Archive 2021

Brazil retained their Olympic football title with substitute Malcolm scoring an extra-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Spain in Saturday’s men’s gold medal game. After the game ...

Cyprus enjoyed a successful Tokyo Olympics, with the 15-strong athlete delegation giving some very good performances, despite returning home without a medal. The best-placed finishes were by Pavlos Kontides, who ...

Neeraj Chopra won the men’s javelin on Saturday with a best throw of 87.58 metres to claim an historic first Olympic athletics gold medal for India. The Czech Republic’s ...

By Stamos Prousalis and Costa Baltas Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia east of the ...

An 82-year-old woman, a resident of Tala, Paphos, reported that she was tied up and robbed at her home on Friday evening with perpetrators taking jewellery and cash. The woman ...

A 14-year-old girl from Nicosia was caught driving in the Alaminos area, in the Larnaca district with her parents and sister as passengers, police said on Saturday. According to a ...

Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and one of the world’s richest men, has become a New Zealand resident, with immigration services saying he had applied under a category for ...

As of Saturday, people found positive for Covid-19, will have to fill out an electronic form if they want to get their release certificates when their quarantine period is completed, ...

Iran on Saturday rejected as psychological warfare accusations that it was behind a deadly attack on a tanker off Oman’s coast, and said Tehran sought to enhance the security ...

A 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton discovered in the mountains of southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile, the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences announced on Friday. ...

The vaccination coverage is closer to the new goals set by the government that wants to see 80 per cent of the population vaccinated by the end of August, as over 75 ...

An appeal hearing in the case of the British teenager found guilty of public mischief after reporting a gang rape in July 2019 will be go before the Supreme Court in ...

Founder & Managing Director of UK restaurant chain Smashing Plates Where do you live? I live in London on my own What did you have for breakfast? A protein enhanced ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Sunday, 46 in total. People need to present a form of identification to get tested such as ID, passport or driver’s ...

Germany’s modern pentathlon coach Kim Raisner will not be part of Saturday’s men’s individual competition at the Tokyo Olympics after she hit a horse with her fist ...

Police on Saturday warned they will intervene if protests turn into mobs that disturb the peace and called on organisers of such events to comply with the measures. Citing upcoming ...

If there is one thing there is plenty of during the summer, it’s live music. Even in August when events slow down for a while as many go on ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not need to self isolate even though a member of his staff on a recent trip to Scotland tested positive for the coronavirus, his ...

Police said a club in the Famagusta district was ordered to close on Friday night after it let in around 1,000 people, many of whom dancing. This is the fifth time ...

Lionel Messi is set to join Paris St Germain after Barcelona were forced to let their Argentine talisman go as they could not afford to give him a new contract ...

By Lidia Kelly Australia saw a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday, with the country’s most populous states of New South Wales, Victoria and ...

Pudding aficionados put chef and food writer Letitia Clark’s new cookbook, La Vita è Dolce, through its culinary paces Ella Walker tried: Caramelised apricot, almond and orange blossom upside-down cake ...

NBA superstar Kevin Durant led Team USA’s victory over France in the men’s basketball final in Tokyo on Saturday, avenging a first-round loss and claiming a 16th gold ...

At the G7 summit in the UK in June 2021, there was a consensus amongst most members to the introduction of a minimum global corporate tax rate. While some leaders share ...