Archive 2021

Family, friends and former team-mates paid a fond farewell to football great Jimmy Greaves at his funeral today. Greaves, who died last month aged 81, was celebrated in an intimate, modest, ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Two more suspects, aged 25 and 32, were arrested in connection with a suspected plot to assassinate Israeli nationals living in Cyprus, police said on Friday. According to police, the two people ...

Located on the eastern coast of Central America, Belize enjoys the sort of tropical climate every tourist longs for. Endless golden beaches, hundreds of coastal islets, and a coral reef ...

A press conference for the presentation of the running event ALPHAMEGA RUN AS ONE was held on Thursday, at the headquarters of ALPHAMEGA Hypermarkets in Nicosia. ALPHAMEGA RUN AS ONE ...

Cyta on Friday announced that it continues to include the UK in its list of countries for which the EU regulation on roaming applies. The telecommunications company said it therefore ...

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday. Sixteen children in the ...

The health services on Friday said they had withdrawn a batch of peppermint tea and dried ground mint after finding traces of pesticides. The products concerned Greek Fino brand sold ...

Norway will hold off giving children aged 12-15 a second dose of a vaccine against COVID-19 until it has gathered more research, partly due to a rare side effect involving ...

A total of 53 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

Americans can choose a COVID-19 booster shot that is different from their original inoculation but the recommendation is to stick with the vaccine they got first if it is available, ...

French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly told her NATO counterparts on Friday not to fear the European Union’s defence plans, saying that the United States will benefit and any ...

By Paul Lambis It was the summer of 1963. The Beatles were already a household name, playing for large crowds across the UK and much of Europe. Talented, handsome, and charming, ...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has revealed the kind of abuse suffered by Steve Bruce has seen both prospective and current managers tell him they would now think twice about taking ...

Limassol Marina has been ranked sixth in a list of the world’s most Instagrammable marinas based on the number of hashtags. Comparethemarket.com, one of the UK’s leading ...

Celebrating German language and culture, five weeks of back-to-back events are coming up! The Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus are organising the 5th edition of the ...

The justice ministry said on Friday it supports the introduction of electronic tagging as an alternative to serving a prison sentence, with the exclusion of those guilty of exploiting or ...

Britain said on Thursday it would phase out its Digital Services Tax on US tech giants such as Google and Facebook once a global reform to corporate taxation takes effect ...

CMP crews are carrying out excavations for the remains of missing persons in six areas across the island but so far none have been located, officials said on Friday. The ...

Peat, plentiful in bogs in northern Europe, could be used to make sodium-ion batteries cheaply for use in electric vehicles, scientists at an Estonian university say. Sodium-ion batteries, which do ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Friday participated in a working breakfast on the role of women in leadership, held on the sidelines of the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament ...

The forestry department on Friday reminded the public that the use of tools for mushroom picking is prohibited, since it damages the ecosystem. In a written statement, the department said ...

The path to sustainable and resilient economic growth requires coordinated, bold and transformative actions, Central Bank Governor Constantinos Herodotou said on Friday adding that to achieve such transition, significant reforms ...

The Larnaca Criminal Court on Friday acquitted former Bishop of Kition Chrysostomos who had been accused of rape, arguing the plaintiff’s testimony was unreliable. The court announced that it ...