Archive 2021

The sand dunes of Chile‘s Atacama are once again bathed in vibrant colors following the sprouting of flowers in recent weeks in the world’s most arid desert despite ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday met the community leaders of mountainous areas in Limassol and Larnaca that were devastated by fires in July. The ...

German lawmakers gathered on Tuesday, as a new parliament featuring more women and members from ethnic minorities than ever before met for the first time while outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Activists disrupted a green finance summit in Paris on Tuesday, saying that French President Emmanuel Macron had failed to get serious on investing in combating climate change. Macron’s government ...

IKEA, the world’s biggest furniture brand, has agreed to buy the iconic former flagship store of British fashion chain Topshop in London’s Oxford Circus from the administrators of ...

Nicosia International Festival finally makes its return with a wide range of events for all tastes finds ELENI PHILIPPOU A celebration of the performing arts for the city of Nicosia, ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak will unfreeze public sector pay when he presents his budget in two days’ time, the finance ministry said on Monday. The fact he would do ...

Combining contemporary music with contemporary photography, Achroun-Aosmon is an interdisciplinary project that brings together artists from Cyprus, Romania, Greece and the UK at an event presented by Technopolis 20 on November 6 ...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been given a chance to turn things around at the club and sort out the aftermath of Sunday’s 5-0 hammering at home ...

Cabinet will decide on Wednesday on the naturalisation of the two children of a bicommunal couple who have so far been refused Cypriot citizenship even after their Turkish Cypriot father ...

Although the overall number of influenza detections in the majority of EU/EEA countries is still low, indications show that influenza circulation is above the seasonal threshold in Croatia, which ...

Crypto day trading has become a popular form of trading seeing that traders are able to take advantage of daily price fluctuations to make a profit. One benefit of trading ...

Walter Smith, the former Scotland, Rangers and Everton manager, has died at the age of 73. Rangers, with whom the former Dundee United defender had two spells as manager from 1991-98 ...

Saying that the use of ethylene oxide in coronavirus rapid tests was monitored by “strict checks”, the health ministry on Tuesday said it was ready to investigate whether any laws ...

Torn between a love of sport, public health fears and Novak Djokovic’s Grand Slam record bid, Australia is suffering a bout of hesitancy as it considers whether unvaccinated players ...

By Eva Lloyd, Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this ...

Saying she had received a number of queries on the issue, personal data commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou on Tuesday issued clarifications about the use of CCTV in private properties and ...

Two men, 61 and 62, were remanded for eight days on Tuesday in connection with the discovery of a cannabis production site in Limassol. A 60-year-old woman, who was also arrested related ...

Three migrants drowned on Tuesday while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece after a boat carrying about 27 people sank, the Greek coast guard said. Greece is one of the ...

By Sandrine Ceurstemont Improved climate modelling can predict fish stocks in the North Atlantic, as well as warming effects across the Northern hemisphere, for instance in Europe and North America ...

Global car sales have demonstrated a resurgence in the past few months; a much-needed recovery in the first half of the year that contrasts the weak backdrop of last year. ...

Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Limassol has been named Cyprus’ Leading Business Hotel 2021 at the 28th annual World Travel Awards – the travel industry’s most prestigious awards ...

The promotion of cycling aims to improve the traffic problem, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday as he announced that applications for the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme ...

A 32-year-old motorcyclist has been hospitalised in critical condition after the motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a car driven by a teenage driver in Limassol. ...