Archive May 2021

Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has revealed his family were left scared by his weight loss after he contracted malaria while on international duty in March. The Gabon forward missed four ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has filed an appeal at the supreme court against a resolution passed by parliament calling on him and his deputy Savvas Angelides to recuse themselves from the ...

The ministry of health announced one death from Covid-19 on Wednesday, the fifteenth this month, and 562 new infections after 57,314 tests, a positivity rate of 0.98 per cent. The ministry said 246 people ...

Football players, big brother’s watching you. On the pitch, that is, with live digital tracking. World governing body FIFA said on Wednesday it would collaborate with technology firm KINEXON ...

Fourteen European Union countries including Germany and France have proposed a rapid military response force that could intervene early in international crises, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, two ...

Nicosia relies on the international community and especially on its EU partners to make Ankara realise it needs to put the interests of all Cypriots above what it narrow-mindedly perceives ...

The Redesign Fashion Exhibition is coming to Larnaca this summer – should measures allow – an event by the Dostou Chance Cultural Movement that highlights fashion industry issues and the ways to ...

In an upcoming group exhibition six Cypriot artists reflect on the themes of nationalist media, conflict narratives and the crisis of democracy. Titled Mirrored Reflections-Memories of Tampered Identities, the exhibition ...

With schools set to reopen on Monday with in-person teaching, parents of secondary school pupils should ensure their children have a negative rapid antigen test, the education ministry said on ...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, on Wednesday won her outstanding copyright claim against a British tabloid after London’s High Court heard neither Queen Elizabeth nor a former senior royal ...

With her sculptural shapes and new approach to luxury, Elsa Peretti forever changed 20th-century jewellery design. Born in Florence in 1940, Peretti was an Italian jewellery designer and philanthropist, as well ...

In this Red Bull video, indoor skydiving vice-world champion Maja Kuczyńska and aerobatic race pilot Luke Czepiela pit their skills against each other, in a game of air. Or, ...

Facebook Inc’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump but said the indefinite suspension was wrong, in a much-awaited verdict ...

The state pharmaceutical services on Wednesday said they had so far received 26 reports about serious possible side effects after vaccination against coronavirus. In total 149 reports were filed about adverse events ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will leave on Thursday for Porto, Portugal to attend the Porto Social Summit hosted by the EU Portuguese Presidency on May 7 and 8. During a working dinner he ...

North Korea’s state media warned of the prospect of a lengthy battle against the coronavirus and said vaccines developed by global drugmakers were proving to be “no universal panacea”. ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020, and to protect their employees and clientele, Alphamega Hypermarkets has spent €1 million on a series of safety measures, while promoting specific actions ...

“The value of lifetimes of experience definitely cannot be thrown away; it’s needed. The memory of experience is the only thing which can bring wisdom to you.” In this ...

The Premier League on Wednesday said a limited number of supporters would be permitted to return to stadiums for the final two rounds of the 2020-21 season, with attendance restricted ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 65 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he would return his Cypriot ID and passport if he could after it emerged he too was a registered citizen of the Republic of ...

In this video, the A. G. Leventis Gallery, supports the Leventis Municipal Museum’s programme of organised actions to celebrate the 1,600th anniversary of the founding of Venice. The period ...

The European Commission appointed former crisis management and Ebola coordination Commissioner Christos Stylianides, a Cypriot national, as Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the ...

Dogged by problems, vaccination centres need the Ministry of Health’s help to regulate both the supply of vaccines and flow of staff, the state nurses’ union (Pasyno) said on ...