paramedics would save lives and as such should take precedence. A medical school is not a priority, by any stretch of the imagination we survived without one for decades at a time of economic depression and an acute shortage of state funds.

Admittedly, it is not a case of one or the other because the amount is not comparable – the operation of the ambulance stations would cost a small fraction of what the Medical School would need – but the government needs to get its priorities right and it needs to take all steps to ensure a quick and effective response from the ambulance service to all parts of the island. There are countries in which the guaranteed, ambulance response time is 12 to 15 minutes, because saving lives is considered very important.

Obviously the technocrats of the finance ministry and government politicians do not subscribe to this view, but because they are embarrassed to admit it they blame the troika for their shameful decision. As for the health minister, who should have been championing the right of all people to a prompt ambulance service, he was more concerned about giving assurances that the Medical School would go ahead. For the government, the saving of lives can wait until the economic recovery arrives.

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Obama under fire over civil liberties H

E MAY have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values in a democracy. And he may have run for president on a civil liberties banner, pledging to reverse the legacy of George W. Bush.

But as US president for the last 4-1/2 years, Barack Obama has faced accusation after accusation of impinging on civil liberties, disappointing his liberal Democratic base and providing fodder for rival Republicans as he deals with the realities of office.

News in the past week of the federal seizure of phone records from the Associated Press news agency and the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative Tea Party groups, has intensified criticism already simmering over the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and aerial drone strikes abroad.

Asked at a news conference on Tuesday why the administration had not done more for civil liberties, Attorney General Eric Holder said: “I’m proud of what we have done” and emphasised the administration’s shift from the Bush era harsh interrogation practices of terrorism suspects that had drawn international criticism.

When he took office in 2009, Obama promised to close the Guantanamo camp for foreign terrorism suspects, but it remains open with 166 detainees, many on hunger strike in protest at indefinite detentions.

Obama said last month he would revisit that pledge and blamed Congress for blocking his plan to close the camp, partly through restrictions on transfers of detainees.

The administration has defended its aerial drone strikes abroad, which have included targeting a US-born terrorism suspect, as essential to the fight against al Qaeda and other militants in places such as Pakistan and Yemen.

On Tuesday, Holder defended the seizure of journalists’ records, saying it was part of an investigation into a leak that he called “very, very serious.” A law enforcement official said the probe is related to information in a May 2012 AP story on a foiled Yemen-based al Qaeda plot.

The phone records seizure was the latest in a series of crackdowns on leaks by the Obama administration.

Obama has disappointed some because of his background, and because he followed the Bush presidency that had responded to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with what liberal critics saw as a trampling of civil liberties.

“There were reasons to think he would be different,” said New York University law professor Barry Friedman, who teaches constitutional law and has written about public attitudes on the law. “He seemed

Analysis Joan Biskupic and David Ingram to be inculcated with constitutional values, because of his background and because of what he said during the campaign.” Friedman and other law professors acknowledge the Constitution is a text open to myriad interpretations and that, in situations such as the use of drones, a constant balancing of national security and individual liberties occurs.

Obama is also contending with a polarised political scene and clashes with Republicans.

Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe, a professor, mentor and longtime supporter of Obama, said his famous former student was facing the realities of being president.

Tribe wrote in an email to Reuters that on campus, “Barack Obama could live in a world unclouded by bureaucratic and political obstacles.

As President, however, Barack Obama needs to impose his basic beliefs and priorities on the vast bureaucracy. ... His failings, in my view, have much more to do with whatever he has permitted to take place under the supposed oversight of (individual Cabinet secretaries) than they have to do with his own constitutional understanding and commitments.”

When Obama won his place as the first African American in the White House, many Americans applauded another advance in the country’s long civil rights movement.

But while Obama has long presented himself as a progressive Democrat, he has not been known as a fiery civil libertarian.

His wont has been to assert the need for dialogue and consensus-building. In his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” he wrote: “The scope of presidential power during wartime. The ethics surrounding end-of-life decisions. These

‘Every president has a duty to understand, appreciate and protect our civil liberties’

A constant balancing of national security and individual liberties occurs in the United States weren’t easy issues; as much as I disagreed with Republican policies, I believed they were worthy of serious debate.

No, what troubled me was the process - or lack of process - by which the White House and its congressional allies disposed of opposing views.” Obama’s administration has sometimes come under fire for its efforts to control the message, leading to allegations of manipulation.

In the case of the IRS and Tea Party groups, Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley wrote to Steven Miller, acting IRS commissioner, on Tuesday asking for all records relating to the decision to reveal its mistakes at a meeting of an American Bar Association committee instead of to Congress. Some analysts say that because of his background Obama has been held to higher expectations. “He was elected by a constituency that would expect him to be more sensitive to civil liberties,” said author Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Centre for Politics.

Others say he is simply being judged by the standard all presidents should meet.

“I am certainly distressed by the latest revelations,” Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said on Tuesday. “I also think, honestly, that the fact that he was a constitutional

law professor is much less significant than that he is now president. Every president has a duty to understand, appreciate and protect our civil liberties.”

Asked about Obama’s record on civil liberties compared to other presidents, Shapiro said the ACLU did not do comparative rankings of administrations and that, in any event, it would be too early to assess Obama. Critics and other observers agreed.

“We’re living it right now,” said Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow of constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. Even as he asserts the administration may have “overreached” its constitutional authority, he said it was hard to predict how Obama’s tenure will rank with past administrations.

“You never really know what’s going on behind the scenes until they leave office,” Sabato said, adding that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson abused the IRS, for example, by ordering audits of political enemies.

Sabato, who referred to other scandals including Watergate during Richard Nixon’s administration and the Irancontra controversy during Ronald Reagan’s years, said: “Compared to prior presidents, we’re still in the minorabuse league.”

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Soul singer Candice Glover takes American Idol crown First female winner since Jordin Sparks in 2007

By Paul Casciato

By Patricia Reaney CANDICE Glover, a soul singer from rural South Carolina, was named American Idol on Thursday night, becoming the first female singer to win the television singing competition since 2007.

Glover, 23, defeated country singer Kree Harrison in the popular vote with her powerful voice in what judges deemed a close contest to take the title on season 12 of the Fox network show.

“You are officially our American idol,” host Ryan Seacrest said as the crowd of more than 7,000 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles cheered.

With tears streaming down her face after hearing her name, Glover seemed lost for words. “Oh, my God,” she said. “Three years.”

The third time was lucky for Glover, who appeared in two earlier seasons of the show, and finally won the crown by making songs like Somewhere from the musical West Side Story, and the jazz tune You’ve Changed all her own.

“Three years, persistence, determination and a lot of talent. You deserve it,” said Seacrest.

He announced Glover as the winner at the end of the two-hour show, which featured performances by judges Keith Urban and Mariah Carey, as well as Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Lopez, rapper Pitbull and South Korea’s

Emeli Sande wins singersongwriter awards

Glover, 23, defeated country singer Kree Harrison in the popular vote with her powerful voice in what judges deemed a close contest to take the title Psy, who sang his new single Gentleman.

Glover, the first woman to be crowned Idol since Jordin Sparks six years ago, won a record deal, which could help propel her to the stardom enjoyed by other women Idol winners such as Grammy Award winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

There was no doubt about the impressive talent of either Glover or Harrison, with Carey describing them as “magnificent” and the winner too close to call on Wednesday’s performance finale.

But Glover seemed to have the edge over 22-year-old Harrison going into the two-part finale. General Sentiment, a social and news media analytics company, predicted she would take home the crown based on the social media buzz about her.

Harrison, who hails from Texas and lost both of her parents in accidents, showed her versatility on the show and won a standing ovation on Wednesday with her take on Patty Griffin’s Up to the Mountain, which judge Randy Jackson described as a

“winning performance.”

But Glover seemed to seal the deal with her moving rendition of I Who Have Nothing, which closed the show and brought the judges to their feet.

“What came across from you is - superstar,” judge Nicki Minaj said.

Fans agreed, and in text, phone and online votes after the performance finale on Wednesday showed their support for Glover over Harrison.

Idol, once the most watched television show with 30 mil-

lion viewers, has seen a decline in numbers during the past two seasons, overall and in the young adult audience, which is so coveted by advertisers.

Jackson, the only original judge since the show’s start in 2002 who announced he will be leaving the show, bid farewell on Thursday after a tribute. US Weekly magazine reported Minaj would also not be returning.

Fox had no comment about Minaj, or media reports about a complete revamp of the highly paid judging panel.

One Direction reveal ‘edgy’ Diddy spoofs Downton Abbey new album and world tour BRITISH boy band One Direction, one of the pop industry’s biggest acts of the last 18 months, are working on an ‘edgy’ third album and will start a world tour next year.

The five singers told a press conference in London that their new album, which the music press speculated would share the same name as their upcoming Where We Are 2014 tour, will depart from the teen pop that has had young girls screaming around the world since they first emerged from a talent show.

“The answer is yes, there will be a new album and yeah, I think it’s taking a slightly rockier tone to it,” One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson told reporters before handing over to bandmate Liam Payne to expand.

Payne said the group, which also includes Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, helped out with the songwriting on the new album, but did not mention a release date.

“We’ve written a lot of the songs, which is nice, this time,” Payne said. “We’ve just made it a bit more edgy I suppose.”

One Direction, whose members are aged in their late teens and early 20s, have sold 14 million singles in the two years since their debut album Up All Night.

They will start their tour on April 25, 2014 in Bogota, Colombia.

One Direction shot to fame on The X Factor television singing competition and have conquered the global market with two albums and a string of catchy hit singles.

The music mogul admits to being a huge fan of the show

RAPPER Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs debuted a comedy spoof of himself appearing in his “favorite show of all time,” British period drama Downton Abbey, after teasing fans that he was joining the Emmy-winning show’s cast.

‘Downton Diddy,’ hosted on comedy video website funnyordie.com, saw the music mogul adding himself to scenes from the first three seasons of the hit British drama, playing self-created character Lord Wolcott.

Diddy, 43, led into the clip with the news that Downton Abbey would be adding its first black cast member in its fourth season, saying that he had already “broken down that barrier” as Wolcott.

The almost five-minute clip shows Diddy in character in different scenes with the show’s main cast, the aristocratic Crawley family and their bevy of servants.

AN invitation from the White House robbed Emeli Sande on Thursday of the chance to celebrate the latest mark of her success in an unstoppable rise to the front ranks of British female singers.

The Scottish singer-songwriter’s Next To Me single won both the best song and most performed work categories at Britain’s 58th Ivor Novello awards for songwriting, putting her on a par with some of Britain’s biggest music names.

Her co-writers accepting the award for her said she was in the United States, preparing to perform for President Barack Obama and talent show American Idol, signs she is set for more success in the US market.

“I spoke to Emeli and she is just preparing herself for performing at the White House,” said Anup Paul, one of three co-writers accepting the award at the ceremony in London.

Sande, who performed on a global stage at the opening ceremony of the London 2102 Olympics, tweeted her excitement from the United States.

“Woke up to the best news!!!!! 2 Ivor Novellos!!!!!,” she wrote on Twitter. “Wish I could have been there, that would have been one excited speech!”

Gavin Rossdale, frontman of the British band Bush, who won for the Ivor for international achievement, said Sande was on the point of winning the kind of recognition that he and Grammy award-winning British singer Adele already enjoy.

“If anyone is primed for that kind of success it would be her because she’s pretty amazing,” Rossdale told Reuters. “Adele has done such an incredible job to open the doors.”

Sande’s Our Version Of Events album in February 2012 kicked off a string of successes including her inclusion on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, which opened the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

Besides that, and her opening and closing Olympic performances last year, Sande won two BRIT awards this year and smashed a chart record held by the Beatles for nearly 50 years.

Oasis founder Noel Gallagher was presented the outstanding song collection by Coldplay singer Chris Martin.

“It’s great because it’s for the thing that I do by myself,” Gallagher said. “It’s about the nuts and bolts.”

Scottish DJ, singer and songwriter Calvin Harris won the songwriter of the year award that went to Adele last year and to rapper Plan B in 2011.

The Ivor Novello Awards are presented by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and are regarded as the most important awards for British music writers

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Tech

Google ahead of Apple with new music streaming service The new 5G service could allow users to watch 3D movies or stream HD programmes in real time

Samsung hails 5G technology testing SAMSUNG has developed “ultra-high speed” fifthgeneration technology that could allow users to download an entire film in a second, the electronics giant has said.

The South Korean firm has successfully tested new equipment which it hopes will transmit data several hundred times faster than existing 4G networks.

It claims subscribers could use the technology to download high-quality digital films “practically without limitation” and watch 3D movies or stream high-definition programmes in real time.

Samsung believes its new transceiver is the world’s first device capable of providing “ubiquitous” 5G broadband - and hopes to bring the service to customers by 2020.

It announced the development after conducting a test where data was transmitted at speeds of more than one gigabit per second over a distance of up to two kilometres.

Customers using 4G services access average speeds of between eight and 12 megabits per second (Mbps).

“The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks,” Samsung said in a blog post.

The company believes the equipment could provide a solution to recent surges in wireless internet usage.

It added: “Samsung’s new technology will allow users to transmit massive data files including high-quality digital movies practically without limitation.

“As a result, subscribers will be able to enjoy a wide range of services such as 3D movies and games, real-time streaming of ultra high-definition (UHD) content, and remote medical services.”

In the blog post, Samsung claims its technology uses high-frequency wavebands which were previously deemed unsuitable for mobile networks.

Service lets users customise song selections from 22 genres

By Alexei Oreskovic and Edwin Chan GOOGLE Inc launched a music service this week that allows users to listen to unlimited songs for $9.99 a month, challenging smaller companies like Pandora and Spotify in the market for streaming music.

With its new service, announced at its annual developers’ conference in San Francisco, Google has adopted the streaming music business model ahead of rival Apple Inc, which pioneered online music purchases with iTunes.

Google’s “All Access” service lets users customise song selections from 22 genres, ranging from Jazz to Indie music, stream individual playlists, or listen to a curated, radio-like stream that can be tweaked. It launched for US users first, ahead of being rolled out to several other countries.

Google on Wednesday also unveiled a string of improvements to other services, including new mapping features and a voice-activated search, at the conference. The focus was on giving more options to users of mobile devices using its Android software, the operating system that now runs three out of every four smartphones sold.

Google’s new music service amps up the competition in the nascent market for subscription-based, streaming music. Amazon.com Inc and Apple are among the Silicon Valley powerhouses sounding out top recording industry executives, according to sources with knowledge of talks.

Pandora is spending freely and racking up losses to expand globally. Even social media stalwarts Facebook and Twitter are jumping onto the streaming-music bandwagon.

All these companies see a viable music streaming and subscription service

Selling an ecosystem: with a music service featuring millions of tracks from Universal Music, Sony Entertainment Group and Warner Music Group, Google further ‘locks’ consumers into its products and services as crucial to growing their presence in an exploding mobile environment. For Google and Apple, it is critical in ensuring users remain loyal to their mobile products.

With a music service, Google further “locks” consumers into its sphere of products and services, said Chris Silva, an analyst with Altimeter Group.

“They’re trying to sell an ecosystem,” he said. “The more things I’m doing, the more things that tie me to Google services.”

At $9.99 a month, Google’s service is costlier than the $3.99 required for Pandora, but on par with Spotify.

The music service features millions of tracks from Universal Music, Sony Entertainment Group and Warner Mu-

sic Group, as well as from thousands of independent labels, according to a Google spokeswoman.

Some analysts said the new service allowed Google to catch-up to offerings from the likes of Spotify, but did not offer anything unique. Forrester analyst James McQuivey said combining the service with video or game content might have made it stand out.

A procession of Google executives described and showed off a litany of new features and software updates at the annual “I/O” developers’ conference, from picture touch-ups on Google+ and re-designed Maps that spot when a user is walking or driving, to Star Trek-like voice-activated search that understands a users’ sentences

Swedish Pirate Bay under attack SWEDISH prosecutors have launched a new attempt to close down the popular filesharing site The Pirate Bay, asking a court to block internet addresses used to access the site.

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest file-sharing sites, allows individuals to download movies, music and games without paying. The global entertainment industry has repeatedly tried to block its activities.

Swedish prosecutors have asked the court to de-register the domain names “piratebay.se” and “thepiratebay.se”.

Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation registers and administers the country’s “.se” internet addresses.

“There is a significant criminal copyright infringement which causes a great deal of damage to many,” prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad said on Wednesday.

The Pirate Bay uses a domain name registered in Sint

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s biggest file-sharing sites allows users to download movies, music and games for free Maarten, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean. The Internet Infrastructure Foundation said de-listing the “.se” domain names would not stop people using the site.

“People who want to use the site would get to it anyway,” Maria Ekelund, a spokeswoman for the Foundation, said.

In 2009, a court in Sweden - where The Pirate Bay was

founded in 2003 - fined and sentenced to jail three men then behind the site for breaching copyright in a case brought by firms including Sony Universal Music and EMI. The site continued to operate after the convictions, despite police seizing the servers used by The Pirate Bay. The site is now run by an unknown group.

and figures out what he or she is looking for.

“We haven’t seen this rate of change in computing for a long time -- probably not since the birth of personal computing,” said CEO Larry Page.

Decrying a “negativity” in the technology industry which he said impedes progress, Page singled out competitors Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp, criticising the companies for not being sufficiently collaborative with Google and other companies. Google was sued by Oracle last year, and companies affiliated with Microsoft have complained about Google’s practices to European antitrust regulators.

“Most important things are not zero sum,” Page said.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The site’s age was determined by carbon-14 analysis

Stonehenge age determined In 1952, Professor Willard F. Libby set the age of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, England, at about 1848 BC through analysis of the carbon-14 radioisotope in charcoal remains excavated there. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer had previously calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 BC, the sun rose directly over a special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel Stone.

Libby’s measurements supported that estimate.

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Harry meets wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre, in Maryland

To judge Prince Harry on past misdemeanours is to overlook his ‘wow factor’ and strengths, says Royal Editor Robert Jobson, who has seen how, like Diana, Harry is a doer not a ribbon cutter

Prince Harry (bottom, second left) grimaces at the bottom of a pyramid of cheerleaders and military officials before the Warrior Games. Right: Prince Harry reacts while playing sitting volleyball with the UK team at a visit to the Warrior Games.

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HERE was a lot of cheap talk about Prince Harry and his daft Las Vegas incident when this year’s official trip to America was announced. Would he let his guard down again? Would he go out partying and embarrass the Queen? The truth is, that was never going to happen. On royal duty Harry is as sharp and dedicated as he is when he dons his uniform and steps into the line of fire. It is so easy to judge him on the past, too easy. Silly remarks, the wrong choice of uniform at a fancy dress party - and, yes, his decision to invite a number of girls he hardly knew to his Las Vegas

hotel suite and to play strip billiards - have led to excruciating apologies.

But to assess him on past misdemeanours is to totally misjudge the man. I have followed his progress since he was a boy. I was at his first “press conference” - when he and Prince William were just lads on the ski slopes of Klosters in Switzerland.

Yes, he is a fiery character, he speaks his mind and is not afraid to front you - as I found to my cost once - if he feels he has been unfairly treated by the media. In that respect he is just like this mother.

On his American mission he has shown why he has the

potential to be a great asset to Britain’s new royal family, and his country.

As the Queen prepares to quit longhaul flights Harry will undoubtedly have a key role going forward. Of course, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will take on a “shadow” king and queen role – particularly abroad. The spotlight will also shine on William and Kate. But Harry, now 28, has something special. He has the wow factor that his mother had in abundance. He has warmth and likeability too. What I have witnessed at close quarters on this major tour is Harry’s determination - like his moth-

er - to make a difference. He clearly wants to use his status to bring what some might regard as uncomfortable causes to public attention.

At the military advanced training centre at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre, in Maryland, I watched as Harry met wounded soldiers - some of them double amputees – undergoing physical therapy. It was a gruesome yet inspiring place; where once super-fit young troops had been left with devastating injuries. The prince, who has been on two tours of duty, clearly had a real empathy with them.

When he sat on the bed and

chatted to Staff Sergeant Tim Payne, 30, from Montana, who had lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan, they were on the same level. As comrades in arms they had both faced the Taliban. Clearly, Harry wants to give back to those who have made such terrible sacrifice.

Sgt Payne said afterwards: “I was injured 3 July, Kandahar.

We talked about how I got injured and that I like swimming and how the recovery is going. I told him I swim 4,000 metres a day and that some day I will swim the English Channel. Harry said, ‘That’s a crazy idea.’

“He’s a really nice guy, and

the fact that he takes the time to come here, and the fact that he has served, makes it special.” As he worked the room, wearing his Army Air Corps fatigues and desert boots, he was not there as a prince, but as Captain Harry Wales, a man who like his injured American comrades had done his stint in the line of fire.

At Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia he was dressed in the No 1 ceremonial uniform of his regiment,

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Harry in Afghanistan in December last year

Visiting an area of the Jersey shore devastated by hurricane Sandy

Prince Harry (in hat) in a pool during his infamous Las Vegas trip

the Blues and Royals, with the blue beret of the Army Air Corps. He laid a wreath beside the grave of a soldier in Section 60, the part of the cemetery reserved for those who have died since 2001, including those who were in Afghanistan. A handwritten card on the wreath he laid read: “To my comrades in arms of the United States of America, who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of freedom, Captain Harry Wales.”

After placing the wreath, the Prince stood to attention and saluted the grave, before walking alone through the rows of headstones surrounding it, pausing several times to read individual inscriptions. At the Warrior Games for wounded servicemen and women, at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, he was a star attraction. It was one of the main reasons for him coming. The Americans can’t get enough of him.

He also this week visited

of survivors Superstorm Manto Sandy in Mantoloking, New t Jersey; went to a charity a baseball event; and attended Foundat a Royal Foundation fundraiser in New York. He also took part in a Sentebale Polo Cup game in Greenwich, Connecticut. The event was be a fundraiser for his Sentebale charity, which helps vulnerable children in Lesotho.

But Harry has stepped up a notch on this tour. His meeting with Michelle Obama, and a joint appearance in New York with David Cameron to bolster British trade, shows he is now a trusted member of the royal overseas team.

Harry travels light when it comes to personnel. He has no need for butlers or valets

- he is a do-it-yourself royal.

Around him is a tight and effective team led for now by his private secretary, former SAS officer Jamie LowtherPinkerton. In addition to his security - led for the last time, before retirement, by Inspector Iain MacRae of the Met’s royalty protection department - he has two press secretaries with him, former ITN editor Ed Perkins and his assistant Nick Loughran, formerly with City of London police. Never far away is the watchful diplomat David Manning, former British ambassador to the US. Edward Lane Fox - a former captain in the Household Cavalry who met the prince when they were on military duty - joins

The palace does not want to overstate the fact that Harry is appearing with high-profile politicians now the team next month as private secretary, as LowtherPinkerton will go part-time in the autumn.

The palace does not want to overstate the fact that Harry is appearing with high-profile politicians now. But it is clear that in the last year or so he has come of age. The reaction to him in the US has been really positive - his links to the military have gone down well. He is reminiscent of his mother in so many ways. His

cheekiness and ability to put people at their ease, and his naturalness when dealing with young children, shine through in particular. His chippy mistrust of the media is still an issue, but who can blame him? The circumstances of his mother’s tragic death and the involvement of the foreign paparazzi alone go some way to excuse it. But like Prince William he has to move on; to use the media to help promote the causes he is so passionate about.

This watershed tour shows Harry is ready to take what Diana achieved to new levels.

Like her, he is not a ribbon cutter - he is a doer. Another example is his decision to join the UK Walking with the Wounded trek to the South Pole. On this US tour, Harry said his mother would be “proud” of his work supporting the Halo Trust’s campaign to rid the world of landmines - a cause she fought for passionately. Having covered the Diana years as a royal reporter, and having known her personally, I am sure she would have been proud of the man he has become too.

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

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

Telephone no: K-Cineplex: 7777-8383

NICOSIA The Expatriate (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) and KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Scary Movie 5 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Stolen (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Evil Dead (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

Rio Limassol: 25-871410 Iron Man 3 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at Rio Paphos: 26-207000 7.45pm (daily) and 10.30pm

(till Tuesday), weekends also at 5pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5 and 7.45pm (daily) and 10.30pm (till Tuesday), weekends also at 11.30am and 2.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Olympus Has Fallen (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.45pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English), weekends only at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) and (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Spanish Film Festival day: El Mal Ajeno) (Sunday: day: Chico & Rita) (Monday: panish, with Greek (in Spanish, nglish subtitles and English ctively) respectively) Cine Studio, daily at 9pm, Sunday at 8pm, presented by thee Friends of the Cinema ty. Tel: Society.

20491, 96-420491, ofk. www.ofk. org.cyy

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

weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL The Expatriate (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Scary Movie 5 (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Stolen (12) Rio 3 at 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Evil Dead (18) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5), daily at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen (Sc 3) at 7.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Iron Man 3 (12) 3 at Rio 2 (in 3D) w 7.45pm, weekends also at 5p 5pm, and (in 2D) at 10.10pm.

2 Tel: 25-871410; K-Cin K-Cineplex (Scre 2) at (Screen 7.45 (daily) 7.45pm and 10.30pm (til (till Tuesday),

Olympus Has Fallen (18) Rio 6 at 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Stolen (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Evil Dead (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Croods (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in Greek, in 2D), weekends only at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.30pm; KCineplex (Screen 5) (in English), weekends only at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 6 at 8pm. Ends Tuesday. Tel: 25-871410

Olympus Has Fallen (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

You, the Living (in Swedish, no details of subtitles supplied) ‘Ston Dromo’ Coffee Shop (Genethliou Mitella 34), Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club.

Free entrance. Tel: 99-477333

The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English), weekends only at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Iron Man 3 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45pm (daily) and 10.30pm (till Tuesday), weekends also at 5pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

To Tama (in Greek) Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca-Famagusta Cinema Society. www.lfcinema.org

LARNACA The Expatriate (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Scary Movie 5 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS

Exhibition A Letter to Cyprus An open-call exhibition, wherein artists were asked to send a letter as art work which is addressed to Cyprus.

Opens May 18, 8pm until June 1.

Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art, 10 Solonos Street, Paphos. TuesdayFriday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-6pm.

Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 99-311225 The Red Thread Series Katie Sabry Open Studio Day with visiting artist Helen Macfarlane. May 18. 9 Georgious Malekidi Street, Limassol. 10am-10pm. A percentage of sales will be donated to animal rescue. Tel: 99-571139

Music Hot Nuts Rock’n’Roll the Chas & Dave way.

May 18. King Solomon Tavern Coral Bay Paphos. 1pm. €20 inc. lunch.

Reservations - Tel: 99-577247/99826919. www.andrewoliver9.co.uk

Other Events Israel Open Night Experience Israeli culture within the framework of the 65th anniversary of the Independence of the State of Israel.May 18. THOC, 9 Gregori Afxentiou Street, Nicosia. Free, reservations required. Tel: 77-772717. www.isrealopennight.com

Collective Bahce Learn how to plant seeds, make bread, marmalades, compost, sew, take care of your health and discuss aquaponics. May 18. Community Garden Collective Bahçe, Linear Volunteers Park, Kaimakli, (the former railway track between V. Voulgaroktou and Smirnis Street, Nicosia.

11am-8pm. Tel: 99-583947. Email: utopiacollectiva@gmail.com. https:// collectivebahce.wordpress.com A Journey to 18th Century Venice, through the Collections of the A. G. Leventis Gallery Special presentation-tour. May 18.

A. G. Leventis Gallery, 40 Gladstone Street, Nicosia. 10.30-12 & 3.30pm4.30pm. Limited spaces available. Tel. 22-668838 St Paul’s May Fayre Stalls, a raffle, kids activities, games, food & drink and much more. May 18. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Byron Avenue, Nicosia. 4pm-7.30pm. This year proceeds are going to the Pregnancy Care Centre. Tel: 22-44 5221 Day & Night of the Museums Tours, exhibitions, workshops and traditional Cypriot games. May 18.

Cyprus Folk Art Museum – Society of Cypriot Studies Archbishop Kyprianos Square, Next to St John Cathedral, Nicosia. Tours English: 10am, 12, 5pm, 8pm. Greek: 12.30, 3.30pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm. Contributions for conservation accepted. Booking in advance contact. Tel: 22-432578. www.cypriotstudies.org. cypriotstudies@gmail.com

International Museum Day at the Cyprus Museum Tours, exhibition and live music. May 18. Cyprus Museum, 1 Museum Street, Nicosia. 9am-11pm. Tel: 22865854. antiquitiesdept@da.mcw. gove.cy. www.mcw.gov.cy/da European Year of Citizens – It’s about You Students from High Schools in Nicosia will have the opportunity to talk directly with Cypriot MEPs and convey their concerns and visions for the future of Europe. With musical and dancing performances, pavilions of various EU Member States Embassies as well as of voluntary organisations, DJ and live music – and many activities and surprises especially for the little ones. May 18. Phaneromeni Square, old Nicosia. 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-451 907/22-817 576 Lanes and Courtyards of Lania The women of Lania will be pleased to welcome you to walk along the picturesque lanes and visit their open courtyards. May 18-19. Lania Village.

10am-7pm. Sunday 6pm raffle, 6.30pm-8pm music at the museum

Tomorrow Music Hot Nuts Rock’n’Roll the Chas & Dave way.

May 19. Chasers Seafront Limassol.

7pm. €10 inc. BBQ. Dinner. Reservations - Tel: 99-284118/99-832538. www.andrewoliver9.co.uk

Theatre The Essence of the Inseparable An improvisational physical theatre piece by the Transcendental Theatre Workshop team with extracts from N. Kazanzakis’ Askitiki. May 19.

ARTos Foundation. 6pm and 8pm. €3. Minimal dialogue in Greek. Tel: 99-832370/99-312710 www.illusionofseparateness.org artforchange@cytanet.com.cy

Other Events Sixth Annual Exhibition of Cacti and other Succulents Admire rare cacti and succulents as well as plants suitable for growing in Cypriot gardens, sales of plants and books and photography exhibition.

May 19. Exhibition Hall in the caves at the Akropolis Park, Nicosia. 10am-7pm. Tel: 99-614686 The FXTM International Boxing Cup Final 2013 Boxers of Olympic standard from three continents and 15 countries compete for the Cup. May 19. Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre, Limassol.

6pm. Free but space is limited- register https://www.facebook.com/ events/424760550954384/. Tel: 25-818164 Annual Charity Festival of Love & Hope Programme includes: kids activities, food & drink, songs from the band which entered for Cyprus in the Eurovision, stalls and much more. This year the festival is hosting Anatoliki Mesogios with Michael Hadjimichael

Scary Movie 5 (15) Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm; Rio 5, Fridays and weekends at 5.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Stolen (12) Rio 6 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Evil Dead (18) Rio 3 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Host (12) Rio 2 at 7.30pm. Ends Tuesday.

Tel: 26-207000 Iron Man 3 (12) Rio 1 (in 3D) at 7.30 and 9.50pm, Fridays and weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 26-207000 Olympus Has Fallen (18) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Croods (K) Rio 6 (in English, in 3D) and Rio 7 (in Greek, in 3D), Fridays and weekends at 5.15pm, weekends also at 3.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 2 at 9.45pm. Ends Tuesday.

Tel: 26-207000

The Expatriate (12) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm,

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Fridays and weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 26-207000

& Vasiliki Hadjiadamou (Pezoume Kypriaka, RIK 1). May 19. Residence of George & Anna Louka, Xylophagou. 11am-6pm. All the proceeds go to PASYKAF and AYios Nikolaos charity shop in Xylophagou Tel: 24726610/99-994414 Tango Night Milonga with live music by TangoCult.

May 19. Holiday Inn Hotel Nicosia, 70 Rigenis Street. 9.30pm. €10 (1 drink included). Tel: 22-712712/99-352605

Monday Music Red Moon Concert by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Ensemble under the direction of maestro Roland Melia and featuring mezzo-soprano Katie Economidou as soloist. May 20. En Plo Exhibition Hall, Kato Paphos. 8pm. Free. Tel: 22-463144. www.cyso.org.cy

Ongoing Other Events Taxidi 2013 A forum where the Cypriot traveller can obtain valuable and comprehensive information on tourist destinations and travel packages. May 17-19. Hellenic Pavilion, the Multiple Use Hall of the Cyprus State Fairs Authority and the adjacent Pavilion 4, Nicosia. May 18: 4pm-10pm. May

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

19: 2pm-10pm. €5/Free for children under 12. Tel: 22-203600

Theatre Stage One Theatre Group Charity Performances Two one act plays performed for charity. The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. May 17-18. Stage One Theatre, Emba, Paphos. 7.30pm.

Proceeds will go towards Solidarity Paphos. Tel: 99-967737 or boxoffice@stageonehteatre.com.

Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800 Centuries Away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali.

Until May 26. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999

Exhibition Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24-621109

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Tomorrow Other Events Show your love for PASYKAF The Annual Charity Festival of Love & Hope gets under way tomorrow at the residence of George and Anna Louka in Xylophagou.

What started five years ago as a small endeavour to raise money for The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (PASYKAF), has now become an anticipated annual event providing friendly, family entertainment. Last year over 1,000 people visited, raising over €13,000, with people travelling far and wide to take part in a day of fun and celebration.

Pony rides, face painting, a bouncy castle, manicures, games and kids’ haircuts are a few of the activities which will take place at the Charity Festival of Love and Hope where all proceeds will be donated to PASYKAF and Marios Nicholas (Charity Shop). Along-

Coming Up Other Events Ditching the textbooks You’ve heard of quantum physics, astrophysics and nuclear physics, but what about newspaper physics?

Intrigued and want to find out more? Then head to The Cyprus University of Technology on Tuesday to hear physicist John Hauptman, give a lecture entitled Teaching Science to non-Scientists.

Hauptman, an experimental highenergy physicist at Iowa State University, has brought newspapers into his classroom throughout his career. Over the past few years, however, Hauptman has taken that approach one step further with a ‘newspaper physics’ course that has developed into a learning community with the Department of English.

The idea might sound strange to begin with, but really is quite ingenious and simple too. How many of you remember part of your education being a continual ritual of progression through a bulky textbook?

Most introductory physics courses are deadly boring and burdened by unreadable anthology-like textbooks. But with newspaper physics, rather than using textbooks to teach students about physics, they use articles that appear in available daily newspapers.

Hauptman will demonstrate how to ditch the textbook and instead teach from articles found in the daily newspaper. The approach makes lessons more compelling.

side the activities there will be prizes and surprises, while on site you will find kebabs, donuts, cotton candy and traditional pies.

This year the festival are hosting Anatoliki Mesogios with Michael Hadjimichael and Vasiliki Hadjiadamou (from the popular local gameshow Pezoume Kypriaka) followed by songs from the band which represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song contest 2013.

Also, kids from various schools will dance and sing while others will show their skills in tsiattista.

PASYKAF is a voluntary, nongovernmental health association and registered charity. Founded in 1986 by a group of cancer patients, their families and friends, it is dedicated to fighting cancer through education and awareness and improving the quality of life of cancer patients and their families through services offered and advocacy.

Annual Charity Festival of Love & Hope Programme includes: kids activities, food & drink, songs from the band which entered for Cyprus in the Eurovision, stalls and much more. May 19. Residence of George & Anna Louka, Xylophagou. 11am-6pm.

All the proceeds go to PASYKAF and AYios Nikolaos charity shop in Xylophagou Tel: 24726610/99-994414 Newspapers carry a whole host of material that can be used in class.

For example in an article that discusses a possible nuclear rocket to Mars, the class can talk about the effects that radiation will have on space travellers. Radiation will have a dramatic effect on the muscle and bone mass of the astronauts coming back from such a journey.

This method can also provide an understanding of contradicting points of view and conflicts of facts, something not always found in textbooks. When Albert Einstein wrote his thesis, most physicists did not believe in atoms; in the 1960s most physicists did not believe in quarks; and there still are competing ideas for why ice is slippery and what is the best way to get to Mars.

These conflicts will never be found in a textbook and students need to know that this is how science works.

Hauptman obtained his Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics with George Trilling at UC Berkeley in 1974, studying the interactions of hyperons in the 82-inch hydrogen bubble chamber.

He has also conducted experiments at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, which has housed the world’s second-largest particle accelerator for the past 10 years.

Lecture: Teaching Science to non-Scientists John Hauptman, an experimental high-energy physicist at Iowa State University, will demonstrate how to ditch the textbook and instead teach from articles found in the daily newspaper.

May 21. The Cyprus University of Technology, Famagusta Hall, Andreas Themistocleous Building, Athinon Street, Limassol. 3pm. In English.

Tel: 25-002480. www.cut.ac.cy/events

Akropolis Park in for a prickly show Plenty of “oohs” and “aahs” will be heard at the Exhibition Hall of the Acropolis Park Caves, in Nicosia over this weekend.

The Cyprus Cactus and Succulent Society will hold its annual show tomorrow, filling the space with a grand display of their rarest, most coveted and favourite plants. Hairy, bulbous, smooth, round, long or thin cacti and succulents come in all shapes and sizes. The purpose of this exhibition is to help the general public to discover, admire and care for these striking, spiky specimens.

Believe it or not, there is a large number of collectors and growers of cacti in Cyprus. In 2007 a small group of enthusiasts founded the club. Its main aim is to make contact with the hundreds of other enthusiasts around Cyprus, a country where a near-perfect climate exists for many of these plants.

The Society encourages and educates hobbyists in the cultivation and dissemination of cacti and other succulents. It also creates awareness and aims to encourages research in the many endemic species and contribute to their preservation in the wild.

Cactus enthusiasm is also evident by the high number of visitors the exhibition has had each year. An estimated 5,000 people have attended previous exhibitions and with the sun shining, another positive turnout is expected this year too. If you are a serious collector a newcomer to cactus and succulent plants or somewhere in between, this show is a must-see event.

Nurseries from all over Cyprus will be represented again this year and rare plants will be imported from abroad, specifically for the Exhibition. Furthermore, there will be plant cuttings and a great variety of relevant books, ensuring gardening success whatever your

level of experience.

Other than their exotic aesthetic appeal, cacti are very adaptable to infertile soils and can play an important ecological role in combating desertification as well as producing fruits and vegetables for human consumption, forage or fodder for livestock, and biomass for energy purposes.

For the first time this year the gardens of our members will be opened to the general public.

Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy photographs from 12 gardens located in Cyprus, loaded with succulents and more. Each garden has a unique character, as does its owner. All the gardens have been photographed this spring. Other than enjoying a beautiful spring photo exhibition the visitors will get ideas that could implement in their gardens.

As in previous years, concurrently with the exhibition, the CCSS Annual Plant Competition will take place. All plants taking part in the Competition will be showcased at the Exhibition Hall for the public to see. The Judge for this year will be Rene Zahra, the Secretary of the Cactus and Succulent Society of Malta.

Also keep an eye out for The Smart Garden leaflet which will be distributed to the public free of charge. Published by the Society with the support of the Commissioner for the Environment, it contains information on how succulent plants can feature in the Cyprus garden.

Sixth Annual Exhibition of Cacti and other Succulents Admire rare cacti and succulents as well as plants suitable for growing in Cypriot gardens, sales of plants and books and photography exhibition. May 19. Exhibition Hall in the caves at the Akropolis Park, Nicosia. 10am-7pm. Tel: 99-614686

By Ledha Socratous

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Television CYBC 1 08.00

Moiraia Fengaria (rpt)

CYBC 2 08.00

Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

13.00 14.00 14.30

16.30

News Patates Antinahtes (rpt)

18.30

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Ego Ki Esi

22.00

Local Sketch News Eurovision Song Contest - Special Eurovision Song Contest - Final 58th annual Eurovision Song Contest, live from Malmö, Sweden, following Loreen’s win in the 2012 Contest with the song ‘Euphoria’.

This is the fifth time that Sweden will host the Contest, the last time being in 2000.

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Repeats

News In English New In Turkish NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA American version of the talent contest, in which solo singers and groups compete to win a recording contract by impressing judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and LA Reid.

Local comedy series.

19.30 20.00 21.30

Futuris Latest news about the leading scientific and technological research projects in Europe.

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

19.00

Parev FILM: Off Limits A conniving fight manager lands in the Army and humours a boxer whose aunt owns a nightclub. Comedy, starring Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney. 1953.

Vimmata Stin Ammo (rpt) Two episodes of local period drama, based on true events.

18.00 18.15

16.10 17.00

Edoxe Ti Vouli Kai To Dimo News Me Kali Parea Vivian Kanari hosts new show featuring a mix of news, information and live music.

Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

Local drama series.

10.30

ANTENNA

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Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Men Kai Den (rpt) Deixe Mou Ton Filo Sou (rpt) Steps (rpt) Max Adventures Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Poso Glyka Me Skotoneis (rpt) Ta Mahairota (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves (rpt) Your Face Sounds Familiar (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 07.00 09.40 09.50 10.20 11.00

A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.

12.00 13.00 15.00 17.00

Niose Me (rpt) With News at 18.00.

19.30 20.20 21.20 23.00

Vals Me 12 Theous News Exairetika Afieromeno Fallen Sci-fi series focusing on 18-year-old Aaron Corbett who struggles to come to terms with his newly discovered identity - that he’s halfange.

Lost Sixth and final season.

‘Ab Aeterno’. The mysteries behind Richard Alpert’s arrival to the island, his immortality, and his alliance with Jacob are revealed-plus more details about the purpose of the island and the relationship between Jacob and the smoke monster.

00.45 00.50 01.00

News In English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews

03.50 04.40

01.40 02.40

News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo Lefkos Oikos (rpt) Oi Dromoi Tis Polis (rpt) News To Soi Mou Mesa (rpt)

Oi Vasiliades (rpt) Pername Kala (rpt) Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

05.40 06.15 07.35 08.30 10.00

14.00 15.45 17.00

19.30

Me Ta Pantelonia Kato (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.20 21.30 22.20 00.30

News Anonymous Mousiko Kouti- Live Kapse To Senario Greek edition of the improvised comedy show, in which guests create spontaneous routines and sketches based on suggestions from the studio audience.

01.40 02.20 04.20 05.00 05.20 05.50

Epafi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi Ah Eleni (rpt)

07.50 11.35

Weekend variety show, informative and entertaining.

13.40 14.20

Aspra Balonia (rpt) The Cooking (rpt) Annita SoS

15.40

Pame Paketo (rpt) Popular talk-show that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes in their lives.

20.15 21.20

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Kouzina Me Apopsi Greek FILM: Pou Pas Horis Agapi Telemarketing Greek FILM: Mazi Sou Yia Panta Christopher Columbus Portraita News FILM: Stepmom A photographer falls for a man with two children, but struggles to accept her role as a stepmother. Tearjerking family drama, starring Julia Roberts, Ed Harris and Susan Sarandon. 1998.

18.10 19.10 20.05 21.00

Remington Steele Pacific Blue O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Slap Her, She’s French A high school beauty queen seems to have it all - until a French exchange student comes to stay, and sets about trying to steal her life. Comedy thriller, starring Piper Perabo. 2002.

Cold Case (rpt) Third season. ‘Death Penalty Final Appeal’.

A corrupt policeman commits suicide, raising questions that lead Rush and the team to reopen a case which Jeffries worked on several years earlier.

Las Vegas (rpt)

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Mes Stin Kali Hara (rpt)

En Iordani Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Noble Things Jimmy Wayne Collins returns to Texas to face the demons he left behind. Drama, starring Brett Moses. 2008.

Drama series focusing on a security team at a large casino.

23.45 23.50

Kids’ TV Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News (rpt) Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Diet Please (rpt) Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mila (rpt) I Kouzina Me Ton Dina (rpt) Greek FILM: Ta Kamakia

CAPITAL

Drama.

20.15 21.15

News Al Tsantiri News (rpt) A highly successful live satirical comedy show that features Lakis Lazopoulos giving ‘his version’ of the news.

23.00

PLUS TV

Oi Adiafthoroi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mes Stin Kala Hara

With News at 18.00.

19.00

Long-running Greek comedy series about annoying mother-inlaws. With News at 18.00.

Greek talent show.

16.50

Retire (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt) Max Adventures Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck

SIGMA

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FILM: Hush A doctor moves back to his home town with his wife and child in tow, but an old flame will go to any lengths to get him back. Thriller, starring Tori Spelling.

2005.

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats 00.30

FILM: Derailed Adventure, with JeanClaude Van Damme.

2002.

The Woman in Black (Novacinema3, 19.20)

01:15 Doctor Who 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 Walk on the Wild Side 03:15 Doctors 03:45 Casualty 04:35 The World of Stonehenge 05:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Penelope K, By The Way 07:10 Me Too! 07:30 Teletubbies 07:55 Balamory 08:15 Penelope K,

By The Way 08:25 Me Too! 08:45 Teletubbies 09:10 Balamory 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 My Family 10:45 Walk on the Wild Side 11:15 Doctor Who 12:00 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 12:50 2 Point 4 Children 13:20 My Family 13:50 After You’ve Gone 14:20 Walk on the Wild Side 14:50 Casualty 15:40 EastEnders 17:40 Walk on the Wild Side 18:10 My Family 18:40 Tribal Wives 19:30 The Weakest Link 20:15 Doctor Who 21:00 Being Erica 21:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:30 Bedlam 23:15 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 23:45 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 00:15 Getting On 00:45 Doctor Who

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Alps From Above 08:40 Prehistoric 09:30 Mega Beasts 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 Unchained Reaction 13:05 Meteorite Men 13:50 Chasing Classic Cars 14:40 Extreme Engineering 16:15 Mythbusters 17:00 Pyros

17:50 Rattlesnake Republic 18:40 Chasing Classic Cars 19:30 Alps From Above 20:20 Crisis Control 21:10 Inside West Coast Customs 22:00 Pyros 22:50 Rattlesnake Republic 23:40 Unchained Reaction 00:30 Alps From Above 01:15 Pyros 02:05 Rattlesnake Republic 02:50 Ultimate Journeys

09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 Cycling: Tour Of California 10:30 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 11:30 Canoeing: Sprint World Cup 13:00 Rally: Fia European Rally Championship 14:00 Cycling: Tour Of California 14:30 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 15:30 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 18:30 Canoeing: Sprint World Cup 19:00 Rally: Fia European Rally Championship 20:00 Equestrian: Global Champions Tour Germany 21:15 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 21:30 Fight Sport: Superkombat 00:15 Cycling: Tour Of California 02:00 Cycling: Tour Of Italy

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:45 Rules Of Engagement 07:35 The Simpsons 08:00 Bob’s Burgers 08:50 How I Met Your Mother 09:40 Breakout Kings 11:10 Criminal Minds 13:35 Beauty And The Beast 14:25 Touch 15:10 Elementary 15:55 The

Simpsons 18:00 How I Met Your Mother 20:05 White Collar 21:45 Homeland 22:40 Wilfred 23:05 The Cleveland Show 23:30 Episodes 2 00:00 Da Vinci’s Demons 01:00 The League 2 03:05 Breakout Kings 03:55 Lost

07:30 Call Of The Wild 09:00 Action Zone 09:30 B-Girl 11:00 Hollywood Buzz 11:30 Hideaways, The 13:30 Whistleblower, The 15:30 Pre-Game 16:30 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 18:30 Stand

By Me 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Tin Cup 23:15 Fair Game 01:05 Hustler Tv 02:40 Due Date 04:20 Alive 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 Barclays Premier League Preview 14:35 2012 Pga Tour Highlights 15:30 Ironman 16:30 Makeover: Hunt Dog Edition 17:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 19:00 Nba 2012-13 21:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 23:00 Planet Speed 23:30 2012 World’s Strongest Man 00:00 Jeep World Of Adventure Sports 01:15 Liga Bbva 2012-13 05:00 Volvo Ocean Race 06:00 Jeep World Of Adventure Sports

07:15 Harry’s Law Ii 08:00 Two

And A Half Men 08:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 10:00 Friends 10:30 Pan Am 11:15 Necessary Roughness 12:50 Gossip Girl 13:40 Harry’s Law Ii 14:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 16:00 Two And A Half Men 16:30 One Tree Hill 17:15 C.S.I. New York 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 PriVIleged 20:30 Friends 21:00 Alcatraz 21:55 Luck 22:50 The Closer :35 Fringe 00:20 Rudo Y Cursi 02:15 Roommate, The 03:50 Two And A Half Men 04:15 One Tree Hill 05:00 C.S.I. New York 06:30 Gossip Girl

08:00 Double Jeopardy 10:00 Overnight Delivery 11:30 Action Zone 12:00 Sea Gypsies 14:00 Hot Tub Time Machine 16:00 Kings Of Mykonos 18:00 The Neverending Story: The Next Chapter19:30 Action Zone 20:00 I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell 22:00 Lucky One 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 Right Stuff

05:10 Wanderlust 06:50 Mrs. Doubtfire 08:55 Cine News 09:30 The Beach 11:30 A Thousand Words 13:05 The Three Musketeers 15:00 Ncis X 16:40 Cine News 17:15 The Stone Angel 22:00 Rites Of Passage 01:35 The Following 02:25 30 Minutes Or Less 03:50 Hara Kiri: Death Of A Samurai

10:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Charlotte Motor Speedway 13:00 European Tour Volvo World Match Play Championship LIVE 16:10 PRE GAME(Z) LIVE 16:30 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS AEL (Z) LIVE 18:30 POST GAME (Z) LIVE 19:00 America’s Game: 1980 Oakland Raiders 20:00 NHL: Playoffs Date & Time Tentative 22:30 MLB On FOX: Cincinnati Reds At Philadelphia Phillies LIVE

05:20 The Hunting Party 07:05 Cine News 08:00 No Reservations 09:45 Jane Eyre 11:45 Do No Harm 13:20 The Muppets 15:05 Mad On Novacinema 15:45 Affair In Trinidad 17:30 Men In Black 3 19:20 Transformers 3 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 22:00 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas 00:05 Margin Call 01:55 Friends With Kids 03:40 Cine News 04:15 How I Spent My Summer Vacation

05:40 Ghost Rider 07:30 Robinson Crusoe 09:00 Super 8 10:55 Cine News 11:40 Sacrifice 13:20 X-Men:

First Class 15:35 Captain America: The First Avenger 17:45 Encounter With Danger 19:20 The Woman In Black 21:00 Love To Kill 22:35 Cine News 23:00 The Brave One 01:05 Cine News 01:30 Sex Me I’m Famous! 03:25 Tenderness

06:25 Sabrina 08:20 Cine News 08:45 Shirley Valentine 10:35 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word 12:05 Cine News 12:45 Think Like A Man 14:50 Bounce 16:40 Hugo 18:50 We Bought A Zoo «Pop Corn» 21:00 Footloose 23:00 Larry Crowne 00:40 Beginners 02:25 The Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man 04:00 The Rose Tattoo

06:00 MTV Morning 12:00 MTV Daily Hits 18:00 MTV Out Loud 24:00 MTV After Hours

06:00 Destination Tokyo 08:09 Lust For Life 10:10 Unsinkable Molly Brown 12:15 Grand Prix 15:00 Party Girl 16:40 High Sierra 19:00 Night Of The Iguana 21:00 Sunshine Boys 22:55 Arrangement 01:05 Sunshine Boys 03:05 Night Of The Iguana 05:05 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Quentin Tarantino 05:35 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Sydney Pollack

By Preston Wilder

Tin Cup (LTV, 21.00) Kevin Costner and golf: two things which some people view as a bit of a joke - but those people are missing out, because Tin Cup is fabulous. Kev is a golfer, but not just any golfer: he’s Roy ‘Tin Cup’ McAvoy, whose natural talent for the game is equalled only by his stubborn individualism. That’s why he’s reduced to giving golf lessons while his smooth corporate rival (Don Johnson) is winning major tournaments - but things change when his latest student (Rene Russo) falls for Roy, and encourages him to get his act together. Costner is superb here, a model of effortless authority; he makes the film his own, but writer-director Ron Shelton adds zesty, memorable dialogue and

never takes his eye off the main theme, which isn’t actually golf but a Portrait of an Artist - playing not for money, or even fame, but just for himself. Line to Quote: “Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you’re no good at them”. Made in 1996.

Rites of Passage (Novacinema1, 22.00) Whatever happened to Christian Slater? What about Wes Bentley, who was famous for five minutes as the boy in American Beauty? These are good questions, but not necessarily questions you want to spend your Saturday night exploring - yet Saturday now seems to be the dumping ground for trashy items like this

Rites of Passage

straight-to-DVD thriller, presumably because most viewers are out on the town anyway (yeah, but what about the few who are stuck at home and looking for a good film to watch?). A bunch of college students go on a weekend field trip to an isolated ranch, the ostensible point being to recreate a Native American rites-of-passage ceremony - but in fact it soon degenerates into drinking and partying, then degenerates even more when a drug dealer (Mr. Slater) turns up seeking revenge. A mix of terror and dark, profane comedy, good enough if you like drug-addled humour and pretty young things without (m)any clothes on, maybe not so good if you want to do something constructive with your Saturday. Made in 2012.

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1 One during period before Easter had an inclination (5) 2 Just touch the peak – splendid (6) 3 Departed after time (4) 4 Offshoot found on second American farm (6) 5 Mischievousness of removing rouge lines (7) 6 Lose an opportunity to use public transport (4,3,3) 9 Time to divide the meal? (5,5) 11 Heard Michael’s out of bed in the confusion (3-2) 12 Joiner’s pay (5) 15 Composer finds island in Italian capital (7) 17 Destroy one’s thirst? (6) 18 Merchant ship (6) 21 Some light orchestral song (5) 22 Accountant to keep quiet over the money (4)

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1 Unnamed informant in the nest (6,4) 7 In difficulty moving to Spain (2,1,4) 8 Cherub sang elegantly in part (5) 10 In which there’s a place for humour shortly (3-3) 12 Show or hide (6) 13 Steal a small amount of salt (5) 14 Cape blown in the wind (4) 16 Tommy then produced part of the legend (4) 17 Still quite upset (5) 19 Quarrel, taking animal by bus first (4-2) 20 More correct-sounding scribe (6) 23 Con is another descendant (5) 24 Dora ran round the country (7) 25 Building with a tall spire? (4,6)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Copycat; 7 Ravine; 8 Trample; 10 Let in; 11 Landfall; 13 Ash; 14 Meet; 15 Clad; 16 Rye; 18 Polyglot; 20 Cased; 22 Endorse; 23 Crocus; 24 Tangent. Down – 1 Cattle truck; 2 Plain; 3 Cup of tea; 4 Treble; 5 Evil; 6 Instead; 9 On the street; 12 Played on; 14 Measure; 17 Forest; 19 Large; 21 Duck.

QUICK: Across – 1 Tickled; 7 Alkali; 8 Almsman; 10 Timon; 11 Kindness; 13 Ugh; 14 Wade; 15 Blur; 16 Soh; 18 Flotilla; 20 Lymph; 22 Clipped; 23 People; 24 Derange. Down – 1 Thanklessly; 2 Cumin; 3 Lemonade; 4 Danish; 5 Skit; 6 Glamour; 9 In the saddle; 12 Clothier; 14 Whimper; 17 Placed; 19 Lupin; 21 Hope..

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You may be busy attending to lots of details, answering emails and generally getting sorted out. There’s the chance of a slip up which could cause embarrassment, so watch out for that. It’s another decent day for financial matters, when you can make a lot of headway with a bit of effort. A flirty meeting may result in an exchange of numbers.

Dare to be innovative in the work environment. Don’t tackle projects by yourself when help may be at hand from so many sources. Be curious and make enquiries, and you may find a door opens when you least expect it to. Someone you chat to may have a hidden agenda though, so keep your wits about you. Home vibes soothe now.

Make learning something new about a person you admire a part of the action today. You seem to have a lot of loyal friends around you, but then you probably deserve it. If you’re starting a new project, involve others as you’ll be more successful if you do. Any agreements that you reach now may last into the future and could prove beneficial

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Feelings may be strong as an idea takes hold. You may want to kick up your heels tonight when a social urge comes calling, but a night in may be your best option. It’s a nice day to do some shopping, and indulge a love of luxury. Just make sure that any bargains you get hold of really are bargains. Career hunches can be good.

A new start in the business world may be crowned with success. Because of the potential for career progress, your finances may also be about to improve. The more you put yourself out there, the better your chances of lifting your life in so many ways. The company of good friends may be just the panacea you need to feel upbeat.

You can make plenty of headway today, with your upbeat and very on-the-ball approach to life. The Moon in Virgo may encourage an exploration into new areas, or perhaps bring thoughts of travel and adventure to mind. You might be inspired to make changes to your lifestyle with a new gadget for the home or kitchen that is time saving.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Start new projects, or get out and make a new friend. As Venus aspects Uranus, this could also be the day to meet up with a love interest and see what transpires. As Mercury links to Neptune, you may be particularly psychic and able to tune into another’s needs or feelings. You might also fancy a night in with a movie.

Money issues have potential if you work at them, but if you don’t take responsibility for streamlining any problems, you may find they soon catch up with you. If you have spare cash, you might want to consider a new home purchase. Romance and excitement may be in the air tonight, with the possibility of a sultry happening.

Be careful not to say something carelessly, especially if you are in a sensitive situation where information you give away could be used by a competitor. On the other hand, today is made for fun and games, and for seeking out opportunities for leisure and good times. The more you set out to enjoy yourself, the better the evening will turn out.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Invitations and friendly calls lift your spirits. With a focus on your social zone, it’s definitely time to get involved with people. A friendly lunch may pave the way for new ideas.

The Moon in Virgo suggests that criticism and nitpicking won’t help your love life to thrive. Find ways to remove frustration. Be proactive with personal care.

A local gathering, or going out with friends or colleagues tonight, may be fun and could be the chance of an interesting introduction. Make an effort to move out of your comfort zone, especially when it comes to making new friends.

Someone who seems not to be your type could turn out to be a very supportive friend, if you give them a chance.

Setting off to conquer the world may not seem like so much fun, mainly because you are happy in your own domain.

The joy found in familiar surroundings may far outweigh the need to journey far and discover new sights. Instead, call a few friends over and do something special at your place. Yet, one could have some quirky ideas today.

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RAOUL The gentle giant!!!! A beautiful male black large strong dog. Gentle, nice character, amazing with kids, people, cats and other dogs. He is an inside dog and trained. He will make a perfect family dog. ***************************

***************************** PLOT FOR SALE IN KATO PLATRES in a pine tree area. It comes with title deeds, 1095 square feet. Tel. 99881051. ***************************** FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.

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VICTOR Male Jack Russell cross around 2 years old. Very dynamic little dog, best suited to homes with older children, active families and ones with a well fenced yard for him to run and let-off steam. He is dominant with other dogs, males and females alike. Victor is very entertaining and needs an owner who is patient and with a good sense of humour. With guidance and training this dog will adjust well to a new home and a structured lifestyle.

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** 7 PERSON JACUZZI with 32 jets 2.2m square Owner’s

***************************** ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT; three bedrooms; bathroom; laundry room; fully fitted kitchen; large sitting/dining room; everyday room; two verandas; guest WC; central heating, air-conditioning, broadband internet, satellite TV; covered parking. Furnished €950, unfurnished €800, Tel: 22312255, 99557457. ***************************** BRAND NEW 1 BEDROOM apartment (55sqm), good condition, panoramic view, fully furnished, electric appliances, a/c, storage heater, solar system, covered parking,storage room. On third floor of Kalipoleos avenue. For information call 99663999 ***************************** FURNISHED 2-bed Flat (95sm).

Close to town centre. ONE MONTH FREE RENT! Spacious living area, Separate kitchen. Parquet floors. Central Heating & A/C. Covered

Larnaca - tel: 99 634725

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bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

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

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balcony, Covered parking. Suit professional single/couple. . €500pm. Tel: 9955 9525. ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio kennedy av. €300, 1 bdrm Str/los €300, Ag. Andreas new furnished €420, 2 bdrm Lycavitos €460 fully equipped, Kennedy €430, G/F Str/los €450, 3 bdrm Ag. Omologites furnished €500, Parissinos €500, Acropolis independent ideal for office/health centre €700, Ag. Antonios traditional €650, Acropolis €500, 4 bdrm Str/los independent with garden €1,000. 21PROPERTY FINDER LTD. Licenced & Registered Estate Agents A.M.627A.A.108/E 99474839 99646822 ***************************** TO LET 1 bedroom upper floor house, large veranda near restaurant Periyiali in Acropolis 5 Aeantos Street €300 call 99680208 ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 3 bedr luxury fully renovated semi detached house with stor-

age heaters, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining area with semi open plan kitchen, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big garden with grass and big covered patio with bbq, in a very quiet area in a dead end opposite Orfanides supermarket – Strovolos €800 (H3ST10014-R), (photos in the website).

2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms, 4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €850 (photos in the website).

3. 4 bedr new luxury detached house build in a big plot of land, central heating, full a/c, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, 4 wc, bathroom with jacuzzi, big open space sitting and dining areas, 330sq.m, big swimming pool 5x10, big

garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, roller blinds and curtains on all the windows, electrical appliances in kitchen, covered parking, in a quiet neighborhood off Tseriou Avenue.

AVAILABLE IN JUNE – Strovolos €1500 (H4ST10024-R), (photos in the website).

4. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house,230sq.m,big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven,3wc,2 bathrooms, curtains on all windows, small garden, patio, central heating, full A/C, covered parking in a dead and near French Ambassador house- Strovolos €950 (H4ST10012-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr+ very big attic room separated in 2 rooms +separate room for the maid in the basement luxury fully renovated detached house with big sitting and dining room with fire place, big kitchen with electrical appliances sit-

ting room and breakfast area, 3 bathrooms, floor heating independent with grass, a/c units, garden with grass and covered patio, in a quiet area near the International fair in the central part of Makedonitissa - €1500 Negotiable –(H4MAK0018-R) (photos in the website) 6. 3 bedr + attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with central heating, a/c, fireplace, modern kitchen open plan with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, garden with grass, over flow swimming pool, covered parking in a quiet area. – Makedonitissa €1500 (H4MAK0023-R), (photos on the website).

7. 4 bedr luxury detached house with 2 big extra rooms on the attic with shower and wc, central heating, air condition units, 360sq.m, solid parquet floor all the house except the kitchen, big sitting and dining areas with fire place, big separate kitchen with family room and breakfast area, big mature

garden with grass and swimming pool, covered parking, in a quiet neighborhood close to Alfa Mega supermarket – Dasoupoli €2000 - Available middle of June (H4DAS0001-R) (photos in the website) 8. 3 bedr +office space luxury detached house with storage heaters, full a/c, 3 wc, 260 m², big kitchen with big family room opening to a big garden with grass, electrical appliances, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end - Makedonitissa €2000 (H4MAK0034-R) (photos in the website) 9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+ laundry room, 2nd level big

FOR RENT

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2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment in Larnaca near new hospital. €400 per month including service charge and refuse collection Call 99358916

Fully Qualified 30 years’ Experience SUMMER OFFER 30% OFF ALL AREAS • External & Internal painting • Damp Damage Repairs • Spritez Repairs • Free Estimates + very clean work • All areas. All types of woodwork stained and preserved • All work guaranteed

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TO LET NICOSIA attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom.

Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom.

Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, satellite dish, central music and network system, storage room, very good double glazed windows.

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the centre of Makedonitissa €1900 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website).

10. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 450sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big kitchen with sitting room and fire place and all the electrical appliances, all the sitting areas viewing the garden with grass, blinds on all windows downstairs, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, main bedroom with jacuzzi,2 covered parking’s near Alpha Mega supermarket and English School. – Strovolos €2200 (H4ST10001-R) (photos in the website) 11. 4 bedr + big attic room luxury detached house with central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 260sq.m, big sitting and din-

ing room, big kitchen with family room, big covered patio on the back with bbq area, covered parking, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, BEHIND Apoel training field- Archangelos €1500 (H4AR0018-R), (photos in the website).

12. 3 bedrs luxury 2 storey, FULLY RENOVATED LISTED HOUSE with high ceilings in the centre of Nicosia, 260sq.m, 2 small attic rooms, big sitting room upstairs, big sitting room and dining area downstairs, wooden floor, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, 2 bathrooms (one en suite),3wc,CH independent, A/C, big garden – Nicosia Centre €1400 (H4NIC0002-R), (photos in the website).

13. 4 bedrs luxury renovated

detached house built in 3 plots of land,550sq.m aprox, central heating, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, extra room upstairs for sitting room/office space/bedroom, solid parquet floor in bedrooms, big kitchen with granite and all the electrical appliances, maid’s room, big sitting areas with fire place and internal yard, big swimming pool 6 x 12,big mature garden with grass and big trees surrounding the house giving privacy, in a very quiet neighborhood near Acropolis park. Available in August €5500 – (H4DAS0006-R) (photos in the website) 14.4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6wc,

2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC (RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates. com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr luxury finished spacious floor apartment with very big sitting and dining areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all through, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows, big covered veranda, covered parking,

big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Andreas- €1100 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website).

2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €490 (A1DAS0004-R) (photos in the website).

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1 bedr spacious apartment,60sq.m, storage heater, 1 a/c, big sitting and dining room, NICELY FURNISHED , near Europa hotel and 5 minutes Walk from European University – Engomi €380 (A1ENG0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 2 bedr FULLY RENOVATED spacious apartment with laminate parquet floor, a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered veranda with nice view, near the American Embassy - €450 (A2ENG0018-R)

5. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, storage heaters, 2 a/c, cooker, oven, dishwasher, washing machine/dryer, refrigerator in the kitchen, 2 wc, 1 bathroom, blinds, big covered veranda, storage room, parking, big common SWIMMING pool. Price includes common expenses – Latsia €420(A1LAT0004-R), (photos in the website).

6. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot – Agioi Omologites €450 (A2AOM0003-R), (photos in the website).

7. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighborhood next to a playground, near Central offices of Cyta and Laiki Head

KIOSK FOR SALE 20.000 EUROS (OVNO) PAPHOS PRICE INCLUDES ALL STOCK AND EQUIPMENT FOOD, DRINKS, CHILLED PRODUCTS, PET FOODS, CIGARETTES FROZEN PRODUCTS, HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS, TOILETRIES. FREEZERS, CHILLER CABINET, ELECTRONIC TILL SYSTEM, SHELVING ETC INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD E-MAIL – midnight011963@gmail.com

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quarters – Dasoupoli €500 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website).

8. 2 bedr new modern luxury apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2bathrooms(one en suite), blinds on all windows, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big sitting & dining room, big covered veranda, covered parking near Alpha Mega – Engomi €500. (A2ENG0014-R), (photos in the website).

9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only.

Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. – Acropolis €700 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apartment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances (cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer), covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €400 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the

website).

11. 2 bedr luxury apartment with a/c for hot and cold, separate kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking, near the Ministry of Education – Acropolis €550 (A2ACS0036-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new luxury apartment,7 years old,89sq.m,central heating independent, 3 A/C, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, covered verandah, covered parking and storage room in a quiet area opposite Akropolis Park – €500(A2ACS0038-R), (photos in the website.

13. New luxury finished 3 bedr penthouse (floor apartment) on the 5th floor,165sq.m+ big verandas(one bigger with bbq), solid parquet floor all the flat,3wc,2 bathrooms, central heating ind, full a/c, big separate Italian kitchen with electrical appliances and dining area, big sitting room, covered parking and storage room off Makarios Avenue walking distance to the centre €850 (A3NIC0030-R), (photos in the website).

14. 2 bedr brand new nicely finished ground floor apartment with economic a/c for hot and cold, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, covered veranda, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building off Kennedy Avenue near the centre. No extra common expenses – Nicosia Centre €500 (A2NIC0032-R), (photos in the website).

15. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 wc, big sitting and dining room with fire place, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building €575 (A3ST10014-R), (photos in the website).

16. 3 bedr luxury apartment, 150sq.m + very big verandah, nicely modern furnished storage heaters,3ac,2 bathrooms,2wc,parquet floor in the bedrooms, big sitting and dining room with open plan kitchen, covered parking, off Makarios Avenue behind Hilton hotel – Nicosia Centre €700 (A3NIC0017-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates. com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ****************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

***************************** TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/C-toilet in main bedroom. Semi/full furnished.

Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/ shower. €550pm negotiable.

Tel 96891800.

LIMASSOL

***************************** TO LET SEAFRONT STUDIO, fully furnished, sleeps 2 adults, all amenities including satellite, common pool and tennis court, basement parking, spacious verandas. Rent €1000 pm incl utilities. Available 1st June 2013. Better rate for full

***************************** TO LET Hebrew homes, by Limassol twin towers, Kosher or Free, 3 monthly let. Call 035799036312.

***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 *****************************

LARNACA LOVELY SOUTH FACING furnished apt, first floor, four balconies, sea views. Good area, Pyla Beach 2 kms, 3 double bedrooms, A/C, flyscreens, ceiling fans. Lounge, free internet access, B flat screen cable TV. B Kitchen, all modcons €575 euros pcm. Photos Tel: 99935294 or 99935263.

TO LET LARNACA season or year booking. Tel 99657055 ***************************** TO LET SEAFRONT 2 BEDROOM FLAT, modern fully furnished, easily sleeps 4 adults, all amenities including satellite, common pool and tennis court, basement parking, spacious verandah. Rent €2000 pm incl utilities. Available 1st June 2013. Better rate for full season or year booking. Tel 99657055 ***************************** FOR RENT fully furnished 1 bedroom flat near Larco Hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel 99202543 ***************************** 1 BEDROOM flat in Ermou Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom flat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca. Call 96693375 **************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Availa-

Cello & piano duet wide repertoire available for bars, cafes, hotels, receptions etc.

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TO LET LARNACA ble for immediate occupation.

Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926 2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/American Academy Larnaca. Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926 3. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com – LARGE RANGE OF RENTAL PROPERTIES. From studio apartments to 5 bedroom villa’s for rent, all properties have detailed descriptions, professional pho-

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tographs. Interactive Virtual/ Video Tours. Please visit our website. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com 4. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com - License No. 419. LANDLORDS AVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY WITH US FOR FREE. Tel. 24815926 Email. info@superiorrealestatelarnaca.com

a cul de sac. One bedroom downstairs, low maintenance garden, private pool. € 600 PTR 110 3. TRACHYPEDOULA, stunning 3 bedroom stone house only 30 minute drive from Paphos town and above humidity. Property which is suitable for retired families but not only.

All bedrooms en suite, modern furnished. A wonderful family home in a rural location! Must be seen to be appreciated!

Book a viewing, no obligation, it’s free! € 500 PTR 115 4. Chloraka, 4 bedrooms unfurnished detached villa with private pool in a cul de sac.

Separate kitchen, spacious bedrooms, master en suite, c/ h, a/c, shutters, fly screens.

Easy access to town, covered parking. € 700 PTR 111

PAPHOS TO RENT Tel: 99389198.

For listings and many other properties please visit our web www. paphostorent.com and give us a call.

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PAPHOS ***************************** 1. CORAL BAY, 1 bedroom fully furnished apartment walking distance to the sea. Communal pool, parking, amazing sea views. € 450 PTR 116 2. TSADA, modern 3 bedrooms unfurnished detached villa in

TO LET PAPHOS with power showers, Large Enclosed Courtyard, Double Glazed Windows with Shutters, Open Fireplace €350

***************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views.

Sky satellite, €550 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents

TREMITHOUSA - Superb Detached 3 Bedroom Villa with Large Pool, F/F to a very High Standard, Mater En-Suite, Family Bathroom with Jacuzzi, Beautifully Fitted Kitchen, Utility, Separate Shower room, Spectacular Mountain and Sea views, Quite Cul-DeSac location €700

**************************** LEYTIMBOUv- Stunning 2 Bedroom Traditional Stone House that’s been completely Modernized to a very high standard although all the Original Features remain, Beamed ceilings, Under Floor Heating Flagstone floors, 2 en-suites

KISSONERGA - Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa ,Large Pool,2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite ,Family Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen ,Downstairs Bedroom with En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden, Large Ter-

SPECIAL OFFER In Kokkinotrimithia, 15km from Nicosia in a good area, (in the centre, opposite Maragos bakery, 41/2 acres or 7 plot with 90% building factor.

For more information please call 99673286, 99918830.

TO LET PAPHOS races and Separate Storage Room €600 KALEPIA - Fabulas Detached 3 Bedroom F/F OR U/F Villa, 2 En-suites, Great Views, Large Pool, Gated Driveway, Garage €600 URGENTLY WANTED – 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villas 600/700 MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** FOR RENT a selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Kato Paphos & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE

1. MESOGI €500 we are delighted to offer this beautifully restored traditional stone village house set in a picturesque courtyard with stone built barbeque & covered verandah. this spacious character home offers a modern fitted kitchen, separate dining room

TO LET PAPHOS & separate living room with modern gas fire, guest wc.

Gas central heating throughout. 2 bedrooms both with ensuite bathrooms & walk-in wardrobe. Plus an additional room perfect for an office or 3rd bedroom. This property is full of charm & unique detail and well worth taking a look. website reference number: RTL_687 2. KONIA €600 this fantastic price includes pool cleaning & gardening. Modern detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Real fire to living area for those winter months. Good sized storage room & guest wc. Available unfurnished though includes, a/c throughout, blackout blinds, pressurised water system, flyscreens & shutters. Situated on a corner plot with large beautifully landscaped garden, offering a lovely private pool, mature plants & fruit trees. Gated entrance & covered off street parking. website reference number: RTL_685 3. KAMARES TALA €750 a spacious 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Living area with real fire place for those winter months. Separate utility room. Good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering breathtaking panoramic sea views.

Large outdoor storage room. covered car port. Available furnished with good furniture.

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CHURCHES GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m.

Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

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

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

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month) Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 office@sainthelenas.com

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

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives.

Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm.

International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

PROPHETIC CALL-OUT Grieved by preachers living in sin ? Pastors collaborating with idolaters?

Bored with just being a spectator?

In Prophecy there is no ‘us and them: Everyone contributes (1 Cor 14:26) 10am start 9/2/2013 God willing, Meet: Entrance Palaiopafos, Kouklia Instruments/shofars welcome

Open Door Baptist Church

St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

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

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

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Sport I feel like Lance Armstrong, says returning Dettori

IN BRIEF Boston runners get another chance THOUSANDS of runners whose Boston Marathon was cut short by the deadly bombings at the finish line will be invited back next year, the organiser of the world-famous race said this week.

The Boston Marathon attracts runners from the United States and all over the world who sometimes train for years to qualify, with most competitors required to post fast times in other 26.2 mile races to earn a spot in the 27,000runner field.

“The opportunity to cross the finish line amid thousands of spectators is a significant part of the entire Boston Marathon experience,” organisers said.

About 5,600 entrants will be eligible for return invites in 2014, the 118th running of the race.

This year’s race was halted on April 15 when two pressure cooker bombs left at the finish line exploded in a crowd of thousands of spectators and athletes, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

Runners were rushed off the course as emergency responders searched to see if any additional explosive device had been planted, but none were found.

Jockey completes six-month cocaine ban THREE-TIME champion jockey Frankie Dettori says he “feels like Lance Armstrong” as he prepares for a return to action after a sixmonth drugs ban.

Dettori was suspended worldwide after testing positive in France for cocaine.

The 39-year-old told Channel Four News he had been drug tested 15 times in the last two months, adding: “They come and knock on my door any time of the day.”

Drugs cheat Armstrong was banned from cycling and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in August 2012.

Dettori, who was cautioned by police for possessing cocaine in 1993, said he took the drug almost 20 years later as a one-off in “a moment of weakness”.

He plans to return at Leicester racecourse on Monday evening, provided French racing’s governing body France Galop give him the go-ahead, as expected.

Dettori will come back as a freelance after his 18-year association with the Godolphin team - one of the world’s leading racing operations and owned by ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed - ended in October 2012, two months before his ban.

The jockey, who rode a record-breaking seven win-

ners from seven rides at Ascot in 1996 and is famous for his flying dismounts, said he turned to cocaine as his career faltered.

He had been Godolphin’s number one jockey for 17 years until they recruited younger riders Mickael Barzalona and Silvestre de Sousa last year.

Dettori said the successful relationship had started to change after 2010 when Sheikh Mohammed recruited a second trainer, Mahmood Al Zarooni, to work at another Newmarket stable in addition to Saeed bin Suroor.

“Up until about two years ago I was having the best time of my life... and then for some reason things changed.

We had a new trainer, new way of doing things and I didn’t know whether I was in or out,” he said.

Last month, Al Zarooni admitted doping 15 horses earlier in 2013 and was banned from racing for eight years.

He is appealing against the severity of the ban.

When the younger jockeys were brought in, and Dettori was left down the pecking order ahead of the 2012 Epsom Derby, the rider’s mood deteriorated.

“My first 17 years of my riding career at Godolphin, I was always the number one

pick. All of a sudden I saw myself being the fourth in the biggest race in the world and it started from there and it was never an explanation why and what, you know. I had to accept it for unknown reasons,” he said.

Dettori tested positive for cocaine at Longchamp racecourse the day after finishing third on Michelangelo, trained by John Gosden, as Al Zarooni’s 25-1 shot Encke won the St Leger at Doncaster to deny 2000 Guineas and Derby winner Camelot the Triple Crown.

“My head was wrecked, absolutely wrecked. I couldn’t take it anymore,” said Dettori.

Dettori split with Godolphin soon after choosing to ride Camelot in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for their fierce Irish rivals Ballydoyle and trainer Aidan O’Brien.

“In hindsight I should have perhaps confronted Godolphin and asked them the reasons,” he said.

“Or perhaps do things different ways. But things just spiral out of control. It’s amazing when you analyse everything back - it just all happens and you get yourself in a rut.

“Like I said, perhaps I did things the wrong way. It was a cry for help.”

The three-time champion jockey told Channel Four News he had been drug tested 15 times in the last two months

New York Knicks avoid elimination with win over Pacers

By Larry Fine

Led by 28 points from league scoring champion Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks played with desperation

THE New York Knicks came alive in front of their home crowd and avoided elimination by beating the Pacers 85-75, sending their NBA Eastern Conference semi-final series back to Indiana for Game Six. Led by 28 points from league scoring champion Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks played with desperation and fierce determination on defense to narrow the deficit to 3-2 in their best-of-seven series, which resumes on Saturday.

New York forced 19 turnovers and registered a dozen steals, double that of the Pacers, answering the Madison Square Garden chant of ‘Defence, Defence.’

“We played with a sense of urgency tonight, knowing what was at stake,” said Anthony. “We played

like we really wanted it. We had to win and we went out there and did that.”

The Knicks’ bench outscored the undermanned Pacers 35-10 with J.R. Smith coming out of a slump to contribute 13 points and 29-year-old rookie Chris Copeland adding 13 points and a dose of high energy.

Playing without starting point guard George Hill, who suffered a concussion in Indiana’s Game Four victory, the Pacers were led

by Paul George’s 23 points with David West adding 17.

Should the Pacers fail to finish off the Knicks with a victory at home tonight, the series would return to New York’s Madison Square Garden for a deciding Game Seven on Monday.

New York coach Mike Woodson said winning in Indianapolis was a tough task as his team went 0-4

there this season, but the challenge could be met with the defensive intensity the Knicks brought in Thursday’s do-or-die game.

“It was our defence,” Woodson said about the key to Game Five. “We didn’t give up a lot of secondchance buckets, we made it tough for them to score.

“It was a total team effort and we’re going to have to have that same effort when we play at Conseco Fieldhouse.”

Indiana were hurt by poor shooting from the foul line, making just 19-of-33 attempts.

“That was just one of those nights,” said Indiana coach Frank Vogel. “Every team in basketball has a night like this when you just don’t knock them down.

“To me that’s an encouraging thing. If we make our free throws, it’s a different ball game.”

Sochi to unveil 2014 medals MEDALS for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi will be unveiled at this month’s gathering of top sports and Olympic officials, local organisers said this week.

The medals will presented at the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting, part of the annual Sport Accord convention, in St Petersburg on May 30.

“A record number of events will be contested in Sochi, therefore a record number of medals - about 1,300 - will be minted,” the Sochi organisers said in a statement.

“Sochi medals will have a unique design, different from all previous editions of the Olympic Games, underlining the originality and distinctiveness of Russia.”

The ceremony would be conducted by Sochi 2014 chief Dmitry Chernyshenko, famous athletes and public figures, the organisers said.

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Ailing Wiggins, defending champ Hesjedal abandon Giro d’Italia

O’Driscoll gives Ireland and Leinster another year

Chest infection worsens, forcing Tour de France winner to withdraw

By Padraic Halpin

By Alasdair Fotheringham THIS year’s Giro d’Italia claimed two major victims when pre-race favourite Bradley Wiggins and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal withdrew prior to yesterday’s 13th stage, the pair citing illness as the reason for abandoning the tour.

Wiggins enjoyed a stellar 2012 when he became the first Briton to win the Tour de France and backed that up with a time trial gold medal at the London Olympics before turning his attention towards adding to those titles in Italy.

He looked strong early in the 21-stage race but gradually slipped out of contention, blaming his poor performance on a chest infection that eventually led to his withdrawal.

“Due to a worsening chest infection, the decision was taken for Wiggins not to start the race’s 13th stage on Friday from Busseto to Cherasco,” his Team Sky said in a statement, adding that Colombian Rigoberto Uran, third overall, was the new team leader.

“We monitored Bradley overnight and this morning we’ve withdrawn him from the Giro after consulting the team doctor,” team principal Dave Brailsford added.

“His chest infection has been getting worse and our primary concern is always the health of our riders.

“Bradley will return to the UK today for treatment and to rest and we hope to have him back on the road as soon as possible. As a passionate racer he wanted to continue but he is simply

Sir Bradley Wiggins enjoyed a stellar 2012 when he became the first Briton to win the Tour de France and backed that up with a time trial gold medal at the London Olympics unable to do so on medical grounds.”

After losing more than three minutes on the main contenders on a wet 12th stage, Wiggins was lying 13th overall, 5:22 adrift of leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy.

The Briton’s withdrawal came shortly after defending champion Hesjedal also abandoned the race, with the Canadian’s GarminSharp team announcing the news earlier on Friday.

Hesjedal had slipped to 38th place, 32 minutes and 55 seconds down on Nibali after suffering badly in the first mountain stages of the race last weekend.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Hesjedal said in a news release.

“I want to be here for my team and for all the people who have supported me to get me here to this point.

“I built my entire season around the Giro and I came here feeling great, but I have

been suffering since the (stage eight) TT (individual time trial).

“We’re working on it but we’re not sure what’s wrong.

There’s a virus that’s been going around, so it could be that, or severe allergies.”

Hesjedal became his country’s first Giro d’Italia winner when he edged out Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez by 16 seconds after a ferocious two-week duel through the mountains, with the Cana-

dian gaining the upper hand on the final day’s time trial in Milan.

Wiggins and Hesjedal’s withdrawals follows that of France national champion Nacer Bouhanni, who announced on Thursday evening that he was quitting the race.

Yesterday’s 254-km stage favoured the sprinters and ran from Busseto to Cherasco with this year’s race finishing in Brescia on May 26.

Lotus boss unhappy with Pirelli

By Alan Baldwin

Lotus ace Kimi Raikkonen is second in the championship, just four points behind Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel

PIRELLI’S decision to change the Formula One tyres after just six races penalises those who have done a better job than others in getting the existing ones to work, Lotus principal Eric Boullier has said.

“Just imagine for a moment that because a football team can’t run as fast as its opponent, the dimensions of the pitch are changed at half time,” the Frenchman said on the team website (www.lotusf1team.com).

“That there are changes to come can be seen as somewhat frustrating and I hope they are not too extreme.”

Pirelli announced after Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix that they would change the tyres from next month’s Canadian Grand Prix, round seven of 19, to make them last longer without producing so many pitstops.

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso made four pitstops on his way to victory in Barcelona, with Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen second after three visits to the pitlane.

Ferrari and Lotus are the two teams who have got the most out of the quick-wearing tyres, which have been heavily criticised by champions Red Bull while McLaren and Mercedes have also struggled with them.

Boullier said Pirelli were clearly in a difficult situation and under pressure.

“As with every season, some teams do a better job than others with their designs and some drivers are more adaptable than others to the changes of both car and tyre,” he added.

“It is frustrating when you’ve developed a car from a set of tyre specifications which are available to everyone - for tyres that are the same for everyone - to then be told that they are being changed

mid-season.”

Boullier said Lotus, who won the season-opener in Australia with Raikkonen, would be working “twice as hard” to adapt to the changes.

Raikkonen is second in the championship, just four points behind Red Bull’s triple champion Sebastian Vettel.

In other news meanwhile, McLaren’s engine deal with Honda from 2015 is a vital step to ensure they can keep punching at the same weight as works team rivals Ferrari and Mercedes, managing director Jonathan Neale said.

The Woking team have used engines provided by former shareholders Mercedes since 1995 but the German carmaker bought the title-winning Brawn GP outfit in 2009 and has made that its focus.

McLaren now have to pay Mercedes some eight million euros a year for engines that they previously received for free.

IRELAND’S grand slamwinning captain Brian O’Driscoll ended months of uncertainty over his future this week when he agreed to play on for one more year for province and country.

O’Driscoll, who will travel on his fourth British and Irish Lions tour next month, turned 34 this year and had said he would wait until July to decide on whether to call time on a glittering 14-year international career.

The centre’s decision will come as a big boost to Leinster and to new Irish coach Joe Schmidt, whom O’Driscoll holds in high regard, as he looks to pick the national side up from its worst Six Nations championship in 14 years.

It also means O’Driscoll’s last significant act in a green jersey will not be his banishment to the sin-bin for stamping in Ireland’s closing Six Nations defeat in Rome this year.

“I want to thank the IRFU and Leinster for allowing me the time to think about my future and discuss my options with my family,” O’Driscoll, whose form has not declined with age, said.

“The support my family and the Irish and Leinster fans have shown me over the past few months, and indeed years, has been phenomenal and I am now very much looking forward to one more year playing.”

Already Ireland’s record try scorer by some margin, O’Driscoll will now probably overhaul out out-of-favour flyhalf Ronan O’Gara as the country’s most-capped player. He needs three more appearances to match the Munster man’s 128 caps.

O’Driscoll also led Ireland on a record 83 occasions, more than twice as anyone else, before former coach Declan Kidney controversially handed the captain’s arm band to Leinster teammate Jamie Heaslip this year.

Before he travels to Australia with the Lions, O’Driscoll had hoped to add the Amlin Challenge Cup and RaboDirect Pro 12 to a trophy collection with Leinster that already includes three Heineken Cups.

However, he was forced to withdraw from yesterday’s Amlin Cup final against Stade Francais after suffering a back spasm during Leinster’s RaboDirect PRO12 victory over Glasgow last weekend.

Schmidt, who will lead Leinster for the last time in those two finals, had said when he accepted the Ireland job last month that he would do all he could to keep hold of the man named player of the last decade by Rugby World magazine.

“It’s great that Brian has agreed to continue playing.

He’s an inspirational player, not only on the pitch, but also on the training ground,” Schmidt said.

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Leaders Porto aim to inflict more pain on bruised Benfica ‘Dream season collapsed like a pack of cards’

By Daniel Alvarenga PORTO travel to Pacos de Ferreira tomorrow for the finale of the Portuguese Premier League knowing a win would secure a third successive title and complete a terrible week for arch rivals Benfica.

The Lisbon club, one point behind, will hope for one final twist to a drama-riddled championship when they host second-from-bottom Moreirense in a simultaneous kickoff (8.30pm).

Benfica’s dream season collapsed like a house of cards after two stoppage-time defeats in one of their most painful weeks, first at Porto to throw away the league lead and then in Wednesday’s Europa League final against Chelsea.

By contrast, Porto coach Vitor Pereira, whose side were four points behind Benfica just two rounds ago, have beaten the odds since to close in on the top objective of the season.

“We have everything to secure the title,” he said. “But we still have a complicated

Benfica players walked off the Amsterdam ArenA pitch in tears after defeat to Chelsea, thinking back on a season which went from memorable to nightmarish in just five days match to go.”

Pereira has persevered to stave off criticism from fans, pundits and the media that his football tactics fall short of the flamboyance and dominance of previous bosses like Andre Villas-Boas and Jose Mourinho.

Porto looked below par when they were knocked out

by Malaga in the Champions League last 16 and also from the domestic cup but they kept performing in the league and made the most of Benfica’s few mistakes.

Surprise package Pacos de Ferreira, who secured a best-ever third position in the league and along with

it a place in next season’s Champions League qualifying round, stand between Porto and the league trophy.

“Pacos had an exceptional season and they really were the third-best side in Portugal this year,” Pereira said.

“We must go there with full focus and motivation and keep emotional control.”

Twice European champions Benfica still cannot quite grasp how quickly the tables turned in both the league and Europa League after Wednesday’s dramatic 2-1 defeat at the hands of a last-gasp header from Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

Benfica players walked off the pitch in tears thinking back on a season which went from memorable to nightmarish in just five days. Coach Jorge Jesus was visibly distraught but found respite in the comforting words of a past hero of his.

“The trophy is Chelsea’s but I was proud when one of my early career idols, Johan Cruyff, hugged me at the end and told me Benfica were a great team that played his kind of football,” Jesus said.

Benfica dominated possession against Chelsea thanks to some neat passing but

were left ruing their many missed chances and defensive mistakes.

With two final battles still ahead, one in the league this weekend and then the cup final a week later, most fans were not bitter and preferred to praise the coach and squad for their efforts.

Hundreds of Benfica supporters went down to cheer the squad when they arrived at Lisbon’s airport late on Wednesday.

“We flew Benfica’s flag up high against Chelsea although, at the end, the players tumbled on the pitch as if they had been shot,” Jesus said.

Allegri doubts cloud Milan’s decisive Serie A match

By Brian Homewood

Feeling the pressure: AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri’s future hangs in the balance

MASSIMILIANO Allegri’s future as AC Milan coach hangs in the balance as his side visit relegated Siena on the last day of the season tomorrow, still needing a win to clinch third place in Serie A and a berth in the Champions League playoff round.

Allegri’s players have voiced their support for the coach, who has overseen an impressive revival in the second half of the season with only one Serie A defeat since the winter break.

The phlegmatic Allegri, who won the Serie A title in his first season at Milan and led them to second place last term, had to cope with a firesale of players in the close season amid belt-tightening at the club.

Boosted by the signing of Mario Balotelli in January, Milan’s performance has been better than expected, yet rumours still swirl around the club that owner Silvio Berlusconi has had enough of the coach.

On Tuesday, Milan denied suggestions that Allegri was in talks with ambitious AS Roma. Meanwhile, midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng and forward Stephan El Shaaraway have led the chorus for him to stay.

“He has done a great job in these three years and needs to stay,” Boateng told Italian media. “For me, there isn’t a Milan without Allegri.

El Shaaraway told Milan Channel: “We are a good group of players, led by a great coach, and I hope we can all be here together next season.”

However, Chief Executive Adriano Galliani would not be drawn on Allegri’s future.

“I just want to talk about Sunday, the match against Siena. We are confident and expect to qualify for the Champions League and, before Sunday evening, we will not talk about the transfer market nor the coach,” he said.

Milan are two points clear of fourth-placed Fiorentina, who visit bottom club Pescara and have the better head-to-head record.

Champions Juventus visit Sampdoria while Napoli, who have guaranteed second place and Italy’s only other direct place in the Champions League group stage, are at Roma.

With relegation also settled and Palermo, Siena and Pescara heading to Serie B next season, the only other issue are the two Europa League places.

One of those will be taken by either Milan or Fiorentina while fifth-placed Udinese are in pole position for the other.

Udinese, who have won their last seven games, visit troubled Inter Milan with a twopoint advantage over Lazio, the only team who can catch them and are at Cagliari.

Inter will be glad to end a nightmare season which has seen them decimated by injuries and miss out on European football for the first time in 14 years.

They have lost seven of their last 10 games and President Massimo Moratti has repeatedly had to clarify the future of beleaguered coach Andrea Stramaccioni.

Blatter: ‘cold war’ has broken out with FA FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes a ‘cold war’ has broken out between the world governing body and the FA about Russia staging the 2018 World Cup. England only attracted two votes to host the tournament.

Persistent allegations of corruption have since been made about the World Cup bidding processes.

Blatter, 77, also stated it is ‘not rational’ to play the 2022 competition in the summer heat of Qatar, where temperatures can reach 50C. Blatter said: “Before the awarding of a World Cup or Olympic Games, there is a meeting with the politicians.

We had it here in Zurich.

“They influence the voters.

England didn’t get the 2018 World Cup and, ever since, there has been a cold war with FIFA.” Russia beat England and joints bids from SpainPortugal and NetherlandsBelgium to win a ballot of FIFA’s 22 executive members for the right to host the 2018 World Cup. At the same ceremony in December 2010, Qatar was backed to host the 2022 tournament.

A number of senior FIFA officials, including two executive committee members, have since been banned for breaching the organisation’s ethics code in the run up to the the voting.

The world governing body has reacted to the scandal by appointing lawyer Michael J Garcia to head an ethics committee investigation.

Speaking about the 2022 vote, Blatter said voters were influenced by the pressure to take the World Cup to the Middle East for the first time.

He said: “There were interventions at different levels so that it would go to an Arab country. Geopolitics did its work.”

In March, FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke argued that the Qatar World Cup could be moved if medical reports highlighted related health risks.

Blatter said plans to use air-conditioned stadiums in the Arab state would not be sufficient.

“The World Cup is more than just stadiums, it is an array of social and cultural activities around the competition,” Blatter told French newspaper L’Equipe.

“What do we do? It’s not rational and reasonable to play in June-July.

“Our technical report, which was available to all the members of the executive committee before the 2010 vote, exposed these difficulties.”

The idea to move the competition away from its traditional time has previously been backed by UEFA leader Michel Platini and world footballers’ union FIFPro.

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Sport Stakes high for Omonia and AEK in season finale

I always gave everything, says retiring Beckham

By Nemanja Bjedov

Hurt by criticism of his celebrity status

By Martyn Ziegler DAVID Beckham admitted he had been hurt by criticism of his celebrity status as he announced his retirement from football.

The 38-year-old will follow his old mentor Sir Alex Ferguson into retirement after a stellar 21-year career that has seen him win league titles in four countries - at Manchester United, Real Madrid, Los Angeles Galaxy and this season at Paris St Germain.

Beckham, England’s most capped outfield player, said it had always been his dream to call it a day while he was still at the top and hoped people would focus on his footballing achievements.

He told Sky Sports News: “Over the years people have obviously looked at other things that have gone on in my career and sometimes that’s overshadowed what I’ve done on the pitch.

“As much as I say that doesn’t hurt me, of course it does.

“At the end of the day I’m a footballer who has played for some of the biggest clubs in the world, with some of the best players in the world, and under some of the biggest and best managers, and achieved

almost everything in football.

“It hurts when people not question it, but think about other things.

“I hope people will remember me as a hard-working footballer, someone who was passionate about the game and someone that gave everything that they have, because that’s how I feel.”

Beckham will bring the curtain down on his remarkable playing career at the end of the season - PSG have two matches remaining.

ATHLETE’S DREAM Beckham added: “It’s every athlete’s dream, it’s every footballer’s dream to go out on top form or winning a trophy. It doesn’t happen that often.

“I’ve been lucky: when I left United we won the league, when I left Madrid we won the league, leaving Galaxy after winning the championship there and then coming here to Paris and winning the league.

“It’s nice to go out like that, it’s written, it’s simple.”

Beckham made his debut for Manchester United in 1992, winning six league titles and the Champions League before moving to

Real Madrid and then Los Angeles Galaxy, plus loan spells at AC Milan.

He made his England debut in 1996 and would go on to be the Three Lions’ most capped outfield player with 115 appearances. He was the first English player to score in three consecutive World Cups.

Beckham will spend the next few months considering numerous different offers before deciding on his next big move.

He already has a number of contracts as an ambassador plus other lucrative endorsement deals, and he has demonstrated his value to a number of causes - not least in helping secure the 2012 Olympics for London.

One definite long-term aim will be to own a franchise in Major League Soccer in the United States the current fee to buy in is 40 million dollars but Beckham has made it clear that he will pursue that avenue.

There are certain to be offers from the Football Association for Beckham to become an ambassador for the English game - FA chairman David Bernstein spoke yesterday about the wish to form a “close association” with him, and England manager Roy Hodgson said he hoped he would stay “close to the game”.

End it like Beckham: the former England captain is as well-known off the pitch as on it

Moyes hails his Toffees troops

Everton manager David Moyes was given a rousing reception at Goodison Park on Sunday for his final home game

OUTGOING Everton manager David Moyes has paid tribute to the players he has overseen during his time at the club.

Moyes is leaving the Toffees this summer after over 11 years in charge to replace the retiring Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, with the 50-year-old’s final game as boss of the Merseyside outfit being tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to Chelsea.

Speaking at Everton’s end of season awards ceremony on Thursday night, Moyes reflected on his tenure at Goodison Park and was keen to praise the efforts of those who have played under him.

“The memories I’ve got from Everton are going to live with me for a long time,” he said.

“The character the players here have had is great. All the players in my time here have been great.

“I often think how lucky I am to not only have great players but great men. For that, I thank them all.

“I take full responsibility for the players we have here and I’ve always wanted to give the players everything we can and tell them that we will be challenging at the top of the league.

“I always tell them we will keep getting better, and I believe we have.

“On the training ground every day, they are the ones who demand it of each other and after my time, they won’t allow it to change because there are too many players with the same approach.

They know the standards we’ve set and what is required.

“Behind the scenes, we have former players in Alan Stubbs, David Weir and Duncan Ferguson back on the staff.”

On the current campaign - in which Everton are guaranteed a sixth-placed finish in the league - Moyes added: “I would like to thank all the players for the way they performed this season because they have been excellent all year.

“They’ve been in the top group in the table pushing all year, our home record has been excellent and the players have been brilliant for me - I couldn’t fault them at all. I would like to thank them for everything they have done.”

Moyes also thanked Everton supporters for the way they acted during his final Toffees home match, last Sunday’s 2-0 win over West Ham. The Scot received a rapturous reception from the home crowd at the game, and he said: “On Sunday I have to say I thought Everton showed great class in the way you treated your manager.

“But more importantly for me, in the second half you supported your club.

“You knew you were losing your manager but you supported your club. I admired that more than I have admired anything and I hope you keep supporting your club.

“I wish you all the very best for the future. Thank you.”

OMONIA host AEK this afternoon (5pm) at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia in a match that will decide which of the two teams will join APOEL and Anorthosis in Europe next season.

“This is the final match of the season for both teams.

It should be a tough one and I hope that with a good performance and a bit of luck we will be the ones with the ticket to Europe after the final whistle,” said Omonia coach Toni Saveski.

“That would be the best ending of this difficult season.

Do not forget that we were the favourites for the title at the beginning and then became the outsiders, but still managed to climb back through the playoffs and now we have a chance to get it all right,” he added.

Omonia will secure the final Europa League qualifying spot with a win or draw against AEK, with the Larnaca outfit needing all three points in order to qualify themselves.

AEK currently have 61 points and lie fourth in the championship playoff group, two points behind Savevski’s men.

“We are not a team that likes to sit back and play for a draw. This is simply not our style and we are not interested in any other result but victory. It would be dangerous for us not to think like this and we will try to go all out and win,” Savevski said.

“At one point we were 19 points behind the league leaders and clearly, negative thoughts come to one’s mind, but now the only thought is how to beat AEK and get ourselves a place in the Europa League next season,” he concluded.

Elsewhere, also at 5pm, APOEL visit Anorthosis in what will be the newlycrowned champions’ last game under coach Ivan Jovanovic. Pedro Emanuel was announced as the Serbian’s successor on Wednesday and he was expected yesterday in Cyprus to sign a two-year deal.

However, due to his lack of a UEFA Pro licence, the deal is now thought to be in jeopardy and the Nicosia giants may now turn to his Portuguese compatriot Paulo Sergio.

Also this afternoon at 5pm, in Group 2, Apollon take on AEL in the Limassol derby, which will be repeated next Saturday in the national cup final, while Enosis Neon Paralimni face Doxa Katokopia.

Tomorrow afternoon at 5pm, in the relegation group, Olympiakos will hope to avoid the drop when they host Alki and while only a victory would keep their survival hopes alive, their first division status will be lost if Nea Salamina get at least a draw against Ethnikos Achnas at the Dasaki Stadium.

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Sport Heineken Cup final puts Wilkinson in the spotlight again

By Julien Pretot TEN years after kicking England to World Cup glory, Jonny Wilkinson takes centre stage again as underdogs Toulon take on fellow Top 14 powerhouse Clermont Auvergne in the Heineken Cup final today.

Flyhalf Wilkinson outshone Owen Farrell by kicking all of his team’s points in their 24-12 semi-final win against Saracens at Twickenham and was tipped as a late addition to Warren Gatland’s British and Irish Lions squad.

Wilkinson, however, turned the opportunity down, preferring to focus on Toulon’s final few games then use the off-season to rest his battered body.

The decision was welcomed by his club team-mates, with France centre Mathieu Bastareaud telling the France 2 television channel the decision “sums him up”, while others were happy he was available for the clash in Dublin.

“Jonny has finished my World Cup hopes many times and I want to hate the guy, but he is great for the team,” Australian team-mate Matt Giteau told the competition’s official website. “He shows a lot of leadership on the field.”

The 33-year-old, who often spends up to two hours after training to practice his individual skills, has been plagued by injury throughout his career but is not giving Toulon coach Bernard Laporte any such concerns.

Despite their strong season, Toulon’s outspoken president Mourad Boudjellal said he is preparing to lose the all-French affair.

“We are up against a very impressive team,” Boudjellal told local media.

“We should be stupid to think we are better than Clermont. So we are preparing to lose. We will be the runners up and it’s not that

bad.”

Boudjellal’s downcast outlook was ignored by Toulouse coach Guy Noves, who led his team to victory in the three previous all-French finals in the Heineken Cup, because of the influence of the 2003 World Cup winning flyhalf and players like Giteau.

“Toulon are less spectacular, but Wilkinson is very important for them and there are other players such as Giteau who can take control of a match,” he told Midi Olympique.

Clermont and Toulon, who finished the regular season in first and second place respectively in the Top 14, met twice this term.

They drew 26-26 in Toulon after Clermont’s 24-21 home win earlier in the season.

Clermont assistant coach Franck Azema prefers to focus on today’s game, however, with both teams set to play in their first Heineken Cup final.

“We must focus only on ourselves and take our fates in our won hands,” Azema told a news conference.

“But Toulon have players who have experienced this kind of moments,” he added in an obvious reference to Wilkinson.

Clermont coach Vern Cotter will once again rely on the power of Wesley Fofana and Sitiveni Sivivatu, who tore the Munster defence open in their 16-10 semi-final win.

Frenchman Raphael Ibanez, who won the competition with London Wasps in 2007, said the final will be one to remember.

“This final will be fantastic - especially since it will take place in Dublin, under the eyes of the players of Leinster who dominated this competition for several years,” the former France captain told the ERC website.

“But it really is impossible to forecast who will be European champions on Saturday.”

Ten years after kicking England to World Cup glory, Jonny Wilkinson takes centre stage again as underdogs Toulon take on fellow Top 14 powerhouse Clermont Auvergne

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NORTH LONDON GIANTS DESPERATE TO QUALIFY FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Danger men: Theo Walcott (left) and Gareth Bale will be hoping to kill off their rivals’ top four hopes

Arsenal, Spurs set for battle in finale

By Sonia Oxley

T

OTTENHAM Hotspur hope to turn the tables on bitter rivals Arsenal on the final day of the Premier League season tomorrow by snatching a topfour finish at their expense.

With Manchester United crowned champions, Manchester City guaranteed second spot and all three relegation victims already decided, the focus is on the Champions League places with Chelsea on 72 points, Arsenal on 70 and Spurs on 69.

Third place earns automatic passage to the group stage of Europe’s elite club competition, while fourth place means a ticket to the third qualifying round.

Fifth means heartbreak and the Europa League, an all too familiar outcome for Spurs.

Last year Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side snatched third on the last day of the season with Spurs ending up fourth, their misery compounded by the fact they missed out on the Champions League as Chelsea took the final English spot as European champions.

If that was hard to stomach, it was more so - literally

- in 2006 when Spurs players were hit with food poisoning before their game with West Ham United where if they had won they would have secured fourth place.

They lost and Arsenal overtook them to take the Champions League berth.

This time, Andre Villas-Boas’ side are the chasers and will be hoping for a change in fortunes when they host Sunderland as they could end up in the frustrating position of notching their highest ever Premier League points total of 72 and still miss out.

“All we can do is win our games and it’s important for us to keep believing,” defender Jan Vertonghen said on the club’s website.

“We would have to do that anyway on Sunday, so let’s hope we can.”

Arsenal, who travel to Newcastle United, are ready for the challenge and are encouraged by knowing a top-four finish is in their own hands after that looked unlikely at times this season.

“There will be nerves again, but we have dealt with nerves for a long, long time now,” Wenger told Arsenal Player.

“It is natural of course, because it shows that the

players care but this team is on an exceptional run and has an exceptional spirit.

“We have 70 points, the target is 73, so let’s just go with the spirit and desire we have and I think we can do it.”

Third-placed Chelsea, who won the Europa League by beating Benfica on Wednesday, host Everton and will want to avoid any slip-up as depending on how results go, there is the possibility of an end-of-season playoff between themselves and Arsenal to determine who finishes third.

If Chelsea draw and Arsenal win at Newcastle by a single goal while scoring two more than Chelsea, the pair would finish level on points, goal difference and goals scored which would create the need for a first ever Premier League playoff.

Away from the tension and the maths, one club who definitely will not be needing a calculator is Manchester United.

Having wrapped up the title with four games to spare, they have been able to enjoy the closing stages of the season as they prepare to say goodbye to retiring manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

The Scot’s final game in charge after more than 26

years at the club will be a trip to West Bromwich Albion, who had to block sales of tickets for the game on an exchange website because United fans were snapping up seats in the home sections.

Manchester City, who did not wait until the end of the season to say farewell to sacked boss Roberto Mancini, host Norwich City with little to play for in contrast to the final day of last term when they won the title on goal difference.

Reading, Queens Park Rangers and FA Cup winners Wigan Athletic have already been consigned to the second tier for next season but will make the most of their final top-flight games against West Ham United, Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively.

In other action, Southampton host Stoke City and Fulham travel to Swansea City with all of Sunday’s games kicking off at 6pm.