Archive 2025

Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann came off the bench to guide them to a 2-1 home victory over struggling Valencia on Saturday, helping Diego Simeone’s side snap their LaLiga ...

Cyprus’ cows stepped into the spotlight earlier this week with the first screening of The World Shrinks at the Pantheon Cinema in Nicosia. The documentary tells the story of the ...

The Israeli military said it killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saed, one of the architects of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, in a strike on a car in Gaza City ...

A Christmas village opened at the presidential palace on Saturday, welcoming visitors to enjoy festive activities and support local businesses. First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides said the initiative, now in ...

Measures to address overcrowding, improve living conditions, and strengthen supervision at Nicosia central prisons will be taken, Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris said on Saturday. He was speaking after a meeting ...

Germany will host U.S. and Ukrainian delegations over the weekend for talks on a ceasefire in Ukraine, before a summit with European leaders and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Berlin ...

Long before anyone tried to enshrine it as a national icon, farikal was simply what Norwegians turned to when the first cold winds swept in. Nothing more than a pot ...

Italy’s Agnelli family has no intention of selling Juventus to crypto group Tether or anyone else, the CEO of their holding company said on Saturday, rejecting Tether’s shock ...

The two-day search and rescue exercise Artemis 2025 has been completed, testing the country’s readiness to respond to a major earthquake, civil defence spokesman Panayiotis Liasides said on Saturday. The ...

Some four thousand years ago, Cyprus was home to the oldest perfume factory in the Mediterranean, located in the village of Pyrgos, east of Limassol. Abandoned following an earthquake, one ...

Pension reform bills will be submitted in 2026 rather than the previously stated target of the end of 2025, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Saturday. He said the delay is linked ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava after two days of talks with an envoy for ...

Players heading off to the Africa Cup of Nations should depart with the blessing of their respective clubs according to Everton manager David Moyes, but his viewpoint might not be ...

Lionel Messi’s tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats and invaded the pitch at Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium after the ...

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, proposed on Saturday that Cyprus MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become president of the European Union. The suggestion came shortly after a ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote areas worldwide. It also has caused ...

A total of 3,945 people have been granted ‘citizenship’ in the north in the last three years while 573 gun licences have also been issued, according to ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz, it ...

Prisoner found dead in central prison A 23-year-old Syrian national, identified as Abdul Kader Almfalani, currently serving a sentence at Nicosia central prison, has died, police confirmed on Saturday. He ...

Striking teachers should think of the message they are sending students, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Reform, he said, promotes the worthy teacher – those who are selfless and ...

Women in Tech Cyprus will open the new year with a small community gathering in Limassol, aiming to carry forward the momentum built over the past year around women’s ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and ...

Saturday’s weather will be mostly fine with occasional patches of increased cloud. Winds will be light to moderate, variable in direction at 3 to 4 on the Beaufort scale. The sea ...

By Nektarios Michail The last decade has been extremely good for most investments, especially those with higher risk. As the table below shows, investments in any diversified high-risk investment product ...

By Naomi Braithwaite When Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney attended Variety’s Power of Women event on October 30 in Los Angeles, she may have delivered an empowering and inspirational speech, but ...