Archive 2022

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders urged a judge on Tuesday to find Elon Musk coerced the company’s board into a 2016 deal for SolarCity and asked that the chief executive ...

Two New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical water supplies for the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami and largely cut ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is buying “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their ...

The hospitality industry has experienced a change in consumer behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic, according to research conducted by Insights Market Research (IMR) on behalf of Corporate Events and Media ...

President Anastasiades expressed the hope that the UN Security Council resolution for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate would include the things that were missing from the report of the ...

A positive note for the most endangered marine mammal species in Mediterranean sea By Marios Papageorgiou Its pretty eyes, cute face and shyness are not enough to keep the species ...

Vasiliko area communities on Tuesday welcomed moves to address their safety concerns. including through increased government oversight of projects underway there. The decisions were taken at an urgent meeting convened ...

An explosion and fire gutted a row house in New York City’s Bronx borough on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring nine, including five police officers, the ...

The Cyprus Consumers’ and Quality of Life Union has filed a formal complaint against a number of petroleum companies over what it calls unjustified and arbitrary increases in prices of ...

The European border and coast guard agency helped return a record of more than 18,000 non-EU nationals to 102 countries last year, with Cyprus being among the main operations, a report showed ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that the justice system faces imminent collapse unless a reform drive goes through now as a broad meeting of stakeholders was held at the ...

By Sabine Siebold and Susan Heavey Germany signalled on Tuesday that it could halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine, and Western nations rallied behind Kyiv ...

An online auction for a villa in central Rome, which has the only known ceiling mural by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio, failed to draw any bidders on Tuesday, meaning it ...

Authorities on Tuesday announced that five more people have died of Covid-19, while testing tracked 2,200 new positives. The latest fatalities were four men – aged 90, 89, 83 and 67 – and a woman aged 86. The 89...

Some 3,000 asylum seekers have obtained jobs amid keen interest to fill vacant positions in the labour market, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. And as of January 17, a total ...

Six per cent of hospitalised coronavirus patients have received the booster shot and contracted the virus two weeks or more after its administration, the health ministry said on Tuesday. According ...

The contentious ‘test to stay’ measure will be implemented at schools as of Monday, the health ministry said on Tuesday after a meeting between Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas and the ...

Britain’s payments regulator on Tuesday fined five payments companies including Mastercard a total of 33 million pounds ($45.01 million) for cartel behaviour involving prepaid cards issued to vulnerable people on welfare ...

The Recovery and Resilience Plan will facilitate the path towards improved productivity and significantly affect GDP growth, the Economics Research Centre of the University of Cyprus (CypERC) has said in ...

Six illegal bird trappers were arrested in the past two weeks, according to numbers published by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) on Tuesday. In a social media post, the ...

The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed a bill for extending the time window for paternity leave to help families balance their family and professional lives. The bill, submitted by ...

A total of 79 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

By Gloria Dickie Tonga’s massive underwater volcanic eruption could deliver long-lasting damage to coral reefs, erode coastlines and disrupt fisheries, say scientists studying satellite images and looking to the ...

By Alexandra Valencia Ecuador on Friday created a new marine reserve around its pristine Galapagos Islands — whose rich biodiversity inspired Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — as it seeks to ...