Archive 2021

The met office issued a yellow weather warning on Monday in place from 6pm until 5am on Tuesday. Storms and rain are forecast to affect the entire island with rainfall ...

Germany‘s health minister said on Monday that although measures to contain the coronavirus had started to have an effect, more needed to be done to bring it permanently under ...

The miserable catalogue of disgusting examples of selfishness and downright obduracy spelt out by this damning and rapier-like editorial is no surprise to those of us who have been watching ...

A total of 1,080 Pfizer vaccine doses were delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community on Monday morning through the bicommunal technical committee on health. The vaccines are part of the total ...

Britain’s vaccine rollout is limited by a “lumpy” manufacturing process with production changes by Pfizer and a delay by AstraZeneca that could lead to brief supply disruption, Vaccine Deployment ...

Investigations into a case of burglary at three different shops in Paphos are at an advanced stage after the arrest of a 29-year-old suspect, according to Paphos police spokesman Michalis ...

In this video, kids will learn how to draw a hedgehog from four different perspectives. This will help young artists discover the variety offered by capturing the same object from ...

The health ministry said the 3,466 appointments for vaccinations which became available on Monday were booked in less than an hour. The appointments concern the first round of Pfizer-BioNTech for people ...

Subathing by the window, hitting balls against a mattress and running sprints in corridors, quarantined tennis players are getting creative as they try to kill time in their hotel rooms ...

This video is meant to expand your general knowledge about living a healthy life and is NOT a substitute for seeking medical advice. Please consult with your doctor before making ...

Fans of ‘Sex and the City’ were excited to learn that the production of the series reboot is planned to begin in 2021. But they were utterly disappointed to learn that ...

England secured a seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the first test on Monday but there will be only muted celebrations at the tourists’ hotel as life in a bio-secure ...

Liverpool’s winless league run stretched to four games after an Anfield stalemate but in contrast Manchester City were back to their ruthless best. At the other end of the ...

The sewerage board of Limassol (Sala) will sign a contract to prevent the northern areas of the town from flooding in the next few days, it announced on Monday, two ...

The European Central Bank will this week face more questions about an increasingly challenging outlook only a month after it unleashed fresh stimulus to bolster the euro zone economy. Policymakers ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos will meet President Nicos Anastasiades at 10am to discuss the revised state budget for 2021, which is scheduled to be put to the vote on Thursday. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the second dose of a Covid vaccine, some three weeks after the first jab. After spending the mandatory 15 minutes at Latsia health centre, where ...

The Nicosia district office will remain closed on Monday due to confirmed coronavirus cases, the interior ministry announced. The ministry informed the public that the offices will be disinfected in ...

I’m all for a solution to the Cyprus problem, however the author seems to be omitting a ton of weaknesses with the proposed US constitutional federal legal panacea he ...

Police booked 127 individuals and three businesses from Sunday until Monday to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In total, 10,653 checks were carried out, 3,177 in Nicosia, 2,788 in Limassol, 1,104 in Larnaca, 1,051 in ...

The roads leading to Troodos are open only for vehicles with snow chains or four-wheel drives due to frost, while more snow is expected to fall during the day. Roads ...

China’s economy picked up speed in the fourth quarter, with growth beating expectations as it ended a rough coronavirus-striken 2020 in remarkably good shape and remained poised to expand further ...

Israel’s economy is likely to grow by 4.6 per cent this year, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday in a forecast reliant on continuation of rapid Covid-19 inoculations and a ...

Syria, hit by sanctions, has over the past year faced months of gasoline and fuel shortages, forcing it to ration supplies distributed across government-held areas and to apply several rounds ...