Maddy police 'following eight major new leads'

2011-12-14

SCOTLAND Yard detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are examining up to eight “very important” new leads after meeting Spanish private investigators, it was claimed today.

Four officers on Tuesday visited the Barcelona HQ of Metodo 3, the agency employed to look for her by Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry for six months after she vanished.

The British officers, from a 30-strong Met team reviewing the case, took away 30 boxes of documents compiled by the private detectives.

The agency’s director, Francisco Marco, said there were “six, seven or eight very important leads” within the files which he claimed could help police to solve the case.

More than 100 million EU citizens have never surfed web

2011-12-14

ALMOST a quarter of the European Union’s 500 million people have never used the internet and there is a widening division between the web-savvy north of Europe and the poorer south and east, figures released today showed.

More than half the population of Romania and just under half of those in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Portugal do not have internet access at home, according to the figures from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency.

As well as highlighting geographic disparities across one of the world’s most-developed regions, the figures underline the lack of opportunity people in poorer communities have to take part in advances such as the internet that have delivered lower cost goods and service to millions of people.

The Higgs boson: What has God got to do with it?

2011-12-14

“WE don’t call it the ‘God particle’, it’s just the media that do that,” a senior US scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station this week.

“Well, I am the from the media and I’m going to continue calling it that,” said the journalist – and continued to do so.

The exchange, as physicists at the CERN research centre near Geneva were preparing to announce the latest news from their long and frustrating search for the Higgs boson, illustrated sharply how science and the popular media are not always a good mix.

“I hate that ‘God particle’ term,” said Pauline Gagnon, a Canadian member of CERN’s ATLAS team of so-called “Higgs hunters” – an epithet they do not reject.

Britain won't stump up another £30bn to save eurozone, says PM

2011-12-14

DAVID Cameron today rejected calls to pay another £30 billion from Britain to bail out eurozone countries, saying the 17 single currency countries must do more to tackle their debt crises themselves.

The proposed figure was in a report to last week’s EU summit by Christine Lagarde, the new head of the International Monetary Fund – to which Britain contributes loans.

The move came as tensions in the Coalition continued, with Nick Clegg hosting a business breakfast for exporters and pro-Europe campaigners worried about last week’s use of the British veto.

Splits were also emerging among the 26 other EU countries, dousing hopes in Brussels that an agreement for fiscal union signed by all of the number could be struck.

Neymar propels Santos into Club World Cup final

2011-12-14

BRAZIL striker Neymar scored a sublime opening goal as he inspired Santos to a clinical 3-1 victory over

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2011-12-14

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Chaos expected with air traffic controllers strike

2011-12-14

CYPRUS LOOKS set for flight chaos as air traffic controllers yesterday announced a 12-hour strike for tomorrow in protest at their inclusion in the government’s austerity measures.

The Cyprus Air Traffic Controllers Union (PASEEK) said air traffic controllers at Larnaca and Paphos airports would stage a 12-hour warning strike tomorrow, from 9am to 9pm, as a result of the expected vote by parliament to adopt austerity measures which do not include special provisions for them.

The union added that air traffic controllers at the Nicosia Area Control Centre responsible for the overseeing the Nicosia Flight Information Region will abstain from working overtime, likely to result in further delays.

It warned that measures may escalate according to developments.

Our View: Christofias’ irresponsibility and populism know no bounds

2011-12-14

IT IS VERY difficult to understand the thinking of President Christofias. He regularly laments the lack of unity on the home front, but when a modicum of unity is achieved he goes out of his way to destroy it. Is this because he wants to be all things to all people or does he not think anything through before opening his mouth? Whatever the reason, his behaviour is becoming more erratic by the day.

Man murdered in his car in Nicosia – Second remanded for Sunday killing of his pregnant girlfriend in Paphos

2011-12-14

 

A MAN was murdered last night in the Archangelos area of Nicosia, believed to have been shot dead while sitting in his car. 

According to police, Charalambos Charalambous from Nicosia, 34, was found shot in his car on Victor Hugo street near the American news monitoring station in Archangelos after 9.30pm.

Police said the man, also known as Vatrachos (Greek for frog), was “known to police”. Forensic experts were investigating the crime scene at the time of print. 

A police source said it appeared the man had been ambushed by hooded men riding on a high-powered motorcycle. 

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