Archive 2021

Many people were trapped after a roof partially collapsed at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse near St. Louis late on Friday, after tornadoes and strong storms blew through the area, ...

Art lovers in Nicosia and Limassol welcome new exhibitions this month. Just before the year ends, numerous local creatives and artists from abroad present their work as four new showcases ...

By Ella Walker Every now and again, chef James Martin’s mum would let him make his own packed lunch – and on those occasions, he knew exactly what was going ...

Police fined a Nicosia bakery €4,000 for failing to check its customers for a SafePass, it was announced on Saturday. The fine was imposed after 1,445 checks in the capital during which ...

Bitcoin is the digital currency that people can use for purchasing goods and services all over the world. It makes use of the public ledger, which has a vital cryptography ...

The Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency, commonly known as Invest Cyprus, announced on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Indian counterpart Invest India. The memorandum was ...

RCB Bank CEO Kirill Zimarin earlier this week presented the bank’s new Nicosia Banking Centre, in conjunction with his thoughts on the banking sector, explaining that the relationship between ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is set to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $16 billion bid for artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications (NUAN.O), three people familiar with ...

By Maria Demertzis The discovery of the latest Omicron variant of COVID-19 sent stock markets into a freefall on Black Friday. However, markets recovered on Monday and have since shrugged ...

A resolution condemning Turkey’s aggression towards Cyprus garnered bipartisan support on Friday at the US House foreign affairs committee. Greek Public Broadcasting (ERT)’s DC correspondent Lena Argiri tweeted ...

The main challenges facing the banking sector were the high level on NPLs, ineffective foreclosure legislation, red tape and the “unsustainable cost-to-income ratio” said the CEO of Hellenic Bank Oliver ...

President inaugurates revamped Eleftheria Square The centre of Nicosia is being transformed from a place of decline to a catalyst for growth, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday during the ...

Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect COVID-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light. The discovery by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto Prefectural University in ...

Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency which we all have heard of. The most impressive thing about bitcoin is that it is decentralized, and you can make limitless transactions without getting permission ...

The health ministry announced 662 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths on Friday. As there were no new deaths, the toll remains 607, of whom 389 were men and 218 women. There are 138 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed abortion providers to pursue a legal challenge to a ban on most abortions in Texas but left the nation’s strictest abortion ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday moved a step closer to facing criminal charges in the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information after Washington ...

A fourth Ghislaine Maxwell accuser testified at the British socialite’s sex abuse trial on Friday, recalling that late financier Jeffrey Epstein climbed into bed with her at his New ...

Situated in the heart of Limassol’s scenic old town, down an alleyway decorated with plant pots, strings of lights and several bars and cafés is the lively Mason ...

A 39-year-old faces being charged with premeditated murder after his alleged assault on a pensioner in Limassol two months ago resulted in the victim’s death, the criminal court said ...

Construction of the University of Cyprus’ medical school at the Athalassa campus will get underway in January following the signing on Friday of the building contracts. University of Cyprus benefactor ...

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel is unconcerned by his team’s recent form but warned their “average” performances were not good enough for the high standards expected at the London club. ...

Sotiroula Charalambous, a former labour minister in the Christofias administration, was on Friday elected new general secretary of trade union confederation Peo, succeeding Pambos Kyritsis who stepped down after 23 years ...

By Sian Harrison and Tom Pilgrim, PA Sienna Miller and Paul Gascoigne have said they feel “fully vindicated” in bringing claims against the publisher of The Sun over alleged unlawful ...