Archive 2024

“Concrete developments” related to the development of relations between Cyprus and the United States are expected very soon, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking to Greek newspaper Ta Nea, ...

Kemi Badenoch became the Conservatives’ new leader and the first black woman to a head a major British political party on Saturday, after winning a leadership contest on a promise ...

By Jack Hetherington, Adam James Loch and Pablo Juliano Every year, 7.6 million tonnes of food is lost or wasted in Australia alone. When we think about this, we might picture ...

he deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of ...

A Syrian national appeared in court in the north on Saturday after having illegally crossed the Green Line from the Republic on Friday evening. The man, who according to the ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Saturday insisted that the government is “illegally withholding” his pension and other financial benefits he believes he is due on account of his time spent ...

The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying island, providing ...

The Retail Trade Turnover Value Index in Cyprus saw a 3.1 per cent increase in September 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, according to a report from the Cyprus Statistical Service. ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked her with the words ‘Sing, daughter of Zeus’ ...

Gunes Toymuradov, the mother of 20-day-old Mihrimah Toymuradov, who died after being fed ethanol while being treated on the neonatal intensive care ward in northern Nicosia’s emergency hospital, on ...

Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official who served as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, warned the United States on Saturday to take Russia’s nuclear warnings seriously to avoid ...

Democrats are readying a rapid-fire response to flood social media and the airwaves with calls for calm and patience with vote-counting should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim election victory, ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States and Israel will “undoubtedly receive a crushing response” for what they do against his country, state media ...

Ruben Amorim had already decided this would be his last season at Sporting, and wanted to remain at the club until the end of the campaign before joining Manchester United, ...

McLaren locked out the front row for the Sao Paulo sprint on Friday with Oscar Piastri snatching pole position from team mate Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Formula One ...

Police on Saturday announced the arrest of a 22-year-old man in connection with one of a recent flurry of attacks on delivery drivers in Limassol. In particular, the man stands ...

Few dishes evoke the charm of Central Europe quite like the Wiener Schnitzel. This iconic, golden-crusted delicacy has not only become Austria’s culinary flagbearer but also an international favourite. ...

Regular electricity bill payers will not subsidise the additional reduced rates paid by vulnerable groups, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Saturday. Moving to address rumours that forthcoming increases in ...

By Philippa Tracy As a Brit abroad, you know you have a reputation for upsetting the locals. You may never have been involved in a drunken brawl. But even so, ...

Trade union Sek announced on Saturday that it and other unions had agreed in principle to new, improved collective terms for hotel workers. The union said it had held “last ...

Localised rain and isolated storms are expected to hit the mountains, the west, and the south of the island on Saturday, with rain clouds progressing in the land as the ...

EU-funded researchers are testing DNA from archaeological cat remains to help unravel the tale of cat domestication.  By Ali Jones It probably will not surprise cat owners, familiar with the ...

November is an exciting month events-wise. Street food, book festivals, markets, concerts and all sorts of cultural happenings are taking place all over the island. Cinephiles can now also look ...

By Carol Johnson, University of Adelaide Having a female presidential candidate has made gender obvious in this US presidential election, even to many who normally neglect its role. The specific ...