Archive 2021

The met office has issued an extreme high temperature warning for 1.00pm to 4.00pm on Saturday when temperatures will rise to around 40C inland and 32C over the Troodos highest ...

A total of 40 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Since Sunday, free rapid testing for the ...

Six communities that were affected by the recent fires in Limassol offered “a lesson of humility and empathy” by donating €300 to Karaiskakio foundation, a representative of the charity announced on ...

Cancer charity Pasykaf said it fully supports people that live with using a stoma and have dedicated a section of their website for information about this surgical intervention. A stoma ...

U.S. health officials are reviewing reports that Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine may be linked to a higher risk of a rare heart condition in younger adults than previously ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola laughed off a question probing possible interest in Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski on Friday and said he would be happy if the transfer window ...

A 57-year-old accountant will stand trial on suspicion of embezzling some €315,000 from the construction company where she worked, it was reported on Friday. The accountant appeared before Limassol criminal court, ...

The scenery is gorgeous, the culture unique, and the food divine. And yet Caracas is probably the last place on Earth you’d want to live. Venezuela’s capital is ...

The documentary film Spaces of Reconciliation: Youth Interaction through Art in the City, by Mete Hatay of PRIO Cyprus Centre and independent director Orhan Eskiköy, follows Cypriot artists as ...

Twelve tonnes of food, water and other basic goods are on their way to the victims of Greece’s devastating fires after an islandwide collection spearheaded by the Cyprus Ports ...

Police on Friday reiterated their public warning over a telephone scam following reports that scammers pretend to be Microsoft operators to access people’s computers and their bank account information. ...

Cyprus has responded to the European Commission as part of an infringement procedure launched in relation with its controversial citizenship by investment programme that it was forced to terminate last ...

The health ministry is trying to find intensivists abroad to staff intensive care units (ICUs), which were struggling because of the high number of serious Covid cases, a senior official ...

AstraZeneca’s new antibody therapy reduced the risk of people developing COVID-19 symptoms by 77% in a late-stage trial, putting the drugmaker on track to offer protection to those who respond ...

A 58-year-old man will stand trial for the murder of his neighbour and the attempted murder of the victim’s father during an argument over a parking spot in Yeri ...

By Alexia Saoulli Before my twins were born, someone gave me a set of cards as a baby gift that I could use to write down their key milestones. Things ...

Rafael Nadal is the latest player to withdraw from the US Open having called time on his 2021 season. The 20-time grand slam champion, who won his fourth Flushing Meadows title ...

Taliban fighters hunting a journalist from Deutsche Welle have shot dead one member of his family and severely injured another, the German public broadcaster said, adding that three more of ...

Hotels in Famagusta saw occupancy rise to over 80 per cent in August, buoyed by Russian tourists but also Cypriot holidaymakers who opted to stay on the island rather than travel ...

A network of environmental organisations on Friday voiced opposition to the construction of a shooting range near the island’s largest reservoir, Kouris, saying it will pollute the area’s ...

The Cyprus Government Guarantee Scheme will offer low-interest loans to businesses of all sizes via Cyprus banks. It will become available with the enactment of the Amending Law “On the ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was “surprised” the club’s Premier League opener at Brentford last week was not postponed following a number of positive Covid-19 tests among his squad. It ...

Larnaca district court on Friday handed down a 30-day prison sentence to a 43-year-old man who crashed into another car while driving 14 times over the legal limit in Larnaca. The ...

The state has appealed as insufficient a seven-year prison sentence for a 73-year-old man who had been convicted of sexually abusing his underage grandchildren, the Legal Service said on Friday. ...