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N ACTION plan for a shake-up of the public service is due to be ready in the second half of September, while the World Bank in cooperation with the United Kingdom will prepare a study for the same purpose.

However, the umbrella union for government workers, PASYDY, has said it would not accept the authority of newly-appointed Commissioner for Civil Service Reform Emmanuela Lambrianides, and has effectively told its members not to take orders from her.

Yesterday at a workshop on reform to which PASYDY and other public service unions were invited but failed to show, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades and Lambrianides underlined the need to reform the public service to contribute to tackling the economic crisis. Georgiades said a better functioning system would provide faster and better services to the private sector, and the public.

He stressed it was essential to establish and implement an effective employee performance appraisal system, transferability, integrate strategic planning, and set criteria to measure productivity. “We want a public service that is more flexible, less wasteful, without unnecessary bureaucracy, that will responsibly manage public money and serve the citizens accord-

ing to their rights and their needs, rather than their political identity” the minister said.

The public service must become the fundamental pillar for the creation of a modern and effective state, Georgiades added.

Commissioner Lambrianides said that “efficiency, streamlining structures n and processes, better services, coordinating governmental work and strengthening the central government" would contribute to recovery.

She said the agreement with international lenders provided for the restructuring, and more specifically for the reduction of barriers to the mobility of civil servants, modification of work schedules and the preparation by an independent external consultant of a study on further possible reforms.

The commissioner said the reforms aimed at saving money in the short term, but the ultimate goal was to achieve sustainability. She said the study would be carried out by the World Bank in cooperation with the UK, and that the final reports would include recommendations and timeframes for implementation, which must be delivered in the first and the third quarter of 2014.

Lambrianides said by the second half of September she would prepare an action plan based on the president’s commitment to the modernisation of the state and its institutions.

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WORLD TOURISM CHIEF: CYPRUS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Two men play raquet ball on Larnaca's Phinikoudes beach yesterday. As the weather starts to heat up, United Nations World Tourism Organisation Secretary General Taleb Rifai was in Nicosia yesterday in a show of solidarity with Cyprus to send the message the island was open for business (Christos Theodorides) SEE STORY PAGE 4

DiCaprio space trip auction raises €1.2m for charity A TRIP to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has raised €1.2 million ($1.5 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival.

At the 20th annual event organised by amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, DiCaprio emerged as the mystery guest to accompany the winner on a Virgin Galactic flight into space.

Actress Sharon Stone said on Thursday night the winner would spend three days in training with DiCaprio in Mexico before blast-off.

"You don't get to go to outer space every day with a handsome movie star," said Stone.

The bidding for the space trip started at €1 million ($1.29 million).

The auction brochure for the star-studded gala held at the five-star Hotel du CapEden-Roc in Antibes, France, near Cannes, said DiCaprio and the winning bidder would be among the first 1,000 people to leave the planet.

The winning bidder, Vasily Klyukin, 37, a Russian living in Monaco, said he had always wanted to go into space.

"I want to be a bit daring," Klyukin, who works in real estate, told Reuters. "I will have to give up smoking now for sure!"

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ON THIS DAY MAY 25

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

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35 years ago, Saturday May 25, 1978

Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

UN Secretary-general Dr Kurt Waldheim came under attack yesterday from Turkish Cypriots for his failure to reconvene the intercommunal talks. According to reports from New York the Secretary-general is not going to convene a new round of talks if he is not convinced that there would be progress. Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said the Turkish side was prepared to make significant territorial adjustments when talks are resumed.

1953 The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

1961 Apollo programme: US President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.

1963 Leaders of 32 African nations set up an organisation that will give them a united voice for the first time in African history.

2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years since its first invasion in 1978.

45 years ago, Monday May 25, 1968 Diplomatic activity over the proposed talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots continued at a furious rate over the weekend with the UN Special Representative, Osorio-Tafall, engaged in an almost continuous series of meetings with leaders of both sides.

55 years ago, Tuesday May 25, 1958 Passions ran high between the Right and the Left yesterday as the Old Trade Unions staged their 24-hour island wide general strike in protest against the murder of three members within 48 hours. In Limassol and Larnaca the Left-wing workers struck back and sharp clashes occurred in which several people were injured. Six arrests have been reported.

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Home Cape Greco ‘an idyllic spot’ for a wedding CAPE Greco in the Ayia Napa area has been designated an official spot for civil weddings, offering couples the chance to marry in “an idyllic landscape that nature itself has created”.

Ayia Napa municipality said yesterday the aim was to upgrade and enrich the services offered for civil marriages while giving more options to couples who choose the resort for their wedding.

The municipality also aims to promote the attractions and unique beauty of the coastal town, to attract more couples and make Ayia Napa the number one destination for civil wedding ceremonies.

A couple sits on a bench overlooking Cape Greco at sunset. Ayia Napa muncipality wants to promote the spot for ultra romantic weddings

PASYDY says it won’t play ball Union tells members not to take orders from commissioner

By Poly Pantelides THE UMBRELLA union for central government workers, PASYDY, has said that it does not accept the authority of the Commissioner for Civil Service Reform and has effectively told its members not to take orders from her.

PASYDY chose to issue an announcement questioning Emanuella Moushioutta Lambrianidou’s authority, a day before yesterday’s presentation of public administration reform plans at the finance ministry.

At yesterday’s workshop, Lambrianidou formally presented a series of sweeping draft measures to modernise public ad-

PASYDY boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou not a happy man ministration. Cyprus has already committed to timeframes and most of the announced measures are part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed with the island’s interna-

tional lenders as part of a €10 billion bailout.

PASYDY chief Glafcos Hadjipetrou – who has vehemently argued against almost all austerity measures over the last couple of years as the country edged ever closer to financial ruin – said Lambrianidou could have no executive powers.

He also said that as a civil servant, she should not be holding political positions.

“This is the principle of independence,” he told state broadcaster CyBC. Lambrianidou herself said yesterday that she did not have executive powers and was working in the “spirit of cooperation” that included everyone, including PASYDY, she said.

“This is a collective effort and everyone must participate for its success. And I’m sure we are all concerned about the country’s well-being and future,” Lambrianidou added.

But the message that PASYDY kept relayed was that the union would not play ball.

“It is not lawful to present as a higher authority the so-called Commissioner for Civil Service Reform, nor for her to issue written or verbal instructions to any state servants,” PASYDY said.

‘We have a hard time initiating change ourselves’ YESTERDAY’S discussion brought forth some thoughtful comments from public servants who did attend and who seemed to have valid concerns above and beyond their personal interests.

One civil servant said that initiatives should not be pushed by politicians looking for votes, whereas another asked whether it would be better to promote and hire people based on written exams audited by independent bodies.

A commerce ministry official said that in addition to experience, promotions needed to take people’s education and skills more into account.

A police officer said decisions were often taken on their behalf and wanted to know how the right people could get the job.

An agriculture department official said that party politics were such an integral part of the civil service, with jobs allocatPASYDY said the union was not against restructuring and modernising the state sector and was willing to work with the government in the context of legality, “the principles of social dialogue and institutionalised methods and procedures”.

However, part of the programme for public administration reform aimed at modernising such institutionalised methods and procedures in order to in-

ed according to party affiliations. Despite Hadjipetrou’s statement about “the principle of independence” of civil servants, the official’s point resonated with others at the workshop, and was not disputed by anyone.

The education ministry’s permanent secretary, Olympia Stylianou, said that the civil service had proven itself when paving the way for the country’s 2004 EU accession and later in taking on the presidency of the EU council last year.

“But we have a hard time initiating change ourselves,” she said.

Stylianou cited as an example the fact that authorities had known for years that civil servants’ overtime pay was costly and inefficient but it took the country’s lenders to introduce more flexible working schedules. “Is it possible it never occurred to us?”

crease meritocracy, transparency, productivity and efficiency.

A team of World Bank and British experts have already started preliminary talks to support the reform as independent external reviewers. The first part of the external review is expected by March next year, followed by the second part in September next year with reforms passing into law within two months of their completion. Authori-

ties must implement a new performance-based system in the public sector, linking wages and rises with performance, and using evaluations for the purpose of promotion and staff development.

Public bodies and state services may be merged or consolidated as necessary, while all basic aspects of public administration will be reviewed. This includes wages, time off, and administrative expenses.

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World Tourism chief: Cyprus open for business TOURISM could stimulate Cyprus’ struggling economy, the United Nations’ World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said yesterday during a high-profile visit geared at showing the world that Cyprus was open for business.

“Travel and tourism can, and is one of the very few sectors that can, form a very bright future for Cyprus,” UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai said during a Nicosia-based tourism event.

But speaking of the here and now, Rifai said that Cyprus was “open, and welcoming everybody to come here, not just in the summer but all year round”.

“It is in perfect shape to welcome its visitors,” he said. With Cyprus’ financial model all but destroyed in the aftermath of a €10 billion bailout agreed in March, industry and government players are keen to upgrade the role of tourism, once the mainstay of the economy.

Part of the job has been containing negative publicity in light of Cyprus’ unprecedented media attention as Cyprus scrambled to stop all-out banking collapse.

Though the dust has settled, the island’s biggest bank is now under restructuring, the second is winding-down and capital restrictions placed to prevent capital flight have numbed holiday bookings.

But Rifai said yesterday, the world continued to look at

Cyprus as a very attractive and important destination “and will continue to come to Cyprus”.

“The benefits of the travel and tourism industry will benefit the Cypriot people, create more jobs and generate more income,” he added.

Rifai met President Nicos Anastasiades and House President Yiannakis Omirou. He told Omirou the fact he and his team accepted the Cyprus Tourism Organisation’s (CTO) invitation to come showed their support and solidarity.

Meanwhile, the German Travel Association’s head, Jurgen Buchy, said the Germans continued booking holidays in Cyprus, keen to explore the island’s historical sites and enjoy the summer. Despite paymaster Germany’s perceived negative role in the bailout, the German tourist industry supported all efforts to improve and nurture a “long lasting partnership” with Cyprus, Buchy said.

CTO director general Marios Hannides said they were being cautiously optimistic as tourism arrivals continued picking up. The presence of the UNWTO head in Cyprus contributed to the message that Cyprus was a solid and healthy tourist destination while the UNWTO delegates were “particularly positive in regard to Cyprus’ image abroad,” Hannides said.

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A toddler with her sandcastle on Phinikoudes yesterday

(Christos Theodorides)

Tax revenues fall 10 per cent in the first quarter

By George Psyllides STATE tax revenues dropped 10 per cent in the wake of a Eurogroup decision mid-March to impose losses on bank deposits as part of the island’s €10 billion bailout, it emerged yesterday, as international lenders warned of significant risks to Cyprus’ economic outlook.

The inland revenue department (IRD) saw a €59.2 million year-on-year drop in revenues in the first quarter, reversing the upward trend recorded in the first two months of this year.

In January and February, the department said it collected around €332.6 million, up 10 per cent compared with the same period last

Inland revenue saw a €59.2 million yearon-year drop reversing an upward trend year. However, it appeared that a Eurogroup decision to resolve Laiki, the island’s second-biggest bank, and impose losses on uninsured deposits – over €100,000 – in the Bank of Cyprus (BoC), ended the run.

The IRD said it collected some €526.9 million in the first quarter, compared with €586.2 million during the same period last year.

And this while Cyprus, with its banking sector severely crippled, is struggling to meet the conditions set by troika of international lenders – the EU, European Central Bank,

and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF said it expected the island to return to growth in 2015 although risks to the outlook remained significant.

“On growth prospects, the macroeconomic assumptions in the program take into account several factors that are expected to affect growth in the short and medium run, including the fiscal adjustment underway, and the recent policy actions in the financial sector,” said IMF spokesman Gerry Rice. “Having dealt with the key problems up front, as

is the case under the programme, growth is expected to resume in 2015, supported by a favourable international tax regime, a well-educated labour force, strong institutions.”

Rice however, acknowledged that given the situation in the banking sector, including controls introduced to prevent the flight of capital, “macroeconomic uncertainties, and risks to the outlook remain significant. That’s something to which we will be paying great attention as we move forward.” The government

is eager to get back on track, reiterating yesterday that BoC’s return to normalcy was overdue. The bank, the island’s biggest, was still in administration awaiting the final rate of the socalled haircut on deposits to recapitalise the stricken lender.

Depositors will receive equity in return. Deputy government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said the BoC should have already been out of administration and the new shareholders should have received their stock.

“It is a matter we are monitoring and discussion with the Central Bank and the troika. There are problems, we recognise them, but they can be overcome,” Papadopoulos said.

A FLOWER festival will be held in Paphos tomorrow in aid of more than 550 families in need.

The event is being organised by a group of local volunteers who have now officially registered as a charity with the name ‘Solidarity’.

Ongoing fundraising events are raising money, food and clothes to help the families who are not officially entitled to assistance as they fall outside municipal boundaries.

Pavlina Patsalou who heads up the group along with Paphos councillor George Sofokleous, have been feeding hundreds of Paphos families for 20 or so months. They started with 20 families, and now numbers are in excess of 550.

According to Patsalou, from about 3pm tomorrow, volunteer children will stick all of the flowers on the floats.

Younger children must be accompanied by a parent, and twelve to seventeen year olds are welcome.

She said there would be many things to do at the event and although entry is free, there will be a charge of two or three euros to play each of the games. This will go towards helping to feed the needy families.

In addition, visitors are requested to bring with them donations of food and other items.

Traditional food, such as souvlakia will be served at the festival. There will also be hot dogs, doughnuts and crepes, as well as traditional music and dancing. There will also be horse and pony rides, clowns and face painting and municipal train rides.

“We have five hundred and fifty families from the Paphos villages coming to us for help, and the number is still growing on an almost daily basis,” said Patsalou. She estimates that

by September the number of families they help will have risen to 700.

“How can we raise enough money to feed more and more mouths? “ said Patsalou. “We urgently need everyone to give something, however small, It will make a real difference to someone’s life. It could so easily be any of us without food or any money to pay our bills and cover our day to day needs.”

The festival will run from 4pm to 8pm at the Municipal gardens. Contact Pavlina Patsalou at 99220152 or George Sofokleous at 99542343 www. solidaritypaphos.com

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Crossings and trade see big drop in 2012 Trade last year was three times lower than in 2011

Most of the crossings took place on Ledra Street

BOTH THE number of crossings, and trade across the Green Line decreased significantly in 2012 compared to the previous year, the European Commission said yesterday.

Movement across the line is governed by the 2004 Green Line regulation, which defines the terms under which provisions of EU law apply to the movement of persons, goods and services.

The application of the rules was extended to the boundary of the British Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) The latest EU report, released yesterday, said there had been a visible decrease in both the number of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots crossing in 2012 compared to previous years. The first crossing opened in 2003.

According to data from the Republic of Cyprus, 481,732 (previous: 621.406) crossings by Greek Cypriots and 154,778 crossings

by Greek Cypriot vehicles (previous: 210,877) were noted from the government-controlled areas to the northern part of Cyprus and 850,362 (previous: 937,789) crossings

by Turkish Cypriots and 280,358 crossings by Turkish Cypriot vehicles (previous: 348,225) from the northern part of Cyprus to the government-controlled areas during the reporting period.

As far as the movement of goods was concerned, in 2012, the value of trade

across the Line was three times lower than in 2011.

This sharp decrease is due to the fact that the sale of electricity from the northern part of Cyprus to the government controlled areas, which was agreed in July 2011, stopped in March 2012.

Without taking into account the sale of electricity, the regular Green Line trade decreased significantly and for the fourth time in a row since the coming into force of the GLR in 2004 (by 17 per cent down €4,827,454 in 2011 to €4,040,018) due partly to the economic recession.

The most traded products were, apart from electricity, plastic products, building materials and stone articles and fresh fish. The overall scale of the trade still remains limited, in part due to the restricted scope of the Regulation itself.

During the reporting period, certain obstacles to

trade remained, the Commission said. Turkish Cypriot commercial vehicles, in particular lorries above 7.5 tons and buses, can only move freely across the whole island if licences and certificates are obtained in the government-controlled areas. “The Commission services have had talks with the relevant departments of the Republic of Cyprus to find a viable solution to this issue. However, no progress can be reported at this stage,” the report said.

According to the report smuggling of goods across the Line decreased but remains widespread, the report said.

The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce said the total value of goods for which accompanying documents were issued in 2012 amounted to €9,584,410 whereas the value of goods actually traded was €8,945,347.

In 2012, the Green Line

trade was three times lower than in 2011.

This substantial decrease was explained by the fact that the sale of electricity from the northern part of Cyprus to the government-controlled areas, which was the result of exceptional circumstances, stopped in March 2012.

For the year 2012, the sale of electricity amounted to €4,748,881 (53% of the trade). The sale of electricity, even if lower than in 2011, had an impact on the Green Line trade in 2012.

Without taking into account the sale of electricity, according to the TCCoC, the total value of goods for which accompanying documents were issued amounted to €4,835,528 whereas the value of goods actually traded was €4,196,465. Those figures indicate a significant decrease of regular Green Line trade of 22 per cent compared to 2011.

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Group videos ‘cruel’ slaughter Animal welfare organisation claims sheep and goats not killed in line with regulations

By Poly Pantelides AN ANIMAL welfare group that often works undercover to document animal cruelty in industrial farming has taken footage at a Cyprus abattoir showing goats and sheep slaughtered in what they said were cruel and illegal conditions.

A member of Compassion in World Farming’s Investigation Unit took a video of sheep and goats chained by their rear legs while conscious, hoisted upside down and “bleating piteously”.”It was only at this stage that they were stunned,” the organisation said in a news release. The group said that goats’ horns were cut off immediately after their throats were cut, making it unlikely that the animals were dead and claiming they “would have felt an extreme amount of pain”.

“This is some of the worst European slaughter footage I have ever seen… What is so disturbing is that new EU slaughter regulations came into force this year - and they are being largely ignored,”

said Compassion in World Farming’s chief policy advisor, Peter Stevenson.

Stevenson said that because some goats were stunned but not immediately killed, they could have regained consciousness by the time they were slaughtered, adding that some animals were not stunned at all. Compassion’s investigator took the footage in the run up to the Christian Orthodox Easter celebrations at a single small slaughterhouse and has not investigated Cyprus’ slaughterhouses in general. But they sent a letter to the agriculture minister on Thursday asking him to address the problems they encountered. They have also said they would report Cyprus to the European Commission if they received no response within a month.

In the letter Compassion in World Farming said that EU regulations prohibit suspending or hoisting conscious animals as well as continuing to cut off horns, unless staff have verified the animal shows no signs of life. Animals should also be killed within seconds of stunning, the organisation

A screen grab from the video shows live sheep being hung from their hind legs while still conscious said. Allowing for the possibility that animals can be slaughtered without stunning for religious reasons, Compassion in World Farming asked for feedback on whether this was the case.

Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis and the slaughterhouse that allegedly violated the law could not be reached for comment yesterday.

A European Commission directive that became com-

pulsory this year states that “animals must be spared any avoidable excitement, pain or suffering” including when they are being slaughtered or killed.

“Animals must be stunned before slaughter or killed instan-

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Ayia Napa murder trial hears from first prosecution witness

By Peter Stevenson THE TRIAL of the two Greek nationals, accused of murdering five people in Ayia Napa in June of last year, was offered testimony from the prosecution’s first witness yesterday.

The two men, Demetris

Mamalikopoulos, 29, and Anastasios Tsehilides, 41, are accused of murdering five men – three Greek Cypriots and two Romanians on a side street in the heart of Ayia Napa’s nightclub scene, near the popular Red Square bar. They are also accused of illegally possessing a Glock

handgun and illegally possessing and transporting explosive material.

The two defendants, who were hand-cuffed, were taken to court under a large police presence and were escorted by members of the anti-terrorist unit. Anyone entering the courtroom was thoroughly checked, including journalists.

The court yesterday heard the testimony of the prosecution’s first witness, Famagusta CID police officer, Stavros Vasiliou who was in charge of gathering evidence against

the suspects.

Vasiliou’s testimony, totalling 35 pages, included evidence taken at the murder scene, hard-drives containing CCTV footage from shops and bars near the murder scene.

CCTV footage was also taken from Ayia Napa Church’s Sunday School cameras.

Prosecutor, Andreas Aristides submitted two harddrives to the court yesterday containing CCTV footage from Larnaca Airport showing the two suspects.

They were arrested on July 2 last year in Greece after flee-

DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS Appl. No: 102/2013 Probate Jurisdiction In the matter of Sheila Tirard of U.K. Notice is hereby given after the expiration of eight days from today application will be made in the probate registry of Paphos for the grant of probate of the Will of Sheila Tirard of U.K. deceased.

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straints his testimony is due to be heard on May 30, at 11.30am.

The Criminal Court’s presiding judge, Haris Poyiadjis set June 3, 4, 6, 10, 17 and 21 as the next court dates.

The two Greek nationals, who pleaded not guilty, have been accused of five counts of murder, one for each victim on the night of June 23 of last year. They are accused of the premeditated murder of Philippos Loucaides, 33, Marios Karaoli, 28, Giorgos Georgiou, 35 and Romanians Georgian Katalin Koman, 25 and Marcel Aourel Koleasa, 33, in a central square of Ayia Napa. Four of the victims were working for local businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, who Famagusta police believe was the culprits’ real target.

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DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS Appl. No: 101/2013 Probate Jurisdiction In the matter of Robert James Tirard of U.K. Notice is hereby given after the expiration of eight days from today application will be made in the probate registry of Paphos for the grant of probate of the Will of Robert James Tirard of U.K. deceased.

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ing the island and it was discovered that they had arrived in Cyprus four days before the shootings took place and that they also travelled to the island on two separate occasions at the start of June.

Aristides asked the Criminal Court to bring two 50 inch televisions into the courtroom so the video evidence can be shown. He also asked for court employees to make arrangements for the windows in the courtroom to be blacked-out so the videos could be seen better. According to the prosecution, the audio-visual evidence for the entire case, which it plans to show, will last about 120 hours.

State-pathologist, Sophocles Sophocleous was also scheduled to testify yesterday but due to time con-

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UN assures that dinner will be only a social event Danger removed of ‘political slant’ to a ‘social event’

Greens to protest limo for Christofias THE GREEN Party is organising a protest outside parliament today at 11am against using state funds to buy a limousine for former President Demetris Christofias.

“We find unacceptable the request of the finance ministry to the House Finance Committee, to release funds to purchase a limousine for the former president,” said the Greens in a statement yesterday.

The Greens argued that the cabinet decision to provide a free limousine to Christofias was inappropriate in the current climate, as is the 1988 law, which provides for all former presidents to receive Writ of Summons (O.2,1) Scale €100.000 - €500.000 In the District Court of Limassol Case number: 406/2013 Between: KODRIC DAVOR, from Montenegro Claimant And ERIC SIMON HUGHES, from the UK and now in Paralimni Defendant Address of Defendant: Vryssoudion 11, Paralimni, 5295, Famagusta You are hereby ordered to file an appearance in this action within ten days from the service of this writ, which was filed by us on behalf of the claimant Mr Kodric Davor, from Montenegro, Biyeli Do BB 85310, Budva, Montenegro The claim of this action is indorsed in the reverse of this writ.

The claimant address for service is the Law Office of Mr Nikos Kallis, 24 Vyronos street, P. Lordos Center, Block B, office 204, court box: 290.

You are hereby informed that in default of you filing an appearance in the manner stated hereunder, the claimant can proceed and obtain a court judgment against you in your absence.

Filed and sealed: 30/01/2013 Nikos Kallis Lawyer of the Claimant Registrar Notice: A defendant shall enter his appearance to a writ of summons by delivering to the Registrar of the Registry of the District Court of Limassol, a memorandum in writing, and by delivering at the plaintiff’s address for service, on the same day as he delivers the memorandum to the Registrar, a duplicate of the memorandum dated, signed and sealed by the Registrar

By Stefanos Evripidou

INDORSEMENT OF CLAIM

THE GOVERNMENT has received the “appropriate assurances” from the UN, freeing President Nicos Anastasiades to enjoy a purely “social” dinner with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu at the end of the month.

Government spokesman Christos Stylianides said yesterday that the UN has responded to concerns raised

by Anastasiades in a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week.

In a rather bizarre move by the new government, Anastasiades sent a letter to Ban on May 17 accusing UN Special Adviser Alexander Downer and his team of undermining the president’s credibility and the prospects of resuming peace talks between the two sides by creating political expectations of the planned dinner.

The letter was leaked to the media on the same day it was sent to UN headquarters.

In the letter, Anastasiades threatened to pull out of the UN-hosted dinner between himself and Eroglu next week, unless the UN chief could provide personal assurances that it would be a “social event” only.

The government accused Downer of attempting to put a very political slant to the dinner which was originally meant to be a first ‘meet-andgreet’ over UN-inspired food between the two community leaders following Anastasiades’ election in February.

The president has made it clear in numerous public statements that his number one priority now is to manage the economic fallout from the EU/IMF-inspired ‘bail-in’ bailout of the country which has crippled its banking sector, raided citizens’ and businesses’ bank accounts and seen the first ever capital controls imposed in the eurozone.

He proposed peace talks begin in the autumn, adding that in the meantime, the Turkish government could go some way in tackling Greek Cypriots’ mistrust of Turkey by opening the fenced off part of Famagusta to its law-

The Claimant claims: A. Damages for loss and expense occurred by the claimant due to fraud and/ or deceit and/or misrepresentation and/or forgery of document and/or false impersonation of the defendant in relation to the purchase of the shares and/ or of the company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE108774, on the 07/07/12, by the power of a written shares transfer agreement which was signed in Limassol and during which the defendant falsely presented himself to be the owner and/or the shareholder and/or a person with the power to enter the agreement dated 07/07/12 while the defendant knew he was not such person.

B. Punitive damages for loss and expense occurred by the claimant due to fraud and/or deceit and/or misrepresentation and/or forgery of document and/ or false impersonation of the defendant in relation to the purchase of the shares and/or of the company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE108774, on the 07/07/12, by the power of a written shares transfer agreement which was signed in Limassol and during which the defendant falsely presented himself to be the owner and/or the shareholder and/or a person with the power to enter the agreement dated 07/07/12 while the defendant knew he was not such person.

C. Return of any sum of money and/or of the $500,000.- (€375.610) with interest from the 07/07/12 which the defendant received from the claimant due to fraud and/or deceit and/or misrepresentation and/or forgery of document and/or false impersonation of the defendant in relation to the purchase of the shares and/or of the company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE108774, on the 07/07/12, by the power of a written shares transfer agreement which was signed in Limassol and during which the defendant falsely presented himself to be the owner and/or the shareholder and/or a person with the power to enter the agreement dated 07/07/12 while the defendant knew he was not such person.

D. Any other remedy the Court deems rightful and equitable under the circumstances.

E. Interest F. Expenses plus V.A.T. True copy Registrar

Nikos Kallis Lawyer of the Claimant Scale €100.000 - €500.000

In the District Court of Limassol Case number: 406/2013

a car and a secretary, the party said.

Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis has already tabled a legal proposal to repeal the privileges afforded current and former officials of the state.

The draft bill will be discussed on Monday in the House Finance Committee.

Perdikis added that it was time to have full transparency on public money being wasted by those who should normally be made to pay for the tragedy that has hit Cyprus.

“We call on the House Finance Committee not to allow this economic and political scandal,” said the Greens.

It is evident from the above that the defendant declared that he has a good title to the shares and that he has the right to transfer and/or sell them.

5. On the 18/07/12 the Registrar of Companies issued the new certificates which confirm that the sole owner and official of the Company is the claimant. I attach the certificates of the Registrar of Companies dated 18/07/12 as exhibit C. 6. On the autumn of 2012 while the claimant was in Russia for business regarding the Company he was informed that the transfer of shares that took place in Cyprus by the power of the above mentioned agreement was problematic.

7. The Claimant does not speak the Russian language so he appointed a Russian lawyer, Mr Artem Boksha to handle this case and represent the Company in Russia and in Cyprus. The claimant could not trace the problem since he already obtained the certificates from the Registrar of Companies. Mr Artem Boksha came to Cyprus and visited our office last week, informed us about the problem and he as an assign of the claimant appointed us as the claimant’s lawyers.

8. Following a search we carried out at the Registry of Companies, we were informed that the defendant did not own nor acquired the shares legally.

9. According to the best of my knowledge and as Mr Kallis informs me, all of the above indicate that the defendant by misrepresentation extorted from the claimant the amount of$500,000.- (€375.610), the claimant was defrauded by the defendant to invest in this Company and the defendant committed fraud, deceit and misrepresentation with the sole purpose of completing the transaction and receive the sum of money mentioned above. Moreover the defendant acted in breach of the contract since he knew that he did not own the shares of the Company legally.

10. After an internet search I carried out in the Registrar of Companies website and more specifically from exhibit B, it is clearly shown that on the 21/12/12 applications regarding the change of officials of the Company were filed by a third party, not authorised by the claimant who is the sole legal owner and official of the company.

11. From all the above facts it is evident that the claimant is rightfully requesting the issue of the interim orders immediately, since a third party, not properly authorised is filing applications at the Registrar of Companies without his permission.

12. In the event that the requested orders are not issued, the claimant will suffer a greater damage since there is a danger to lose the Company which he bought for a good and legal exchange. The damage suffered by the claimant will not be possible to cure in the future through damages since the defendant is a foreigner without a property in Cyprus.

13. All of the above advocate for the issue of the requested interim orders.

CHRISTINA PERIKLEOUS Took oath and signed in my presence today the 30/01/13 In the District Court of Limassol REGISTRAR Scale €100.000 - €500.000 In the District Court of Limassol E. EFRAIM. H.D.J. Case number: 406/2013 Between: KODRIC DAVOR, from Montenegro Claimant And ERIC SIMON HUGHES, from the UK and now in Paralimni Defendant Ex- parte application on behalf of Kodric Davor from Montenegro, Claimant – applicant Following an ex-parte application of Mrs Constantinou for Mr Nikos Kallis lawyer of the claimant – applicant, and following the reading of the affidavit which was filed for supporting this application and following the guarantee of €75.000 from or on behalf of the claimant for any damage and expense which may be incurred by the defendant from issuing this order, The Court hereby orders: 1. The issue of an interim order prohibiting and/or preventing the defendant and/ or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns and/or the Registrar of Companies and/or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns from promoting any application and/or action which regards the sale, transfer, disposal, mortgage, charge and alienation of the shares of the Company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE 108774 until the completion of this action and/or until a further court order.

2. The issued order is fixed for return on the 19/02/13 at 9:00 a.m.

ISSUED: 04/02/13 TYPED: 14/02/13 True Copy (Sign.) E.Efraim, H.D.J. REGISTRAR INDORSEMENT: in the event that you Mr Eric Simon Hughes and/or your servants and/or your employees and/or your assigns and /or the Registrar of Companies and/or your servants and/or your employees and/or your assigns fail obey this order, you are liable for arrest and your property confiscated.

REGISTRAR

Between: Scale €100.000 - €500.000

KODRIC DAVOR, from Montenegro

Special envoy Alexander Downer ful inhabitants, in exchange for direct trade between the EU and the occupied north.

In his letter to Ban, Anastasiades failed to go into detail as to how Downer was attempting to pour political sauce over the bicommunal feast, the date for which has been changed several times.

Eroglu initially wanted to have the meeting at the end of April. This was later changed to May 29. However, when the Greek Cypriot side took greater note of the fact that this date coincided with the fall of Constantinople in1453, the dinner was pushed back to May 30.

Some commentators argue that Anastasiades is so kneedeep in economic strife, with the existence of the island’s biggest lender, Bank of Cyprus, hanging by a thread that his policy on the Cyprus problem has been one of containment and pandering to the more reactionary forces

within Greek Cypriot politics, at least until substantial talks can proceed.

Stylianides yesterday told reporters that due to Ban’s absence from New York, Cyprus’ permanent representative at the UN met with the director of Ban’s office Susana Malcorra on Thursday, who gave “appropriate assurances” to concerns regarding Downer’s suspected anti-social, pro-political dinner bias.

Meanwhile, Eroglu was quoted by Turkish Cypriot media accusing the Greek Cypriot leadership of leaking to the media a 77-page document of convergences reached in peace talks between 2008 and 2012, compiled by the UN Good Offices.

Eroglu claimed Downer had given two different versions of the convergence document to both sides on April 30, so that should the document be leaked, he would know which side had leaked it.

Claimant And ERIC SIMON HUGHES, from the UK and now in Paralimni Defendant Ex- parte application on behalf of Kodric Davor from Montenegro, Claimant – applicant The above stated claimant requests the Court to issue: A. An interim order prohibiting and/or preventing the defendant and/or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns and/or the Registrar of Companies and/or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns from promoting any application and/or action which regards the sale, transfer, disposal, mortgage, charge and alienation of the shares of the Company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE 108774 until the completion of this action and/or until a further court order.

B. An interim order prohibiting and/or preventing the defendant and/or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns and/or the Registrar of Companies and/or his servants and/or his employees and/or his assigns from promoting any application and/or action which regards the sale, transfer, disposal, mortgage, charge and alienation of any movable and/or immovable property of the Company Capenda Ltd with registration number HE 108774 until the completion of this action and/or until a further court order.

C. Any other remedy the Court deems rightful and equitable under the circumstances.

D. Expenses plus V.A.T. This application is based on article 32 of the Law 14/60, on articles 4, 5,7 and 9 of the Civil Procedure Law, chapter 6, on order 46, rules 1,2 and 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules and on the discretionary power and practice of the Court.

The facts upon which the application is based are stated in the attached affidavit of Mrs Christina Perikleous from Limassol, dated 30/01/13.

The application was drafted by Mr Nikos Kallis, lawyer for the claimant – applicant.

Address for service: Nikos Kallis Law Office, 24 Vyronos street, P. Lordos Center, Block B, office 204, Court Box: 290 ………………………………..

Nikos Kallis Lawyer for claimant Filed on the 30/01/13 Fixed for trial on the 30/01/13 AFFIDAVIT I the undersigned, Christina Perikleous from Limassol, state the following while on oath: 1. I am a paralegal employee in Nikos Kallis Law office and the facts mentioned hereunder came into my knowledge by everything the claimant and Mr Nikos Kallis mentioned to me personally and also from the case file which I possess. I am rightfully authorised by the claimant to make this affidavit on his behalf.

2. On the 07/07/12 the defendant sold to the claimant the total of his shares in Capenda Ltd registration number 108774 for the total amount of $500,000.(€375.610) after signing a shares transfer agreement. I attach the agreement as exhibit A. 3. The defendant before signing the agreement presented the claimant with the original certificates issued by the Registrar of Companies concerning the above mentioned Company and specifically with a) certificate of shares, b) certificate of incorporation c) certificate of registered office, d) certificate of officials. These certificates certified that the defendant was the sole shareholder, director and secretary of the Company. Moreover the address of the registered office was the address of the defendant’s residence and the incorporation certificate confirms that the Company was indeed incorporated and registered. I attach as exhibit B the results I obtained by carrying out an internet search in the Registrar of Companies website from which it is evident that at the time of signing the agreement the Company appeared to belong to and be directed solely by the defendant.

4. The following was a specific term of the agreement: ‘Article 3 – presentations’ 3.1 The transferor represents and warrants to the transferee that: a. the transferor owns the shares both legally and beneficially and the transferor has good and marketable title to the shares. c. The transferor has full right, power and authority to enter into this agreement and to transfer, assign and convey the shares to the transferee free and clear of all liens, charges and encumbrances.

In the District Court of Limassol E. EFRAIM. H.D.J. Case number: 406/2013 Between: KODRIC DAVOR, from Montenegro Claimant And ERIC SIMON HUGHES, from the UK and now in Paralimni Defendant Ex- parte application on behalf of Kodric Davor from Montenegro, Claimant – applicant Following an ex-parte application of Mrs Constantinou for Mr Nikos Kallis lawyer of the claimant – applicant, and following the reading of the affidavit which was filed for supporting this application The Court hereby orders: 1. The issue of an order for the substitute service of the writ of summons with the above title and number dated 30/01/13, of the ex parte application with the above title and number dated 30/01/13 and of the interim order dated 04/02/13 which was issued within the ex- parte application, by publishing the above in two pancyprian papers which are published in the English language.

2. In the event that the defendant wishes to file an appearance shall do so within 30 days from the service date.

3. In default of appearance in the manner stated above, any application within the action will be considered to have been served if this is published on the Court’s notice board for a period of seven days.

4. The expenses are reserved.

ISSUED: 21/03/13 TYPED: 22/03/13 True Copy REGISTRAR

(Sign.) E.Efraim, H.D.J. Scale €100.000 - €500.000

In the District Court of Limassol E. EFRAIM. H.D.J. Case number: 406/2013 Between: KODRIC DAVOR, from Montenegro Claimant And ERIC SIMON HUGHES, from the UK and now in Paralimni Defendant Ex- parte application on behalf of Kodric Davor from Montenegro, Claimant – applicant Following an ex-parte application of Mrs Constantinou for Mr Nikos Kallis lawyer of the claimant – applicant, and following the reading of the affidavit which was filed for supporting this application The Court hereby orders: 1. The issue of an order which amends the District Court of Limassol Order dated 21/03/2013 which was issued within an application with the above title and number which allows the substitute service of the writ of summons with the above title and number dated 30/01/13, of the ex parte application with the above title and number dated 30/01/13 and of the interim order dated 04/02/13 by publishing the above in two pancyprian papers which are published in the English language so that the substitute service of the above is allowed if published in one daily Cyprus paper which is published in the English language.

2. The expenses are reserved.

ISSUED: 30/04/13 TYPED: 15/05/13 True Copy REGISTRAR

(Sign.) E.Efraim, H.D.J.

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Europe EUROPE TODAY New tax probe A SPANISH judge has opened an investigation into Princess Cristina’s tax returns after an earlier charge of being an accomplice in an embezzlement case against her husband was dropped.

In a judicial writ made public yesterday, Examining Magistrate Jose Castro said he has asked the tax agency for information to determine whether Cristina, daughter of Spain’s King Juan Carlos, engaged in tax evasion or money laundering between 2007 and 2010.

Cristina’s husband Inaki Urdangarin is charged with fraud, tax evasion, falsifying documents and embezzling €6 million in public funds as head of the charitable Noos Foundation.

Urdangarin, former Olympic handball player, organised sports business conventions and allegedly abused his royal connections to over charge local governments for the events.

Cristina was briefly accused of complicity in the embezzlement charge but it was dropped for lack of evidence. But Castro said the princess may have committed tax fraud as half owner of the holding company Aizoon, set up by her husband to allegedly channel funds from the Noos Foundation.

Kosovo launches bear campaign KOSOVO has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country’s mountainous border areas.

Authorities have so far traced at least 15 caged bears held in restaurants to help lure customers, to the outrage of animal rights activists.

Ministry of Environment officials say the number of bears in the wild in Kosovo has fallen below 100 due to the destruction of their natural habitat and illegal hunting.

On Wednesday, police officers and animal experts from

an Austrian non-governmental organisation called Four Paws raided a small private zoo in the southwestern town of Prizren.

They removed two brown bears, known as Ari and Arina, from a 20-sqm metal cage, next to a restaurant selling burgers and pizza.

The owner also held wolves, dogs, sheep, cows, snakes and 60 other species, charging 50 cents per visitor.

“It’s like taking a child from its father,” complained the owner, Salih Shehu. “I know I’m going to lose customers because whoever came spent most of their time with the bears.”

New life: male brown bear Ari (left) and female bear Arina are now in a sanctuary after having been caged at a Kosovo restaurant for nearly 10 years

Swedish riots spur police to call for reinforcements Riots expose gap between wealthy, poor

By Ilze Filks and Mia Shanley

Banned in ‘error’ RUSSIA’S leading online social network was briefly banned yesterday, in a move dismissed as a “mistake” but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power.

VKontakte (www. vk.com), Europe’s largest homegrown social network with 210 million registered users, was put overnight on a “black list” of sites barred from distributing content inside Russia. Hours later, the ban was lifted.

The company’s founder Pavel Durov has clashed with the authorities in the past for providing a forum for opposition activists to organise protests against Putin.

“This happened by mistake,” said Vladimir Pikov, a spokesman for Roskomnadzor, the state communications regulator.

He said the bears were given to him as a gift a decade ago

by United States soldiers, part of a NATO peacekeeping force in the former Serbian province, after their mother was killed by poachers.

Authorities have set aside a rural area outside the capital to hold the bears.

“In Kosovo there are a lot of bears kept illegally in cruel conditions,” said Heli Dugnler, founder and president of Four Paws.

“We give these bears a new life, a new chance by offering them a huge area of nature where the bear can live normally in grass and trees and not in concrete.”

A fireman inspects a burnt car in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm on Thursday

POLICE in Stockholm called in reinforcements yesterday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years.

Pupils at a primary school in Kista - an IT hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been completely burnt out.

While Thursday was slightly calmer than the four nights before, about 30 cars were torched and eight people, mostly in their early 20s, were detained, police said.

In a country with a reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority - often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel marginalised.

“In the short run, the acute

thing is to ensure that these neighbourhoods get back to normal everyday life. In the long run we need to create positive spirals in these neighbourhoods,” Erik Ullenhag, Sweden’s integration minister, told Reuters.

The police said they were calling in extra backup from the cities of Malmo and Gothenburg.

“Now it’s Friday, the weekend, and we usually have more to do. We think there’s going to be a lot of work and many have worked hard these last few days, so we are calling in extra police,” spokesman Anders Jonsson said.

MASKED YOUTHS The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalise schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.

It was sparked by the fatal police shooting earlier this month of a 69-year-old man, reported by local media to be a Portuguese immigrant and suspected of wielding a large knife, in a Stockholm

suburb called Husby.

Though far from the scale of riots in London or Paris in recent years, the violence has shocked a nation which has long taken pride in its generous social safety net.

Some seven years of centre-right rule, however, have chipped away at benefits, while some communities have struggled to cope with the heavy wave of immigration they are seeing from wartorn countries like Syria.

Youth unemployment is especially high in immigrant neighbourhoods like the ones where the riots have taken place.

Kicki Haak, head of the small Montessori school that was set alight in Kista, said she did not know if it would be able to reopen.

The 94 students will move into improvised classrooms in nearby office buildings from Monday.

“Five nights in a row - it’s incomprehensible,” said Faisal Lugh, whose two children are pupils at the school. Lugh works for an unemployment office and often helps new immigrants find jobs.

Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes off Russia’s eastern coast A MAGNITUDE 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast yesterday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said.

The epicentre of the quake was lo-

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cated at a depth of 385 miles (620 km) in the Sea of Okhotsk, 244 miles (390 km) west of the nearest city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake was felt in PetropavlovskKamchatsky, the main city on the Kam-

chatka peninsula and home to a nuclear submarine base, and on Sakhalin island, where Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas project is located.

Regional emergency authorities issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kurile islands, advising resi-

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dents of dangerous areas to seek high ground, but lifted the warning several minutes later.

Residents of northern Japan felt the quake but there was no tsunami warning from Japan’s meteorological agency.

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Notice is hereby given, that, after the expiration of 8 days from the date of the present publication, an application will be lodged in the Principal Probate Registry in the District Court of Paphos as to grant to SOTERIS ARGYROU L.L.C, from Nicosia, the documents of administration of the estate with appended will of the deceased DAVID JOHN SPINK, former from Paphos.

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Family tribute to murdered soldier THE family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby paid touching tribute to him yesterday, as detectives continued a rapidly-developing investigation into his barbaric killing.

Relatives of Drummer Rigby, 25, described their pride in the young father, who was brutally hacked to death near Woolwich barracks in southeast London on Wednesday.

They spoke for the first time as detectives continued to question a 29-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, and two other men who were shot by police after charging towards armed officers remained in hospital. Two women - aged 29 and 31 - have both been released without charge after they were held on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Speaking earlier at the regimental HQ of Drummer Rigby’s unit, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, in Bury, Greater Manchester, his stepfather Ian read a statement from the family. He said: “What can we say about Lee, our hero? We are so so proud of Lee. “Lee’s dream growing up was always to join the army, which he succeeded in doing. He was dedicated and loved his job.”

Drummer Rigby’s wife Rebecca, mother to their two-year-old son Jack, said through tears that he was “a devoted father”.

The family also revealed the last text message Drummer Rigby sent to his mother Lyn. It said: “Goodnight mum, I hope you had a fantastic day today because you are the most fantastic and one in a million mum that anyone could ever wish for.

“Thank you for supporting me all these years, you’re not just my mum you’re my best friend. So goodnight, love you loads.”

BRITAIN TODAY

A Pakistan International Airlines palne is surrounded by emergency vehicles on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England yesterday

BA emergency landing

Pakistan plane forced to reroute to Stansted

By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths BRITISH fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London yesterday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.

Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said.

Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival.

Britain is on high alert after a soldier was hacked to death on a London street on Wednesday in what the government are treating as a terrorist in-

Two men held on suspicion of endangering the aircraft cident. A security source said early indications were that the plane was not the target of a terrorist attack.

A passenger who had just got off the plane told the BBC the pilot had informed passengers after landing that he had diverted to Stansted because of threats. The passenger, named by the BBC as Mr Munsif, said two men had been handcuffed on board and removed.

“We landed safely and then he announced that they had some kind of threat from someone and that’s why he landed the plane,” the passenger said, speaking by telephone.

“Essex Police have boarded a passenger plane diverted to Stansted Airport and two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft. They have been removed from the plane,” the police said in a statement.

The force is responsible for the area where Stansted is located.

“The two men arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft are aged 30 and 41. They are being taken to a police station for interview by detectives,” the police added.

Stansted is one of London’s less busy airports, preferred as a location for handling airplane security incidents.

A spokesman for the airport said the plane was being held in an isolated area and that the rest of the airport was operating as normal.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said 10 fire engines had been sent to the airport.

The Pakistani plane was a Boeing 777, according to the flight tracking website www. flightradar.com.

According to two tracking websites, the aircraft broke off from its descent about 60 miles east of Manchester.

It turned and followed a wide arc over northeast England and out to the North Sea before heading towards London.

Britain launches military planes to intercept unidentified aircraft when they cannot be identified by other means, for example when the aircraft is not talking to air traffic controllers.

‘Law couldn’t have stopped deadly Woolwich attack’

Lee and Rebecca Rigby on their wedding day in 2007

THE government will examine what powers it requires following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of London, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said yesterday.

But Pickles said he did not believe any measures in a mooted communications data bill, dubbed the “snooper’s charter”, would have prevented the death of the soldier in Woolwich.

Conservative MP Pickles told BBC

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Radio 4’s Today programme: “What I am certain about is a free society is vulnerable to an unexplained, heavy violent attack, whether it was as our dear friends in Norway faced a couple of years ago, a white supremacist, or whether what we faced on the streets of Woolwich, a blasphemy and distortion of Islam.

“I know of nothing that would suggest that provisions that were in that bill

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would have made any difference in this case or would have saved the life of the young member of the armed forces.

“I think it’s probably too soon to assess the powers we need but, once the investigation is through, both aspects of the security services and aspects of the policing of these two individuals will be thoroughly investigated and no doubt recommendations will come out of that.”

A BRITISH Airways plane with 80 people on board made an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow airport yesterday after the right engine burst into flames shortly after take-off and the casing ripped away from the left.

The British carrier, part of IAG, said all 75 passengers and five crew members were safe after having been evacuated from the aircraft down emergency chutes on landing.

Video footage taken on board the plane as it came into land revealed the silver internal components of the engine.

Flight BA 762 from Heathrow to Oslo was forced to turn back due to what BA called a “technical fault”. The Airbus A319 was powered by two IAE V2500 engines.

BA has started an investigation into the incident along with the Air Accident Investigation Bureau but said it had yet to determine the nature of the problem.

Tweet ruled to be defamatory A TWEET by a British parliamentarian’s wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the false allegation.

That was the judgment of the High Court in London on Friday in Britain’s mostly closely watched Twitter libel case, brought by Alistair McAlpine, an elderly ally of late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, against Sally Bercow, the flamboyant wife of the speaker of parliament.

The lesson for Twitter users is that libel laws apply to them too and the context of their tweets will be taken into account by the courts, both sides said after the ruling.

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North Korea says it will take ‘positive measures’ for peace A NORTH Korean envoy told China’s president yesterday that his reclusive country was willing to take “positive actions” to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks.

Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, met Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, in the highestranking visit by an official from Pyongyang in about six months.

But Choe made no offer to abandon North Korea’s nuclear programme, limiting the chances of talks with South Korea and the United States, which insists North Korea takes meaningful steps on denuclearisation before there can be dialogue.

Chinese state media said Choe presented a hand-written letter from Kim to Xi at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Media provided no details of its contents.

“North Korea is willing to make joint efforts with all parties to appropriately resolve related issues through multilateral dialogue and consultations like the sixparty talks, and maintain peace and stability on the peninsula,” the official Xinhua

news service cited Choe as telling Xi. “To this end, North Korea is willing to take positive actions,” Choe added.

Xi told Choe that the denuclearisation of the peninsula was an aspiration of all peoples and an inevitable trend, saying problems should be resolved through talks.

China has repeatedly urged North Korea to return to the so-called six party talks process, aimed at denuclearisation.

The United States and its allies believe the North violated a 2005 aid-for-denuclearisation deal by conducting a nuclear test in 2006 and pursuing a uranium enrichment programme that would give it a second path to a nuclear weapon in addition to its plutonium-based programme.

The six-party aid-for-disarmament talks, involving the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China, collapsed in 2008 when the North walked away from the deal.

China, North Korea’s only real ally, has been pushing for a return to talks after weeks of bellicose words from Pyongyang following new United Nations sanctions after the North’s third nuclear test in February.

Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in rural Washington state in the US collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into the frigid water, authorities said.

Two of the three people rescued from the river were hospitalised with hypothermia, said Given Kutz, a spokesman for Skagit County in the northern part of the state.

There were apparently no fatalities. “They (rescuers) don’t expect anyone else (remains) in the water,” he said.

Authorities were awaiting confirmation on the cause of the collapse, said a second Skagit County spokesman, Jim Martin. Local media reported it might have been caused by a truck striking the structure.

It was not raining at the time, Washington State Patrol spokesman Trooper Mark Francis said.

The bridge is on the Interstate 5 freeway where it crosses the Skagit river between the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington, 55 miles (90 km) north of Seattle.

Boy scouts decide to admit gay youngsters But North Korean envoy Choe (centre) made no offer to abandon Pyongyang’s nuclear programme

‘Comfort women’ snub TWO elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese war-time military brothels cancelled a meeting yesterday with the mayor of the city of Osaka, after he refused to withdraw remarks asserting the brothels were “necessary” at the time.

The mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, an outspoken populist who has often stirred controversy, sparked a storm of criticism at home and abroad when he said last week that the military brothels had been needed, and Japan has been unfairly singled out for wartime practices common among other militaries.

Victims of Japan’s war-time aggression, including many people in China and South Korea, are sensitive to what they see as any attempt by Japanese politicians to excuse Japanese abuses before and during the war.

Octogenarians Kim Bok-dong and Kil Won-ok said they had hoped their planned meeting with Hashimoto, who heads the small right-leaning Japan Restoration Party, would encourage him to change his mind, but they had heard he planned to manipulate them by an “apology performance” in front of media.

“Indescribably heart-wrenching reality and history of the victims cannot be traded with his apology performance and sweet talk,” the women said in a statement provided by the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. “We do not want to kill ourselves twice,” they said. “If he truly feels sorry to us and regretful, he must take back his criminal comments and make a formal apology. He should hold himself responsible for his wrongdoing and retire from politics.”

Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in the Imperial Japanese Army’s brothels before and during the war.

Yesterday, Hashimoto said he had not meant to imply he personally approved of the wartime brothel system and that he was sorry the women’s feelings had been hurt by the misunderstanding. But he declined to withdraw the remarks.

THE Boy Scouts of America has thrown open its ranks to gay youngsters, but not adult leaders, in a compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections.

The Scouts stressed yesterday that their organisation of about 2.6 million boys and about one million adult leaders and volunteers would not condone sexual conduct by any Scout - gay or straight.

But the bitter debate continued as liberal Scout leaders made clear they wanted the ban on gay adults lifted too.

Yesterday’s National Council vote result was welcomed by gay rights groups, but many religious institutions - which charter about 70 per cent of the America’s more than 100,000 Scouting units - were upset and some threatened to defect if the ban was lifted.

“We are deeply saddened,” said Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee.

US youth organisation will not allow gay adult leaders “Homosexual behaviour is incompatible with the principles enshrined in the Scout oath and Scout law.”

Some of the Scouting group’s largest sponsors are relatively conservative denominations that have supported the broad ban on gay members and leaders - notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Southern Baptist churches.

The policy change takes effect from January 1. Yesterday’s vote came after a survey of more than 200,000 leaders, parents and youth members earlier this year. Sixty-one per cent supported the policy of excluding gays, while 34 per cent opposed it.

But most parents of young

Scouts, as well as youth members themselves, opposed the ban. That tracks with a growing national acceptance of gay rights in the US, especially among the younger generations.

Pascal Tessier, an openly gay 16-year-old Boy Scout, was elated by the outcome.

“I was thinking that today could be my last day as a Boy Scout,” he said. “Obviously, for gay Scouts like me, this vote is life-changing.”

The BSA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010, has long excluded both gays and atheists. But protests over the no-gays policy gained momentum in 2000, when the US Supreme Court upheld the BSA’s right to exclude gays. Scout units lost

sponsorships by schools and other entities that followed non-discrimination policies.

“I’m so proud of how far we’ve come, but until there’s a place for everyone in Scouting, my work will continue,” said Jennifer Tyrrell, whose ousting as a Cub Scout den leader because she is gay launched a national protest movement.

The Mormon church reacted positively. “We trust that BSA will implement and administer the approved policy in an appropriate and effective manner,” an official church statement said.

The National Catholic Committee on Scouting responded cautiously, saying it would assess the possible impact of the change on Catholic-sponsored Scout units.

The BSA could take a hit financially with the new policy.

Many Scout units in conservative areas fear their local donors will stop giving if the ban on gay youth is lifted.

Africa supports Kenya call for Hague court to drop case against Kenyatta AFRICAN nations have backed a request by Kenya for charges of crimes against humanity by its president to be referred back to the east African country, African Union documents show.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are both facing trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC), accused of masterminding ethnic bloodshed in post-election

violence five years ago that killed more than 1,200 people. Both deny the charges.

One minister, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters that the African Union specifically avoided calling on the war crimes tribunal to drop its prosecution, but he acknowledged the request for a local process amounted to the same thing.

The document seen by Reuters yesterday said: “(The Assembly) supports and endorses the eastern Africa region’s request for a referral of the ICC investigations and prosecutions.”

The proposal, drafted after foreign ministers had debated the issue late on Thursday, now has to be voted on by heads of state, which diplomats say is typically a rubber-stamping exercise.

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Syrian opposition seeking unity ahead of peace talks US, Russia to discuss peace meet on Monday

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis SYRIA’S fractious opposition scrambled to agree a new leadership yesterday in a bid to present a coherent front at peace talks which the United States and Russia are convening to seek an end to more than two years of civil war.

A major assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel held town over the past week is shaping into a pivotal battle. It has drawn in fighters from Assad’s Lebanese allies Hezbollah, justifying worry that a war that has killed 80,000 people would cross borders at the heart of the Middle East.

Washington and Moscow have been compelled to revive diplomacy by developments in recent months, which include new reports of atrocities, accusations chemical weapons were used and the rise of al Qaeda-linked fighters among rebels.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet privately in Paris on Monday to discuss their ef-

Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul yesterday forts to bring Syria’s warring parties together, US and Russian officials said.

Russia said the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend the planned peace conference, which could take part in Geneva in the coming weeks, and had “expressed readiness” to find a political solution.

Under intense international pressure to resolve internal divisions so it can play a

meaningful role in the talks, Syria’s Western-backed opposition National Coalition met in Istanbul to elect new leaders and broaden its membership.

Senior opposition figures said the coalition was likely to attend the conference, but doubted it would produce any immediate deal for Assad to leave power - their central demand.

“We are faced with a situa-

tion where everyone thinks there will be a marriage when the bride is refusing. The regime has to show a minimum of will that it is ready to stop the bloodshed,” said Haitham al-Maleh, an elder statesman of the coalition.

There was more heavy fighting yesterday in Qusair, a town controlling access to the coast which Assad’s forces and Hezbollah allies have tried to take in a battle that could prove an

important test of Assad’s ability to withstand the revolt.

Assad wants to secure the coastal region which is the homeland of his Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. He is backed

by Shi’ite Iran and Hezbollah against mainly Sunni rebels supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition London-based monitoring group, said Syrian army and Hezbollah forces at Qusair were trying to cut off rebels in the nearby village of Hamidiya. State media said the army had destroyed “terrorist dens” in Hamidiya and also killed eight “terrorists” in another village, Daba, close to Qusair.

Much to the frustration of its backers, the coalition has struggled to agree on a leader since the resignation in March of respected cleric Moaz Alkhatib, who had floated two initiatives for Assad to leave power peacefully.

Alkhatib’s latest proposal - a 16-point plan which foresees Assad handing power to his deputy or prime minister then going abroad with 500 members of his entourage - won little support in Istanbul, highlighting the obstacles to wider negotiations.

“He has the right to submit papers to the meeting like any other member but his paper is heading directly to the dustbin of history. It is a repeat of his previous initiative which went nowhere,” a senior coalition official said.

WORLD TODAY ‘Hard decisions’ ISRAELI and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday.

Ending two days of meetings in the region, Kerry said he had had “very productive” talks.

But there were no obvious signs of any breakthrough, with neither side offering the sort of compromises needed to end a three-year stalemate.

“We are reaching the time where leaders need to make hard decisions,” Kerry said at the end of his fourth visit to the region in barely two months as he struggles to overcome deeply entrenched positions that have snarled the peace process.

Death fall A SUICIDAL man jumping to his death killed a five-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building, South Korean police say.

A police official said the man, 39, died immediately after he jumped on Wednesday from the 11th floor of the building in the southeastern port city of Busan. The girl died later from brain damage and broken bones.

Taliban launch large-scale Kabul attack

Afghan policemen help a wounded comrade out of his checkpost after an explosion in Kabul yesterday

TALIBAN militants launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces.

A plume of smoke hung over Kabul after the attack was launched, with the sound of .50 calibre heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire clearly audible throughout the city centre as night fell.

An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 other people were wounded during the attack, which began at 4pm (1130 GMT) with a suicide car bomb outside a compound used by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Afghan police said.

While the IOM is not part of the United Nations, it is affiliated with it in Afghanistan.

The attack came eight days after six American soldiers and civilians and nine Afghans were killed in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.

The Taliban, fighting to expel Western forces and establish Islamist rule in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack, saying a “rest house” used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been attacked.

After the initial bombing, about six Taliban fighters engaged in a firefight with nearby guards, officials said.

Two were killed and the remaining three or four militants entered an unused building across the road from the IOM compound and continued to fight.

There were at least four large blasts during the course of the evening, and witnesses said that at 9pm (1630 GMT) exchanges of fire were still going on between the attackers and Afghan forces supported by Norwegian special forces.

“As a result of the attack, three IOM staff and one International Labour Organisation (ILO) staff were wounded,” UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters in New York.

He said one of the IOM personnel was in serious condition, and that all UN staff in Kabul had been accounted for.

The ILO is a subsidiary of the United Nations and operates in Kabul under the banner of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

Such attacks reinforce concern about how the 352,000 members of the Afghan security forces will cope with the insurgency after most foreign NATO-led combat troops leave by the end of next year.

Insurgent attacks against civilians, government workers and Afghan security forces have increased since the Taliban announced their so-called spring offensive late last month.

Turkey bans alcohol advertising and also tightens curbs on sales TURKEY banned alcohol advertising and tightened restrictions on its sale yesterday, drawing criticism from secular Turks as well as the country’s brewing industry.

The new law includes a ban on shops selling alcohol from 10pm to 6am, with fines of up to 500,000 lira ($270,000) for owners and operators

of venues that violate the law, and a possible one-year jail sentence for selling to minors.

Turkey is an overwhelmingly Muslim nation with a secular constitution, but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK party has come under fire from some quarters for undermining the separation of state and religion in

the country.

Since coming to power in 2002, the government has taken various measures against alcohol, the consumption of which is forbidden by Islam.

Tax on alcohol has soared and flag carrier Turkish Airlines has stopped serving alcohol on some domestic flights.

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Business HSBC calls for faster reforms

German outlook improves as business morale upbeat

HSBC (HSBA.L) called on regulators to speed up industry reform as its shareholders urged Europe’s biggest bank to take a lead in cutting pay and criticised it for compliance failings and aiding tax avoidance.

HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint told around 400 shareholders at the bank’s annual meeting that the fallout from recent scandals had created a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to reform banking and the broader financial industry. “As a first priority we need to speed up the reform process. Otherwise investor confidence in the sector will continue to be undermined,” he said.

Investors approved its 2012 pay plan, with 11 per cent of shareholders voting against it, compared with 10 per cent at last year’s meeting. Including abstentions, 14.7 per cent of shareholders this year failed to back the plan.

“I’d like to see an immediate end to any increase in pay and a reduction in bonuses, which are totally disproportionate to what is delivered,” said private shareholder David Haslam. He said it was an industry problem, rather than specific to HSBC, but added HSBC should lead the way in pay reform.

CEO Stuart Gulliver was paid £7.4 million last year, down from £8 million for 2011.

The bank paid 204 employees more than £1 million last year, including 78 in Britain.

Flint apologised to shareholders for the bank’s failings after it was handed fines of $1.9 billion in December, the largest ever imposed on a bank, following a US investigation into its Mexican and US operations. The probe made scathing criticism of HSBC’s anti-money-laundering systems and found its lax controls allowed two drug cartels to move $881 million through the bank.

Ifo index picks up more than forecast in May

By Sarah Marsh GERMAN business morale improved far more than expected in May, rebounding after two months of falls and suggesting Europe’s largest economy is slowly picking up speed after a sluggish first quarter.

The Munich-based Ifo think tank said yesterday its business climate index, based on a survey of some 7,000 firms, rose to 105.7 in May from 104.4 in April. The data beat a median forecast of 104.5 in a Reuters poll of 40 economists.

It prompted German Bund futures to pare gains and sent the euro to a session high, though analysts said the recovery did not look strong enough to help drag Germany’s eurozone neighbours out of recession.

Underscoring how private consumption in particular is fuelling domestic growth, a separate survey showed German consumers feeling more inclined to spend than at any point since September 2007.

“Business sentiment is recovering, consumer sentiment is picking up and Germany has been spared a double dip recession by the skin of its teeth,” said David Brown at New View Economics.

“The German economy

The German Statistics Office said yesterday that robust private consumption had compensated for declines in both Germany’s exports and investment may be out of casualty ...but a return to fuller health still needs a lot more care.”

The economy, which grew strongly during the early years of the eurozone crisis but lost momentum last year, has not yet featured prominently in campaigning for September’s national election.

But if conditions worsen significantly, it could become

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Ifo economist Klaus Wohlrabe expected the German economy to grow significantly more in the second quarter, saying construction activity, which was subdued during an extremely harsh winter, picked up “immensely” in May. Private consumption added 0.4 percentage points to first quarter GDP, while gross

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a headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she seeks a third term in office.

Her cabinet forecasts an expansion of 0.5 per cent this year, but quarterly growth was just 0.1 per cent in the first three months, Statistics Office data showed earlier yesterday.

Robust private consumption compensated for declines in both exports and

capital investment deducted 0.3 points. Foreign trade added 0.1 points as exports fell but imports dropped even more rapidly.

Confirming the growing importance of private consumption for the economy, market research group GfK said its forward-looking consumer sentiment index, based on a survey of around 2,000 Germans, rose for the sixth straight month.

“Germany’s consumers ride to the rescue,” said Christian Schulz, economist at Berenberg Bank.

A more sanguine Carsten Brzeski at ING said Germans would still not “become a bunch of shopaholics” and spend wildly.

“This means ... this morning’s data also hold an inconvenient truth ...without its exports, the German economy is currently only like a sports car without sixth gear,” he said.

Suggesting even private consumption cannot be relied on for solid growth, a finance ministry report released yesterday showed that, while the tax take rose 0.4 per cent on the year in April, sales tax dropped by 7.3 per cent.

Jennifer McKeown at Capital Economics added that the Ifo index had “long painted an overly optimistic picture of the German economy” and Markit’s purchasing managers’ survey (PMI) released on Thursday suggested it was contracting.

“Accordingly, we still expect only a modest pick-up in German GDP growth which will not be strong enough to ensure a recovery in the eurozone as a whole,” McKeown said.

Nonetheless Germany is outperforming other eurozone countries, and recent data showed its industrial output and orders, as well as imports and exports, rose in March.

News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch (pictured) and Chief Executive Officer Robert Thomson will give further details about the company at a conference on May 28

NEWS Corp (NWSA.O) set the distribution ratios for the spin-off of its publishing business, which may start buying back stock right away.

The board of the publishing business, which will retain the News Corp name, authorised a $500-million stock repurchase programme, the company said yesterday.

The stock repurchase may shed light for analysts and investors who want to know how the new News Corp will use the $2.6 billion in cash it will have when the spinoff takes place.

That is expected to occur on June 28.

Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Chief Executive Officer Robert Thomson will give more details about the company at a conference on May 28.

The board of the existing News Corp has now formally approved the split-up of the company’s publishing business from its entertainment operations. Current News Corp stakeholders who own four shares of Class A or Class B common stock will receive one share of new News Corp’s Class A or Class B common stock.

To prevent hostile takeovers, News Corp put in place a poison pill provision for one year after the split. It will be triggered if someone acquires more than 15 per cent of the stock of either company.

News Corp has a history of potential takeovers. In 2004, Liberty Media Corp’s (LMCA.O) John Malone had quietly snapped up a 20 per cent voting stake in the company. The move prompted Murdoch to swap his stake in DirecTV (DTV.O) and other assets for Malone’s shares in News Corp.

The new News Corp will be an independent publicly traded company.

The entertainment assets, including Fox broadcasting network, movie studio and lucrative equity stakes in pay-TV providers, will be known as 21st Century Fox. 21st Century Fox will retain no ownership interest in News Corp, the company said.

The publishing spin-off includes News Corp’s newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and The Times in London, a cable network and pay-TV provider in Australia, book publisher HarperCollins and fledgling education company, Amplify.

The company named current directors Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch to the board of the new News Corp. New additions to the board include Thomson; Ana Paula Pessoa, a partner at Brunswick Group; John Elkann, head of Exor SpA (EXOR.MI); and Masroor Siddiqui, head of investment firm Naya Management.

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SGOs’ fight against privatisation beggars belief WHEN the chairman of CyTA Stathis Kittis announced that together with the chairmen of the Electricity Authority and Ports Authority they were considering securing loans from abroad to prevent the privatisation of their organisations, most sensible people thought he was joking.

The idea was dismissed as just another example of a populist, pipe-dream that would earn the applause of union bosses and then be forgotten.

However, Kittis seems determined to pursue this foolish idea, announcing earlier this week that three organisations from abroad had shown an interest in providing the €1.4 billion loan the three semi-governmental organisations were after. Although he did not name the potential creditors two were UK-based and the other US-based - he said that he would meet his fellow chairmen “with the aim of turning this initial idea into action”.

In a nutshell, the SGOs would offer their assets as collateral to raise the €1.4 billion loan which they would then offer to the government so that it would not have to privatise the three SGOs as agreed in the Memorandum of Understanding. The sad thing is Kittis was being totally serious, in promoting this ludicrous idea that makes no business sense whichever way it is viewed.

Did it occur to him that by lumbering each of three SGOs with an additional debt of half a billion euros, he might prevent their privatisation but ensure their bankruptcy.

The EAC, for instance, is having difficulty servicing its existing loans - its chairman said its surplus was not enough to cover its debt repayment obligations - and would have no chance of surviving if it took on a non-productive loan of €500 million. How would it repay it? By tripling the already extortionate rates it charges its subscribers? Would the Port Authority, which charges absurdly high rates for handling shipments of goods, also triple its rates?

There is no way any serious finance company would lend this amount of money, for non-investment purposes, for the very simple reason it would never be repaid if it is not used to generate more business. The SGOs would not invest the money but simply hand it over to the government, which will not be able to repay a cent for at least 10 years.

In other words, the SGOs would borrow €1.4 billion in order to preserve the mismanagement, inefficiency, over-staffing, money-wasting and extortionate pricing that has always marked their operation and was covered by their beleaguered customers. The troika is certain to veto such a stupid idea, even if foreign companies are queuing up in order to lend our SGOs €1.4 billion.

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The lessons of the London butchers Comment Nicholas Wapshott

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HE SICKENING scene from Britain of a bloodspattered man spouting Islamist hatred, who had just beheaded an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight, sends shivers down the spine.

Is this the face of modern terrorism? If so, is no one safe anymore?

After the initial horror at the barbaric butchery on a leafy London street come questions about our attempts to prevent terrorism. Eleven years on from the attacks of September 11, we are still left grappling with some basic questions: What exactly is terrorism? And what can we do, if anything, to prevent it?

The British prime minister, David Cameron, his colleagues, top officials and police have been careful not to jump to conclusions. They have avoided the rush to judgement that so many in the United States urged on the Obama administration in describing the motivation of the killers of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. It is not that they do not take the killers at their word; it is because they simply do not know.

Cameron was careful not to prejudge or speculate on the motives of the two suspected culprits, who made no attempt to escape and waited for the police to come and arrest them.

“There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident” was as far as he would go. It was even left to French President Francois Hollande - Cameron was in Paris - to let slip that the British authorities knew the victim was a soldier.

The Metropolitan Police chief was even more cautious. “We understand concern about the motivation, and we will work tirelessly to uncover why this occurred and who was responsible,” he said. “I understand people want answers, but I must stress we are in the early stages of investigations.”

The British have a meticulous approach to preventing the prejudicing of evidence and juries that the American First Amendment does not allow. In the United States, we guess first and investigate later. Even by the morning after the attacks, Cameron remained reluctant to acknowledge that the jihadist language used by one of the killers in the immediate aftermath of the killing automatically made him a terrorist.

Instead, he went out of his way to distance Islam from the slaughter. “We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms,” he said. “This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.”

This has put the official jostling to avoid jumping to conclusions in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi killing of four

A police forensics officer investigates the crime scene in Woolwich Americans in a fresh light. There has been widespread scoffing that no one dare call the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens a terrorist act, though it had all the characteristics of terrorism. The suggestion has been made that the to-and-fro over how the attack should be described must have been politically motivated.

Sometimes it is important for law enforcement officials to stay mum rather than jump too quickly to conclusions, even if the motive is misconstrued.

The CIA considered the ambassador’s premises in Benghazi a crime scene that might provide them with proof that would bring the killers to justice.

Agents now have five suspects in their sights, under 24-hour surveillance, but are waiting until they have enough evidence to surely convict.

The CIA appears to have learned lessons from the roundup of al Qaeda suspects after September 11. There are already too many untried detainees held in Guantanamo - at least 45 of them genuine cold-blooded terrorists - without enough evidence against them for the CIA to add five from Benghazi. Maintaining the rule of law is important for a civilised nation, but it comes at a price. Sometimes, justice is not served.

The failure to allow Gitmo detainees to be repatriated to face trial on American soil has caused, by the reckoning of a joint CIA, FBI and Pentagon task force, 86 innocent men to be held indefinitely by American forces. That is shameful, which is why President Barack Obama’s new initiative to provide justice to those at Gitmo is so welcome.

Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of politics, which perhaps explains why the very constitutionalists who most conspicuously praise the principle of the rule of law are often the same as those who demand lynch law for suspected terrorists, even when they are known to be innocent.

The cases of the butchers of London and the Boston bombers raise an even more fundamental question: What exactly is terrorism? When Osama bin Laden was running al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and coordinating terrorist outrages around the world, the shape and modus operandi of terror networks was well established. In the 11 years since 9/11, however, the central management of al Qaeda’s operation has been defeated and the duty to continue the Islamist fight passed to individual jihadists.

But when is a murderer a terrorist and when is he simply an egotistical killer eager to grab the headlines? There is an iteration of Islamist terrorism that learned from the Allied invasion of Afghanistan and the defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq that they were no match for the Western military and its sophisticated technology. Islamist terrorism has largely devolved to individuals who work independently or in small cells and perpetrate wellplanned or opportunistic horrors using everyday equipment bought in pharmacies and hardware stores.

How to deal with hydra-headed terror without impinging on our liberties is the greatest puzzle yet to be solved by contemporary law enforcement. Eternal vigilance is not particularly effective, even when accompanied by saturation eavesdropping by street cameras. But as the London outrage has shown, we may be in another phase.

Almost everyone now has a cell-phone camera, and brave souls are prepared to tackle armed terrorists. The heroine of the hour in London is a woman Cub Scout leader, Ingrid LoyauKennett, who, hearing the blood-drenched killer yammer, “You people will never be safe,” and threatening “war in London,” calmly replied, “You’re going to lose. It is only you versus many.”

Both the London and Boston killings appear to have been

perpetrated by disenchanted young Muslim men. Despite one of the Boston bombers’ having travelled to Chechnya and their reported reliance upon an al Qaeda handbook to build the pressure cooker bomb that killed three and maimed 264, exiled Chechen separatist leaders fiercely denied connections with the pair and so far the FBI have failed to establish a direct link between the bombers and Islamist terrorist leaders. .

The British have a long history of countering terrorism.

From the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, the Irish Republican Army waged wave after wave of terror attacks on soldiers and civilians, including an annual bombing campaign on Christmas shoppers. The IRA’s fighters were well-disciplined and had a clear aim and an ideology.

Because of the nature of their business, they attracted psychopaths without any ideals or ideology only too happy to kill for fun.

That is why sorting real terrorists from the murderous insane must remain at the heart of counterterrorism. Wild talk about revenging the sins of Muslims in general may be good business for a tabloid cable news station catering to xenophobes, but it cannot be the standard of a democratic government and its instruments of law and order.

Merely shouting “Allah is good!” as the London killers did, does not define a crime as an act of terrorism.

Alfred Hitchcock once said, “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

He was wiser than he knew. As the British like to say, we are all going to have to “keep calm and carry on.”

Nicholas Wapshott is the former New York bureau chief of The Times of London. He is the author of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (2007)

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Showbiz Lewis Bradley Cooper is back for Jerry stars in his film in one last Hollywood Hangover first 18 years Comedy franchise skyrocketed the actor’s career

By Belinda Goldsmith

By Piya Sinha-Roy AFTER years of struggling to break into the Hollywood A-list from television, actor Bradley Cooper has gained some serious recognition for his work on the silver screen.

Cooper returns to the comedy franchise, The Hangover, which skyrocketed his career, after dramatic roles that earned him an Oscar nomination and praise for his more dramatic talents.

The 38-year-old actor has been on TV since 1999 and landed some supporting film roles. But it wasn’t until he was cast as the cocky Phil in the 2009 buddy comedy, The Hangover, that he found mainstream success.

The movie, about four men who try to piece together the events of a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, became an unlikely hit, grossing more than $467 million at the worldwide box office and spawning a franchise.

After The Hangover Part II took the actors - Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha - to Thailand on yet another wild bachelor party, they decided to return one last time in The Hangover Part III, out in theatres yesterday.

“We really didn’t let any day pass without taking stock of what we have because of these movies, and how special our bond is,” Cooper

The 38-year-old actor has been on TV since 1999 and landed some supporting film roles. But it wasn’t until he was cast as the cocky Phil in the 2009 buddy comedy, The Hangover, that he found mainstream success told Reuters about filming the final instalment.

“It really is a once-in-alifetime thing and to be able to do a third one and go out knowing it’s over, hopefully we’re going out on a high note.”

In the final film of the franchise, the wolf pack are unwittingly lured back to Las Vegas in a full circle from the first film, in a hunt for the elusive and eccentric Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong).

Cooper said that while the first two films had become box office hits with similar storylines, it was important

that the third film found a new plot.

“There was a lot of pressure to make sure it was going to be fresh, that it was going to deviate from the structure of the first two,” the actor said.

After landing leading roles in 2010’s reboot of The ATeam and 2011 action-thriller Limitless, Cooper reached a career high this year with an Oscar nod for best male actor for his role as bipolar Pat in Silver Linings Playbook.

Cooper credited the film for changing perceptions about his talents.

“There were people go-

ing ‘wow, I didn’t know you could do that,’ and I thought ‘yeah, did you think I was Phil?’ It was interesting,” he said.

The Place Beyond The Pines saw Cooper in a rare dramatic role, playing a police officer struggling to come to terms with killing a suspect while on duty.

Cooper said the role was “really tricky” and came to him at the right time in his career, when he was looking for a challenge and wanted to take risks with a complex character.

“It was not the role that

a young male leading man would want to take, because there was nothing flashy... but it was a great acting challenge,” Cooper said.

The actor, who was thrust into the spotlight in 2011 as People Magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ said he has set his sights on stepping behind the camera one day, though for now, he is in demand for roles in upcoming films by Steven Spielberg and Cameron Crowe.

“I can’t pass that up, but at some point I have to direct, because that’s really the only way I think,” Cooper said.

Pitt, Aniston ‘very good friends’ Twilight stars leads the Teen Choice nominations TWIGHLIGHT’S legacy shows no sign of stopping, after the film and its stars lead the Teen Choice Awards with nine nominations.

While the sun may have set on the vampire films, based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling books, the final instalment of the Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn - Part 2 dominating the shortlist, including two nods for leading man Taylor Lautner.

On-off lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are up for top sci-fi/fantasy actress and actor, as well as top romance stars, while the film is included in both the top sci-fi/fantasy and romance movies.

British stars Daniel Craig and Christian Bale are fighting it out for top action star alongside Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, while Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachel Weisz face competition from Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel and Adrienne Palicki for top action actress.

Carey Mulligan and Emma Watson will rival Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry and Naomi Watts for best actress in a drama, while Nicholas Hoult is up against R-Patz, Eddie Redmayne, Josh Duhamel and Alden Ehrenreich for top romantic actor.

The Big Bang Theory, New Girl and Glee all have nods for comedy, with stars including Zooey Deschanel, Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele all recognised.

One Direction will slug it out with rival boyband The Wanted for top music group.

The couple were married from 2000 to 2005

BRAD Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are “very good friends”.

The pair were married from 2000 to 2005 and although both have moved on - Brad has six children with his fiancee Angelina Jolie while Jennifer is engaged to Justin Theroux - they are still close.

Brad’s make-up artist Jean Black told Esquire magazine: “I think Brad was ready to soar when he met Angie. This is not to say anything negative about Jennifer. I was part of that and I know that he and Jennifer are very good friends and he cared deeply for her “But in Angie, he saw a very adventurous person who was grabbing on to life and taking it to its nth degree. It was intriguing because I felt Brad had that in him and wanted to unleash it.”

While they are close now, Brad, 49, recently hinted he was unhappy during his marriage to Jennifer, 43, because of his drug use.

VETERAN comedian-actor Jerry Lewis plays a dramatic role in his first movie in 18 years, Max Rose, which is premiering at the Cannes film festival, but showed on Thursday he had lost none of his talent for playing the clown.

Lewis, 87, laughed his way through a news conference at the world’s top cinema showcase with non-stop one-liners about how much he was paid for Max Rose, his career’s ups and downs and his former partner Dean Martin, who died in 1995.

“When I arrived here and he wasn’t here, I knew something was wrong,” he quipped when asked about Martin, with whom he rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s, first in television and then films.

The duo, in which singer Martin played the straight guy to Lewis’ slapstick comedy, split up acrimoniously in 1956 and both men went on to solo careers.

In Max Rose, written and directed by American filmmaker Daniel Noah, Lewis plays an ageing jazz pianist who learns that his wife of 65 years may have been unfaithful to him, making him wonder if their life together was built on a lie.

It is Lewis’ first film role since 1995’s Funny Bones and one he said could not resist because it was the best script he had read in 40 years. The film is holding its premiere at Cannes where it has a screening but is not competing.

“The wonderful thing about this script is that it is about elderly people who have been thrown away,” said Lewis.

“It is a very different thing to do for the crazy clown that has been doing one thing for 60 years .. but it is an incredible movie that is going to give a lot of people a lot of pleasure, and that’s the idea and I will meet you all at the bank.”

Dodging any mention of retirement, Lewis said he looked back on his work with pride, citing his 1963 film The Nutty Professor and his performance in Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film The King of Comedy.

But he said there was one film which he regretted and would never see the light of day - the 1972 film The Day The Clown Cried which he both directed and featured as a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

“It was all bad and it was bad because I lost the magic,” said Lewis. “You will never see it, no-one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work.”

Lewis once stirred controversy by commenting that he did not find female comedians funny and he stood by this at Cannes despite coming under attack for this view over the years.

“I cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator,” he said. “My favourite female comedians? Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds.”

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MS unveils Xbox One with Spielberg, Activision tie-up The microblogging platform is booming as a destination for American teenagers

Twitter teens say Facebook too old TWITTER is booming as a social media destination for American teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study about online behaviour.

It says teens are sharing more personal information about themselves, even as they try to protect their online reputations.

“The key is that there are fewer adults, fewer parents and just simply less complexity,” said Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Centre, one of the study’s authors.

“They still have their Facebook profiles, but they spend less time on them and move to places like Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.”

In the poll, 94 per cent of teens who are social media users have a profile on Facebook - flat from the previous year. Twenty-six per cent of teenage social media users were on Twitter, more than double the figure in 2011 of 12 per cent.

“Facebook just really seems to have more drama,” said Jaime Esquivel, 16, in an interview.

Jaime sees teens complaining on Twitter, too, so he has been using the photo-sharing service Instagram more often.

Facebook bought Instagram last year.

In what may be a concern to parents, more than 60 per cent of the teenagers with Twitter accounts said their tweets were public, meaning anyone on Twitter can see what they write and publish. About a quarter of youngsters said their tweets were private and 12 per cent said they did not know whether their tweets were public or private.

Teenagers are also sharing much more than in the past. More than 90 per cent of young social media users said they have posted a picture of themselves - up from 79 per cent in 2006, the poll said. Seven in 10 disclose the city or town where they live, up from about 60 per cent over the same period. And 20 per cent disclose their mobile phone number - up from 2 per cent in 2006.

Gaming console is Microsoft Corp’s first in eight years

By Bill Rigby and Malathi Nayak MICROSOFT Corp unveiled the “Xbox One” on Tuesday, its first new gaming console in eight years, and its strongest push so far to dominate consumers’ living rooms with an array of exclusive media content.

The Xbox One took four years to develop and will be the launchpad for a Halo live-action video series produced

by Steven Spielberg.

It will be sold worldwide “later this year,” games unit chief Don Mattrick told reporters at an event at the software company’s campus near Seattle, without providing details on timing or pricing.

The device will also be the first platform to release the next instalment in Activision Blizzard Inc’s blockbuster shooter franchise, Call of Duty.

Microsoft hopes its third-generation Xbox console will attract video game fans who are increasingly sampling games on mobile devices, while also becoming a hub for living room entertainment.

The new device interacts with a television, responds to voice and gesture commands, includes group video calling on Skype, 15 exclusive game titles and original programming content.

The Xbox One will chiefly compete with Nintendo Co’s new Wii U and Sony Corp’s forthcoming PlayStation 4 for a bigger slice of the $65-billion-ayear computer game market.

Microsoft did not refer to the new gadget as a “console” but rather an entertainment system, signalling its renewed focus on making the Xbox a sort of window for media and entertainment content, said Forrester Research’s James McQuivey.

The software giant is “trying to break

Microsoft hopes its new Xbox console will attract video game fans who are increasingly sampling games on mobile devices, while also becoming a hub for living room entertainment

out of the category” and risks having to battle not just Sony and Nintendo but Apple Inc, Google Inc and others to control consumer entertainment in the age of Smart TVs, tablets and smartphones, he said.

Acclaimed movie maker Steven Spielberg will be executive-producing a television series based on Microsoft’s blockbuster sci-fi game Halo - one of the game industry’s largest franchises by revenue - for the Xbox One. The new console will also offer exclusive National Football League content and eight new game franchises, executives said.

Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business declined to put a figure on the company’s investment in exclusive game and video content, but called it a “very serious commitment”, in an interview with Reuters.

Console gaming still accounts for the largest share, of about 42 per cent, of the $65-billion world gaming market,

according to Microsoft. But playing games on smartphones and tablets is gaining ground.

Videogame publishers have moved towards integrating their games across consoles, PCs and mobile devices to keep gamers engaged. Microsoft said it will have an updated SmartGlass app that connects the Xbox One to tablets and smartphones.

“This is what we needed, a machine that could connect all the possibilities the devices that exist can bring,” Yves Guillemot, CEO of games publisher Ubisoft, told Reuters.

The device will have 8 gigabytes of memory and comes with a new-generation Kinect sensor that communicates a user’s voice and gesture commands to the console.

The original Kinect was launched in 2010 and sold separately. Bundling the Kinect - which costs $100 in the current version - may inflate the Xbox One’s overall price tag. Mehdi said Microsoft is still “evaluating” sale price.

App brings to life Bard’s sonnets A NEW app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare’s sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks.

The Sonnet Project (inset) is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the Bard’s poetry through films of up to two minutes and performances by TonyAward winning actors Joanna Gleason and Cady Huffman, among others.

“Shakespeare gets a bad rap. A lot of people say ‘I don’t like Shakespeare, he’s over my head,’ or ‘Shakespeare is boring,’” said Ross Williams, the artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Exchange, the non-profit organisation behind The Sonnet Project.

“I wondered what happens if we share Shakespeare in really easily digestible chunks so people can get used to having him in their

lives?” he added.

Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, first published in 1609 explore themes such as love, beauty, and death.

Different locations across New York were selected for each sonnet, including the World Trade Centre Memo-

rial and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Actors and directors and text coaches helped to interpret the themes.

Another iPad app released last year called The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare includes performances by actress Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City fame, Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and British actor Stephen Fry. Created by Britain’s Touch Press, it also features commentary and information about the sonnets. The app, which costs $6.99, also includes a replica of the original sonnets, and interviews with scholars and Shakespeare experts.

Cambridge University Press also launched two new iPad apps in February as part of their “Explore Shakespeare” series, including the plays Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each cost $13.99 and feature audio performances, commentary and other interactive content.

“As a gamer, I wanted to see the additional features to make the gaming experience better,” said Dennis “Thresh” Fong, a former professional video gamer and now CEO of gamer network Raptr.

Sony had touted the new PlayStation 4’s live streaming of games and social features like a “share” button on its controller when it announced its new console, Fong said.

Despite its strong brand, the Xbox itself is not a key financial factor for the world’s largest software maker.

Its Entertainment & Devices unit is set to break $10 billion in sales for the first time this year, but that’s half the sales of its Windows unit, and a lot less profitable, averaging less than 15 per cent margin compared to 60 per cent or higher for Windows or Office.

The company has more than 46 million users of its online gaming and digital entertainment service Xbox Live.

That is still a fraction of the people who pay for its software.

TODAY IN HISTORY

JFK formally announced the US moon mission in 1961

Moon mission announced In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the bid for an American lunar landing to the US Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal ... of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space programme in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish”.

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‘Irrational’ h US security curity fe The first destructive cyber attack on US soil might resemble the Boston Marathon bombings in the sense that the suspects were not on the government’s radar (right). Left: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Below: One emerging actor is the Syrian Electronic Army

Gerry Cauley, chief executive of the North American Electric Reliability Corp, has said computer viruses have been found in the power grid that could be used to deliver malicious software to damage plants

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YBERSECURITY researcher HD Moore discovered he could use the internet to access the controls of some 30 pipeline sensors around the country that were not password protected.

A hacking expert who helps companies uncover network vulnerabilities, Moore said he found the sensors last month while analysing information in huge, publicly available databases of internet-connected devices.

“We know that systems are exposed and vulnerable. We don’t know what the impact would be if somebody actually tried to exploit them,” said Moore, chief research officer at the security firm Rapid7.

US national security experts used to take comfort in the belief that “rational” super powers like China or Russia were their main adversaries in cyber space. These countries may have the ability to destroy critical US infras t r u c t u r e with the click of a mouse, but they are unlikely to do so, in part because they fear Washington would retaliate.

Now, concerns are growing that “irrational” cyber actors - such as extremist groups, rogue nations or hacker activists - are infiltrating US systems to hunt for security gaps like the one uncovered

by Moore. These adversaries may not be as resourceful, but like Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of an Oklahoma federal building in 1995, it is the element of surprise that is as concerning.

Former US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he was worried the first destructive cyber attack on US soil might resemble the Boston Marathon bombings in the sense that the suspects were not on the government’s radar.

“You are going to get relatively modest-scale, impact attacks from all kinds of folks - hactivists, criminals, whatever,” Chertoff said at the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit last week. “Are they going to take down critical infrastructure? They might.”

Emerging cyber actors that security experts say they are most concerned about include Iran, believed to be

Ageing control systems vuln grid target of daily cyber att behind the ongoing assaults on US banking websites, as well as a devastating attack on some 30,000 PCs at Saudi Arabia’s national oil company last year.

North Korea is also quickly gaining cyber skills, experts say, after hackers took down three South Korean broadcasters and two major banks in March.

Another emerging actor is the Syrian Electronic Army, an activist group that has claimed responsibility for hacking the Twitter accounts of major Western media outlets, such as the Associated Press last month, when its hackers sent a fake tweet about explosions at the White House that briefly sent US stocks plunging.

The US power grid is the target of daily attempted cyber attacks, according to a report

by California Representative Henry Waxman and Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey released at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s cybersecurity hear-

ing on Tuesday.

More than a dozen utilities report daily, constant or frequent attempted attacks, ranging from unfriendly probes to malware infection, according to the report.

Gerry Cauley, chief executive of the North American

‘Even if you don’t actually work, yo havoc by cras Electric Reliability Corp, told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit that computer viruses have been found in the power grid that could be used to deliver malicious software to damage plants. NERC is a non-profit agency that oversees and ensures the reliability of bulk power system in the region.

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nerable to attack say experts as US power tacks, reports Jim Finkle ing to infiltrate US industrial control systems, they fear someone somewhere - perhaps even an amateur - will intentionally or unintentionally cause damage to power generators, chemical plants, dams or other critical infrastructure.

know how things ou can still wreak hing a device’ “Even if you don’t know how things actually work, you can still wreak havoc by crashing a device,” said Ruben Santamarta, a senior security consultant with IOActive.

“Probably in the near future we may face an incident of this type, where the attackers will not even know what they are doing.”

Santamarta has identified hundreds of internet-facing

control systems - on the grid, at water treatment facilities and heating and ventilation systems for buildings including hospitals. He has also uncovered bugs built into industrial control equipment.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, known as ICS-CERT, last week warned of a flaw that Santamarta found in equipment from Germany’s TURCK, which is used by manufacturers and agriculture firms in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The agency said attackers with “low” hacking skills could exploit the flaw, letting them remotely halt industrial processes. It advised customers to install a patch that would protect them against such attacks.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee in March that “less advanced, but highly motivated actors” could access some poorly protected

control systems. They might cause “significant” damage, he warned, due to unexpected system configurations, mistakes and spillovers that could occur between nodes in networks.

ICS-CERT posts dozens of alerts and advisories about vulnerabilities in industrial control systems on its website each year. Companies whose products were named in their alerts include General Electric Co, Honeywell International Inc, Rockwell Automation Inc, Schneider Electric SA and Siemens AG. Dale Peterson, CEO of industrial controls systems security firm Digital Bond, said infrastructure control systems are highly vulnerable to cyber attacks because designers did not take security into consideration when they developed the technology.

While hackers have yet to launch a destructive attack on US infrastructure, plenty have the skills to do so. “I would say it is only because no one has wanted to do it,” said Peter-

son, who began his career as a code breaker with the National Security Agency.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said terrorists are among the groups looking to acquire the capability to launch a cyber attack on US infrastructure, but he believes they do not yet have that ability.

“You get the right person with the right capability committed to this and it’s a game changer,” Rogers told the

Summit. “My concern is it’s just a matter of time.’

Eric Cornelius, a former ICSCERT official, said that operators in critical sectors including power, water, oil and gas sometimes do not implement security fixes recommended by equipment and software manufacturers in a timely manner because they need to take plants off line to do so and cannot afford the downtime.

Some plants lack sufficient

security staff and technology to protect networks because they don’t have adequate funds, said Cornelius, director of critical infrastructure for Cylance Inc. A relatively unsophisticated hacker whose goal was to probe a network could unintentionally damage a system because ageing networks are fragile and extremely sensitive, he said.

“That leaves these control systems insecure,” he said.

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Tel: 7777-8383 Stolen (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 8pm. 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.

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The Host (12) Rio Limassol: 25-871410 K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Rio Paphos: 26-207000 Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm.

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LIMASSOL Fast & Furious 6 (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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Stolen (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Evil Dead (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Iron Man 3 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Olympus Has Fallen (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in English) and (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Fast & Furious 6 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Fast & Furious 6 (12) Rio 1 at 7.30 and 10pm, Friday and weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Expatriate (12) Rio 2 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Scary Movie 5 (15) Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm; Rio 5, Friday and weekends at 5.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Stolen (12) Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Evil Dead (18) Rio 3 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Iron Man 3 (12) Rio 1 (in 3D) at 7.30 and 9.50pm, Friday 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 4 (in English, in 3D) and Rio 7 (in Greek, in 3D), Friday and weekends at 5.15pm, weekends also at 3.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends 3.30 and 5.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Fast & Furious 6

listings Today Music Barrie Rowe Big Band Echoes of Swing performing The Great American Songbook. 18 piece Big Band from the UK featuring singer Alice Zawadzki, with local musicians and acclaimed Paralimni vocalist Simon Barter.

May 25. Paralimni Municipal Amphitheatre. 8pm. €10. In aid of: Cyprus Alzheimers Association, Famagusta Branch and Cyprus Anti Cancer Charity, Famagusta Branch. Tel: 99-172179.

Online tickets: www.tickethour.com.cy. www.andrewoliver9.co.uk The Warrior’s Tale Chamber opera by composer Sotiris Kasparides presented in different classical music styles. May 25. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. 8.30pm. €10/5. Tel: 22-800970/99-564405

Theatre Troika? Game… Over!

A Cypriot comedy by Vassilis Konstantinou. May 25. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, Aglantzia, Nicosia. On Saturdays and Sundays at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 The Tale of Tsar Saltan Moscow musical theatre Experiment present opera by Nikolai RimskyKorsakov. May 25. Agios Athanasios Municipal Theatre, 42 Stavraetou tou Machera Street, Limassol. 12midday.

For children 6 years and up. €10. Tel: 25-724135/ 96-302770

The Tale of Tsar Saltan Moscow musical theatre Experiment present opera by Nikolai RimskyKorsakov. May 25. Skala Theatre, Larnaca. 6pm. For children 6 years and up. €10. Tel: 24-652800/ 96-302770 Incognito Small story-confessions accompanied by music. May 25-June 1. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou Street, Nicosia. May 25 at 8.30pm, on specific days at 9pm. In Greek. €12/6. Tel: 22-864300 My Romantic History Neos Kosmos Theatre presents award-winning comedy by D.C. Jackson. May 25-26. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15/10. In Greek.

Tel: 77-777745

Other Events The Kamares Festival Over 40 stands, charity games, tennis tournament and entertainment for adults and children. May 25. Kamares Club near Tala. 10am-5pm. Refreshments available throughout the day.

Free Entry. Tel: 99-387311 or contact mail@in-any-event.biz The Thrillionaire Revolution How to protect yourself from the financial and create wealth in any economy with self-made multimillionaire Nik Halik & special guests.

May 25-26. Hilton Park Hotel, Nicosia. €69 limited early bird special. Tel: 70-008087. info@thrillionairerevolutioncyprus.com www.thrillionairerevolutioncyprus.com

Tomorrow Music Barrie Rowe Big Band Echoes of Swing performing The Great American Songbook. The 18 piece Big Band from the UK featuring singer Alice Zawadzki, with local musicians and acclaimed Paralimni vocalist Simon Barter. May 26. Y & P Latchi Hotel. Dinner 7pm, showtime 8.30pm. €25 inc. dinner in advance, €30 on the door. Tel: 99-832538.

Online tickets: www.tickethour.com.cy www.andrewoliver9.co.uk

Theatre Flying ship Moscow musical theatre Experiment present a musical for children and their parents based on the cult of a Soviet animated film. For children 3 years and up. €10. Tel: 96-302770/25-7724135 May 26: Agios Athanasios Municipal Theatre, 42 Stavraetou tou Machera Street, Limassol. 12midday. May 26: Markideio Theatre, Paphos. 6pm

Other Events Potamia May Fair Event aimed at celebrating the efforts of Potamia residents in rejuvenating the local history and heritage of the village. The Fair will include traditional foods, drinks, dance and music performances and a guided village tour. May 26. Potamia Village Centre, Nicosia. 10.30-2.30pm. www. potamiaheritage.com

International Classic and Historic Car Show Within the framework of the Aphrodite Fiva World Rally, the Show will include a classic car competition and voting by the public for the best car of the show. May 26. Enaerios Parking Place in Limassol. 10am-4pm. Tel: 99-677477

International Pharos Chamber Music Festival Festival including eight concerts with over 15 world renowned artists. May 27-31: Five Chamber Concerts with some of the world’s leading soloists.

Royal Manor House, Kouklia, Paphos.

8.30pm. €10. Tel: 22-663871 www.pharosartsfoundation.org

Monday

Other Events

Music Barrie Rowe Big Band Echoes of Swing performing The Great American Songbook. The 18 piece Big Band from the UK featuring singer Alice Zawadzki, with local musicians and acclaimed Paralimni vocalist Simon Barter. May 27. Pissouri Amphitheatre. 7.30pm. €12 in advance, €14 on the door, €10 for PRA and Pine Bay Club members and military personnel. Bring cushions and a cool box. Tel: 99-832538.

Online tickets: www.tickethour.com.cy www.andrewoliver9.co.uk Together for Larnaca and our Fellow Human Beings Solidarity concert with well-known artists from Greece and Cyprus in aid of people in need. May 27. Phinikoudes Promenade, Larnaca. 4.30pmmidninght. Free, but the public is asked to bring food (non-perishables) and essentials

Nordic Cinema The Embassies of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway in collaboration with the Friends of Cinema Society present a series of Nordic movie screenings. May 27-June 7. Cine Studio, University of Nicosia. 9pm. Free.

With English subtitles. Tel: 96-420491

Ongoing Other Events Memory Bring Me Back Tonight…

Tribute to famous Greek poet Constantine Cavafy with dramatised readings of his poetry accompanied by music. May 21-30. Foyer of Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Tuesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. €10 including the first wine. Tel: 22-348203

Theatre Playing Doctor Contemporary American comedy. 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

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

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 Egg Salad A new children’s play, in a new theatre presented by Aiora. Until May 26.

Aiora Theatre, 4 Trion Ierarchon Street, Limassol. Every Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 11am & 4pm. Adults €7/ Children €5. In Greek. Tel: 99-668843

Exhibitions S)HE Solo sculpture/structure exhibition by Meletios Meletiou. Until May 29. Thiseas Art Gallery, 9 Thiseas, Ayios Zoni, Limassol. Tel: 99-674243/96-335889 Woman in Art Solo painting exhibition by Giorgos Kotsonis. Until May 31. Peter’s Gallery, 31 Ioanni Polemi Street, Limassol. 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm.

Tel: 99-679242 A Matter of Choice Solo art exhibition by Lefteris Olymprios. Until May 30. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286

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Email: whatson@cyprus-mail.com Please send your information as early as possible. Include full details, a contact number and good quality photos

Ten days of Scando cinema The Wedding Photographer The Orange Girl

Superclásico

AFTER two whole weeks of Spanish cinema, Nordic films take to the cinema as of Monday with a total of eight films to be screened.

The Nordic cinema period begins with the film Superclásico in Danish and Spanish on Monday. The film revolves around a Copenhagen wine seller and Christian, who is on the brink of bankruptcy after his wife left him 17 months earlier. Christian visits his wife under the pretense of signing divorce papers but is really on a mission to win her back.

If you are a sucker for love then Appelsinpiken - The Orange Girl in Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish, is the film up next on Tuesday. It tells the story of two young men’s different paths to find love. The stories are 20 years apart and tell tales of chance

Coming Up Exhibition The manifesto of a woman TUESDAY gives you a great chance to see one woman’s journey around the world, displayed as a photographic collage, while also offering a peek at a film.

The exhibition The Manifesto of a Woman to the World by Marina Olympios-Lycourgos, who started her journey in Cyprus and then went to Peru, Bolivia, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, has finally came full circle back to Cyprus. At every stop she visited ancient sites - some dating back to the 12th century AD - and got to know about people and cultures she had never met. The exhibition is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the beauty of Mother Earth but also to women.

Different women come to the

encounters that change lives and, in the end, show that love is the most important thing in life.

Thursday is the day to go see Äideistä parhain - Mother of Mine, in Finish and Swedish, from award-wining director Klaus Härö. The film tells the age old story of how a mother’s love is the strongest love of all, even if the child she loves does not realise it.

Brollopsfotografen - The Wedding Photographer, in Swedish, will be on screen on Friday. The film could be considered right up our alley during the times we live in.

It zooms in on Robin, who leaves his hometown after the factory he worked for shuts down and tries his luck as a wedding photographer. The change in scene and career brings him face-to-face with a forefront each time, but they all share a common fight for dignity and the quest for equality.

The photos capture these women who are people lost in history and to society. The images hope to illustrate the diversity of the world, which in itself is a journey that never truly ends. If we take a look back, we can trace our relationship with the world and better understand ourselves as an entity within it. Hopefully, by pointing out the differences of one culture to the next, a chance for equality and justice will be brought to the surface.

A film by Elisabeth Chambon, Curator of the museum GeoCharles in France, which covers the same journey, will also be presented.

Marina Olympios-Lycourgos was born in Nicosia in 1968. She studied in Paris and received a diploma with honours from the National School of Fine Arts. In 1994 she worked as a research fellow at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques Paris.

new way to look at life.

The second week starts with the film Vegas, in Norwegian.

Take a trip into the minds of three teenagers who, like most teenagers, know that they can’t choose their family members but they can choose their friends. As friends, they follow a common dream and end up where they least expect - home.

The following Tuesday tells the tale of two Danish families that come across each other in Hævnen - a Better World, in Danish, Swedish and English.

Their friendship leads to frailty and sorrow.

The theme of families becoming entangled in each other’s lives also features towards the end of the week with Simon och ekarna - Simon and the Oaks, in Swedish, German and Hebrew,

being screened on Thursday.

The families’ destinies are lead by one common denominator, Simon Larsson, who finds out he is adopted and goes on a journey to find his roots.

The last film on Friday will help us cool down and maybe make us a little bit nostalgic for Christmas with Joulutarina - Christmas Story, in Finnish. The story takes us back in time when a little boy named Nikolas from Lapland loses his family in an accident and is looked after by the villagers. When he moves to a new home at Christmas, he makes toys for the children of the families who have helped him and the tradition of present giving to children at Christmas is kept going.

All films are screened with English subtitles.

In 1996 she worked for the International Studio Curator Programme, in New York. OlympiosLycourgos has had 17 personal exhibitions in France and New York. Her work has been exhibited in France, Greece, the US and Monaco.

Argyrou, Petros Gaitanos, Stella Georgiadou, Evridiki, George Theofanous, Dimitris Korgialas, George Papadopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, George Stamataris, Eleni Tsaligopoulou, Rallia Christodoulou, Michalis Hadjiyiannis and many more.

The public is asked to bring essential items such as: canned food, pasta, flour, baby food, rice, to collection points. The items will be contributed to the Larnaca community market and families in need.

Michalis Hadjiyiannis will also be performing on Tuesday at the temporary Kyrenia town hall, close to the Ledra Palace checkpoint.

The ‘Solidarity, Resistance and Hope’ concert on Wednesday is a little different. Instead of bringing food, audience members are asked to contribute €2, €5 or €10.

The funds collected will go to supporting the unemployed. The artists performing are Filippos Pliatsikas, Pantelis Thalassinos, Dionysis Tsaknis, Anastasia

The Manifesto of a Woman to the World Solo art exhibition by Marina OlympiosLycourgos. Opens May 28, 7pm until May 30.

University of Cyprus, 75, Kallipoleos Avenue, Nicosia. May 28-29: 9am-10pm. May 30: 9ammidday. Tel: 99-893372

Concerts The sounds of solidarity Solidarity concerts seem to be the new wave of doing things differently, with three such events on the list for next week in Nicosia and Larnaca.

The first concert to kick off is the ‘Together for Larnaca and our Fellow Human Beings’ on Monday. Among the singers participating are Anna Vissi, Christina

Nordic cinema is supported by the Danish Film Institute, the Norwegian Embassy, the Embassy of Sweden and the Embassy of Finland.

The screening of the films is organised by the Friends of Cinema Society and the entrance is free. Entrance is allowed for those over 18 years old.

Membership to the Friends of the Cinema Society costs €15 for a year’s subscription.

Nordic Cinema The Embassies of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway in collaboration with the Friends of Cinema Society present a series of Nordic movie screenings. May 27-June 7.

Cine Studio, University of Nicosia.

9pm. Free. With English subtitles.

Tel: 96-420491

By Maria Gregoriou

Moutsatsou, Miltos Pasxalidis, and more.

If the events do as well as the Cyprus Aid concert in Nicosia on April 1, with 20,000 donated food items, it’ll be one more victory against poverty.

Together for Larnaca and our Fellow Human Beings Solidarity concert with well-known artists from Greece and Cyprus to help the needy. May 27.

Phinikoudes Promenade, Larnaca. 4.30pmmidnight. Free, but the public is asked to bring food (non-perishables) and essentials Solidarity Concert Mixalis Hadiyiannis. May 28. Temporary Kyrenia town hall, close to the Ledra Palace checkpoint, Nicosia, 8.30pm.

Free, but the public is asked to bring food (nonperishables) and essentials Solidarity – Resistance – Hope A charity concert with Greek and Cypriot artists that aims to collect money to support initiatives of solidarity, including support for the unemployed. May 29. Constanza Moat, Nicosia. 8pm.

The concert is free with a voluntary contribution of €2/€5/€10

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

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

Television CYBC 1 08.00

Moiraia Fengaria (rpt)

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

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News Patates Antinahtes (rpt)

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Ego Ki Esi Local comedy series.

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Ama Thelei To Grafton

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News Savvato Ki Apovrado Variety show, with wellknown guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.

23.30 23.45 00.45 02.45

News Tete-A-Tete (rpt) Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt) More Repeats

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07.20 07.50 08.40

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

11.20 12.10

News In English New In Turkish NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA

13.50 16.50 17.40

News in English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews

Proini Enimerosi Oi Detective (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Men Kai Den (rpt) Deixe Mou Ton Filo Sou (rpt) Ela N’ Agapithoume (rpt) Max adventures Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Poso Glyka Me Skotoneis (rpt) Ta Mahairomata (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves (rpt) Your Face Sounds Familiar (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Niose Me (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 07.00 09.40 09.50 10.20 11.00

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Vals Me 12 Theous News Exairetika Afieromeno (rpt) Fallen Fantasy mini-series.

18-year-old Aaron Corbett struggles to come to terms with his newly discovered identity - that he’s halfangel.

00.45 00.50 01.00 01.40 02.40 03.50 04.40

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

Retire (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt) Max Adventures Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.

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Oi Vasiliades (rpt) Pername Kala (rpt) Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Greek music gameshow.

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SIGMA 07.35 08.30

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Me Ta Pantelonia Kato (rpt)

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News Pername Kala (rpt) Kapse To Senario

Greek comedy series.

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 05.20

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

Mes Stin Kala Hara Weekend variety show, informative and entertaining.

14.00 15.40 17.00

Aspra Balonia (rpt) The Cooking (rpt) Annita SoS With News at 18.00.

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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.

Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

19.30

Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Barbie And The Three Musketeers Feature-length animated adventure, dubbed in Greek.

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

With News at 18.00.

Lost Sixfth season. ‘Happily Ever After’. Charles Widmore brings Desmond back to the island so that he can conduct a dangerous electromagnetic experiment, which sends him back to the alternate reality in Los Angeles, a reality where he has never met Penny.

Repeat of part 1 of local sketch.

06.00 06.20 06.50

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

18.45

Album show FILM: Love Happy A gumshoe and a Russian adventuress chase a trio of hapless actors who have found a cache of stolen diamonds. Marx Brothers comedy. 1949.

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

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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.

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ANTENNA

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

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Kids’ TV Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Diet Please (rpt) Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mila (rpt) Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Greek FILM: Kamikazi Tsantakias

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Comedy. 1982.

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Exelixeis Sti Showbiz En Iordani Cold Case (rpt) Third season. ‘The River’. A new witness comes forward claiming to have information about the 1984 shooting, prompting Lilly to reopen the case.

She is soon led into the world of gambling when it becomes apparent the deceased had a big secret.

News UEFA Champions League Live coverage of the all German Final betweem Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich at Wembley Stadium in London, England. See Pick Of The Day.

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Mila (rpt) Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

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Kouzina Me Apopsi Greek FILM: I Diki Enos Athoou Telemarketing Mila Mou Prasina Greek FILM: O Teleftaios Aihmalotos Call Of The Wild News FILM: Aquamarine A mermaid becomes stranded at a beach resort and falls in love with a lifeguard.

Fantasy comedy, starring Emma Roberts.

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Remington Steele News Pacific Blue News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: The Winslow Boy A father fights for family honour and justice when his son is expelled from the Royal Naval Academy for stealing. Edwardian period drama, with Nigel Hawthorne.

1999.

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FILM: Entrusted A boy memorises the access codes of Swiss bank accounts that will be used to help French Jews escape the Nazis’ grip. Drama, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer 2003.

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FILM:Judicial Indiscretion Thriller, starring Anne Archer. 2007.

Colombiana (Novacinema2, 00.05)

01:20 Doctor Who 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 Walk on the Wild Side 03:20 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 Tribal Wives 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 Jam And Jerusalem 00:15 Getting On 00:45 Doctor Who

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Alps From Above 08:40 Prehistoric

09:30 Trashopolis 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman 13:05 Meteorite Men 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:40 Extreme Engineering 16:15 Mythbusters 17:00 Pyros 17:50 Rattlesnake Republic 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Alps From Above 20:20 Crisis Control 21:10 Inside West Coast Customs 22:00 Pyros 22:50 Rattlesnake Republic 23:40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman 00:30 Alps From Above 01:15 Pyros 02:05 Rattlesnake Republic 02:50 Ultimate Journeys

09:30 Cycling: Belgium 10:30 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 11:30 Tennis: Get Ready For Roland Garros 11:45 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 13:15 Cycling: Belgium 14:15 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 18:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Germany 20:45 Tennis: Get Ready For Roland Garros 21:00 Fight Sport: Total Ko 22:00 Fight Sport: Fight Club 00:00 Cycling: Tour Of Italy 01:00 Cycling: Belgium 01:30 Tennis: French Open Paris 02:45

Tennis: Get Ready For Roland Garros

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:45 Rules Of Engagement 07:35 The Simpsons 18 08:00 Bob’s Burgers 2 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 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 00:00 Da Vinci’s Demons 01:00 The League 2 03:05 Breakout Kings 03:55 Lost 04:40 Lost

07:30 Facing Ali 09:15 St. Trinian’s Ii: The Legend Of Fritton’s Gold 11:15 Love & Dance 13:00 Practical Magic 14:45 Solitary Man 16:20 Fighting 18:10 London Boulevard 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Rumor Has It 23:00 Friends With Money 00:30 Hustler Tv 02:10 Lady In The Water 04:00 Biutiful 06:30 LTV Sports News

18:50 Pay It Forward «Pop Corn» 21:00 Blue Crush 2 22:55 Hemingway & Gellhorn 01:30 Michael 03:15 Trust

07:15 Pan Am 08:00 Friends 08:30 2 Broke Girls 09:00 Harry’s Law Ii 10:00 PriVIleged 10:45 C.S.I. New York 11:45 Southland 12:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 13:15 Alcatraz 14:15 Mentalist 15:00 Close 02:20 Green Hornet 04:15 Gossip Girl lector 03:55 Cine News 04:30 The Hunger Games 07:15 15 Pan Am 08:00 12 Friends 08:30 12 2 Broke Girls 09:00 15 Harry’s Law 10:00 12 Privileged 10:45 15 C.S.I. New York 11:45 15 Southland 12:30 15 Ncis: Los Angeles 13:15 15 Alcatraz 14:15 15 The Mentalist 15:00 15 The Closer 02:20 12 The Green Hornet 04:15 15 Gossip Girl

07:45 City Of Angels 09:45 I Love You, Man 11:45 True Stories 13:30 Tom & Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers 15:00 Detroit Rock City 16:45 London Boulevard 18:45 Right Stuff 22:00 Roxanne 00:05 Daring!

Tv 04:05 Around The World In 80 Days

05:10 Take Me Home Tonight 06:50 Cine News 07:10 Home Alone 08:55 In Her Shoes 11:05 The Artist 15:00 Ncis X 16:40 Burden Of Evil 18:15 Cine News 18:30 Suspect Zero 20:15 Farewell, My Queen 22:00 Man At Sea 23:35 Battleship 01:55 The Following 02:45 Seeking Justice 04:30 The Bleeding House

05:20 I Am Legend 07:00 Cine News 08:00 Suddenly, Last Summer 09:55 A Thousand Acres 11:40 Pal Joey 13:30 The Bourne Identity 15:30 Two For The Road 17:25 Mad On Novacinema 18:05 Rounders 20:10 5 Lepta Akoma 22:00 The Skin I Live In 00:05 Colombiana 01:55 The Bone Col-

06:15 Cine News 07:00 Man On A Ledge 08:45 Unthinkable 10:10 Cine News 10:55 Midnight Run 13:05 Oi Apenantoi 15:00 Proof Of Life 17:20 Magic City - 21:00 Robinson Crusoe 22:35 Cine News 23:00 S.W.A.T. 01:00 Cine News 01:30 Jade, Secretaire De Lux 03:25 The Ward 04:55 Trespass

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By Preston Wilder

Beat the World (LTV3, 20.00) The non-streetwise reader may be puzzled to learn that this film contains some of “the sickest routines ever captured on film,” according to the DVD cover.

‘What makes them sick?’ (s)he may wonder. ‘Are puppies dismembered on camera?’ Streetwise readers will have no such questions, reckoning correctly that the film is a dance movie (tag-line: “They live to dance. They dance to win”), a sequel of sorts to You Got Served in which “three dance crews prepare to do battle at the international Beat the World competition in Detroit”. That’s the plot, in its entirety - and of course plot is irrelevant, the main attraction being the high-energy (a.k.a. ‘sick’) dance routines. “If we wanna

win this competition, our moves gotta be fresh,” goes the dialogue - though the moves on display aren’t very fresh, according to the dance fans at the Internet Movie Database, leaving the film with no reason to exist. As for me, I’ve always found this ‘urban dance’ guff to be graceless and repetitive, then again I’m a Fred Astaire fan (i.e. not very streetwise). Made in 2011.

UEFA Champions League Final (Sigma, 21.00) There’s been talk, of course. We’ve all seen the blog posts on the Internet, we’ve read the graffiti on the walls. We’ve all heard rumblings of a ‘Fourth Reich’, and may have dismissed them as racist ramblings -

UEFA Champions League Final

but now it’s official! Never mind the Memorandum, never mind talk of a two-tier Europe - the proof of German dominance is finally here, in tonight’s allGerman Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Admittedly we had an all-Spanish final not too long ago and that didn’t lead to a Spain-dominated Europe (more like deep recession and 27 per cent unemployment), but why let real life get in the way of football-related wisdom? As for who’s likely to win tonight ... well, suffice to say that Bayern won this season’s Bundesliga with a 22-point lead over the runners-up, who were (yes) Borussia Dortmund. A monster in the making - and they don’t even have Pep Guardiola yet! Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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1 Remove safety device (3-3) 4 Fellow places cold sheet on an undergarment (6) 7 Enter about fifty in all (8) 8 These theologians included Adam’s son (4) 9 Rare instance of one unwell being in quarantine? (8,4) 13 Crush fellow getting leg twisted (6) 14 The outlook is tense (6) 15 Become pointedly annoyed (3,3,6) 18 Essence concise for the most part (4) 19 Vain boaster to grab another gun right inside (8) 20 There’s many a member with us in the college grounds (6) 21 Hazel is back with Leonard returning in underground passage (6)

1 Some drastic action needed on the plants (5) 2 Time in the bar (5) 3 The last one to make a score (9) 4 Extra batsman cannot score (3) 5 Uncloak? (9) 6 The most important building to see (9) 10 Sort of sharing with the French paradise on earth (7-2) 11 Large boat carrying little weight? (9) 12 Protect worker who is accused (9) 16 A rind removed from sewer (5) 17 Give praise during the next Olympics!

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PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

Answers to crossword 2396

HOROSCOPE

CRYPTIC: Across – 3 Grandiose; 7 Queue; 8 Rhymester; 9 Islam; 10 Latent; 13 Absentee; 15 Enshroud; 17 Eccles; 20 Virus; 21 Freelance; 22 Ozone; 23 Steersman. Down – 1 Equitable; 2 Realistic; 3 German; 4 Nameless; 5 Inset; 6 Stein; 11 Elbow-room; 12 Tradesmen; 14 Trespass; 16 Have on; 18 Caret; 19 Liege.

QUICK: Across – 3 Discharge; 7 Loose; 8 Scrambled; 9 Cut-up; 10 Cutler; 13 Throttle; 15 Anywhere; 17 Gallon; 20 Entry; 21 Stargazer; 22 Run in; 23 Predatory. Down – 1 Placating; 2 Nocturnal; 3 Despot; 4 Chancery; 5 Abbot; 6 Geese; 11 Lamenting; 12 Remedying; 14 Transact; 16 Wherry; 18 Altar; 19 Lured.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Work progress may be slow, perhaps due to feelings of restlessness and a desire to escape from too much routine. You may feel dreamy too, so concentrating may be hard. Watch out for gossip that may do more harm than good. However, a travel plan may come to fruition and could put you on a new path of discovery that lights up your life.

Benefits come through friends and through being seen out and about. The focus is on making new connections which may support you in your quest for business, romantic or personal success. A budding relationship may come to a head, but don’t rush headlong into a situation that might have unexpected repercussions.

You may find yourself going through a mini-crisis which relates to you personally, and perhaps the things or people you might be attached to. Something may need to change, or perhaps it’s time to let go so that a new phase can begin. Starting afresh brings opportunities for success. A relationship may go through a transformation also.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You may come to some fresh conclusions about your financial situation, and what you can do to improve matters.

Perhaps events of the day push you to make a decision that you’ve been considering for some time. Trust your intuition to steer you in the right direction, particularly if you’re considering buying a big ticket item.

Career plans may be subject to change. Don’t resist if new ideas mean new directions. Today’s Lunar Eclipse may bring the home and career balance into awareness. This may encourage you to make a decision which covers all bases. There’s also a chance that a career move may indicate a house move or working from home.

You may be conscious of your coping strategies. If you have been busy trying to get demands met and dealing with constant stress, this may be having an impact. Some “you time” may be what you need to reflect on how you can make things easier. Even successes can be stressful.

Consider a break or get a series of massages.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Your optimistic and pleasant outlook is your gift today, so spread some cheer and enjoy being with others. A relationship issue may need careful handling, as a Lunar Eclipse may bring feelings and issues to the surface, that may have been pushed to one side. Try not to do or say anything you could regret. Falling in love could prove a giddy turn.

You may be in two minds about the best direction to take.

Studying may appeal, or travel may call to you. A message or piece of information may inspire and encourage you to take a new course of action. Perhaps you have been considering this for some time. Events that occur today may push you to make that crucial move.

A day for fun and good times, as the focus encourages you to explore leisure and pleasure pursuits. A social event may mark a turning point. Someone you meet or connect with could influence you to take a new turn, or be more adventurous. Exciting options seem to linger in the air. You may need to be flexible to make the most of an opportunity.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

The tendency may be to dream more than to do. You may need to snap yourself out of a sluggish mood and get with it. Reflection on important issues is necessary, but don’t stun your will to action in the process. If a health or energy issue becomes apparent today, get checked out by your health professional. Be self honest.

Finances may take a turn in a new direction. Today’s Lunar Eclipse in your personal financial zone, may cause you to reconsider you current situation. Events may push you to take action. Don’t rush into anything though. Do what you have to do to resolve immediate issues, but don’t make any longer lasting decisions. Mull these over for now.

The fear of doing something may outweigh the reward you might get from having a go. Part of the problem may be linked with an unwillingness to move out of your comfort zone. Today’s Lunar Eclipse may be a game changer. You may be offered a job that allows you to work from home or that allows you to follow your passion. Go with this.

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA MONTH FREE RENT! Spacious living area, Separate kitchen.

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TO LET NICOSIA ing 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).

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1. 3 bedr luxury fully renovated semi detached house with storage heaters, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and din-

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TO LET NICOSIA 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).

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TO LET NICOSIA 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).

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

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TO LET NICOSIA eas ,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. Behind General flooring in the centre of Makedonitissa - €1900 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website).

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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 dining room, big kitchen with family room, big covered patio on the back with bbq area, covered

TO LET NICOSIA parking, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, BEHIND Apoel training field- Archangelos €1500 (H4AR0018-R), (photos in the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA rooms 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 neigh-

TO LET NICOSIA bourhood 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:

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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

TO LET NICOSIA €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 din-

TO LET NICOSIA ing 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 quarters – Dasoupoli €500 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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, cov-

TO LET NICOSIA ered 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

wide repertoire bars, cafes, hotels, receptions etc.

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 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ****************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

LIMASSOL ***************************** FURNISHED, spacious and welllit 3 bedroom apartment for rent in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol. A/C, TV, fridge, couches, dining room table and beds. 1 bathroom with bath and shower and two separate toilets.

Carport. €650 per month. Call 99541101 ***************************** TO LET Hebrew homes, by Limassol twin towers, Kosher or Free, 3 monthly let. Call 035799036312. ***************************** 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/Ctoilet in main bedroom. Semi/ full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fire-

TO LET LIMASSOL place. Toilet/shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800. ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

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

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

LARNACA 2 BEDROOM sea view apartment in Larnaca Phinikoudes.

Features: interior decorated finish, parking, building security, heating and cooling, huge veranda, central location, sought after building. Rent as an office or home (unfurnished or furnished). Inspection will impress! Call Anna on 9777 4512. ***************************** 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 SEAFRONT STUDIO, fully furnished, sleeps 2 adults, all amenities including satellite, common pool and tennis court,

Call 99554988 & 99100292

TO LET LARNACA basement parking, spacious verandas. Rent €1000 pm incl utilities. Available 1st June 2013. Better rate for full 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. Available 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

TO LET LARNACA 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 photographs. 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 ****************************

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2. TSADA, modern 3 bedrooms unfurnished detached villa in a cul de sac. One bedroom downstairs, low maintenance garden, private pool. € 600 PTR 110 3. TRACHYPEDOULA, stunning 3 bedroom stone house only 30

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS 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.

TO LET PAPHOS 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 **************************** TSADA and KALEPIA - Beautiful 3 Bedroom Villas and Bungalow all with pools and Fantastic Mountain Views Available U/F or F/F, GCH, From €500

TO LET PAPHOS that’s been completely Modernised to a very high standard although all the Original Features remain, Beamed ceilings, Under Floor Heating Flagstone floors, 2 en-suites with power showers, Large Enclosed Courtyard, Double Glazed Windows with Shutters, Open Fireplace €350

TSADA - Immaculate and Spacious 2 and 3 bedroom properties, U/F, Quiet location, Spectacular Sea views, Finished to a very high standard €300

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LEYTIMBOU - Stunning 2 Bedroom Traditional Stone House

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TO LET PAPHOS €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

TO LET PAPHOS AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 modern 2 bedroom 2 bathroom top floor apartment with lift. Fully furnished with modern furniture including plasma tv & satelitte.

Pressurised water system, solar panels. Modern kitchen with top brand appliances. Modern bathrooms. good sized balcony with garden furniture. Situated on a lovely complex with c/pool. Undercover parking. website reference number: RTL_395 2. MESOGI €500 we are delighted to offer this beautifully restored traditional stone village house set in a picturesque

TO LET PAPHOS courtyard with stone built barbeque & covered veranda. This spacious character home offers a modern fitted kitchen, separate dining room & separate living room with modern gas fire, guest wc. Gas central heating throughout. 2 bedrooms both with ensuite bathrooms & walkin 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 3. PEYIA €675 modern detached 3 bedroom villa, situated on a private road, close to the village of peyia. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout, pressurised water system & security alarm system. Modern fitted kitchen

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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.

Semi-detached house in Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.

For more information please call 99673286, 99918830.

For information call: 99496541

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!!!

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist th 4 Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala st rd 1 & 3 Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221/22 677897 www.st-pauls-nicosia.com

Sunday 0930 : Holy Communion Sunday School in the hall 1800 : Evening Prayer Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 0830: Morning Prayer Wednesday 1030 : Holy Communion First Monday of each month 1930 : Guild of St Raphael Parish Office : Mon-Fri : 0900 – 1100 Saturday 1000-1200

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS & bathrooms. Roof terrace with sea views & private pool. website reference number: RTL_572 4. SECRET VALLEY €700 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential area. Offering large private pool with a low maintaince enclosed garden with sea views.

Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern fitted kitchen with granite worktops.

One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 5. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning 4 bedroom 3 bathroom detached villa in this peaceful sought after residential area.

Beautifully furnished with modern furniture. Gas central heating throughout plus real fire for those winter months. Low maintenance landscaped garden with private pool offering the most beautiful sea views.

Only 15 minutes drive to the International School of Paphos & includes free membership to the Kamares Club. website refence number: rtl_686 6. LOWER PEYIA €900 price includes pool cleaning, gardening, water and community tax bills. This 4 bedroom detached bungalow all with ensuite bathrooms, offers spacious accommodation of 200 sq metres.

Available unfurnished. Situated

TO LET PAPHOS in a quiet residential area. A lovely enclosed garden with fruit trees, a gazebo & private infinity pool with sea views. website reference number: RTL_683 7. ANARITA €900 luxury detached villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area. This stunning property offers 4 bedrooms plus separate annex. Fully furnished with quality modern furniture includes underfloor heating (oil) and fireplace. Modern fitted kitchen with top brand appliances. Bar area. Luxury modern bathroom with jacuzzi. Low maintenance enclosed garden with covered stone built barbeque area & heated private pool. large driveway for 3 cars.

A dream home! website reference number: RTL_689 8. AGIA MARINOUDA €2,500 luxury modern 4 bedroom villa with additional office plus maids quarters and separate annex for guests. This amazing property offers an ultra modern fitted kitchen, sitting room & living room. Beautifully presented with modern furniture. Includes gas central heating. Entrance with electric gates leading to a spacious landscaped garden with private pool & entertainment area. Situated close to the Elea golf course with sea and country side views. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_681 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more proper-

TO LET PAPHOS ties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos. net **************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS : Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST.

Melanos 2 bedroom fully furnished top floor apartment with exceptionally large veranda and amazing views. Sitting/dining area, kitchen and guest WC. Family bathroom.

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Includes communal fees. REF 1147 Amount €300 SPECIAL OFFER Lower Peyia 3 bedroom furnished older style villa in a small cul-de-sac. 3 bedrooms upstairs, family bathroom. Sitting room, spacious kitchen downstairs in a quiet location.

Private pool and BBQ area.

REF 1242 Amount €600 Timi 4 bedroom furnished large house on outskirts of Timi Village in its own private grounds surrounded by fruit trees. Very nice standard and lots of living space. Large quality kitchen. 3 large bedrooms upstairs, master with ensuite, family bathroom. Additional room used as office and upstairs loft. REF 1049 Amount €650 Armou 4 bedroom modern villa offered unfurnished. Woodburner and airconditioning throughout. Dowstairs is large living room, large kitchen, dining area and guest cloakroom.

TO LET PAPHOS Upstairs 4 bedrooms, Family bathroom. Private pool and great sea/mountain views.

REF 1001 Amount €900 Secret Valley 4 bedroom large unfurnished villa in nice residential road. Private pool, gated, covered parking. Downstairs bedroom, sitting room, kitchen. Upstairs 3 bedrooms all with ensuite shower rooms.

REF 1241 Amount €900 Peyia 3 bedroom villa, unfurnished. Bedrooms all with fitted wardrobes and family bathroom. Airconditioning, flyscreens, fans and sat TV. Sitting/dining area, kitchen with white goods and guest cloakroom. Outside private pool with shaded offstreet parking and great mountain and seaviews. REF 1214 Amount €550 Tala 3 bedroom part-furnished modern villa with quality interior Italian kitchen, central heating, private pool and great seaviews in peaceful residential location. REF 988 Amount €750

TO LET PAPHOS Sea Caves 5 bedroom modern, fully furnished luxury villa in centre of Sea Caves/Coral Bay property with central heating double garage and downstairs bedroom. Outside – large grounds with private pool and beautiful seaviews.

REF 9999b Amount €1,800 Please call for a free viewing on 26600450 – 97616070 many more properties including commercial lettings on our website at www.flowron. com – Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU, WE WELCOME ALL PROPERTIES FROM STUDIOS VILLAS **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426 **************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality,

St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221 / 22 677897 www.st-pauls-nicosia.com MAY FAYRE 18.5.13

FOR SALE NICOSIA 1 bdrm, from €340 p.m. Tel 99403261 *****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE upper floor house 210 sq.m built on 301 sq. m land, Lapatsa area, Pereous 1a. 4 bedrooms with attic room (not finished), c/h ,4 a/c, aluminium doors & window, covered parking and storage room. Price €310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632. *****************************

PAPHOS **************************** TOMB OF KINGS/KATO PAFOS. 1 bedroom apartment on top floor. Large veranda, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, covered parking, communal pool, fully furnished, all white goods, TV. A/C, fans. Secure entrance, Near shops, banks bus route.

Beach 3 minute walk. Full TITLE DEEDS €55,000 tel: 99716390 ***************************** EXO-VRISI – 2 bed townhouse in quiet cul-de-sac. Panoramic sea views, car port, a/c, ceiling fans, tastefully furnished, plus all white goods, €105.000 o.n.o with title deeds Call : 26954147/ 99137828 *****************************

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FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941.

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Sport Andretti eager to end family’s Indy 500 ‘curse’

By Steve Keating IT was media day at the Indianapolis 500 yesterday and Marco Andretti (right) knew the question was coming before it was even asked.

What about the Andretti curse?

For Marco, grandson of former Formula One champion Mario Andretti and son of IndyCar champion and team owner Michael, the family name is both a blessing and curse when it comes to racing at the famed Brickyard.

American motor racing royalty, the Andrettis have ruled over open wheel racing in the United States with a string of victories that have linked generations.

Yet for all their success, the Andretti clan can count just one Indy 500 victory as the Brickyard has produced nothing but heartbreak for the family since Mario’s triumph in 1969.

“I can tell you, when you are out front leading this race you are always thinking about it (the curse),” said Marco.

“You just hope there is not an element that is going to take you out of it.

“As a family, as a competitor it is frustrating, 70-plus drives and one victory but as human beings we are lucky we’re all healthy and still have a great shot at winning this race.

“We never really address it as a curse but there have been plenty of dinner conversations talking about how it just slipped away from all three of us.”

According to folklore, the Andretti clan’s bad luck at the Indianapolis 500, billed as ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,’ began when Mario was kissed on the cheek by car owner Andy Granatelli following his 1969 triumph.

Mario raced in 29 Indy 500s and Michael 16. Mario’s nephew John Andretti contested 12 Indy 500s while Jeff Andretti, Mario’s youngest son, could not break the curse in three attempts at the Brickyard.

Michael Andretti, who had 42 IndyCar wins during his driving career, led more laps than any other driver never to win the Indy, crossing second once and third twice.

“It is a story, 70-plus starts and one victory is frustrating,” said Marco.

The Andretti clan can count just one Indy 500 win as the Brickyard has produced nothing but heartbreak for the family

Froch ‘kill threat’ investigated ‘I’m going to smash Kessler’s face in’

IN BRIEF

BRITAIN’S Carl Froch has apologised for threatening to kill Mikkel Kessler in their IBF super-middleweight fight tonight but will still face a British Boxing Board of Control investigation.

Froch, from Nottingham, tweeted: “I’m sorry if my comments offended anyone.

This fight means so much to me and emotions are running high.”

BBBC general secretary Robert Smith said the body would look into it.

“Carl’s comments are inappropriate and we are disappointed,” said Smith.

The rivals, who will meet at the O2 Arena in London, have been friends since their first bout three years ago, which 34-year-old Kessler won on points in his native Denmark.

But a desire for revenge led Froch, 35, to change his tune on Wednesday.

He told reporters: “On Saturday night, if I have to, I will kill (him). It sounds brutal, it sounds horrible, but this is what it means to me.

“I’m going to leave it in the ring. And when I’m smash-

The rivals, who will meet at the O2 Arena in London for the IBF super-middleweight title, have been friends since their first bout three years ago, which 34-year-old Mikkel Kessler won on points in his native Denmark ing his face in, I am going to go for the kill. I am going to go for the finish.”

Boxing history is littered with similar threats, but Smith said he was particularly disappointed to see them come from a fighter like Froch.

But he also said that the comments would not jeopardise the fight.

Smith said: “They are very

uncharacteristic from Carl, who is usually a very well-behaved and measured young man.

“We are surprised and disappointed in his comments.

I have spoken to his management team of Rob McCracken and Eddie Hearn and we are looking into it and will deal with it accordingly.

“Carl is licensed by the Midlands Area Council and they

will deal with it as quickly as they possibly can. Obviously we are not in a position to do anything about it before the fight.”

While acknowledging the pressure Froch is under before the fight, Smith stressed that it was no excuse.

Smith added: “This is Carl’s biggest fight of his career - if he wins this he carries on and if he loses what

does he do? It is a difficult time two or three days before the fight and he is right on edge.

“But being highly strung at the moment is no excuse.

Carl is a decent young man and he is well aware that he shouldn’t have said it.

“Up until now all the publicity surrounding the fight has been superb and this has dampened it somewhat.”

Pirelli warn they could quit San Francisco and Houston Formula 1 at end of season awarded Super Bowls FORMULA One tyre supplier Pirelli warned teams that they will quit the sport at the end of the season if a new contract from 2014 is not agreed soon.

Motorsport director Paul Hembery did not hide his impatience when he told reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix that time was running out for the Italian company to design and test tyres suitable for radically different 2014 regulations.

Formula One is switching to a new 1.6 litre V6 turbocharged engine with energy recovery systems next season and the tyres will also have to change to cope with the new unit’s characteristics.

SAN Francisco and Houston were chosen as host cities for the 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls after National Football League (NFL) team owners voted for the two ahead of Miami.

The San Francisco Bay Area will host the 50th Super Bowl in early 2016 at Levi’s Stadium, the brand new home of the 49ers, which is still under construction.

Then Houston will stage the 51st edition of the sport’s championship game in early 2017 at Reliant Stadium, the home of the Texans.

Miami, which had already hosted the Super Bowl a recordtying 10 times, was the odd city out in a three-way contest.

Giro stage called off after heavy snowfall STAGE 19 of the Giro d’Italia was cancelled yesterday because of heavy snow.

The 139km stage from Ponte di Legno to Val Martello in the Dolomite mountains had already been re-routed on Thursday, given that the stage would take in the highest point of the race at 2,783m.

And with windchill expected to drop to -20C, organisers have put safety first.

Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali leads the race by four minutes and two seconds from Australia’s Cadel Evans.

The Giro, which ends tomorrow, has been hampered throughout by unseasonal bad weather.

Stage 14’s route missed out the climb to Sestriere because it was considered too dangerous to descend in the ice, and an avalanche risk curtailedstage 15’s climb up the the Col du Galibier.Several other stages have been hampered by torrential rain.

Yesterday’s scheduled route was considered the highlight of the mountain stages, with a 23km ascent via the Gavia pass and another 21.7km climb up Passo di Stelvio with the finish at the top of a third mountain at the ski station in Val Martello.

All Black Williams calls time on illustrious Test career NEW Zealand’s second highest-capped lock Ali Williams announced his retirement from international rugby yesterday.

The 32-year-old had played 77 Tests for the world champion All Blacks in his 10-year international career. Ian Jones played 79 Tests for the national side.

“Guys, I just want to let you know first that I’m retiring from international rugby. I’m hanging up the black jersey,” the Auckland Blues captain wrote on his Twitter feed.

Williams made his All Blacks debut in 2002 against England and was a near automatic choice.

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US basketball ‘Dream Team’ driven by international talent

Euro Tour chief sorry for ‘coloured athletes’ gaffe

NBA all-stars have lost just once in last 62 games and won two Olympic gold medals

By Tony Jimenez

By Larry Fine THE star-studded US national basketball team cannot afford to get complacent about being the sport’s superpower given the pace of emerging talent around the globe, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said yesterday According to Krzyzewski, having the privilege of coaching teams that have boasted NBA All-Stars LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul does not come with a guarantee of beating competition.

“People think that because we have all these guys you just roll out a ball and you’re going to win,” Krzyzewski said at a news conference to announce he would return as coach of the US national team through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“If you do your program that way, you’re going to get beat.”

Respect for the competition is fundamental to Krzyzewski’s approach and the lessons he has drilled into his US teams have paid off with a 62-1 mark that includes two Olympic gold medals and a current 50-game winning streak.

Krzyzewski said all you have to do is look at the rosters of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) teams to appreciate the growth of the game glo-

bally.

“There are a lot of great teams out there and you see these guys playing in the NBA,” Krzyzewski said at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has led the Blue Devils to four men’s college basketball championships.

“Twenty-one per cent of the NBA is international and these teams can have anywhere between 10 and 12 NBA players on them.

And we have 12 NBA players.

“And we’ll have five of them out there at one time and they’ll have five. As long as it’s five against five we could lose at any time.

“And that’s the respect you have to give your opponent and that’s what we do with our preparation.”

Krzyzewski took over as national team coach in 2005 after Argentina beat the US in the semi-finals of the 2004 Olympics. Two years earlier, the Americans failed to reach the medals round at the world championships.

The US were humbled again in Krzyzewski’s first major competition when Greece kept the Americans out of the 2006 world championship gold medal game with a semi-final victory.

Krzyzewski, 66, said being with the US team energised him.

“It’s like a teacher learning new material,” he said.

“I’ve learned so much over these seven years, it’s made me better, wanting to coach even more. Instead of reducing shelf life, so to speak, I think it’s added to it.

“There are so many amazing coaches throughout the world, and they see the game sometimes in a different way, and still very effective way. If you can implement some of the things they do or try to defend or attack the things they do, it makes you better.”

The coach noted the passion with which top international teams play.

“When you’re playing Argentina or Spain, it’s a hell of a game. Those guys are playing at a whole other level.

“If you watch the San Antonio Spurs play, take about five minutes and just watch (Argentina’s) Manu Ginobili, and you’ll see one of the great, great players of the world play. We’ve seen that. We appreciate that.

“And we appreciate it enough to work our fannies off to develop a team that’s worthy of winning against that type of feeling, that type of talent and that type of passion for the game.

“If you don’t do that for the United States, you’re going to lose. You’re not going to win by showing up.

And our guys know that.

The guys that played know that, 100 per cent.”

Slam! The star-studded US national basketball team beat Spain in a thrilling Olympic final in London last summer

Webber to captain England against the Barbarians

By Alex Lowe

Bath hooker Rob Webber has been given the honour of captaining his country

BATH hooker Rob Webber will captain England in tomorrow’s non-cap international against the Barbarians at Twickenham.

Gloucester-bound flanker Matt Kvesic and London Irish wing Marland Yarde will both make their first senior appearances in an England shirt.

Wasps wing Christian Wade, voted the players’ player of the season on Wednesday night, starts on the right wing and is the only other uncapped player in the starting XV. Head coach Stuart Lancaster is without England’s British and Irish Lions contingent plus those from Leicester and Northampton, who contest the Aviva Premiership final today.

But he has still been able to field a relatively experienced line-up, with number eight Ben Morgan and loosehead prop Alex Corbisiero returning to the England fold after

injuries.

Corbisiero and Webber are joined in the front row by Bath tighthead David Wilson.

Joe Launchbury, England’s player of the season, continues in the second row with Bath’s Dave Attwood rewarded for an impressive season with a recall to the national team.

Kvesic and Morgan are joined in the back row by Exeter’s Tom Johnson, who has recovered from a knee ligament injury which ruled him out of England’s Six Nations plans.

Gloucester’s Freddie Burns, who also had his Six Nations ambitions ended by injury, starts at fly-half with Richard Wigglesworth at scrum-half.

Burns’ Kingsholm teammate Billy Twelvetrees starts at inside centre alongside Jonathan Joseph and Mike Brown returns to his preferred position at full-back.

The replacements bench includes Bath centre Kyle Eastmond and Gloucester

wing Jonny May plus the blockbusting Wasps ballcarrier Billy Vunipola.

England face the Barbarians before embarking on a three-match tour, which starts in Uruguay against a combined South American XV and then two Tests against Argentina.

Lancaster said: “We’ve selected a young and exciting side and this is a great opportunity for these players who have shone in the Aviva Premiership this season to step up in front of a passionate home crowd at Twickenham Stadium.

“Taking on a very experienced Barbarians team is the first challenge they face this summer with matches in Uruguay and Argentina to follow and this sequence of games is a key part of our development as a team.

“Rob Webber finished the season strongly with Bath and I know his leadership qualities well. I am sure he’ll show the way, backed up by the other senior players in the team.”

EUROPEAN Tour chief executive George O’Grady was forced to issue an apology after re-opening the Tiger Woods-Sergio Garcia racism row by making an unfortunate comment about “coloured athletes”.

Just when it seemed the fuss was starting to die down following this week’s spectacular fallout between two of the world’s best-known golfers, O’Grady entered the debate by giving an interview to Sky Sports television.

“I deeply regret using an inappropriate word in a live interview...for which I unreservedly apologise,” O’Grady said in a statement at the PGA Championship.

Earlier in the day, the tour chief said: “We know the connotation in the United States.

“All races play on the European Tour and that’s how we want to keep it. Most of Sergio’s friends are coloured athletes in the United States and he is absolutely abject in his apology and we accepted it.”

Garcia said sorry 11 times on Wednesday and used the word apology on five occasions after causing a furore by making a ‘fried chicken’ jibe at world number one Woods.

The Spaniard said his comment, made at the European Tour Player of the Year awards dinner on Tuesday, was “stupid and out of place” and said he regretted it the moment he uttered it.

Fourteen-time major winner Woods, whose relationship with the Spaniard has always been frosty, was in unforgiving mood when he gave his reaction to Garcia’s jibe.

“The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate,” the American said on his Twitter account.

Garcia’s remark came when he was asked on stage whether he would be inviting Woods for dinner during next month’s US Open in Pennsylvania.

“We will have him round every night,” said the world number 14. “We will serve fried chicken.”

Fried chicken has become a racial stereotype in the US when referring to AfricanAmericans, a reference to the days before the abolition of slavery when chicken was believed to be a staple part of the diet.

O’Grady and US PGA Tour chief executive Tim Finchem were present at the awards dinner and both declined to punish European Ryder Cup stalwart Garcia for his remark.

“It’s very unfortunate and we are in the middle of it,” O’Grady told Sky. “We spoke to Sergio and, after what was really a very full and frank discussion on the whole issue, decided to accept his really heartfelt apology.

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Tensions running high ahead of first Rome derby Cup final

By Nemanja Bjedov

Potential powder keg awaits at Stadio Olimpico

By Terry Daley RACISM, bitter local rivalry and dissatisfaction with their own teams will provide a combustible mix in the first-ever Italian Cup final featuring neighbours AS Roma and Lazio tomorrow.

The match comes barely one month after a meeting in Serie A preceded by violent clashes in the streets of Rome in which several people were stabbed.

Around 200 Lazio fans threw bottles and other objects at officers who responded by firing tear gas and batoncharging supporters.

The kickoff for Sunday’s match at the Stadio Olimpico, which offers both teams a last chance to qualify for the Europa League, was brought forward from 9pm local time to 6pm to reduce the risk of trouble and 2,000 police will be on duty.

To add fuel to the fire, fans from the two clubs have both been involved in ugly incidents of racism this season.

Lazio were forced to play two home matches behind closed doors in the Europa

Relief as Salamina retain top flight status

Skipper Francesco Totti (left) will once again lead Roma into battle while Lazio will be hoping Brazilian midfielder Hernanes maintains his form that has resulted in increased speculation of a big-money move to AC Milan League after their fans racially insulted Borussia Moenchengladbach players, their fourth racism offence of the season in European football.

Roma have been handed two successive €50,000 fines

by Italy’s disciplinary tribunal following racist chanting by their fans in the matches away to AC Milan and at home Napoli.

If that were not enough, Roma are also facing hostility from their own supporters after a second disappointing

season in a row in which they finished sixth in Serie A, despite some flashes of inspiration from 36-year-old talisman Francesco Totti.

Roma fans have made their feelings clear, unveiling a banner that read ‘win or run away’ during their 2-1 win over Napoli last Sunday while many are also enraged at the club changing their badge on Wednesday, four days before the final.

The new design, mocked by Lazio fans, features the word Roma under the famous de-

piction of a female wolf, instead of the letters ASR. Lazio fans are also disillusioned after their team who were battling for a Champions League for much of the season before dropping away to finish seventh and miss out on even the Europa League.

High ticket prices have also caused anger in a country plagued by high unemployment and an economic crisis. The cheapest are going at €30 for the areas behind the goals, preferred by the

hardcore Ultras, with the most expensive seats up to €120.

Both teams have closed themselves away from the public, with Lazio travelling over 150 kilometres to Norcia in Umbria.

Roma supporters will at least be buoyed by the likely return of hard-tackling midfielder Daniele De Rossi and defenders Federico Balzaretti and Marquinhos.

Lazio have everyone available except the injured Louis Saha.

Espanyol seek help from Pigeons for Barcelona clash

By Mark Elkington

The adorning of Barcelona’s famous statue of Christopher Columbus with a giant replica of the team’s new shirt design has annoyed city rivals Espanyol

THE adorning of Barcelona’s famous statue of Christopher Columbus with a giant replica of the team’s new shirt design has helped wind up their derby rivals Espanyol for Sunday’s clash at Cornella-El Prat.

The champions, with 94 points, are looking to match Real Madrid’s record La Liga mark of 100 achieved last season, and have to win their remaining two games away this weekend and at home to Malaga on June 1.

Espanyol, known as ‘the parakeets’, are 11th with nothing left to play for but will be keen to spoil the aspirations of their more illustrious neighbours, who they believe receive more than their fair share of support from local institutions.

The city council said they had been paid for the publicity stunt and that the replica top, signed by some of the Barcelona players, would remain in place from Wednesday until June 9.

“Calling all the pigeons of

Barcelona... to the statue immediately to do what you have to do!!!” an Australiabased Espanyol fan club with the handle @pericoz said on Twitter.

Some Espanyol fan groups, through an official statement, have already said they would turn their backs and whistle when their team do the traditional guard of honour to welcome the newly crowned champions on to the pitch.

With a Champions League play-off place, three Europa League berths and the three relegation slots still to be decided, all the La Liga matches kick off at 9pm on Sunday.

Real Sociedad and Valencia, in fourth and fifth respectively with 62 points apiece, resume their duel for La Liga’s last ticket into Europe’s elite club competition.

Sociedad, who during the week revealed their coach Philippe Montanier had rejected a contract extension to return to his home country France with Stade Rennes, have the tougher assignment hosting second-placed Real Madrid.

Real are in a similar position after club president Florentino Perez said on Monday their coach Jose Mourinho was also to leave at the end of the campaign, by mutual agreement.

Valencia visit lowly Granada, who have pulled away from the foot of the standings with an impressive run of five games unbeaten.

Osasuna in 16th place with 36 points host Sevilla, and Deportivo La Coruna in 17th with 35, who visit Malaga, are looking nervously over their shoulders as the battle to avoid relegation nears its conclusion.

The clubs occupying the bottom three places, Real Zaragoza, one point from safety with 34, Real Mallorca with 32, and basement side Celta Vigo with 29, all play away at Real Betis, King’s Cup winners Atletico Madrid and Real Valladolid respectively.

“I think there is more pressure if you are on the edge thinking you might fall in, than being below hoping you can get out,” Celta goalkeeper Javi Varas said.

NEA Salamina managed to secure their top-flight status for next season after a convincing 3-0 victory over Anagennisi Derynias in the relegation/promotion playoff match on Thursday at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca.

“We knew that Anagennisi have a decent team and a serious coach and that they did well in their championship,” said Nea Salamina coach Mirsad Jonuz, whose side avoided direct relegation in the final match of the playoffs, while Anagennisi finished in fourth place in the second division.

“We expected to create chances to score and luckily we did just that. I would like to congratulate all of my players because they were brave enough to continue playing with the same determination despite not being paid for almost six months.

This can only mean that they love their club and this beautiful game. The scoreline of 3-0 might be a bit harsh on our opponents, but this is football,” he added.

Armend Alimi opened the scoring 17 minutes into the match with a great shot from outside the area.

The Derynia side had a chance to level the score ten minutes before the half time break but Srdjan Blazic, who is on loan from Anorthosis, saved Wesllem’s shot.

Nine minutes after the interval it was 2-0 for Nea Salamina as Helio Roque connected with Nikos Englezou’s cross to head the ball into the net. The same player had a chance to seal Anagennisi’s destiny four minutes later, but this time his header hit the left post of Derynia’s goal.

However, in the 65th minute, it was 3-0, with Alimi scoring his second goal of the match after another assist by Englezos and it was now clear that the Ammochostos side would definitely secure their top-flight status although their future off the pitch is still in limbo.

“As we all know there is a veil of uncertainty around the club. I would like to appeal to all the players, administration and of course Nea Salamina’s faithful to protect this club and keep it together. I truly hope that the club will find a way to survive,” Jonuz concluded.

AEP Paphos and Ayia Napa were relegated from the first division after the regular season, while Olympiakos Nicosia joined them as they finished bottom of the playoff relegation group.

Aris Limassol, AEK Kouklion and Ermis Aradippou have been promoted. Aris claimed the second division title with 65 points ahead of AEK Kouklion who also had 65 points but an inferior goal difference. Ermis Aradippou were third overall with 58 points.

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Sport INCOMING MANAGER SET DAUNTING TASK BY CLUB HIERARCHY IN NEXT FIVE YEARS

Platini repeats call for European sports police force

By Mike Collett

Great comeback: City fought back from a three-goal deficit to beat Chelsea 4-3 in a friendly in St Louis on Thursday night

Man City target five trophies

By Alison Wildey MANCHESTER City have set their next manager the daunting task of winning five trophies in the next five years.

City sacked manager Roberto Mancini earlier this month, saying the club had failed to achieve any of its stated targets for the season except qualification for the Champions League and are expected to appoint Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini.

“If we look at the next five years, I would say I want to win five trophies,” City chief executive Ferran Soriano was quoted as saying by British newspapers yesterday.

“That may mean we win no trophies one year and two in another, but on average

I want one trophy or title a year.

“If next year we don’t win, but progress our football and get to the semi-finals of the Champions League, finish second in the Premier League and lose the FA Cup final again, that will be fine,” the Spaniard added.

In his three-and-a-half years with the club, Mancini dragged City out of the shadow of their more successful neighbours Manchester United and broke a 35-yeartrophy drought, winning the FA Cup in 2011.

They won the Premier League title for the first time in 44 years in 2012 but amid media rumours of discontent in the dressing room, City’s defence of their crown never really got off the ground this season.

They finished a distant second, 11 points behind Manchester United, were beaten

by Wigan in the FA Cup final and went out of the Champions League in the group stage.

“Roberto Mancini did very good for the club. He changed the mentality, he changed it from a club that was not winning to a winning club and that is very hard,” said Soriano, a former vice president at Barcelona.

Explaining the decision to sack the Italian, Soriano added: “In the last year I think it’s fair to say that our football did not progress or evolve as we hoped. If you play good football you will win and we have a fantastic squad.

“The squad we have is capable of winning the Premier

League and is not a squad that should be kicked out at the first group stage of the Champions League.

“You know, these things can happen - this is football and we all understand football.

But we have better players than that.”

City caretaker boss Brian Kidd meanwhile lauded his side as they announced themselves to the American market by coming from three goals down to beat Chelsea 4-3 in a friendly in St Louis.

City fell behind to Demba Ba, Cesar Azpilicueta and Oscar goals despite dominating the first half but Javi Garcia began the fightback, Edin Dzeko struck twice and Micah Richards grabbed a late winner.

Kidd, in charge following Mancini’s dismissal, said: “I

thought we were unlucky to go in 2-0 down but the players were tremendous.

“They have had a tough couple of weeks after losing the manager and the FA Cup final.

“It has been a draining, emotional couple of weeks.

“They have done great work in New York with the appearances and events for the club, they have done great work.

“We only had one training session, so that might be the secret. You can’t say enough about them.”

The match at Busch Stadium, home of the baseball’s St Louis Cardinals, was a 48,263 sell-out although, with the majority supporting Chelsea, there was perhaps an indication of how much work City still have to do in the country.

Europa League winners to get Champions League place

By Mike Collett

Champions League dropouts Chelsea beat Benfica last week to win the Europa League

THE Europa League winners will get a place in the following season’s Champions League for the 2015-16 season, UEFA said yesterday.

The change will boost the prestige of UEFA’s secondary competition which has become largely overshadowed by the Champions League in terms of prize money, credibility and media coverage over the last decade.

The decision, approved at this week’s executive committee meeting in London, was announced at UEFA’s annual Congress.

The decision followed months of discussions between Europe’s top clubs in the European Club Association (ECA) and UEFA’s top officials including president Michel Platini.

Despite the presence of many of Europe’s leading clubs who have missed out on the Champions League, the Europa League retains an aura of being a consolation prize for the also-rans.

Although a central marketing concept

was added to the competition when it was rebranded in 2009, matches are played on Thursdays and are often shown on nonpeak viewing channels.

They also generate a tiny percentage of income the Champions League can bring.

“Discussions have taken place about the Europa League and some changes are needed for that competition,” UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said.

The Europa League, which succeeded the UEFA Cup in 2009-10 but retains the same trophy, features many of Europe’s leading clubs who have missed out on a Champions League place.

There is already a connection between the two competitions as the eight clubs who finish third in their Champions League groups transfer into the Europa League’s knockout rounds.

This season they included last year’s Champions League winners Chelsea.

Despite the initial reticence of some of Chelsea’s players about competing in it, the Premier League side won the competition last week by beating Benfica 2-1 in a highly competitive final in Amsterdam.

UEFA president Michel Platini renewed his call for the formation of a European sports police force on Friday, telling delegates at the opening of the UEFA Congress he was upset that his appeal for one had been ignored for six years.

“Six years ago now, in response to...problems of betting, corruption and match-fixing, as well as the problems of hooliganism and doping, I called for the establishment of a European sports police force,” Platini said.

“There has been no response to those calls so far. Given the absence of any reaction and the lack of awareness on the part of politicians, I renew that call today.”

Platini, addressing delegates from UEFA’s 53 member nations, said the issues of match-fixing and betting, discrimination and the financial troubles of many clubs were “poisoning football from within” and a sports police force would help the game to deal with its problems.

DEAF EARS “If, by misfortune, this call again falls on deaf ears, I ask that each country, at the very least, adopts specific provisions of national legislation addressing the issue of match-fixing in order to finally have the legal tools necessary to rigorously punish these cheats,” he added, saying only some 10 countries had already adopted measures.

On match-fixing, Platini said: “We are protecting our sport from this scourge with all the means at our disposal but, unfortunately, that is sometimes not enough.

“We are not dealing with petty criminals who are looking to make ends meet; it would seem that we are, in some instances, dealing with mafia-type organisations that are using certain matches to launder money, tarnishing our sport in the process.”

He said UEFA was taking stronger steps to battle discrimination, adding: “How many children of immigrants have found it easier to integrate into their new country thanks to football? Sometimes football succeeds where schools and public services fail.”

However, he added: “We must not bury our heads in the sand. Discrimination, be it racial or sexual, is still present in football today. And we owe it to ourselves to act.”

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Baghdatis to face Paire at Roland Garros

By Nemanja Bjedov MARCOS Baghdatis has been drawn to face 24th seed Benoit Paire in his opening match at Roland Garros.

The 27-year-old Cypriot beat Paire in their only previous meeting on tour in the first round of Rotterdam in February when the Frenchman retired in the deciding set due to illness while 4-0 down.

Baghdatis, who is currently ranked 38th in the world, is yet to record a singles victory on clay this season after suffering first round exits in Munich, Madrid and Rome.

The Limassol man has played in eight previous editions of the French Open, with his best result coming in 2007

when he reached the fourth round. He has been beaten in the first round on three occasions.

Last year, Baghdatis lost in straight sets to Nicolas Almagro of Spain in the second round.

If Baghdatis beats Paire, he will then face the winner of the match between Lukasz Kubot of Poland and a qualifier, with 13th-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori his potential third round opponent.

Defending champion Rafael Nadal meanwhile has been drawn in the same half as world number one Novak Djokovic as the Spanish claycourt king chases a record eighth title at Roland Garros.

Third seed Nadal, who beat Djokovic in last year’s final, could face the Serbian in the semis.

Nadal plays Daniel Brands of Germany in the first round and could face home hope Richard Gasquet in a potential quarter-final clash as the French men look to end a 30-year grand slam title drought.

Djokovic, who will open his Paris campaign against Belgian David Goffin, is lined up for a possible third-round match against talented Bulgarian youngster Grigor Dimitrov.

Swiss Roger Federer, who has a record 17 grand slam titles to his name, has a smooth-looking path until a potential quarter-final against French sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

In the women’s draw, Britain’s rising star Laura Robson will play former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in a mouthwatering first round clash.

Struggling: Baghdatis has not won a match on clay this year after first round defeats in Munich, Madrid and Rome

Tradition meets modernism in German Wembley showdown Bayern on the brink of famous Treble

By Karolos Grohmann

T

HE all-German Champions League final tonight pits traditional powerhouses Bayern Munich against modernists Borussia Dortmund at London’s Wembley Stadium (9.45pm) with more at stake than Europe’s premier club trophy.

Bayern, four-time European champions, are Germany’s richest and most successful club, while rejuvenated Borussia Dortmund won the trophy in 1997 but came to the brink of financial ruin in 2005.

The Ruhr valley club have recovered on a sporting level under coach Juergen Klopp, challenging Bayern’s dominance in the past two seasons before the Munich club reclaimed the league title last month in recordbreaking fashion.

The Bavarians, in the first all-German Champions League final, are desperate to erase memories of two lost finals in 2010 and 2012 and reclaim their top spot by beating the team that forced them to go two seasons without any domestic silverware.

Last season’s Champions League final defeat in Munich to Chelsea on penalties has been especially bitter to swallow for Bayern but now Jupp Heynckes’ team stands

Head to head: Bayern Munich, four-time European champions, are Germany’s richest and most successful club, while rejuvenated Borussia Dortmund won the trophy in 1997 but came to the brink of financial ruin in 2005 before an unprecedented Treble for a German club.

Heynckes, who has announced an end to his long Bundesliga career and will be replaced by former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola at the end of the season, could leave after completing a trio of titles including the German Cup, 12 months after what for other teams could have been a back-breaking defeat.

“To be able to rise again after such a final defeat last year shows that my players are carved out of special wood,” said Heynckes, who looks set to retire from football.

“That is why I am convinced that we will lift the trophy. We have incredible mental strength, we cannot be pushed over.”

Heynckes: I am convinced that we will win the trophy. We have incredible mental strength and cannot be pushed over For several Bayern players, the final could be the last chance for a major international trophy that has been eluding them with both club and country.

Bayern playmaker Bastian Schweinsteiger and captain Philipp Lahm have enjoyed

hugely successful footballing careers but, both in their late 20s, they are running out of chances for a big trophy.

France international Franck Ribery and Dutch winger Arjen Robben have also had enough runners-up

titles in their careers and are eager to avoid being stuck with a loser tag at the third attempt in four seasons.

For Dortmund, who lost only one game in the entire competition - 2-0 at Real Madrid in the semi-final second leg - it is the culmination of a sensational three-year spell. They won the German league in 2011, the league and Cup double in 2012 and now get a shot at the Champions League title.

This success has come at a price with Dortmund players, including top scorer Robert Lewandowski, on the wish list of almost every major European club The achievement of Klopp’s young team, characterised by its counter-punching and offensive style that at times is mesmerising, has even

surprised some of his own players.

“If someone had told me before the season that we would be playing in the final, I wouldn’t have believed it,” said midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski.

“For us, the players and the whole club, it is a great event. Not many of us have had the chance to play in a final like this. This is the culmination of our good season in the Champions League,” said one of three Poland internationals in the team.

Enthusiasm has been slightly dampened for 45year-old Klopp’s team, with hugely gifted Mario Goetze, who will join Bayern next season, missing out on the final due to a muscle injury.

The offensive midfielder, for whom Bayern paid a reported 37 million euros, was injured in the second leg of the semi against Real.

Dortmund central defender Mats Hummels is nursing an ankle injury but should be fit on Saturday.

Probable teams: Borussia Dortmund: 1-Roman Weidenfeller; 26-Lukasz Piszczek, 4-Neven Subotic, 15-Mats Hummels, 29-Marcel Schmelzer; 8-Ilkay Gundogan, 5-Sebastian Kehl, 16-Jakub Blaszczykowski, 19-Kevin Grosskreutz, 11-Marco Reus; 9-Robert Lewandowski Bayern Munich: 1-Manuel Neuer; 21-Philipp Lahm, 17Jerome Boateng, 4-Dante, 27-David Alaba; 31-Bastian Schweinsteiger, 8-Javi Martinez; 10-Arjen Robben, 25Thomas Mueller, 7-Franck Ribery; 9-Mario Mandzukic