Archive 2021

The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the disease. Cases surged ...

Days after a raging wildfire in southern Turkey drove his family from the home they lived in for four decades, Mehmet Demir returned on Saturday to discover a burnt-out building, ...

Where do you live and with whom? Shhh…That’s a secret What did you have for breakfast? Every day I have oatmeal with yogurt and berries. But, there are ...

The Delta variant remains the most dominant variant in the island having being traced in 100 per cent of the samples of coronavirus cases tested in July, the health ministry said ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the results of the 2021 stress tests, which show that the euro area banking system is resilient to adverse economic developments. The 89 banks covered ...

World number one and 20-times Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will leave the Olympics without a medal for the third Games in succession after pulling out of Saturday’s mixed ...

The daughter of President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday dismissed reports that she had contracted Covid-19 and said that she and her sister were fully vaccinated against the virus. Elsa Anastasiades ...

Paphos police have arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of illegal possession of property. The arrest came after police received information about two people causing public nuisance and vandalising property ...

A red alert for fires was issued on Saturday by the forest department as a protracted heatwave continued to scorch the island with a yellow weather warning for high temperatures ...

Sydney’s coronavirus cases continued to surge on Saturday as police cordoned off the city’s central district, preventing a planned anti-lockdown protest from taking place. There were 210 locally acquired ...

The foreign ministry has launched its first annual competition for the Stella Soulioti human rights award, named after the island’s first woman attorney-general (AG). It said that candidacies can ...

By Ella Walker Big Zuu is a right laugh to spend time with but the man’s work ethic is absolutely no joke. A grime artist, rapper and cook, Big ...

Two minors have been hospitalised with serious injuries after the moped they were riding on crashed into a car in Aradippou, police said on Saturday. According to police, a 16-year-old ...

A sunset, wine and music event will take place in Pomos in Paphos in August, the regional board of tourism said. Entrance to the event is free and includes a ...

For 20 years, Animafest has brought together the industry’s best and brightest in the island’s villages. ALIX NORMAN finds out what makes Cyprus’ rural communities the ultimate animation destination ...

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, is about to undergo a technical adjustment that will significantly alter the way transactions are processed, as well as reduce the supply of the ether ...

“The problem in Cyprus is that businesses don’t trust proven technologies like ours. They have a superstitious fear of letting an external company manage their data. It doesn’t ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has confirmed that the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority has approved the EAC’s new fuel rates and basic prices for energy produced from renewable ...

“Overseas companies, for example, show great interest in Cyprus data centres, because Cyprus is part of the European Union, and thus is under the regime of the General Data Protection ...

The Ministry of Finance has released the provisional results of its Estia housing loan subsidy scheme. From the 4,374 completed applications received, the ministry has approved 802, roughly 18 per cent of the ...

Who would have thought that in the time of Covid lockdowns and business closures Cyprus would be experiencing a labour shortage? Employers’ organisations brought up the issue last week, saying ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a House of Representatives committee, saying the ...

The health ministry on Friday announced three deaths and 635 new coronavirus cases after a total of 74,122 tests – the positivity rate of 0.86 per cent reflecting the gradual stabilisation in the epidemiological ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites for Saturday, 74 in total. To get tested, people need to present an identification document such as ID or passport. This will be the ...