Liverpool have chance to appear in City’s rear view mirror
– Liverpool have the chance to cut Manchester City’s Premier League lead, albeit briefly, to six points on Saturday as they continue their distant pursuit of the champions.
Despite his ...
Winter sports ‘superpower’ Norway set golden record at Beijing
Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe won the men’s biathlon 15km mass start to claim their 15th gold medal at the Beijing Games on Friday, a Winter Olympics record achieved ...
UK shoppers return to stores after Omicron knock
British shoppers began to return to stores last month after many stayed away during a wave of COVID-19 cases that peaked at the turn of the year, although fast-rising inflation ...
Hermit kingdom no longer: Western Australia to open borders after two years
Western Australia, the mining-heavy state that has held firm on strict borders controls for two years, said it will be reopening to triple vaccinated visitors after deciding it can cope ...
Coronavirus: New timetable for walk-in jab centres
The health ministry on Friday announced a new timetable for walk-in vaccination centres across the republic, which will apply from Monday, February 21.
As of Monday, walk-in centres in all districts ...
Airbus hopes for amicable solution in deadlocked Qatar dispute
Airbus (AIR.PA) hopes to reach an amicable solution in a row with Qatar Airways over damage to the surface of A350 passenger jets, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said on ...
EU’s oil and petroleum consumption hit record low in 2020
Pandemic restrictions in 2020 reduced the European Union’s oil and petroleum consumption in energy use to its lowest in 30 years, the bloc’s statistics office said on Friday.
Eurostat said ...
FM reiterates Cyprus’ principled position on Palestinian issue
Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, and Ambassador of Palestine to Cyprus Abdallah Attari, discussed on Friday bilateral relations between Cyprus and Palestine, developments in the Middle East and the Cyprus problem.
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Turkish consumer confidence drops 2.8 per cent in February
Turkish consumer confidence dropped 2.8 per cent to 71.2 points in February, official data showed on Friday, but remained higher than a record low level it touched in December due to a ...
Roundabout construction in Yermasoyia
Works on the construction of a roundabout at the junction of Christakis Kranou and Daedalides in Yermasoyia will begin on Monday and will last until August 13, the department of public ...
Survey tracks social, economic impact of cancer
Cypriots and permanent residents of Cyprus with cancer experience are being urged to participate in an international survey on the socioeconomic impact of cancer.
In a press release, the Cyprus ...
Major strike at Paris metro disrupts daily commute for millions
A major strike paralysed most of Paris’s metro network and city train grid on Friday, disrupting the daily commutes of millions of people, as workers demand greater pay hikes ...
From Inventing Anna to The Dropout – why Hollywood loves a scammer
Dramatisations and documentaries about scammers are taking over our streaming services. Laura Harding appraises the offerings.
What is it about scammers that we find so hard to resist? There is ...
Public urged to recycle batteries
On the occasion of Battery Day, the environment department issued a call for the public to recycle their batteries, as they can pose a great risk to the environment “despite ...
Container ship carrying luxury vehicles catches fire near Azores
A container ship carrying a number of Volkswagen Group vehicles from Germany to the United States caught fire near the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands on Wednesday evening, a ...
Ransomware attack takes place every 11 seconds says Cybersecurity Ventures
A ransomware attack took place every 11 seconds in 2021, as opposed to every 39 seconds in 2019, the National Computer Security Incident Response Team for Cyprus (CSIRT-CY) said on Friday.
CSIRT-CY said that ...
Frank, unapologetic, and female-oriented: the cultural legacy of Sex and the City, and the lure of the reboot
By Laura Glitsos
The 2020s is the age of the reboot. Without a doubt, one of the most anticipated has been the revival of the iconic TV show Sex and ...
Vasiliko communities step up action against asphalt plants
The leaders of the nine communities near Vasiliko will stage a demonstration next Saturday to protest the imminent relocation of two asphalt plants to the area.
During the protest on ...
Italian opera and piano classics coming to Paphos
Come March and classical music lovers will have plenty of opportunities to enjoy some live performances in Paphos, starting from the very first week. On March 4, young soprano Ekaterina Savva ...
Paphos police domestic violence unit makes more than 120 arrests in first year
Paphos domestic violence police unit on Friday said it has investigated 259 complaints with “seriousness and responsibility” during its first year of operations.
According to the assistant chief of Paphos police ...
Two more arrested in Turkey in connection to Falyali murder
Two more arrests have taken place in Istanbul in relation to the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali, the Cyprus News Agency said on Friday, citing Turkish media.
This ...
Cutting funds puts Gesy viability in danger, says HIO (updated)
By Nick Theodoulou and Gina Agapiou
Knives are out in the Gesy row after the finance ministry drew its scalpel and trimmed €150m from the Health Insurance Organisation’s (HIO) ...
Anastasiades has ‘constructive’ meeting with Macron
The Cyprus problem and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) proposed by the Greek Cypriot side were among the matters discussed during a meeting President Nicos Anastasiades had with French President Emmanuel ...
Development of Larnaca port ‘will benefit whole of Cyprus’
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Friday said the planned Larnaca marina and port development will not only benefit the town but the entire Cypriot economy, adding that works are proceeding ...