Archive May 2021

A Turkish court began the re-trial of philanthropist Osman Kavala and 15 others on Friday over their role in 2013 nationwide protests, an expanding case that critics and even Ankara’s Western ...

A British Cypriot who was drunk and tried opening the emergency door on a flight from Cyprus has been jailed for 11 months in the UK. Alexandros Christou, 21, admitted in Bristol ...

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The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has approved Cyprus Tennis Federation’s request to host the Davis Cup Europe Group III. This year Cyprus will host the Davis Cup at the ...

A second peaceful protest, a global ‘freedom rally,’ against the violation of fundamental human rights and tyranny in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic will be held in Paphos on ...

In this ‘Vogue’ video, pop icon Kylie Minogue looks back on her best fashion moments, starting from the Eighties when she was beginning her ascent, all the way to the ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a proposal to “end the pandemic” with $50 billion in financing for vaccinations, the organisation said in an note on Friday. The proposal’s ...

Cyprus has notified the EU it cannot accept any more irregular migrants, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Friday as authorities scrambled to accommodate some 200 new arrivals in a few ...

“Clam chowder,” says our Bostonian source, “is the most iconic local dish. We pronounce it ‘chowdah’, and it’s been around for centuries.” In that Boston itself is one of ...

The Bank of England set out plans on Friday to make its 20 billion pounds ($28.4 billion) of holdings of sterling corporate bonds better aligned with government goals to achieve net zero ...

The health ministry announced a total of 85 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

On US oil patches stretching along the Rockies and Great Plains, trailers hitched to trucks back up toward well pads to capture natural gas and convert it on the spot ...

Euro zone business growth accelerated at its fastest pace in over three years in May, a survey showed on Friday, but European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said an uncertain ...

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane would not be drawn on his future ahead of the side’s final La Liga game of the season against Villarreal on Saturday. Should Real ...

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Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan is a new economic growth model without social exclusions, which continues the reforms and policies that have been implemented in the past eight years, Labour ...

In this video, British Museum Korean collections curator Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun takes us through a Korean landscape, painstakingly embroidered across 10 silk screens. While at first the work seems like a ...

Why are 70-95 per cent of the human species right-handed? After all, we know of no other placental mammal that prefers one side of the body so consistently – not even ...

A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for murdering a tourist and seriously injuring another in an Islamist-motivated knife attack in the eastern German city of ...

With just nine weeks until the start of the Olympics in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday sought to calm fears in Japan that the Games would present ...

Cyprus has submitted a full report to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding the serious thrombotic incident which afflicted a 39-year-old British woman. The incident was first reported on Thursday, ...

While many of us are heading back to the office after protracted periods of working from home, that doesn’t mean where we live is stress- and pressure-free. All the ...

An out-of-ordinary concert is arriving at Rialto Theatre featuring a musical dialogue between Quintus Ensemble and ChamberFusion Quintet, who will present Cypriot Music Revisited – as the evening is called. The ...

Australia has officially launched its bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2027. The country, which co-hosted the inaugural event in 1987 with New Zealand before holding the tournament won by ...