Archive February 2025

Today Sofia begins her pilgrimage. Over the next several weeks, she’ll cover 1,200 kilometres: tracing an ancient Japanese path through misty mountains, past weathered shrines, along the edge of the ...

Unfortunately, make believe about 60 being the new 70, and 50 being the new 60, etc, just doesn’t work after a while. When the body starts sending us stern messages about its malfunction, ...

Hundreds of saplings were planted in Athienou and the nearby village of Avdellero on Sunday, the municipality said. The saplings were planted by well-meaning members of the public and local ...

Residents of Larnaca district villages on Sunday staged a protest outside the Dhekelia power station, demanding that it be upgraded with “less polluting machinery” so as to be “less harmful” ...

In 2021, Solana (SOL) skyrocketed from $1.50 to $258, an impressive 17,100% surge that turned early investors into millionaires. Fast-forward to 2025, Solana is trading at $201, still proving its dominance in the blockchain market. While ...

Disabled people in Cyprus are “invisible” and “deprived of their most basic human rights”, Cyprus Confederation of Disability Organisations (Kysoa) chairwoman Themis Anthopoulou said on Sunday. Speaking to newspaper Politis, ...

Hezbollah on Sunday condemned an attack on a United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) convoy in Beirut on Friday which the U.S. State Department has said was reportedly carried out ...

Women should be invited to sit at the Cyprus problem negotiating table, not to join the armed forces, Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Dogus Derya said. She took to ...

By Emilios Charalampous and Maria Aristidou With the European Union’s leadership promoting a coherent, centralised and effective economy to the rest of the world through the concepts and principles ...

Cyprus must “completely rethink” its relationship with the environment if it truly wants to achieve climate neutrality, environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on Sunday. “If we want to achieve climate ...

Plans are afoot to build two new reservoirs in Nicosia, Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Sunday. Speaking to Tak, the north’s news agency, he said plans ...

A 70-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening after being found to have been almost five times over the legal alcohol limit to drive after running a 62-year-old woman over ...

By Loukis Skaliotis Some time ago, I wrote in the Sunday Mail that US President Donald Trump’s policies instead of making America great again, would rather usher in the ...

Sunday’s weather will be partly cloudy across most of the island, with isolated rain possible in some parts, particularly in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 17 degrees Celsius inland, 19 ...

Cardano and XRP have recently seen renewed interest as institutional adoption and ETF speculation drive fresh momentum. XRP’s price is expected to reach $5 by 2025, especially if its ETF approval ...

EU-funded researchers are using art to create a more inclusive and engaging science education experience for all students, free from the constraints of stereotypes. By Vittoria D’Alessio A new ...

Momentous events are taking place in world affairs. America is finally breaking loose of its European chains. Despite being the most powerful country in the world, it remained a frontier ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting February 10: Cypriot banks have lowered their key interest rates, with expectations of further reductions throughout 2025, in response to ...

News of a proposed bill, tabled to parliament by the finance ministry and intended to resolve the issue of multiple pensions, is very welcome – but the proposed solution is still ...

Global electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales in January rose 18 per cent year on year, as growth in Europe and the United States outpaced China for the first time since ...

Britain entered a rare deficit in its goods trade with the United States at the end of last year, according to data published this week that London will hope bolsters ...

While the seismic market moves caused by DeepSeek were short-lived, the release of the Chinese startup’s high-performing and inexpensive large language model is likely to have long-term implications for ...

Adobe this week released the first public version of an artificial intelligence tool that can generate video clips and revealed how much it will charge, but said it will not ...

Three presidents and 13 years after the discovery of gas in the Aphrodite field, the government this week clinched a deal with US oil giant Chevron for the development of the ...