Archive 2021

Hey kids, in this video we meet an inspiring 12-year-old whose artwork is riding a wave of fame and acclaim. Auckland youngster Isabella Brazhnikova began drawing sea creatures as a ...

Britain reported another 42,302 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, the highest since mid-January, according to official figures released Wednesday. The country also recorded another 49 coronavirus-related deaths. These figures only ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested for driving at more than double the maximum speed limit in Nicosia, police said on Thursday. Traffic police found the teenager driving at 124 kph a ...

Police on Thursday announced the arrest of another two more people after a drug squad operation in Nicosia during which they found two kilos of cocaine and made two initial ...

A 30-year-old man who admitted to assaulting his younger roommate with a knife was arrested early on Thursday in Kato Paphos. According to the police, the suspect and his 20-year-old ...

Fourteen members of the US Senate have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden condemning Turkey’s continuing efforts to open the coastline of Varosha, in contravention of several ...

According to Billboard, BLACKPINK’s Lisa will release her solo music for the first time this summer. Other than Lisa, the South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment, consists ...

The head of the Financial Reporting Council, the UK regulator overseeing financial reporting, told the Financial Times that it had botched the handling of a series of business scandals that ...

French retailers have expressed concern over how a new government proposal requiring them to block people not vaccinated against Covid-19 from shopping malls could possibly work out in practice. Ahead ...

Fighting in Yemen may have reached a bloody stalemate but away from the north-south frontline a battle between rival central banks has splintered the currency and helped send prices soaring. ...

Cuba announced that it was temporarily lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travelers could bring into the country in an apparent small concession to demands by protesters ...

German car manufacturer Volkswagen and Chinese company Gotion High-tech have concluded a strategic cooperation agreement on the construction of a battery cell factory at Volkswagen Group Components’ site in Salzgitter, ...

“Today, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) oversees 790 entities and 9 trillion transactions by Cyprus Investment Firms, placing it among the first markets in Europe in 2020,” noted CySEC Chairwoman Demetra ...

The Paphos district administration said on Wednesday that it will be shutting down illegal beach bars set up on state land along the Polis-Yialia beach which threaten local turtle populations. ...

Efforts to open up the electricity market have been made unsuccessfully for years. Deadlines have been regularly missed while the top management of the Electricity Authority have been very adept ...

More than 5,000 anti-vaccine protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens on Wednesday to oppose Greece’s coronavirus vaccinations programme. Shouting “take your vaccines and get ...

Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that strict home confinement included in a national state of emergency to curb the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year was unconstitutional. ...

Travellers returning to England from the Spanish islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca will have to self-isolate at home unless they have had two Covid vaccine shots, following a change ...

The health ministry announced the death of a 56-year-old woman from Covid-19 on Wednesday, as infections reached a record high of 1,120 after 62,656 tests, a positivity rate of 1.79 per cent. The ...

Air raid sirens will sound at 8.20am on Thursday to mark the start of the coup 47 years ago to overthrow president Makarios. Church services for those killed during the coup ...

A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea again unless it wanted its sailors to get hurt. The warning, issued by ...

The Open Championship at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, begins Thursday players navigating not only the links course but also the stricter-than-usual pandemic restrictions. The Open was the ...

Police said Wednesday they have seized two kilos of cocaine and arrested two suspects during an operation in the Nicosia district. The force tweeted that during an ongoing drug squad ...

More evenings of outdoor cinema are coming to Nicosia with the Sommerkino (summer cinema) at the Goethe-Institut Cyprus. A varied programme of short and feature films in the garden this ...