Archive 2021

Britain proposed weakening the market grip of “Big Four” auditors on Thursday and making company directors responsible for spotting fraud after the collapses of retailer BHS and builder Carillion. Directors ...

Britons are planning on using a portion of savings accumulated over the last year to go on a £50 billion spending spree when lockdown is lifted, according to a collaborative report ...

Budget airlines Ryanair and EasyJet are both predicting a boom in summer travel this year. But the “jury is still out,” say travel industry analysts at ING. Full recovery for ...

In a decision that could have a bearing on Cyprus, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Wednesday that the fact that limesticks were supposedly a traditional ...

Ever since the Makarios presidency, the construction of roads has always been considered a big vote-winner. We cannot say whether it is as effective today as it was in the ‘70...

Chelsea beat Atletico Madrid 2-0 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014 as Hakim Ziyech and Emerson Palmieri were on target to give coach ...

Holders Bayern Munich cruised through to the Champions League quarter-finals for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons after beating Lazio 2-1 at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday to secure ...

The past year has been a difficult one for all sections of our community. In the business sector, the challenge of dealing with the pandemic has fallen heavily on Human ...

Police fined two women aged 40 and 25, €300 each for participating in the carnival party last Sunday in Limassol. The 40-year-old was identified through a photo posted on social media while the 25...

Interest in cybersex is soaring as the pandemic has left people subject to lockdowns and travel bans and unable to seek intimacy in the usual ways, according to experience designer ...

Larnaca municipality will install a special bin for plastic bottle caps at its temporary green spot so that these can be recycled. Net proceeds will go to support the municipal ...

The collapse of Lebanon’s currency has forced many grocery shops to temporarily shut within the last 24 hours, raising fears that a country reliant on imports could soon face shortages ...

Results from the Cyprus Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday: Second Leg: Olympiakos 1 Ethnikos Achnas 0 Aggregate: 2-1 Nea Salamina 1 AEL 0 Aggregate: 1-2

The health ministry announced 382 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday out of 38,685 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.99 per cent. No deaths were reported, but there are now 218 ...

Mars was once a wet world, with abundant bodies of water on its surface. But this changed dramatically billions of years ago, leaving behind the desolate landscape known today. So ...

Pupils with disabilities can get tested for coronavirus in state hospitals by providing saliva which is then processed through the molecular method (PCR) but saliva self-testing is not considered reliable, ...

President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the November 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, and that they would come ...

It is important to find necessary convergences at next month’s informal five-party summit to allow the UN secretary-general (UNSG) to convene a conference for substantive talks for a Cyprus ...

With bars and restaurants re-opening, the live music scene is returning. The island’s west coast is brewing something exciting for music fans as the Paphos Music Lovers Association is ...

Nearly one in ten young people are addicted to social media while one in four were found to have generalised problematic internet use, according to a survey presented to the ...

The suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta on Tuesday indicated he had issues with sexual addiction and the shootings may have ...

Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham offered a “heartfelt apology” to the survivors of historical sexual abuse for failing to protect them. An independent review by Clive Sheldon QC said ...

The anti-money laundering unit of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will carry out checks among companies it supervises that have business links with individuals who have secured a ...

As NASA’s Perseverance rover explores the surface of Mars, scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer ...