Archive 2023

Dawn Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ended peacefully on Sunday after days of heightened tension at the flashpoint Jerusalem site, as a mass Passover benediction at the adjacent ...

Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc has asked fans to respect his privacy after they keep turning up outside his Monaco apartment. The 25-year-old Monegasque, who had an exclusive watch ...

The announcement of an increased fiscal surplus for the first two months of the year, amounting to €363m, is further proof that the Cypriot economy has resilience and is based ...

The broader services sector in Cyprus recorded an increase of 6.6 per cent year-on-year in 2022, with accommodation and food services (44.4 per cent), information and communication (15 per cent) and transport and storage (10.8 ...

How the ancient settlement of roundhouses in the Cyprus village of Chirokitia could provide the blueprint for sustainable living on Mars is the focus of the Cyprus stand at the ...

The longest running charity drive on the island reached its peak on Sunday with the holding of the 48th Christodoula March to raise money for cancer charities. The slogan of ...

It really is impossible to answer ‘who do we think we are?’ By Gavin Jones Before formulating my take on one of the most intractable and long-running disputes on the ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said striker Erling Haaland is of the same calibre as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo after the Norwegian international scored twice in Saturday’s 4-1 ...

With dust in the atmosphere until Monday, the weather for Holy Week is set to be unsettled with snow expected on Troodos on Wednesday. On Sunday light rains are expected ...

50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, authorities said. Ukraine’s State ...

A 36-year-old man in Famagusta has been arrested after being found in possession of 255g of cannabis. According to the drugs squad, Ykan, at about 5pm on Saturday, its officers ...

Several cryptocurrencies are on the market, making it more difficult to find a viable project to invest your money in. One of the things to look out for when searching ...

Here’s a summary of the top business news stories from the week starting April 3 in Cyprus: Eurobank Cyprus was awarded the “Best Private Banking Boutique in Cyprus” award by ...

Last week I was taken to task in the comments section for suggesting a referendum as a ladder for all parties to climb down in the political crisis in Israel ...

By identifying the gender of chicks in their eggs, EU-funded technologies could help prevent the killing of millions of the birds every year. By Pieter Devuyst Wil Stutterheim is on ...

The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the “Troubles”, three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 – which fell that year ...

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, ...

Despite the rhetoric about his determination to secure the resumption of talks for a Cyprus settlement as soon as possible, President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit to Egypt – a little over ...

John F. Kennedy, June 1963 President John F. Kennedy came to Ireland five months before his assassination for a visit that drew huge crowds wherever he travelled. He later told aides ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is preparing his players to take their Premier League title charge to the Anfield “jungle” as they look to end a marathon winless run at the ...

The US Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve ...

Staff seem to have sacrificed quality for quantity in their obsession with the cult of GDP growth The concluding statement of the IMF outlining its preliminary findings at the end ...

With the launch of ChatGPT late last year speculation on its impact on the labour force has been largely negative but those in Cyprus see it could boost productivity, and ...

Saudi officials have arrived in Iran to discuss procedures for reopening Riyadh’s embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad after China brokered a deal to restore relations between the ...