Archive 2021

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will use its experience centres in London, New York and Sydney to sell products to customers starting July 1. Microsoft, which shut its retail stores ...

Defending champion Iga Swiatek was knocked out 6-4 6-4 by Greek Maria Sakkari in the French Open quarter-finals, leaving the women’s draw wide open on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Pole, ...

Britain has set up a group of experts to help it classify climate-friendly assets and stop “greenwashing” of investments that don’t live up to their sustainable credentials. Britain is ...

Cyprus was among a number of EU member states targeted for infringement procedures on Wednesday, most notably for its failure to take the necessary steps to protect and manage its ...

Ryanair on Wednesday won its challenge against German state aid granted to charter airline Condor, a third victory in its fight against billions of euros in pandemic support granted to ...

Proof of full Covid-19 vaccination will be one means of gaining entry to a sporting event for the first time this weekend in England’s opening Euro 2020 match against Croatia ...

Caliphate is one of Netflix’s vainest attempts to expand its boundaries by transporting the viewer to a context they might not be overly familiar with, perhaps not as much ...

The Church of Greece has called on their Cypriot counterparts to ask the outspoken Morphou Bishop to tone down his anti-vaccine rhetoric and criticism which it was deemed, interferes with ...

The health ministry announced a total of 67 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

World number two Daniil Medvedev said French Open organisers “preferred Amazon to people” by scheduling his quarter-final match against Stefanos Tsitsipas in Tuesday’s night session, when fans are unable ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the extension of the incentive plan to airlines to address the consequences of the pandemic amounting to €8.8 million for 2021 with the aim of restoring air ...

The five nurses who refused to carry out their duties at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital over a Covid case last year committed a disciplinary offence, but no action will be ...

In his characteristically playful style, in this video yogi and mystic Sadhguru offers his thoughts on an enduring mode of self-adornment and creative expression: tattoos. Asked by a young person ...

Brussels is taking action against Cyprus for continuing to process pending applications for citizenship even though the passports for investment scheme was axed last November amid a scandal over corruption ...

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years. Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient ...

By Mary Spyrou The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is “particularly concerned” over the dramatic reduction in the number of human remains found in recent exhumations, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Bee Gees, as denigrated as they were loved, wrote a song called ‘Words’ a line of which goes, ‘Talk in everlasting ...

A total of 20 flights from Russia that were due to land in Cyprus throughout last week have not been able to depart due to the fact that the Russian government ...

Kato Polemidia municipal councillors in Limassol on Wednesday broke into and took over an old co-op bank in protest against a government decision to give the building to the Famagusta ...

NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades – to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth’s so-called ...

By Mary Spyrou As of tomorrow, June 10, curfew will be lifted, and the 50 per cent capacity limit will no longer apply to workers in the wider public sector and to ...

In this video, cookbook author and Food Network host, Ina Garten whips up a wonderfully fresh ‘Cape Cod’ chopped salad, pulsing with the salt-sweet flavours of blue cheese and cranberries, ...

The leaders of the European Union and the United States are set to commit at a summit in Brussels next week to ending their transatlantic trade disputes, and to call ...

The EU and the US are set to endorse a joint declaration during their summit on June 15 in Brussels, for a “renewed transatlantic partnership” that will also work for sustainable ...