A 12-YEAR-OLD Belgian girl was yesterday fighting for her life after she was injured in a go karting accident in Paphos, police said.
Valentine Weekers, who was holidaying in Cyprus with her parents, was injured at around 7.30pm on Tuesday at a go karting track in Yeroskipou municipality.
REPRESENTATIVES of Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich categorically denied any links with the north of Cyprus yesterday, saying they would be looking at possible legal action over a report the Chelsea football club owner was behind a property development near Kyrenia.
THE GLOVES are off in the ongoing tug of war between Archbishop Chrysostomos and AKEL, with the communists accusing the Prelate of being President Papadopoulos’ agent for the upcoming elections.
A FORMER policeman was yesterday committed to psychiatric care by a Nicosia Court after complaints that he was harassing his former wife.
The 37-year-old had been arrested on March 25 last year on charges of pimping women and assaulting women who had allegedly refused to sleep with customers of the cabaret he was believed to have been running.
THE NICOSIA District Court is examining an extradition order from the Russian authorities for a 37-year-old businessman, who is a former official of Russian oil giants Yukos.
Yesterday, the Russian’s defence lawyers Giorgos Giorgiou and Michalis Pikis cross-examined a witness from Russia.
A TEENAGER was yesterday arrested and remanded in police custody in connection with a hit-and-run accident that left a 16-year-old pedestrian in hospital.
Giorgos Antoniou was struck by a car as he tried to cross Giorgos Kranidiotis Street in Latsia on Tuesday evening. The driver of the car abandoned the scene of the accident, leaving the injured boy bleeding on the road.
POLICE have charged and released two men from Polis after confiscating 40,000 pirated DVDs at a video rental and two tourist supermarkets in the area. The haul was the biggest ever in Cyprus, police said.
CYPRIOT pupils scored top international marks at A level in seven subjects according to Edexel, the largest awarding body in the UK.
A record 77 local pupils scored top marks in Accounting, Fine Art, Modern Greek, Government and Politics, Ancient History, Maths and Pure Maths.
CYPRUS has seen the greatest fall in car prices in the EU over the past year, the European Commission has announced.
According to a Commission report, the reductions came at a time when the average European price for a car increased by 1.1 per cent.
POLICE CHIEF Iacovos Papacostas yesterday launched an investigation into why shots were fired during pursuit of two men suspected of heroin possession and use.
The incident took place at around 1.30pm in Larnaca on Tuesday.
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.
