Archive January 2024

Alabama on Thursday executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who held his breath in vain as officials asphyxiated him with nitrogen gas, the first use of a new method of capital ...

Indian celebratory dish Kerala Pork Peralan The Malayalam word Peralan or Purattiyathu means coated. Pork Peralan or Pork Perattiyathu is a typical Kerala style dry curry with coconut oil, spices ...

Oil prices eased on Friday but were set for their biggest weekly gain since October as positive US economic growth and signs of Chinese stimulus boosted fuel demand sentiment. Brent ...

Two stand-up shows in English are coming up to entertain those in Nicosia and Limassol. Comic performances have seen an increase recently on the island yet those in English are ...

Rosemary and Larry Brester have been running Hobart Machined Products since 1978, milling and grinding metal to make aircraft components out of a tiny building behind their home. Hobart is one ...

Another migrant child was taken to Makarios hospital’s ICU from the Pournara reception centre, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday. The child, who has ...

Cypriot MPs Yiorgos Loukaides and Christiana Erotokritou spoke about the importance of freedom of speech and on the increasing use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Europe, during ...

Cloudy weather with isolated storms will be on the menu for weather on Friday, the met office announced. According to the met office, snow is expected to fall in the ...

Tesla (TSLA.O), tumbled nearly 11 per cent on Thursday after CEO Elon Musk warned sales growth would slow this year despite price cuts that have already hurt margins and raised ...

Cyprus’ Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) is set to host a pioneering Partner Day on Friday, February 9, at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia. Under the theme “Innovation, Collaboration, Development,” the ...

eBay Inc (EBAY.O), will cut about 1,000 roles, or an estimated 9 per cent of its current workforce, the e-commerce retailer said on Tuesday. “While we are making progress against our ...

German sportswear company Puma (PUMG.DE), this week forecast sales and profits this year below analyst expectations, sending its shares down over 8 per cent to their lowest since 2018, blaming a ...

Just a third of the north’s workforce are women, according to the latest figures released by the north’s Statistics institute. The statistics, revealed as part of the institute’...

Little thought was given by the government and the Cyprus Football Federation (CFA) to the way crowd trouble would be handled at football matches after recent events. After a firecracker ...

Authorities on Thursday evening were reportedly hunting for a man who escaped police custody at a detention centre in Nicosia. According to Sigma, the man escaped from the Lakatamia police ...

Donald Trump’s testimony in the writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case ended almost immediately after it began, as the former U.S. president stood by his earlier testimony ...

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns and his Israeli counterpart will meet with Qatari officials in coming days for talks on a second potential Gaza hostage deal, two ...

NASA said on Thursday that its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity, which in 2021 became the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, can no longer can fly, ending a ...

The U.S. government privately warned long-time antagonist Iran about a “terrorist threat” within its borders ahead of a deadly attack this month that was claimed by the Islamic State ...

The time has come for the international community to take a different approach to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, the Palestine Embassy in Cyprus said ...

Bipartisan U.S. Senate talks on a border security deal that some have set as a condition of further aid for Ukraine and Israel have hit a critical point, lawmakers ...

An Israeli strike on Gaza City killed 20 Palestinians and wounded 150 who were queuing for food aid on Thursday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said, in what Palestinian groups called a “...

Parliament on Thursday passed a law making it a criminal offence to damage, deface or in any way alter a traffic sign. The legislation, amending the Road Safety Law, provides ...

By a unanimous vote the House on Thursday passed legislation that provides for halting the auctioning off of properties where the mortgage debtor has applied for the ‘Mortgage to Rent’ ...