Archive 2021

The fire service saved a hunter on Sunday morning after he injured his leg in the Ayios Ioannis Agros area. In a Tweet, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis said that ...

Two recent incidents have attempted to undermine the status of the University of Cyprus In the relatively short period since its foundation in 1989, the University of Cyprus has established itself ...

The fire services have responded to around 39 calls in Larnaca due to heavy rainfall on Sunday morning. In a Tweet, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said the calls for help ...

Technology now touches everything we do and has transformed major sectors of our society: media, education, transportation and healthcare, to name just a few. More importantly perhaps, technology has fundamentally ...

A total of 5,730 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Saturday, the ministry of health announced on Sunday. At the State Fair in Nicosia 787 people were jabbed at the E station ...

Twenty-seven individuals and 19 businesses were charged in the 48 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday morning by police for breaking coronavirus measures. During the two-day period a total of 5,358 checks ...

The bodies of two Russian women missing since November have been removed from the ground after they were found buried in the early hours of Sunday in the garden of ...

FOR TWO days, we heard and saw nothing else but Pope Francis, being ferried from one place to the next, conducting services, meeting all types of people, from the humble ...

Police will launch an islandwide campaign on Monday against driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The traffic police will carry out checks until Sunday December 12, and they said ...

By Prasto Wardoyo and Willy Kurniawan Ten people trapped after Indonesia’s Semeru volcano erupted have been evacuated to safety, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on Sunday, as the ...

A yellow weather warning has been issued by the Met office for strong storms on Sunday. The warning is in place from 7am to 2pm and covers various parts of ...

Paramedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and city workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction – but the concepts are part of a advanced air mobility (AAM) ...

British supermarket group Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) has postponed all Christmas parties until the new year, fearing the emergence of the coronavirus Omicron variant could lead to higher staff absence ...

From Alpha to Omega but leaving out Xi Alpha was the UK variant, Beta the South African, Gamma the Brazilian, and Delta the Indian. The Chinese virus is outside the ...

Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to cut income tax by 2 pence to the pound or to slash rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) before the next election, ...

Bitcoin shed a fifth of its value on Saturday as a combination of profit-taking and macro-economic concerns triggered nearly a billion dollars worth of selling across cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was 12 per ...

Covid measures and other pressures on Gesy could result in medical access not being available when people need it most The death of a pensioner who was sent packing from ...

Before Pope Francis had even arrived in Cyprus, it was announced that he would be taking 50 migrants back to the Vatican with him. Ten of the 50 were released from prison ...

Chelsea paid a heavy price for a 3-2 defeat at West Ham United as first Liverpool, then Manchester City, leapfrogged them in the Premier League title race on Saturday, with ...

Paphos hotels operated at a 50-55 per cent capacity in November, Paphos hoteliers association head Thanos Michaelides said on Saturday. Even though November did not reach 2019 figures, it was a ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died from Covid-19 and that 428 had tested positive from 78,007 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.55 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through several northwest European cities on Saturday to demonstrate against coronavirus restrictions imposed amid a surge in infections. Austria last month became the first ...

An elderly Greek Orthodox priest shouted “Pope, you are a heretic” as Pope Francis was entering the Orthodox Archbishopric in Athens on Saturday and was taken away by police, a ...

Scores of people gathered in Limasssol on Saturday afternoon, to protest the government’s most recent measures against coronavirus. Centred on freedom of choice, the peaceful demonstration began around 3pm ...