CONTROVERSIAL Cypriot-born doctor Panayiotis Zavos cloned 14 human embryos and implanted 11 in the wombs of four women in what ultimately resulted in a failed attempt to produce the world’s first cloned baby, it was revealed yesterday.
Although none of the implantations led to a viable pregnancy, Zavos said it was only a matter of time before a cloned baby was born.
TOURISM OFFICIALS and industry heads in Paphos were disappointed with visitor numbers both domestic and foreign over the Easter period, despite a huge advertising campaign to promote hotel and restaurant deals.
Thefts may be related to financial crisis, say police
LIMASSOL police have voiced concern over an increase in armed robberies in the seaside town, with three taking place in a 24-hour period. In two of the incidents the culprits were armed and one involved the attempted murder of an elderly kiosk employee.
SIX VOLUMES of work by Saint Neophytos, which took scholars 15 years to collate, were presented to the public yesterday, at Ayios Neophytos monastery’s first international conference at the Coral Beach hotel in Paphos.
A TOTAL of 33 polling stations will be set up in 25 towns in different countries for Cypriot nationals to vote in the June 6 European Parliament elections.
THE GLOBAL crisis has finally reached the Cyprus real estate market, with home prices displaying a 2.2 per cent decline during the first quarter of the year, according to the BuySell Home Price Index.
GREECE and Cyprus yesterday backed Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, but said that the neighbour with which they have been at loggerheads for years must first meet EU requirements for entry.
THE EMERGENCE of nationalists in the north may not portend well for the reunification talks, but it is probably too early to start worrying that Dervis Eroglu’s National Unity Party (UBP) will scupper the peace process, observers say.
A RENEWED campaign to save and reopen the Melkonian Educational Institute (MEI) has been launched in the form of an international petition through an on-line facility, www.midk.org, and is running until the middle of May.
A CRUCIAL ruling in the ongoing Orams case is due out next Tuesday by the European Court of Justice, which could open the floodgates to a whirlwind of legal battles against British property “owners” in the north.
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