Archive January 2023

China defended on Thursday its handling of its raging COVID-19 outbreak after U.S. President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus ...

Top students from Cyprus received outstanding Cambridge learner awards for their 2022 academic achievements. Over 49 learners in Cyprus received awards for exceptional performance in Cambridge examinations, achieving a total of 59 awards. ...

Studies suggest that peptides like AOD 9604 may help battle excessive body fat and help test subjects keep their BMIs in the healthy range of 18.5 to 24.9, but is AOD-9604 a novel ...

The Federal Reserve ended 2022 with a firm promise at its December policy meeting that interest rates would continue rising this year, but at a slower pace and perhaps only by ...

Cyclists will be required to wear a protective helmet as of next month or will be fined, the government has announced. The specifications of the type of protective helmet have ...

Britain experienced its hottest year on record in 2022, the national weather service confirmed on Wednesday, saying that human-induced climate change had made the temperature rise around 160 times more likely. The ...

The Egyptian pound weakened to 26.49 to the dollar on Wednesday, its biggest one-day move since the central bank allowed it to fall by 14.5 per cent on Oct. 27, according Refinitiv Data. ...

I must have walked the shopping streets of Larnaca hundreds of times. Knowing the little alleyways and back streets that connect roads is very handy because, who wants to go ...

Britain’s Prince Harry says in an upcoming book that his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’...

The Larnaca marina will be open to the public during the celebration of the Epiphany on January 6, an announcement released by the town’s municipality said on Thursday. “Kition Ocean ...

Novak Djokovic battled back from 5-2 down in the first set to beat Quentin Halys 7-6(3) 7-6(5) and move into the Adelaide International 1 quarter-finals on Thursday. Halys, ranked 64th in ...

Harry Kane closed in on Jimmy Greaves’ all-time Tottenham Hotspur goalscoring record as he helped Spurs thrash Crystal Palace 4-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday, while Nottingham Forest beat ...

Ukraine’s military estimated on Thursday that 800 Russian soldiers were killed in the past day, mostly in fighting in the eastern Donetsk region, while Western allies pledged supplies of armoured ...

A confrontational stage piece that seeks to shake up Cypriot norms about sexuality, gender roles and freedom is coming to the island. And in English! The international sound-theatre duo Physical ...

In today’s episode, the UN secretary general’s mission of good offices report detailed a bleak review and outlook for the Cyprus problem, despite a poll finding that a ...

The official nomination procedure for presidential candidates took place on Thursday where a record 14 hopefuls threw their name in for the top position in the country as each pledged to ...

Police arrested three people for allegedly plotting a murder, after a 61-year-old man was found dead outside his apartment building, the authorities said on Thursday. According to police, the man, ...

Republicans in the House of Representatives failed for a second straight day to elect a leader on Wednesday, as a faction of holdouts repeatedly defied former President Donald Trump’s ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) on Wednesday released a statement calling on the government to draw up and implement immediate relief measures for consumers, households, businesses and ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Wednesday published a report detailing interest rate statistics concerning Cypriot banks, including for deposits and loans of eurozone residents in euros, as well ...

Cypriot digital agency Base Element on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a collaborative initiative with US company Medalia, ultimately seeking to improve the customer experience for brands. “Medallia, ...

Banks should be more careful about the risks of fraud, legal uncertainty and misleading disclosures by crypto firms, US regulators warned on Tuesday, just two months after the collapse of ...

Plans are being set in motion to create a national suicide prevention scheme the health ministry said on Wednesday as records show a spike in suicides during the 2013 financial crisis, ...

There is almost nothing positive in the UN Secretary-General’s latest draft reports on his Good Offices Mission and on Unficyp that are due for release this week. Irrespective of ...