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1. Singer-songwriter Lavrentis Machairitsas dies aged 63

After becoming involved in music at an early age and forming his first band, P.L.J., at the age of 20, Machairitsas started songwriting in his early 30s. Since then he collaborated with most of Greece's top artists including Maria Farantouri, Giorgos Dalaras, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Dimitra Galani, Dimitris Mitropanis, Vassilis Papakonstantinou and Eleftheria Arvanitaki. ...

2. Funeral held for Arian

Friends and relatives of Arian attended her funeral on Thursday, five months after the body of the young Filipina was discovered in an abandoned mine shaft outside Nicosia...

3. Cypriot vacationers shell out more abroad

Cypriots on holiday spend way more money and time abroad than in their own country, according to Eurostat, even as over half cannot afford a one-week annual holiday away from home...

4. Natalie’s manner of death still unknown

A post mortem carried out on the body of Natalie Christopher, whose body was found on a Greek vacation island, confirmed preliminary reports that the British Cypriot scientist died after falling from up high, while crime investigators have yet to rule on the manner of death...

5. Autopsy shows Natalie died instantly

A local forensic examiner has ruled that Natalie Christopher’s death on the Greek island of Ikaria was instant after falling from up high earlier this week...

6. Fig Tree among world’s best beaches

The popular beach at Fig Tree Bay got third place in the Top 50 Best Beaches In The World 2019 in a recent Big Seven Travel survey...

7. Local man arrested on rape charges in Paphos

A local man has been arrested on suspicion of rape following a complaint filed with police by a female tourist earlier this week...

8. Natalie's body found in a ditch on Ikaria

The body of Natalie Christopher was discovered on Wednesday afternoon on the Greek island of Ikaria, putting an end to search efforts for the British Cypriot scientist who went missing on Monday while on vacation...

9. Forensic experts visit site in Natalie’s death

Forensic pathologists are descending upon the Greek island of Ikaria on Thursday to conduct an on-site autopsy in the death of Natalie Christopher, a London-based scientist whose body was found in a ravine two days after she had disappeared...

10. Greek police expand search for Natalie

Police investigators are testing DNA and trying to decipher mobile phone signals in Natalie Christopher’s disappearance, the British woman who went missing on a Greek island while on vacation with her Cypriot boyfriend...

11. Detectives join missing woman’s case in Ikaria

Greek police have found blood on the hotel bed of a British Cypriot female, who was reported as missing while on vacation by her boyfriend hours before the couple was set to fly back to Cyprus...

12. Cypriot reports British girlfriend missing on Greek island

Greek police are on high alert over the disappearance of a British female scientist, whose Cypriot boyfriend says she failed to answer her phone hours before their flight to Cyprus...

13. Rape accuser says cops coerced confession

A new twist in the Ayia Napa gang rape case emerged on Sunday night, after The Sun ran a story about the alleged victim who says police dictated her confession and used threats to make her sign...

14. Probative DNA takes hold in gang rape case

Seven remaining suspects in the Ayia Napa gang rape case will remain in remanded custody, facing rape and conspiracy charges as investigators scramble to put together DNA evidence...

15. Five suspects released in gang rape case

Five out of twelve Israeli teenagers were released on Thursday after police investigators found no evidence that would warrant their further detention in the Ayia Napa gang rape case...

16. Lawyer criticises police in gang rape investigation

Police are conducting DNA tests and examining mobile phones of twelve Israeli youths arrested in the Ayia Napa gang rape case, while allegations of abuse at the hands of law enforcement are also coming into focus...

17. 'These will not be soft measures' says Juncker

18. New details emerge in Mitseros case

New information has emerged about a missing Nepalese woman believed to have been murdered by an alleged serial killer in Nicosia, suggesting immigration police did in fact search for her but on the assumption she was a runaway and not a missing person...

19. Pass the buck

This was a narrative that they managed to pull through for an entire five-year term in office. Because each time people were losing their calm or reacting towards new measures, the response was 'the Anastasiades government is bringing order to the chaos that it had inherited'...

20. Filipina adoption go-between to stand trial

A woman from the Philippines, who acted as a go-between in a gay couple child adoption, will stand criminal trial facing multiple charges including trafficking of minors...

21. Coral Bay charges reduced to manslaughter

Charges in the killing of a British tourist in Peyia last summer have been reduced from premeditated murder to manslaughter...

22. Death of epileptic Briton not in vain

The ex wife of Darren Ryan, the British tourist with epilepsy who died following a drowning incident in Paphos, is raising awareness and money for a good cause...

23. Cypriot cop saves baby in Athens

A Cypriot police officer, who was on vacation in Athens, sprang into action when he noticed the parents of a baby that stopped breathing were calling for help...

24. A stitch in time: Cyprus’ Lefkaritiko lace faces grim future

25. Russian tourist killed in Ayia Napa accident

An elderly Russian tourist was killed on Thursday in a road accident in Ayia Napa, after she was struck by an oncoming vehicle while she was attempting to cross the road...

26. Autopsy shows German tourist drowned in Peyia

The death of a 67-year-old German tourist in Peyia earlier this week was caused by drowning, an autopsy showed on Wednesday....

27. German tourist dies while swimming in Peyia

A 66-year-old German tourist, who was on a short vacation in Cyprus, died in an apparent drowning incident Monday afternoon in Peyia...

28. British tourist dies in Paphos drowning incident

A British senior citizen died on Saturday in an apparent drowning incident in Kato Paphos, just one day before he and his wife were due to leave the island...

29. Greek tourist dies in highway collision

A 64-year-old Greek tourist was killed in a highway collision Sunday evening, while a 30-year-old car driver remains in a private hospital under arrest and in a state of shock...

30. Cyprus prepares new tourism body launch

A deputy tourism ministry is set to start operations by 2 January 2019, a long-awaited move expected to modernise Cyprus’ tourism industry...