Archive 2021

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas late on Thursday, stopping train lines and causing sporadic power cuts, but there were no reports of ...

October is here already and it is bringing with it a whole series of live music performances, concerts and recitals. This week, Paphos will host an array of shows and ...

A total of 22 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have asked U.S. regulators to authorize emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, a group for whom no shot is currently ...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas late on Thursday, stopping train lines and causing sporadic power cuts, but there were no reports of ...

Discussion on local government reform bills continued Thursday with stakeholders urged to be sensible about their demands and focus on the big picture, which is the need for reforms. The ...

People of all ages who wish to be vaccinated against Covid or receive their booster shot, will be able to do so on Sunday at a large walk-in centre operating ...

British bases police and their Cypriot counterparts (CyPol) have just completed an annual week-long joint exercise. The annual drill saw the SBA police’s negotiator team involved for a third ...

NatWest pleaded guilty on Thursday to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($544 million) and faces a heavy fine after becoming the first bank in Britain to admit ...

In this Architectural Digest video, we tour actress and model Kirsten Dunst’s Hollywood home – an unabashed sanctuary of things loved and old. Along the way, we learn how Dunst’...

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp (APP.O) for $1.05 billion in cash, as the microblogging platform looks ...

The health ministry announced that people over 70 would be eligible for a Covid vaccine booster shot starting Friday. A ministry statement said that people over 70 who have received their second ...

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the response to climate change would require a radical change in how people live as she met Pope Francis during a farewell ...

Stablecoins would have to comply with the same safeguards as their more traditional competitors in payments under proposals from regulators on Wednesday as authorities get to grips with a rapidly ...

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,” the award-giving body ...

The 2022 state budget will feature a significant fiscal correction, after two years of high deficits, said finance minister Constantinos Petrides, while handing it to the President of the House of ...

Moderna plans to invest up to $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each year, including its COVID-19 shot, as pressure ...

The mayor of Ypsonas, in Limassol, suggested Thursday that a morning fire at an industrial area had been set deliberately. Pandelis Georgiou said 20 incidents had been recorded in Ayios Sylas ...

The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, ...

The European Commission will finalise measures next week it believes can lead to a resolution of post-Brexit trading issues in Northern Ireland by the end of the year or early ...

Ayia Napa is usually associated with rowdy tourists, clubs, alcohol and partying. However, there is more to the town than that. In addition to arguably some of the beaches on ...

The cabinet is expected to approve an ease of Covid restrictions on Friday, including allowing unvaccinated people into sporting events, cinemas, and theatres but no changes in protective mask mandates, ...

How about a free photography workshop, tour and wine tasting this weekend if you are in Nicosia? It is exactly what the Nicosia Tourism Board has planned for Saturday as ...

The health services organisation (Okypy)’s proposal to allocate 20 per cent of revenues stemming from potential state hospital’s afternoon operations to state doctors is now being evaluated by doctors’ ...