Archive 2026

Formula One championship leader Kimi Antonelli stayed ice-cool to win a chaotic Monaco Grand Prix and extend his run of victories this season to five on Sunday. The 19-year-old Italian ...

A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. In separate statements, Kyiv’s General Staff and ...

The state laboratory on Sunday confirmed that an incident which saw more than 70 people develop symptoms of food poisoning and 21 people hospitalised was caused by salmonella bacteria found in a ...

Edek on Sunday refused to accept party leader Nikos Anastasiou’s resignation after he had attempted to leave the post in light of the party losing all its seats at ...

When we came to live in Cyprus 26 years ago now, water was rationed to two days a week on our road. However, the house we later bought had a well ...

Four men who stand accused of terror-related offences were all handed renewed remands by the Larnaca district court during behind-closed-doors hearings on Sunday. Two of the four, aged 38 years old ...

The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme. It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...

Chinese films will be screened in Nicosia and Limassol this June as the Embassy of China in Cyprus, the China Film Administration, and the deputy ministry of culture jointly present ...

A new exhibition entitled Modern Nicosia to celebrate the city’s often unappreciated modernist architecture is on display at Mayor Lellos Demetriadou Square (former Municipal Market agora) in the centre ...

Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull – 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force – but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this ​mismatched ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday refused to be drawn into discussions over whether he will perform a cabinet reshuffle in the aftermath of last month’s parliamentary elections, which saw ...

Lawrence Durrell begins his book Bitter Lemons with one of the most memorable reflections on travel ever written: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” The best journeys, he ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has a “very specific plan” for the next steps to be taken in efforts to resume talks geared towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, ...

New Guinea’s tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom’s most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing ​off their plumage, ...

Armenians head to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the government’s efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat ...

The French government is on Monday expected to sign a status of forces agreement on Monday, allowing it to station troops in Cyprus, according to reports published on Sunday. The ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to deepen relations between Cyprus and Uzbekistan, as he met his Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov in the country’s capital, Tashkent, marking the third leg ...

Sunday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather in parts during the afternoon. Those clouds may produce rain and even ...

Global investment in data centres is expected to approach $1.6 trillion by 2030, while leading technology companies are forecast to spend more than $600 billion on AI infrastructure capital expenditure in 2026 alone, according ...

The arrest and handcuffing of murder victim Henry Nowak by police officers in Southampton in the UK last December and the political fallout after the conviction of the young British ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting June 1: FuelEU compliance has moved beyond regulation to become a commercial optimisation challenge for the shipping industry, according ...

At least a dozen people were wounded on Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, as two shooters traded gunfire, police said. Two of the wounded are in critical condition, police said at ...

CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is back in Cyprus after a four-month absence and is scheduled to have separate meetings with the two leaders on Monday. ...