A 30-YEAR-old Pakistani man drowned in the Paphos district at the weekend.
He was the area’s second drowning victim in a 24-hour period, police said.
Altaf Hafiz Nauman, who was a College student in Nicosia, was swimming near Aphrodite’s Rock on Sunday at around 3pm when the tragedy occurred.
THE ISRAELI Foreign Ministry has called on the 40 peace activists planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza to cancel the trip and let Israel handle all humanitarian aid to the Strip.
The Free Gaza Movement will use two boats to sail from Cyprus to Gaza this week to highlight Israel’s “illegal siege of Gaza” and the “collective punishment of 1.4 million Palestinians”.
CYPRIOT tourism has seen a significant increase in outbound holiday travel over the past two years, especially evident during the summer months with crowded airports and increased spending bearing witness to the trend.
CYPRUS high jumper Kyriacos Ioannou has lashed out at the Cypriot Olympic Committee for failing to provide proper medical support after he was eliminated at the semi-final stage on Sunday, dashing his hope of a medal in Beijing.
Ioannou, who was bronze medallist in the recent world championships, had been one of Cyprus’ top medal hopes at the Olympic Games.
EIGHTY Cypriot women applied to take part in a 500-mile ski trek across the Antarctic to the South Pole next year. The successful applicant will become the first Cypriot ever to ski to the South Pole.
A 27-YEAR-old British woman has told police that she was raped by a taxi driver at 1am on Monday in Livadia near Larnaca.
ANTIQUITIES of great value are reportedly buried in the Kourris Valley area of the Limassol district, and have been systematically plundered by tomb raiders and illicit antiquities traders over the last century, locals living in the area have warned.
JOSEPH HART came off the bench to score 14 points as England trounced Cyprus 78-48 in the third round of the Termosteps U16 European Championship Division B on Sunday afternoon in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
THE CYPRUS Cricket Association announced the scheduled for the upcoming Twenty20 tournament which will get under way on September 7 at the Happy Valley and Ayios Nicolaos cricket grounds.
“Twenty20 was introduced to the global scene in 2003 with the idea of bridging the time span gap between popular sports like football.
USAIN Bolt’s staggering triumph in the men’s 100m at the Olympics on Saturday, smashing the world record and winding down his run before he was even finished, will play again and again on our television screens and in our memories, so great was the joyous insouciance of his performance
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.
