Archive 2026

Few ideas about human behaviour arrive quietly. Those that attempt to explain why humans are capable of extraordinary cooperation while also prone to division and conflict tend to provoke curiosity, ...

Cyprus’ aim to promote an “autonomous union, open to the world”, will be presented on Tuesday in Strasbourg, where President Nikos Christodoulides is set to address the European Parliament plenum. ...

Financial literacy is increasingly recognised as a core life skill – one that affects individual wellbeing, family stability, and wider economic resilience. In simple terms, financial literacy refers to the knowledge ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought “purely of ...

Historical building methods Early Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber from treeline forests ...

Police operations to crack down on crime and maintain public order continued overnight, with nine arrests across Cyprus. In Nicosia, two people were arrested, one for illegal residence and the ...

Three passengers were arrested on Monday at Larnaca airport, after large quantities of duty free tobacco were found in their luggage, the customs department announced on Tuesday. The passengers were ...

President Donald Trump threatened to hit French wines and champagnes with 200% tariffs in an apparent effort to cajole French President Emmanuel Macron into joining his Board of Peace initiative aimed ...

The police are searching for four more individuals in connection with a brawl that broke out in Larnaca on Saturday afternoon. On Monday evening, the police arrested five people wanted – ...

The cost of construction and building materials in Cyprus nudged up in December of the previous year, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). ...

Cold weather continues on Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 12C inland, 14C along the coast and 0C in the highest mountains, where snow in the morning was 21cm on Troodos’ peak. ...

Cyprus record a sharp rise in tourist arrivals in December 2025, driven primarily by visitors from Israel and the United Kingdom, according to data released on Monday by the Cyprus Statistical ...

Cyprus-based PropTech startup MyStudentFlat has announced that it is scaling its student housing operations locally while preparing to enter the Greek market later this year. The company positions itself as ...

Toxotis Investments Public Ltd announced this week that its board of directors will meet on February 13, 2026 to review and approve the annual financial report for the fiscal year 2023. The meeting ...

Cyprus continued to record one of the lowest inflation rates in the European Union in December 2025, as price pressures eased across the euro area and the bloc as a whole, ...

Businesses and fishermen in Xylofagou staged protests on Monday against the British Bases’ firing range in Dhekelia, citing blocked quarry expansion plans and declining monthly incomes, respectively. Companies in the ...

President Donald Trump has never made a secret of his contempt for the EU and his Western allies. And now, with his plan to take over Greenland, he threatens to ...

Disy on Monday officially announced that MP Nikos Sykas, who had recently been accused of domestic violence by his wife, would be expelled from the party’s ballot for the ...

Police on Monday evening arrested five of the eight men wanted in connection with a brawl that broke out in Larnaca on Saturday afternoon. The five are expected to appear ...

Two glass-lined-steel-type water tanks with a capacity of 17,200 cubic metres were inaugurated  by President Nikos Christodoulides at the Nicosia district local government organisation (EOA) on Monday. “With the completion of ...

Ukraine’s armed forces are introducing a new facet of air defence to transform their system, made up of small groups deploying interceptor drones, as the country braces for new ...

Jewellery including valuable diamond pieces worth more than €1 million were stolen within less than three minutes in a burglar at an Ayia Napa jewellery shop on early Monday morning. The ...

Croatia’s Boris Vujcic was formally nominated on Monday as the European Central Bank’s next vice president, putting him on track to become the first person from the former ...

Taxi drivers will go on a one-day work stoppage starting at 6am on Tuesday to protest what they describe as “uncontrolled action by passenger transport applications”, thetaxi union (Poat) said ...