Archive 2021

Bitcoin rose on Sunday to reclaim levels above $50,000. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency gained 2.11 per cent to $50,445.34 at 1803 GMT on Sunday, adding $1,044.80 to its previous close. Bitcoin is ...

Britain faces a “tidal wave” of the Omicron variant of coronavirus and two vaccine doses will not be enough to contain it, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned as he accelerated ...

Research teams at Intel Corp (INTC.O) on Saturday unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, ...

By Gabriella Borter and Peter Szekely At least 64 people, including six children, lost their lives in Kentucky after a string of tornadoes tore through six states, with power still out ...

The Cyprus University of Technology said on Thursday it had participated in the Huawei Road Show event. The event, which took place for the first time in Cyprus earlier this ...

Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it expected to post its first budget surplus in nearly a decade next year, as it plans to restrict public spending despite a surge in ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died from Covid-19 on Sunday and that 393 had tested positive from 64,507 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.61 per cent. The ...

Self tests will be available in Cyprus from December 20, the health ministry announced on Sunday. The tests – five per pack – will be available free from pharmacies for people who have ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Formula One championship, denying Lewis Hamilton a record eighth, with a last-lap overtake to win a season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou Just a few months into my first year at university, the UK government decided to increase the fees for international students from something around £250 to a few ...

The French territory of New Caledonia voted against independence in a referendum on Sunday, provisional results showed, amid a big drop in turnout due to a boycott of the vote ...

Donations of gifts, toys and chocolate are desperately needed to fill up gift bags for children of families connected to the Learning Refuge that are living in the district of ...

A volunteer group on social media was trying to gather donations on Sunday to help a grandmother, aged 82, after a group of teenagers flung a firecracker at her front door, ...

We have lost many things to Covid-19 over the last two years, including the festive spirit. Gina Agapiou visits some of the Christmas villages in the mountains in the hope ...

By Savvakis C. Savvides More often than not debt is presented as the evil of our times. To a large extent this is true but debt is only a symptom ...

It shouldn’t be such a grim Christmas this year, but socialising will be a confusing, rule-laden affair – and subject to change A second Christmas under coronavirus measures is hardly ...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and meet the Gulf state’s de facto ruler in the highest-level visit since the countries ...

Cyprus must align itself with European interests By Achilleas Demetriades The European Council will convene on December 16 to discuss once more the possibility of imposing sanctions on Turkey with regard ...

A total of 22 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Monday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

More than half a billion people globally were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the ...

Israel welcomes Cyprus’ efforts to reinstate the Cyprus-Greece maritime passenger link and the possibility of extending the connection to Israel.According to a press release by the Deputy Ministry of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy in the EU is gradually improving, despite the continuing pandemic. The historically unprecedented monetary and fiscal support was a decisive factor, which ...

While Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps the West guessing over Ukraine, it was the might of Chinese President Xi Jinping that garnered the long-term strategic focus when the diplomats from ...

The government has recently improved maternity benefits, but will this encourage couples to have more children? New government measures to fight falling birth rates and “safeguard Hellenism” have been dismissed ...