SEVENTY-FOUR per cent of the average rainfall for February has fallen in the past three days, with 60 millimetres recorded.

FORMER Attorney-general Alekos Markides yesterday accused the government of making a total mess of its aspirations of becoming a regional oil producer.

Speaking to the Mail, Markides said the administration’s handling of the affair was “flagrantly inefficient”.

THE ELDERLY couple found dead in their bedroom at the weekend passed away only hours apart, state pathologist Eleni Antoniou said yesterday.

George Tsirponouris, 84, and his 71-year-old wife Tasoulla, were found by a relative on Friday night. They had been dead around 15 hours, Antoniou said.

A TEENAGER has been arrested accused of attempting to rape an American student.

At 9.10pm on Saturday evening, the 23-year-old woman was walking on the corner of Gladstone and Byron streets in Nicosia when she was approached by a stranger.

TWO MEN are set to face a Nicosia Criminal Court after attempting to scam a businessman with around 80,000 counterfeit euros.

A FAILED candidate for the Nicosia Municipal Council has launched an appeal at the Electoral Court against the election of a European Party (EVROKO) councillor.

Lawyer Larris Vrahimis has accused EVROKO councillor Andri Argyrou of breaching electoral law in the campaign for last December’s local elections.

FORMER president Glafcos Clerides’ condition is improving, his doctors said yesterday.

Clerides, who has been recovering in Larnaca hospital’s intensive care unit since Saturday with acute bronchitis, is expected to be discharged by the end of the week.

TITLE Challengers Omonia moved to within one point of league leaders APOEL after a convincing 3-0 victory over Ethnikos Achnas on Saturday.

APOEL have the chance to stretch their lead to four points again next week following the postponement of their game away to AEK Larnaca last Saturday due to a water-logged pitch.

LAWS: we live by them and die by them. And perhaps nothing can define a country more than its “dos and don’ts”. Don’t smoke in public places; don’t have sex until you are 16; don’t drink alcohol; don’t have more than one wife; don’t be cremated; don’t be homosexual or, if you are living in Turkmenistan, don’t have a beard. Err… don’t have a beard?