Leaders of divided Cyprus stood side-by-side on Saturday to mourn the death of the Cypriot president's father-in-law, putting aside long-held differences, according to Reuters. President Demetris Christofias, who leads the Greek Cypriot community, said he hoped he would next meet Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in better circumstances. "Deaths have brought us together at a mosque ... now at a church," he said. "I hope Greek and Turkish Cypriots will soon be able to come together for the joys of everyday life." Christofias, dressed in black with his wife Elsi, initially fought back tears but then wept openly during the service for his father-in-law, Stelios Hiratos, in a working class neighbourhood in the port city of Limassol. Talat, introduced as a friend of the family, laid a wreath of red roses on a wooden coffin. Christofias, elected last year, started reunification talks with Talat in September 2008.
