Archive 2023

An avalanche struck the Tibetan peak of Shishapangma on Saturday, killing an American and Nepalese climber, while two others remained missing, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. Shishapangma, ...

Azerbaijan’s president scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a ...

Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country. ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting October 2: The Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) Constantinos Herodotou on Friday used his keynote address ...

The appointment of Sue Carr last week as the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is another first for the Conservative party. Chief Justice Carr was appointed by ...

THE POOR guy had been in his new post just four days before he became the target of a character assassination attempt by the media. Stavros Avgoustides took over as ...

European Union antitrust regulators have commissioned a study into mobile ecosystems to help them counter any pushback from Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google in complying with ...

Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which nearly 500 people were killed in the ...

The inevitable public outcry followed the revelation that President Nikos Christodoulides, apart from his salary, was being paid a monthly state pension of €1300. It was ethically unacceptable and provocative that ...

Monthly US ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55 per cent year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in ...

Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday that it has started rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations ...

Cyprus receives more energy from the sun per square metre than anywhere else in Europe and yet there is no end in sight to our energy woes “Between May and ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his third Formula One world championship while still racing after team mate and sole title rival Sergio Perez crashed out of a Qatar Grand ...

Simos Galatariotis / Antonis Ioannou (Volkswagen Polo GTi R5) lead the 50th Cyprus Rally after the first day of the event. Second overall are Nasser Al-Attiyah (Qatar) / Mathieu Baumel (Andorra) driving ...

Substitute Scott McTominay struck twice deep into stoppage time to snatch a 2-1 win for Manchester United over Brentford in a thrilling end to their Premier League clash at Old ...

Limassol’s wine festival was slated to begin on Saturday night, with plenty of music, food, and of course wine, to last for the week-long cultural event. This year marks ...

Roma coach Jose Mourinho said he fully expects to work in Saudi Arabia one day after his compatriot, Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, led the way by joining Al-Nasr, with a ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family in ...

Winger Louis Rees-Zammit scored a hat-trick of tries as Wales beat Georgia 43-19 to secure first place in World Cup Pool C on Saturday and a quarter-final against Argentina or ...

Three years after it closed its doors, CCC is finally back. Alix Norman was amongst the thousands of visitors who revelled in today’s excitements In 2019, a mere five years ...

A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish ...

Tottenham Hotspur went top of the Premier League table with a 1-0 win at Luton Town on Saturday, despite playing the whole of the second half with 10 men. Dutch defender ...

Aiden Markram smashed a 49-ball hundred, the fastest in the history of 50-overs World Cup cricket, as South Africa racked up a tournament record total of 428-5 against a listless ...

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the manufacture of Sarmat, Russia’s new silo-based intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile system, due to enter service shortly, his ministry said on Saturday. Shoigu ...