Archive January 2025

For all its talk of radical change, Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) cost-cutting deal in Germany relies heavily on the automaker’s tradition of cooperation between managers and workers, according ...

Qatar plans to introduce three new laws as part of a sweeping review of legislation designed to make the Gulf Arab state more attractive to foreign investors, the new minister ...

At least 49 billion pounds ($60 billion) of maintenance work at schools, hospitals and prisons in Britain has yet to be carried out, according to a report from a spending watchdog, highlighting ...

Lufthansa Airlines (LHAG.DE) aims to be profitable again but still has a ways to go despite the initial success of its restructuring plan, according to CEO Jens Ritter. Lufthansa ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has announced that it changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle (ORCL.N) and Japan’...

German online retailers last year eked out slight revenue gains for the first time since 2021, an industry body has revealed, citing higher savings that are giving Germans more confidence to ...

In what might appear to be a return to the Middle Ages, Diko MP Chrysanthos Savvides suggested this week that the mediaeval practice of falconry should be legalised to stop ‘...

Leicester City snapped a seven-match losing streak in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory at Tottenham Hotspur that continued the home side’s abysmal form on Sunday. Tottenham have ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, a suggestion rejected by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the enclave, and ...

Globalisation has been a dominant feature of the socio-economic developments of recent decades. Now, it has been showing signs of de-escalation. For some time now, the view that the unfettered ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday expressed his opposition to what he described as the government’s efforts to “integrate Cyprus into Nato”. Speaking at his party’s youth wing ...

The north’s ‘finance ministry’ is using stolen cars for official purposes, former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem Kudret Ozersay said on Sunday. In a post on ...

“Drill, baby, drill”, exulted the new President of the World (American branch), but he will find that the oil and gas industry isn’t listening. As Darren Woods, CEO of ...

The fierce debate over the handling of traffic fines issued through speed cameras continued this week with MPs raising concerns about the legality of new procedures introduced by the police. ...

Two men, aged 23 and 22 years old, were both remanded in custody for five days on Sunday after being arrested on Saturday in connection with a burglary. The police had been ...

The carnival season is fast approaching! Coming up earlier this year, carnival season is getting ready to fill every corner of the island with masquerade parties, confetti, music and song. ...

A demonstration was held in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Sunday over the train crash which killed 57 people between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos on the mainline ...

Jannik Sinner retained his Australian Open title with an emphatic 6-3 7-6(4) 6-3 win over Alexander Zverev on Sunday, breaking new ground for Italian tennis and leaving his German rival ...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that some of his political opponents had “chosen” to go to prison as he cast his vote in a election that was set ...

A 50-year-old man has died after being involved in a road traffic collision in the Larnaca district, the police announced on Sunday.. The man, named as Romanian national Ioulian Filip, ...

At the helm of its marketing vision is Chief Marketing Officer, Alina Miroshnychenko, who has recently won the prestigious Women Tabloid Award for Best Emerging Woman CMO, and has played ...

Residents of Rizokarpaso on Sunday staged a protest to demand that the road linking the village to the Apostolos Andeas monastery be completely rebuilt. A couple of hundred people blocked ...

By Emilios Charalambous On the January 15, the European Commission published Commission Recommendation (EU) 2025/63 on reviewing outbound investments in technology areas critical for the economic security of the Union – the ‘Recommendation’. ...