Archive 2023

It is quite the week for live music gigs as numerous bars hosts the island’s musicians for sometimes intimate, sometimes rocking lives. Nicosia New Division has now set Thursday ...

A fire that broke out in an abandoned house in Strovolos, Nicosia killed one person, and has put another man in the hospital with second degree burns, the fire services ...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country’s ...

The golden passport trial has been postponed until April 26, when a number of objections by the defence lawyers of the suspects will be examined, the Nicosia Criminal Court decided on ...

Executives and officials from some of the world’s top oil and gas companies said on Tuesday energy markets are balanced now, but could easily be disrupted due to tight ...

Local artist Maria Trillidou is showcasing her latest body of work titled Pink Mink at The O Gallery this month. The exhibition includes drawings of plant-like organisms on paper and ...

Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on Wednesday the government’s proposals to stop almost all migrants ever claiming asylum were legal despite warnings that the legislation would break ...

Record performance in 2022 reaching a 40 per cent increase in overall subscriber base and a 19.4 per cent increase in revenue. Highlights of 2022 performance: 40 per cent increase in subscriber base 102 per cent ...

Manchester United’s 7-0 loss at Liverpool was the result of a lack of communication, forward Marcus Rashford said on Wednesday as he dismissed suggestions that the Old Trafford club’...

Disy leadership contender Demetris Demetriou challenged his competitor House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday to hold a debate ahead of the party elections. “Both of us have carried ourselves with ...

The Cyprus-based fintech company, Armenotech, will be actively participating in central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects internationally in 2023. The company is considering taking part in three ventures, two of which ...

Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risk to their lives have sued the state of Texas, in the first apparent case of pregnant women suing over ...

Heineken (HEIO.AS) on Tuesday blamed the delay in its Russia exit on local bureaucracy that it said was beyond its control, and reiterated it still planned to exit the ...

PAUL LAMBIS speaks to two boys in Australia who have brought the Yiayia next door’s recipes to a wider audience and discovers a poignant story behind the move It ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will focus on the disproportionate migration pressures faced by Cyprus at the Home Affairs Council in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. “The minister of the interior ...

President Nicos Christodoulides pressed his new cabinet to not allow a single euro to go to waste from the available EU funds of the Recovery and Resilience programme. In short, ...

The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Wednesday announced that it has concluded an agreement for its participation in the Academianet Network, with the aim of strengthening women’s activity ...

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said on Wednesday his forces had taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as one of ...

Rallies marking International Women’s Day took place around the world on Wednesday after a year in which girls in Afghanistan were banned from education, mass women’s rights protests ...

Students from the Kinneret College of Israel visited a Limassol-based college to exchange views on historical and cultural issues. The group of Israeli students visited the premises of CTL Eurocollege ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Exclusion: youngsters can be inordinately cruel to each other, causing mental agony particularly for teens also coping with changes to their bodies. When stealth bullying turns ...

Men are getting paid up to four times more than female athletes, it emerged on Wednesday during a discussion of the House education committee promoting a law amendment to ensure ...

Outgoing Disy leader Averof Neophytou met with President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday and congratulated the new president and wished him every success. Neophytou did not attend Christodoulides’ official ceremony in ...

Reports on Wednesday were circulating that Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos will be running as Disy’s deputy party leader. The elections for party leader are set to take place this ...