Iraq army retakes Saddam’s birthplace

By Isra’a al-Rubei’i and Maggie Fick The Iraqi army retook Saddam Hussein’s home village overnight, a symbolic victory in its struggle to seize back swathes

Leaders to visit missing persons lab

The leaders of the two communities agreed on Friday to jointly visit the anthropological laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons. The announcement was made

A window on Byzantine art

The extraordinary icons found in Cyprus are the reason one of the world’s leading art historians keeps returning to the island. ALIX NORMAN meets a

Tourist arrivals, revenues up in April

TOURIST arrivals rose 11.4 per cent year-on-year in April reaching 180,998, the island’s statistical service said, with revenues also recording a 20.4 per cent rise.