TWO YEARS ago, two hijacked passenger planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, a third slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth came down in open country before it could reach its intended target. It was a terrorist attack that shocked the world, September 11 a date that seared itself onto the global consciousness.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “Settlers are lifejacket for Denktash” Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, facing defeat in the upcoming elections this December, has resorted to registering settlers on the electoral roll.
SPECIAL seminars and lectures may be held in the near future to improve the etiquette and dress sense of Cyprus’ taxi drivers. According to the Licensing Authority president Kyriacos Protopapas, some of the island’s taxi drivers give Cyprus a bad name, with their chunky gold medallions, unbuttoned shirts revealing hairy chests and three-day stubble.
NEARLY half of men over the age of 45 experience erectile dysfunction, experts said yesterday. The problem is the condition is “under-diagnosed and under-cured”, urologist Dr Stavros Petrakis told a news conference on Tuesday to promote Cialis, a new oral prescription tablet effective in restoring a normal erectile response during sexual stimulation.
HEALTH Minister Dina Akkelidou confirmed yesterday that she had ordered an administrative investigation into a father’s claim that doctors conspired for five years to withhold information from him about the biological father of his third child.
ANOTHER 100 British troops could fly out to Iraq tonight and another 100 this weekend, the bases said yesterday, bring the total from Cyprus to just over 400. Last weekend 120 soldiers from the 2nd Light Infantry Battalion were flown to bolster British troop numbers in Basra, in addition to the 90 sent from Cyprus at the beginning of August.
AN ALTERNATIVE Cyprus solution to the Annan plan is in its final stages, Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said yesterday. During an interview with Turkish Cypriot Bayrak radio, Denktash said the ‘new model’ plan would be a “big surprise – just like the April 23 decision”.
A 25-YEAR-old Chinese student, who abandoned her newborn baby girl three weeks ago, will not face charges for abandonment, police said yesterday. “It was decided that she should not be charged and prosecuted,” a CID official confirmed. If she had been sentenced, the young mother could have spent up to five years in jail.
TURKISH CYPRIOT police yesterday arrested three men from Greece for allegedly taking photographs of military installations in Kyrenia harbour. Ioannis Chairetis, Acting Mayor of Anoyia in Crete, Sofoclis Chairetis and Emmanuel Scandalis were arrested at approximately 1pm.
CYPRUS’ ACCESSION to the EU and the interest of the international community offers a new dynamic for a solution to the Cyprus problem, Greece’s Foreign Minister George Papandreou said yesterday.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
