Archive 2023

Today my complaint is about CoLA! I know that nearly all my friends take care of their grandchildren. Unstintingly! When do we all get paid for “childcare“? And we should ...

A 3.6 earthquake struck 25km northeast of Paralimni just after 8am at a depth of 35km. The geological survey department said there were reports of it having been felt in Famagusta ...

Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf died on Sunday following a prolonged illness at a hospital in Dubai, after years in self-imposed exile. Pakistan‘s military and the country’s mission ...

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland can improve by watching and learning from his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Harry Kane, manager Pep Guardiola said before the Premier League champions travel to the ...

Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded a triple-double of 35 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists as the host Milwaukee Bucks recorded their first win in three tries against the Miami Heat this season with a 123...

Russian President Vladimir Putin in his telephone conversations with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “has not made any threats against me or Germany,” Scholz said in an interview with Sunday newspaper ...

Only a few digital assets have established themselves as market leaders. One of the newest cryptocurrencies, Orbeon Protocol (ORBN), is already making waves in the industry. By the end of ...

By Robert Goldman After a deadly attack that killed seven people outside an East Jerusalem synagogue, the Israeli government responded by sealing off the home of the Palestinian suspect in ...

The global smartphone market continued to falter during the final quarter last year, with sales dropping by 18 per cent, for a total of 296.9 million units, according to a report released ...

Cyprus’ tourism revenues for the period between January and November 2022 are estimated to have amounted to €2.3 billion, coming close to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released this week by ...

This election Sunday all persons testing positive with Covid will be allowed to break their quarantine and go to vote. It is amazing that no one is in danger of ...

Protect yourself in the garden with gloves A recent report in the UK advised that gardeners there should not use glass greenhouses. I would suggest that this not such a ...

A man aged 70 has been arrested in Limassol on suspicion of possessing child pornography, police said on Sunday. Following up on information from Europol, the man was arrested over a ...

SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March, its billionaire chief Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. “If remaining tests go well, we will attempt a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that the situation on the front lines in the east of the country was getting tougher and Russia was throwing more and more ...

A 16-year-old girl died on Saturday after being mauled by a shark in a river in Western Australia’s state capital Perth after she jumped in the water to swim ...

Dozens of wildfires blazing though Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control fires ...

By Maria Demertzis Very little comes out of US policy these days that does not aim to either decouple from China or somehow reduce China’s global reach. The US ...

A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, a week after it first entered U.S. airspace ...

With a yellow weather warning in effect until 4pm, police said on Sunday afternoon that roads to Troodos were closed to all vehicles due to heavy snowfall. Some of the ...

ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, ...

Although faced with a record 14 candidates in today’s presidential election, the campaigns have been marred by the widely held belief that none of the hopefuls present any “real change”, ...

The election of the eighth president of the republic commences today, although it is highly unlikely a new head of state will be in place when the counting of the ...

Precise language and a sense of history would have prevented war in Ukraine In the second episode of the TV programme Putin Vs The West in which western leaders talk ...