Archive 2021

A 49-year-old man was charged with offences related to human trafficking for labour exploitation and withholding personal documents concerning five people, police said on Saturday. He was arrested on June 3 ...

An 89-year-old woman reported that €15,000 was stolen from her house in Larnaca on Friday night while she was sleeping. The woman reported that someone broke into her house, in the ...

Ferrari’s new CEO appointment is the non-obvious choice that, given the direction of the automotive market, it probably needs. Benedetto Vigna, 52, will become the CEO from September 1 this year. ...

The vaccination portal will be open until Monday afternoon for people over 40, the health ministry said on Saturday, as the number of people who have received at least one vaccine ...

To mark 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cyprus, a photo contest has been launched to enhance exchanges between Chinese and and Cypriot citizens, as well ...

The Euro 2020 football championship finally got underway on Friday night after a year-long delay with a colourful fireworks show and choreography featuring balloons representing the 24 teams in Rome’s sparsely ...

Morrisons on Thursday became the latest British supermarket group to be targeted by activist shareholders over the amount of unhealthy food it sells. Responsible investment group ShareAction said it, along ...

After one of the most wildly unpredictable women’s singles draws in French Open history, Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova stands on the threshold of finally delivering the title long predicted ...

Several areas in the Nicosia district experienced power outage on Saturday morning for several hours due to damage to the electricity authority’s medium voltage grid. According to EAC spokesperson ...

German airline Lufthansa’s (LHAG.DE) said on Friday its budget carrier Eurowings would open a new base in Prague with two aircraft in October, in a sign of growing ...

A car in Pyla was extensively damaged from fire that broke out on the vehcicle early on Saturday. The fire service said they were alerted at around 2.30am that a ...

Germany has bought a trove of data that could help treasury officials track down possible tax evasion by wealthy German citizens, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday. “The data ...

The Group of Seven rich nations will announce on Saturday a new global infrastructure plan as a response to China’s belt and road initiative, a senior official in US ...

By Michel Rose French President Emmanuel Macron told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday that Franco-British relations could only be reset if he stood by the Brexit divorce deal ...

Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the UN Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has said there needs to be more accountability regarding the compliance with the decisions of the UN Security Council, and that their ...

By Ella Walker The trains that rattle directly above chef Elizabeth Haigh’s Singapore coffee shop clack-clack-clack down the phone line, while her neighbours appear to be drilling with total ...

Box office heavyweights and pals Dwayne Johnson and Jason Momoa want to make a movie together. Momoa told ‘Tonight Show’ host Jimmy Fallon this week that while the two action ...

Inclusive clothing really is a niche product but Alix Norman meets a woman in Cyprus creating easy to wear and fashionable clothing for the differently abled Pain in the back? ...

In this video, SciShow host Stefan Chin explains the science behind glass gem corn – a unique variety of rainbow-coloured corn, which became a social media sensation in 2012 after a photo ...

The video game industry’s biggest event of the year begins on Saturday with a raft of exciting rumours surrounding the major developers who are scheduled for presentations during the ...

Finnish Angry Birds developer Rovio describes time-to-fun as their North Star Metric in their game designer job description. If it’s not fun within the first few minutes of playing ...

Sex education is the best protection against sexual abuse, Anastasia Papadopoulou, head of ‘Foni’ the group responsible for the implementation of the national strategy against sexual crimes against children has ...

The only surprise about the report, drafted by a small team of Turkish Cypriots, was the extent of Turkey’s interference in last year’s ‘presidential elections’ in the north. ...

Novak Djokovic came from a set down in a spellbinding French Open semi-final to inflict only a third ever defeat on the Parisian clay for Rafa Nadal, moving through 3-6 6...