Author:  Nathan Morley FRUSTRATED tourists stranded in Cyprus are struggling to find alternate routes home, with many left desperate for information on flights into the continent's few airports not closed by a dangerous cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano. It’s estimated that over 6,000 tourists and scheduled passengers are left in limbo on the island, with no immediate sign that the situation will ... Full story

A new volcanic ash cloud spreading towards the UK creates uncertainty over the reopening of some airspace, Nats says. Full story

Author:  Elias Hazou BE WARNED, all you ne’er do wells ducking paying that speeding ticket: don’t be surprised if John Q Law stops you at the airport, asks a lot of questions, demands you pay up or, in the worst case, stop you from travelling abroad. Sound Orwellian Full story

Author:  Patrick Dewhurst THAT THE petrol crisis has revealed our over dependence on cars will not surprise many on the island. However, what is surprising is how even a temporary petrol scarcity has impacted on so many areas of peoples' lives. Full story

POLICE ARE investigating a case of kidnapping and indecent assault, after a 19-year-old woman claimed she had been detained against her will for a week by a stranger who wanted her to enter into a fake marriage. The teenage Bulgarian arrived at Paphos airport on January 21 with two friends, a Bulgarian man and woman, to look for work. In her statement to police ... Full story

Author: Elias Hazou CYPRUS yesterday joined a massive international task force comprising planes, helicopters and ships scouring the Lebanese coast for survivors after an Ethiopian jet plunged flaming into the sea. Lebanon, the United Nations, the United States, Britain, France and Cyprus hastily Publication: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) Full story

Author:  George Psyllides A 43-YEAR-OLD Limassol man was killed yesterday when a booby-trap exploded on his car as he was leaving his coffee-shop in the early hours with a female employee. The 20-year-old Romanian employee was critically injured by the blast, caused by a fragmentation grenade which police said had been placed under the windscreen-wipers of the vehicle and covered with a garbage bag Full story

Author:  Elias Hazou AUTHORITIES have amped up security at Cyprus’ two airports following the botched attack of a Detroit bound airliner on Christmas day. Umar Farouk Nigerian Abdulmutallab, 23, has been charged with attempting to blow up a Northwest Airlines jumbo plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board. Full story

Author:  Elias Hazou THOUSANDS of travellers were inconvenienced on Christmas Eve when a malfunction with the runway lights at Larnaca airport stopped dozens of planes from landing or taking off. Hermes, operators of the airport, said the blackout on the runway was caused by a short—circuit in the lighting system, most likely precipitated by the heavy rainfall in the area. Full story

A SYRIAN woman, Shaha Rashid, 44, died on a Larnaca airport airbridge late on Friday, seconds before she was to board a flight to Damascus with her two teenage children. Rashid, who was suffering the last stages of stomach cancer arrived at the airport in a wheelchair with her children aged 154 and 15 Full story