Archive 2021

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have lost their lead in two opinion polls after a growing parliamentary standards scandal prompted almost two thirds of respondents in one survey to say the ...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia with my dogs, Alice and Photis! What did you have for breakfast? I usually don’t have breakfast just a coffee in ...

A group of taxi drivers blocked the Ayios Dhometios crossing point with their cars for several hours on Saturday, to protest police preventing them from filling their tanks with cheap ...

More art is coming to town as a new group photography exhibition launches in Nicosia. Titled Perceiving Landscape(s), the exhibition opens at Korai Space on November 16 and until the ...

The remand of two suspects, 26 and 32, arrested in connection with the theft of guns and thousands of bullets from a container in Limassol was renewed for six days on Saturday. ...

The wife of prominent jailed Turkish opposition figure Selahattin Demirtas has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail after being found to have provided inaccurate information over a date in ...

England defender Harry Maguire defended his goal celebration during Friday’s World Cup qualifying victory over Albania which former players described as over the top and unnecessary following his poor ...

Authorities have suspended the operation of a coffeeshop in Paphos after customers were found gambling in the premises on three different occasions, police said on Saturday. The trial for the ...

A second supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades form part of Sberbank’s enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software, Chief Technology Officer David ...

Amid the arid desert and mountains of Al Ula in northwest Saudi Arabia, archaeologists are working to excavate the remnants of the ancient and long-forgotten kingdoms of Dadan and Lihyan. ...

The body of a young Syrian man has been found in Poland near the border with Belarus, Polish police said on Saturday, amid mounting international tension over a migrant crisis ...

Police on Saturday were investigating the circumstances of a fatal traffic accident that took place in Latsia a few minutes after midnight. Nicos Valanides, 59, from Limassol, was driving on Yiannou ...

One in five of the population in Cyprus aged 15 years or more – or 21.2 per cent — smoke daily, the sixth highest share in the EU27 according to the latest figures published ...

Limassol will welcome a new showcase as The Gallery 45, a newly-opened contemporary art and design exhibition space in the heart of the old town, welcomes four artists from November 20. The ...

By Liu Yantao On July 1, 2021, at a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President Xi Jinping solemnly declared that China had realized the first centenary ...

Two people, aged 41 and 58, who were remanded for eight days on Saturday after about 18.7kg of cannabis were found in their possession, are believed to be members of a larger ...

By Ella Walker In a bizarre turn of events, Gordon Ramsay spent lockdown being yelled at, rather than doing the yelling. “I had my daughters filming, shouting, screaming and kicking ...

Police were investigating on Saturday after a hand grenade and TNT explosive were found in Aglandjia. The explosives were discovered around 9pm on Friday by officers in a carton box ...

By Jan Wolfe and Mark Hosenball Stephen Bannon, a prominent adviser to former US President Donald Trump, has been criminally charged for defying a subpoena issued by a congressional committee ...

By Jill Serjeant Britney Spears won back her freedom on Friday after 13 years under a conservatorship that controlled how she spent her money, when she performed, who had access to ...

By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Trevor Hunnicutt US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, the White House said, talks Washington ...

Thirteen people and four business owners were fined by police after 2,721 checks for violating the Covid-19 measures in the 24 hours until Saturday morning. In Nicosia, 1,153 checks saw one person and ...

The Cyprus Employers and Industries Federation (OEB) has released the results of a study revealing the true labour needs of Cypriot businesses. The study takes into account data collected between ...

There is more to bees than honey. One locally-based company creates a range of all natural products ranging from sun screen to nappy rash cream Iakovos Korniotis, now 78, learned beekeeping ...