Archive September 2021

British employers added a record 241,000 staff last month, lifting the total number of employees on company payrolls to just above the level before Britain first went into a COVID-19 lockdown ...

Israel’s economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter, bouncing back strongly after most COVID-19 related restrictions were lifted. Gross domestic product grew 16.6 per cent at an ...

Lebanon’s outgoing finance minister Ghazi Wazni said on Tuesday a contract for a forensic audit of the central bank would be signed in a few days by the new ...

Brave, mischievous, smart, conniving, beautiful, lustful, powerful and powerless women deserve their own platform. ELENI PHILIPPOU speaks to the woman who has given them one It’s not often that ...

Wellington Free Ambulance covers a population of 500,000 people and is the only free ambulance service in New Zealand. Providing a service to three district health boards and servicing roughly 12% of ...

A new music initiative launched last year bringing live weekly gigs to Paphos invites musicians from around the island to perform intimate sets and keep the town’s music scene ...

President Nicos Anastasiades suggested more effective procedures to be put in place at the education ministry after teachers were told to “tear out” a page from a textbook with a ...

Increased cloud coverage in the coming days is expected result in showers and some isolated storms inland and in the mountains, the met office said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, though ...

Paphos police are investigating the theft of €5,000 in cash, and valuables of unknown value, including jewellery from a home in Tala. According to police, a woman reported that while she ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has released a policy statement on cryptocurrency assets, calling on service providers to comply with regulations and warning investors of the risks involved. ...

Art teacher and controversial artist Giorgos Gavriel, who found himself under fire last year over his work that was deemed to insult religious and national symbols, was asked to appear ...

Britain said on Tuesday it was delaying the implementation of some post-Brexit import controls, the second time they have been pushed back, citing pressures on businesses from the pandemic and ...

Pele will be moved out of intensive care in the next day or two as the Brazil great continues his recovery from surgery, his daughter Kely Nascimento said. The 80-year-old ...

Two Cypriots are among the contestants of the Great British Bake Off to start airing next week in Channel 4, it emerged on Tuesday. Among the 12 contestants are two people with ...

A cyber surveillance company based in Israel developed a tool to break into Apple iPhones with a never-before-seen technique that has been in use since at least February, internet security ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes his “special” group are better equipped to challenge for Champions League glory this season as Manchester United prepare to kick off their continental campaign in Switzerland. ...

Greece would seek to block a potential wave of Afghan asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule and needs more European Union help on migrant issues, the prime minister said. The Taliban’s ...

Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit’, often by measures like compulsory sterilisation or, in the case of the ...

Since 2010, China’s civil aviation sector has remained the world’s second-largest in terms of passenger throughput. The aviation industry generates and processes massive amounts of data along its long ...

Eighty per cent of the adult population had received at least the first dose of a Covid vaccine, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Data showed that 80 per cent of ...

Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante will not be involved in the club’s Champions League opener against Zenit St Petersburg, manager Thomas Tuchel said on Monday ahead of their Group ...

Britain’s travel sector is bracing for a new wave of job cuts, with an industry trade body saying that more than two thirds of its members were planning to ...

French carmaker Citroen will cease the production of its tiny city car the C1 due to tightened environmental regulations following the end of the current model’s lifecycle. Stellantis (the ...

Police are investigating the circumstances under which a 22-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured in a road accident on Monday afternoon in Limassol. The accident happened shortly after 6pm on Fragklinou ...