Archive 2023

By Helen Pleasance The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing ...

Explora Journeys, together with its exclusive partner for Cyprus, Century Travel Group, marked the launch of operations in Cyprus in the presence of government, municipality and public-sector leaders, as well ...

Four years after the tragic events surrounding the serial killer ‘Orestis’ Metaxas, a documentary is being made to shed light on those affected by his crimes in which the bodies ...

Cyprus Airways this week announced that it is upgrading its fleet with the advanced A220 aircraft, which offers increased efficiency and further enables the company’s direction toward improved sustainability. ...

There were at least 209 Pakistani “victims” on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank in open seas off Greece last week, according to data shared by a Pakistani investigative agency ...

The Bank of England raised interest rates by a bigger-than-expected half a percentage point on Thursday after it said there had been “significant” news suggesting British inflation would take longer ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday warned that the plans announced by the north and Turkey to build 1,200 social housing units in occupied Dherynia is creating new faits accomplis. Speaking at ...

Anna Gubareva, founder of City Friends Club in Limassol, Cyprus, has been awarded the coveted Red Diamond Award for 2023, at a lavish event hosted by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce ...

A total of 80 scientists from 23 different countries are set to descend on Paphos this weekend for the 2023 International Conference of Odonatology (IOC) – the study of dragonflies. The conference will see ...

Brexit has been an “economic disaster” for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct investment and seeing the UK decline ...

Hope for Children will host free summer schools in both Nicosia and Limassol, each lasting two weeks, where those attending will take part in key activities and discussions. The organisation ...

More than 30 migrants were feared dead after a dinghy headed for Spain’s Canary Islands sank on Wednesday, two migration-focused organisations said, as they criticised Spain and Morocco for not ...

British banks are gearing up to share more data with their peers on suspected serious economic crime as part of wider efforts to stem dirty money flows into the country ...

Dozens of Syrian migrants arrived in the Famagusta area overnight on Thursday, police said following an operation to tow their boat safely to shore. According to police, a total of 37 ...

A group of Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders has filed a class action suit accusing former executives at the Swiss bank, including three past chief CEOs, of being responsible for the ...

A Russian man who is listed on Interpol’s wanted list has been found and arrested in the north. Stanislav Mitrushi was arrested by Turkish Cypriot police in Trikomo on ...

Ministers are examining measures to actively support the revitalisation of Tylliria as previous efforts to stem the tide of urban flight from the region have failed, it was announced on ...

The foreign and local experts that will undertake investigations in the controversial ‘golden passports’ issue have been named by the independent authority against corruption in an announcement on Thursday. According ...

Turkey’s central bank is expected to raise its policy rate sharply on Thursday in a strong signal that re-elected President Tayyip Erdogan has accepted some steps toward economic orthodoxy ...

International Day of Yoga (IDY) was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2015 and since then it has been celebrated across the globe every year on June 21. ...

An explosion damaged a home in Limassol on Thursday, police said, from a makeshift bomb that had been thrown at the house. According to police, at midnight a makeshift explosive ...

Ilkay Gundogan will join Barcelona on a free transfer from treble winners Manchester City, the BBC and Sky Sports reported on Wednesday. Gundogan will leave City after captaining the English ...

A gas explosion at a barbecue eatery on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, in one of the country’s deadliest ...

Ukrainian missiles struck one of the few bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the Ukrainian mainland early on Thursday, cutting one of the main supply routes for Russian occupation forces ...