Life & Style

By Prudence Wade Tayce was always destined to be a fashion icon. The drag queen – who found fame as a runner-up on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race ...

The plant grown on the island is believed to be among the most potent of healing herbs. Now, two of the Stelios Award winners are reconciling the island’s hurts ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), will have history on his mind when he hosts almost 200 member states at the U.N agency’s ...

Visionary leaders such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are placed on a pedestal by many for their pure innovative genius and leadership skills. It is common for such leaders ...

Where do you live? I live in Limassol with my family; my husband, three kids and Button my dog What did you have for breakfast? Shakshuka Describe your perfect day ...

By Lauren Taylor You’ve probably heard the saying that dessert cookery is ‘scientific’. One mistake and your cake/tart/meringue will fall into a heap. It’s a reputation ...

One young Cypriot travelled into the depths of Africa’s Limpopo, and there discovered what the West has lost It took Tonia Constantinou two full days to return home from ...

This is where the ancient Greeks believed Atlas lived – holding the heavens aloft. It’s a legend that makes sense. The highest peaks in this North African range are well ...

Leading Australian brand Modibodi have just launched their uniquely protective period pants in Cyprus. Designed to look and feel like normal underwear, these period pants completely replace disposable pads, liners ...

Cypriot wineries have joined forces to launch the Cyprus Wine Consortium to better promote their products in a group rather than individually. The consortium includes 16 local wineries brought together by ...

By Prudence Wade If you feel like you’re in a bit of an exercise rut, you’re not alone. After the huge explosion in fitness at the beginning of ...

By Jonjo Maudsley The bronze lion’s eyes follow me around my bedroom. What is it trying to tell me? I lean in for a closer look and, as I ...

Freelance Sommelier Sotiris Neophytidis has won the 9th Best Sommelier of Cyprus for the year 2022. The contest was held under the auspices of the International Association of Sommeliers, ASI. Sotiris ...

In a restless and wide-eyed eco-activist, THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman hoping for a new system, resigned to writing reports instead of poetry It’s okay, sighs Paraskevi ‘Evi’ Christodoulou – ...

By Prudence Wade The Noughties are back in a big way. Y2K-inspired trends have been taking over fashion for a while now, and now our hair and make-up looks ...

With a career spanning four decades Monica Demetriades has managed to find and lose herself in art. With a new exhibition, PAUL LAMBIS takes a look Contemporary British Cypriot artist ...

A team of Australian researchers have identified a biochemical marker in the blood that could help identify newborn babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a breakthrough they ...

By Sam Wylie-Harris If you haven’t caught the millennium bug yet, you will soon. Y2K styles are back big time – good news for anyone who’s held onto ...

Solitary bees, which make up the vast majority of Cyprus bee species, are the island’s best pollinators. With World Bee Day approaching, ALIX NORMAN asks what can we do ...

Shanghai will gradually begin reopening businesses such as shopping malls and hair salons in China’s financial and manufacturing hub from Monday after weeks in strict COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing ...

Where do you live? It’s complicated What did you have for breakfast? Banana blueberry pancakes with no flour: 2 eggs, 2 Cyprus bananas, blueberries, and walnuts. You have to roll instead ...

By Prudence Wade Food is so much more than just nourishment – it can be an expression of your culture, amongst other things, and a powerful diplomatic tool. Few people know ...

If you were asked to name the best city for foodies, you’d probably plump for Paris or Rome. But according to the five million readers of Travel + Leisure, the ...

By Harriette Richards, In the course of her Met Gala attendances, Kim Kardashian has worn floral Givenchy (attending for the first time in 2013, pregnant with her first child), silver Balmain, ...