Archive 2021

Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China’s new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62 billion yuan ($9.7 billion), a senior Chinese central bank ...

The Atlanta Braves overcame a season full of setbacks to win the World Series for the first time since 1995 after a 7-0 victory over the Houston Astros in Tuesday’s ...

Restaurant owner Antoine Haddad has been in business for over 35 years but says he is running out of hope as Lebanon struggles with one of the deepest financial crises of ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Wednesday assured that the ministry will continue to invest in policies for the prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment of diabetes through the national diabetes committee. “...

Turkey’s annual inflation rate rose to its highest in more than 2-1/2 years in October, data showed on Wednesday, as the central bank, under political pressure to provide more ...

Cristiano Ronaldo saved Manchester United from defeat at Atalanta on Tuesday with a superb stoppage time strike and left the Italian club’s coach Gian Piero Gasperini laughing wrily at ...

House President Annita Demetriou on Wednesday presented a proposal to make femicide a distinct criminal offence punished by life imprisonment. Demetriou said the proposal basically changes the description of the ...

A 4-year-old girl who went missing from an Australian outback campsite more than two weeks ago has been returned safely to her parents after she was rescued by police from ...

British businesses reported faster growth in October, helped by fewer curbs on foreign travel, but the Bank of England is likely to be worried about record rises in the costs ...

A football fan who livestreamed himself on Facebook racially abusing three England players after the Euro 2020 final has been jailed. Jonathon Best, 52, posted a rant about Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho ...

By Richard Dickenson I am intrinsically anti-confrontational. I got that way after a youth and adolescence that contained more than enough violence both in uniform and out of it. Nowadays, ...

In the first case of its kind, Paphos district court has rejected a father’s request to allow his children to be vaccinated despite their mother’s objections. This is ...

Turkey was forced on Wednesday to tweet out evidence that President Tayyip Erdogan was still alive after rumours hit social media earlier in the day that he had died, causing ...

The 10th Cyprus New Music Festival opens its doors on November 8 and until the 13th of the month the medieval Kasteliotissa Hall will fill with musical evenings in a week ...

A very good racing year ended in a not so positive way for Vladimiros Tziortzis in the Nascar Whelen Euro Series in Rome. The Cypriot driver arrived in the Italian ...

Countries to emerge from the pandemic first will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus As the ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Wednesday launched the multinational search and rescue exercise Nemesis 2021 with the participation of eight countries, including Cyprus. Speaking at the joint search and rescue coordination ...

Three men found guilty in the bullying death of a 16-year-old in 2019 will be sentenced on November 11. The three, a 20-year-old from Oroklini, and two 19-year-olds from Larnaca and Livadia, ...

Roche (ROG.S) is launching a new genomic profiling kit that lets cancer researchers explore tumours without having to send tissue samples to centralised laboratories, the Swiss drugmaker said on ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris gave instructions Wednesday for damage caused by rain at the village of Lympia to be immediately repaired and solutions to be found to prevent a repeat ...

Christmas may be difficult as the Covid -19 pandemic is not over, England’s deputy chief medical officer warned on Wednesday, urging people to behave with caution and come forward ...

Authorities have recovered a firearm in Paphos linked to the case of an Azeri national suspected of planning to assassinate Israeli businessmen living in Cyprus. The location of the weapon ...

Reports said Wednesday a 24-year-old man who escaped from a Limassol police station early in September has been arrested in the north. No more details were immediately available. The two ...

Five everyday items that might not be as environmentally friendly as you think By Prudence Wade Cotton totes might be better than single-use plastic bags – but how many do you ...