Archive 2024

The Celebrity Gala team is set to present another high-level cultural event honouring the ballet world. Coming in September is the Celebrity Ballet Gala: Classique, the annual autumn ballet event ...

An 83-year-old woman who was hospitalised in Limassol following a traffic accident last week died at the weekend, while police are awaiting the results of an autopsy on Tuesday to ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to accept a U.S. bridging proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal after what he said was a “...

Cargo ships and cruise liners may soon be harnessing the power of wind and waves to reduce their carbon emissions thanks to EU-funded researchers. By Tom Cassauwers In August 2023, a ...

Egyptian Mohannad Abdelazeem, 35, doesn’t drink alcohol. But he does consume three or four cans per day of Moussy and Fayrouz – alcohol-free beers. Brewers including Carlsberg and Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI....

A new yellow warning for high temperature up to 40C is in place on Monday, issued by the Department of Meteorology. The warning is valid from 1pm until 4pm. During ...

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms (RIOT.O) has announced it had increased its stake in rival Bitfarms (BITF.TO) to 18.9 per cent. Riot acquired 1 million common shares of Bitfarms on August 13, ...

Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) has announced that it is witnessing rebounding demand for its networking equipment and announced a 7 per cent cut in its global headcount to focus on high-growth ...

British house prices rose by 2.7 per cent in the 12 months to June to an average of 288,000 pounds ($370,000), according to a report from the Office for National Statistics. June’s annual ...

As we get closer to critical decision-making deadlines, there is no end to debates about the viability and future of the Great Sea Interconnector. But sadly, often these are not ...

Erling Haaland scored his 91st goal in his 100th appearance for Manchester City on Sunday as the champions kicked off their Premier League title defence with a lively 2-0 away ...

On a blisteringly hot afternoon in the middle of July, some five weeks after arriving in Nicosia, I drove across Cyprus to visit the Tomb of the Kings and Kato ...

I was caught speeding by one of the new traffic cameras in Larnaca in May of this year. Yesterday, I received two letters containing speeding notices, one demanding a payment ...

Algeria will immediately begin supplying Lebanon with fuel for its power plants, Algerian state radio said in a statement on Sunday, after Lebanon’s electricity company said the day before ...

By Savvakis C Savvides The sad truth is that politicians and government officers involved in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreements is that by circumventing what needs to be evaluated and assessed ...

Another yellow weather warning was issued on Sunday for high temperatures on Monday. The mercury is set to hit 40C inland and 33C in the mountains, the Met Office said. ...

The Cyprus Olympic team performed flawlessly on all levels, beyond just their competitive presence at the Paris Games, head of the mission and Vice President of the Cyprus Olympic Committee ...

Whilst trying to watch the annual Perseids meteor shower (originating from the Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle) this week, my view was interrupted and spoilt every night until the early hours of ...

Five Greek Cypriots and two Turkish Cypriots listed as missing persons have been identified so far in 2024, statistics released by the Committee for Missing Persons on Sunday showed. At the ...

Firefighters in Turkey have brought under control two large forest fires that had been burning for three days, with several other wildfires across the country expected to be put out ...

By Mandy Leong Companies that import palm oil from Malaysia will be able to adopt orangutans but they will not be able to leave the country, the commodities minister said ...

The 10th anniversary edition of Windcraft Music Fest may be over, yet both Katydata village, where the festival takes place, and the organising team are still buzzing. Following an explosive ...

Police arrested two people on Sunday after a valuable icon was stolen from the Apostolos Andreas church on Kyrenia Avenue in Platy Aglandjias, Nicosia. Police received a report on Saturday ...

The voices of doom have been warning for months that Cyprus risks being caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian inferno and a looming war in the wider Middle East, but for ...