Archive 2022

China’s Xinjiang on Saturday warned of more flash floods and mudslides and risks to agriculture as heatwaves swept across the region, accelerating the pace of glacial melt and posing ...

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person. Google, which ...

A musical duo have come together to make audiences laugh. They are going from strength to strength finds ALIX NORMAN ‘Some doctors like you flat on your back, When they ...

By Max Hunder The United States promised more military support for Ukraine, including drones, and is doing preliminary work on whether to send fighter aircraft, as fighting raged on in ...

A Cyprus Scops owl has made herself comfortable in an artificial nest, one of about 1,000 owl nesting boxes that have been put up in various locations across the island as ...

The CyBC broadcast the first televised debate of presidential candidates on Thursday night. The guests were Disy leader Averof Neophytou, independent candidate backed by Akel, Andreas Mavroyiannis, and independent candidate ...

Tunisian police used pepper spray and sticks on Friday to disperse dozens of protesters who were trying to march towards the Interior Ministry during a demonstration against a draft constitution ...

European envoys debated revisions on Friday to a proposal by the EU executive that all bloc members cut natural gas use to prepare for potential Russian supply cuts, hoping for ...

The United States said on Friday it will hold Russia accountable for implementing a UN brokered deal to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports and called out China for ...

A man accused of posing as an agent with the US Department of Homeland Security and lavishing gifts on the Secret Service will plead guilty, according to a court filing ...

Rival factions fought each other in Tripoli overnight and into Friday, killing 13 people in the Libyan capital’s worst clashes for two years as a political standoff festers. Fighters exchanged ...

Russian state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom will be able to ship oil to third countries under an adjustment of European Union sanctions agreed by member states this week aimed at ...

The European Commission on Friday proposed a temporary suspension of EU crop rotation rules to increase cereal production and help head off a global food security crisis due to the ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Greece on July 26 to meet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek foreign ministry said on Friday, in his first visit to an ...

Meet Snake, a kitten with a heck of a war story. And the Ukrainian special forces soldier who saved him. When Ukraine’s military released images in early July of ...

Milk producers and cheese makers signed a much-awaited agreement on PDO-certified halloumi, putting an official end to a longstanding row over Cyprus’ famous cheese. The mutually accepted framework, cobbled together ...

It is not very often that we get to hear vibrant Afro-Brazilian sounds live on the island. In fact, there is only one band in the country that plays the ...

Marathon talks on the introduction of a minimum wage ended without success on Friday, with social partners set to hold fresh meetings next week. Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos, who held ...

An overwhelming majority of people in the north of the island believe that corruption there has increased over the past year, while a staggering 90 per cent of those questioned do ...

President of the HIO board Thomas Antoniou said on Friday the first person he will inform of his resignation is President Nicos Anastasiades. On Thursday Antoniou said he would resign ...

Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, raising hopes that an international food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion ...

A row over the state’s refusal to sponsor the Cyprus Rally at WRC and ERC level over the next four years escalated on Friday amid allegations of misuse of ...

Global stocks were marginally higher on Friday, eyeing a sixth day of gains as European markets rose, while weak euro zone business activity data hit the euro and weighed on ...

There are British, US and Spanish Virgin Islands. And yes, they’re all named for a virgin – actually, for 11,000 virgins! This little archipelago in the Lesser Antilles was named by ...