Archive 2021

In this video, Principal Artists of The Royal Ballet Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov perform the stunning Act III pas de deux from ‘Don Quixote’. Love and friendship triumph ...

A 25-year-old Cypriot had been intubated in critical condition in an Athens hospital after he was bitten by a cobra, Greek media reported on Friday. The man, who was said ...

France’s medical regulator approved the resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, but said it should be given only to people aged 55 and older. The restriction breaks ...

District court judges were back in class this week for a one-day online seminar on how sentencing can serve as an effective deterrent to road fatalities. The seminar, organised by ...

It doesn’t get more exotic than Mayotte! A land of abundant spices, unique flavours, and varying cuisines, this French overseas territory is part of the Comoros archipelago off south-east ...

In the early days of peace talks with Kurdish militants in 2013, Turkey’s then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke out against ethnic divisions and declared, “we are a government that has ...

In this video, we learn why the world’s tallest mountain just got a little taller. In December of 2020, China and Nepal made a joint announcement about a new measurement ...

Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-come is the title of the new book co-edited by Michalinos Zembylas, professor of educational theory and curriculum studies at the Open ...

By Paul Lambis 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the 1821 Revolution against the Ottomans, a bitter struggle that gave birth to the modern Greek nation. The Greek War of Independence, which ...

Manchester United will meet Spanish side Granada in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, with Arsenal up against the side who knocked Scottish champions Rangers out in the last 16, Slavia ...

EU leaders will endorse prolonged export checks and seek to coordinate an eventual lifting of travel curbs when they meet next week to discuss COVID-19 vaccination shortages, according to a ...

Larnaca district court on Friday sentenced a 40-year-old man to 14 months in jail for cultivating cannabis. The man, who is from Limassol, was arrested on January 15 after the drug squad ...

Holders Bayern Munich will face the team they beat in last year’s Champions League final in this season’s quarter-finals after being paired with Paris St Germain in Friday’...

A British newspaper has reported that Russia is understood to have engaged in “electronic warfare” against RAF aircraft taking off from the Akrotiri British base in Cyprus. The Times quoted ...

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The European Commission has sent more than half a million rapid antigen tests to Cyprus to facilitate checks to contain the spread of the pandemic, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

England manager Gareth Southgate believes football could “take the weight” off the NHS by buying Covid vaccines and administering them to professional players. With the mass vaccinations rolled out across ...

The coronavirus pandemic slashed an estimated three per cent off local wages and salaries in the second and third quarters last year, the annual report on the economy and employment ...

Defining ‘home’ can be a more complex task than it initially seems. A house transforms into a home when it’s filled with cherished memories, a loved one’s embrace ...

Good Lifers, you know we like to give you a fun weekend recipe every Friday, to celebrate a hard-earned window of leisure and pleasure. Today, it’s fragrant, nutty, Tarta ...

Nearly a dozen countries resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots on Friday as EU and British regulators said the benefits outweighed any risks after reports of rare instances of ...

Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos denied on Friday that the law firm he was a partner in had drafted the agreement to hand over the management of over €7bn in bad ...

German health minister Jens Spahn on Friday dampened hopes that further coronavirus restrictions will be lifted soon, saying rising infections could mean that curbs to slow the spread of the ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow always hoped for the best but prepared for the worst when it was asked about the possibility of a new Cold War between ...