Cypriot president fires police chief over serial killer probe

The president of Cyprus fired the country's police chief on Friday over what he described as a failure to promptly investigate the disappearances of women and girls, after a suspected serial killer's murders were discovered by accident.
Four women have been found murdered in the past three weeks, their bodies dumped in three locations west of the capital Nicosia.
A 35-year-old career army officer is in custody and has confessed to seven killings in total.
Investigations are under way into three other disappearances, including those of two girls aged 6 and 8.
The magnitude of the crime was unknown when tourists accidentally found a bound body in a mine shaft flooded by heavy rain on April 14.
Police were accused of failing to investigate the disappearances properly when they were first reported.
Police have so far identified only one victim, as Marry...