Archive April 2025

A 49-year-old man from Sweden was on Monday sentenced to 18 months in prison after having escaped from police custody at a private clinic in Larnaca in December. The man had ...

Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th career NHL goal on Sunday to break the hallowed all-time record of Wayne Gretzky that was once considered unbeatable. Ovechkin’s landmark ...

Bowls Cyprus are holding its National Finals at The Athena Beach Hotel, Paphos, on the 1st and 2nd May 2025. This is the culmination of seven months of national competitions having ...

“This Spring, we invite you to celebrate the beauty of Easter at a unique event you won’t want to miss,” say organisers of an upcoming market that will last ...

Deputy Minister for Shipping Marina Hadjimanolis paid a visit to New York from April 3 to 5, as part of efforts to promote Cypriot shipping, according to an announcement released on Monday. ...

Aegean Airlines is stepping up efforts to help position Cyprus as a year-round destination, strengthening its presence on the island with a new Larnaca-Rome route and increased seat capacity. Speaking ...

A new cycle path will be built near Athalassa park on the side of Kalamon and Glafcos Clerides Avenue to the park’s south, the transport ministry announced on Monday. ...

A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday, in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and ...

Two men, aged 36 and 24, were remanded for eight days byLarnaca district court on Monday after the discovery of two kilograms of cannabis. Police had earlier said that they had found ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after being found by police to have been attempting to take a bag full of firecrackers and smoke bombs into the town’s ...

Monday’s weather is set to be initially clear across most of the island, with clouds to gather during the afternoon. Temperatures will rise to 25 degrees Celsius inland, 21 degrees Celsius ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south late on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’...

US President Donald Trump warned foreign governments they would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs, characterising the duties as “medicine” and triggering further carnage across ...

Cyprus has the potential to become a key location for data centres, according to Andreas Poullikkas, an expert in energy systems and former chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (...

Major stock indexes plunged in Asia on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump showed no sign of backing away from his sweeping tariff plans, and investors bet the mounting ...

The Industrial Turnover Index in Cyprus reached 128.1 units in January 2025, with 2021 serving as the base year set at 100 points. This marked a 5.8 per cent increase compared with January 2024, according to ...

Artificial intelligence group MLCommons unveiled two new benchmarks that it said can help determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware and software can run AI applications. Since the launch of OpenAI’s ...

In his first remarks as Intel’s (INTC.O) new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan this week outlined a leaner version of the iconic American chipmaker in which he would work directly ...

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT’s image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI’s chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily ...

Isomorphic Labs, which uses artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery, has raised $600 million in its first ever external funding round led by Thrive Capital, the startup has announced. Google Ventures ...

A new initiative is testing the use of underwater drones and artificial reefs in marine conservation at the Ayia Napa marina. Set to launch at the end of the year, ...

Even though energy commodities – oil, natural gas and refined products – were largely spared collateral fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Liberation Day’, the new tariffs have pushed oil ...

Manchester United and Manchester City played out an anticlimactic 0-0 Premier League draw on Sunday in a low-key derby that dealt a blow to City’s bid for Champions League ...

European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures ...