Win one of Europe’s most expensive chocolates valued at €130

2011-12-15

Get your New Year off to a glittering start with the prize of a luxurious and stylish plate of champagne cream filled chocolates surrounding the centrepiece of a fantastic 4cm high chocolate pyramid filled with a wonderful honey cream, containing slices of genuine Peidmont white truffle (the rarest and most costly edible fungi in the world), cased in shimmering, edible 23ct gold!

This is probably the most expensive chocolate you will ever have heard of – it retails at €130!

The chocolates have been created at the Chocolate Workshop in Platres and the winner will also receive a chocolate making lesson for two onsite (see www.cypruschocolate.com for more details).

To win the prize, complete the festive alphametic puzzle below:

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Russian oil the winner from Syria and Iran sanctions

2011-12-15

RUSSIA is emerging as the winner from international sanctions against Syria and stands to benefit even more if the European Union bans imports of Iranian crude, keeping Russia’s Urals crude at stiff premiums for months more.

Urals crude already has been fetching premiums over the North Sea Dated Brent benchmark since mid-October, the longest period ever.

“The strength of Urals relative to Brent in recent weeks is due to a combination of factors: uncertainty over the impact of sanctions on Iran and the loss of Syrian production and exports,” Roy Jordan with consultancy Facts Global Energy said.

Forced to pay higher Urals prices, European refiners have been losing money, which could discourage the EU from moving ahead with a proposed ban on Iranian oil.

London bankers baffled by protest camp's aims – survey

2011-12-15

 

MOST finance industry workers are baffled by the anti-capitalist protest taking place outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, and are struggling to understand what the movement is trying to achieve, a survey published this week showed.

The St Paul’s camp set up two months ago, close to the London Stock Exchange protesters had originally been targeting, drew a hostile response from 31 per cent of respondents in a poll of over 500 financial services workers.

Almost as many – 27 per cent – were either strongly or somewhat sympathetic to the protesters’ aims in the poll by the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

US military marks end to nearly nine bloody years in Iraq

2011-12-15

THE US military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, rolling up its flag at a low-key ceremony with Defence Secretary Leon Panetta nearly nine bloody years after the invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.

“After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real,” Panetta said at the ceremony outside Baghdad’s still heavily-fortified airport.

Almost 4,500 US soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in the war that began with a “Shock and Awe” campaign of missiles pounding Baghdad, but descended into sectarian strife and a surge in US troop numbers.

Sylikiotis: Elections will go ahead as planned

2011-12-15

Interior minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said today that elections will go ahead on Sunday, despite public sector trade union PASYDY’s calls to civil servants not to work.

”We will take every measure to address problems that might arise,” said Sylikiotis, adding that there will be another meeting on the issue with the political parties tomorrow at 10am.

Chief Returning Officer Andreas Assiotis urged PASYDY to reconsider its position and said he will send a letter to the trade union, seeking a written answer on whether is willing to change that decision.

Assiotis also asked the chairmen of the polling stations to send him a fax, telling him whether they will work or not in Sunday’s elections.

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2011-12-15

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LET LIMASSOL

2011-12-15

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Strange Screen III

2011-12-15

If you are tired of predicting correctly what happens next in the films you watch and feel like venturing into unknown territory, then head on down to Limassol’s Old Vinegar House this weekend and embrace innovation at its best with the Experimental Film and Creative Strange Screen Festival.

With its roots in the European avant-garde of the 1920s, Experimental cinema has been a source of inspiration for artists and audiences for decades, spawning countless film movements that have ultimately changed our way of viewing film. As the word experimental film suggests, this type of medium is trying something new, different so different that, at first, it will cause confusion, if not annoyance to the viewer. 

An Opera Gift Box for Christmas

2011-12-15

 

With the imminent arrival of another Christmas in Nicosia it’s time to get in the spirit of the season and start celebrating. Nothing beats a hearty bout of singing and the Famagusta Gate has just the perfect evening planned as renowned Hungarian opera singer Borbála Keszei visits the capital tomorrow to present a unique recital entitled: An Opera Gift Box for Christmas.

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