Archive 2021

Canada’s e-commerce giant Shopify announced record second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as consumers continue to spend big online. The company’s revenue rose 57 per cent to $1.12 billion for the quarter ...

Male puberty is not the sole factor in ascertaining whether transgender athletes have an advantage over competitors, the International Olympic Committee’s medical chief said on Thursday. New Zealand’s ...

EU privacy watchdog EDPB on Wednesday gave the Irish data protection agency a month to issue a long-delayed decision on compliance by Facebook’s (FB.O) WhatsApp after its peers ...

Caeleb Dressel won the blue riband men’s 100m freestyle as the United States celebrated two gold medals in the Tokyo pool on Thursday while China’s women responded with ...

The Cypriot used car market has experienced a severe decline over the past 12 years, with 70 per cent fewer sales since that time, according to Andreas Shikkis, president of the Pancyprian ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Shipping doesn’t think that the EU’s package to decarbonise shipping will simply prove effective. The “Fit for 55” package is a set of proposals to ...

The new French law extending the use of the health pass (pass sanitaire) to a wider range of public places will enter into force on Aug. 9 to help the country ...

Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides spoke exclusively to the Cyprus Mail about the city’s businesses, how they have been affected by the pandemic and what the municipality is doing to ...

The green light for the first organised public beach to be established in a protected area, a turtle nesting spot, spells disaster for the future, the Cyprus Greens said on ...

It must have been very welcome news for the thousands of people not registered with the health service Gesy that they can now use the walk-in vaccination centres islandwide every ...

Armenia said that three of its soldiers had been killed in an exchange of gunfire with Azerbaijan and both sides later accepted a Russian ceasefire proposal to try to calm ...

French authorities on Wednesday recovered most of the roughly 2 million euros ($2.37 million) worth of jewellery stolen from a high-end Paris boutique by an armed robber who fled the scene on ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s assessment of Russia as only having nuclear weapons and oil was wide of the mark and betrayed a ...

Pressure from all other members of the Security Council forced Britain to accept the requested amendments to the draft resolution renewing the Unficyp’s mandate, expected to be put to ...

The total number of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic reached over 100,000 on Wednesday when 769 new cases announced. Two deaths were also reported. The total number of positive ...

To change it up this weekend a special performance is being staged at Theatro Polis OPAP. On Friday and Saturday Just a Bottle? is coming to Nicosia. Andreas Kentis and ...

The met office issued another yellow warning from Wednesday evening until Thursday afternoon and warned that temperatures will shoot over the seasonal average this weekend. The warning covers the period ...

Barclays (BARC.L) will pay out more than a billion dollars in dividends and buybacks to shareholders after beating first-half profit forecasts as bad loan fears receded and investment banking ...

German insurance industry association GDV estimates that there will be up to 5.5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in claims from storms that brought catastrophic flooding to parts of the country this month. ...

Britain’s financial regulator demanded the appointment of more women and non-white minorities to the leadership of Britain’s largest firms on Wednesday, saying at least 40 per cent of board ...

Boeing Co (BA.N) on Wednesday posted its first quarterly profit in almost two years, as deliveries of its best-selling 737 MAX jets to airlines gained traction amid a sharp rebound ...

Cypriot athletes began to find their rhythm in the windsurfing competitions at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday to maintain their positions in the general classification. According to the Cyprus Olympic ...

England will allow fully vaccinated visitors from the European Union and United States to arrive without needing to quarantine from next week, in a huge and long-awaited boost for airlines ...

Hate me if you like, but Voyager is my favourite of the Star Treks. Of course I love the Original Series; nothing beats a great Spock. And I adore Next ...