Archive February 2026

The government is considering opening a polling station in Brussels for May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

The Paphos town council will hold an extraordinary session on Monday to decide on its next steps, with the post of municipal secretary remaining vacant. Paphos has been without a ...

Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen produced a stunning run on Stelvio to win the Olympic Alpine skiing men’s downhill on Saturday. The 24-year-old von Allmen barely put a ski ...

Cyprus is often written about in broad strokes: beaches, resorts, history, and headline attractions. This article looks elsewhere. We asked our newsroom to each choose one small, genuinely positive thing ...

The United Kingdom has deployed six more fighter jets to its air force base in Akrotiri, according to reports on Saturday, with fears growing that the United States may launch ...

Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni, two of Italy’s greatest Alpine skiers, shared the honour of lighting the Olympic cauldron in Milan on Friday. Tomba, 59, and Compagnoni, who is 55, were ...

Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his 10th Premier League goal of the season as hosts Leeds United claimed an emphatic 3-1 victory over Nottingham Forest at Elland Road on Friday to move ...

A total of 837 Turkish Cypriots are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. That figure is an increase of three ...

Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium has brought a phalanx of law enforcement of every stripe to the San Francisco Bay Area, including a fleet of unfamiliar, low-flying aircraft ...

More than half a million people are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

President Donald Trump condemned but did not apologize for a video on his social media account depicting Democratic former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes, a ...

By Paolo Laudani and Helen Reid Germany’s Puma and fierce rival Adidas have their roots in the very same house where brothers Rudolf and Adolf Dassler launched their shoe ...

It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs ...

Workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other well-known soft drinks, have gone on a 24-hour strike, claiming that the company has deprived them of the right ...

A 39-year-old man from Limassol was hospitalised with a fractured skull, a fractured rib, and other serious injuries after having been issued threats by his landlord, the police said on ...

There has been underspending on water security for a long time, the EU water resilience commissioner said on Friday as she urged member states to use EU funds more efficiently ...

Two police officers were injured after a vehicle they were attempting to stop as part of an operation targeting alleged drug dealers collided with their vehicles. The incident occurred on ...

Saturday is set to begin with partial cloud cover across most of the island, with isolated rain expected later in the day. The odd isolated storm may be possible in ...

Nicosia is about to welcome the internationally-acclaimed Apple Hill String Quartet, renowned for its masterly interpretation of the classical repertoire and the endorsement of new music by prominent composers from ...

The United States and India moved closer to a trade pact on Friday, releasing an interim framework that would lower tariffs, reshape energy ties and deepen economic cooperation as both ...

By Asbel Bohigues As governments around the world tighten migration controls, Spain has taken a strikingly different path. In January 2026, the Spanish cabinet approved a decree opening a pathway to ...

Cyprus’ startup ecosystem continues to develop its own place within Europe’s innovation landscape, according to EU-Startups’ Olga Codina, who highlighted ten companies founded since 2021 as a reflection of the ...

 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrat Union is considering limiting access to social media platforms for children under the age of 16, senior party members said, as a global movement ...

Japan’s government has announced that it successfully retrieved rare-earth-rich seabed mud for the first time from depths of around 6 km (4 miles) during a test mission. A Japanese scientific drill ...