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Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence ...

The government will do everything possible to create conditions for the resumption of Cyprus talks, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday.  The president, who was speaking to journalists before addressing ...

By Loukis Skaliotis “Most of the time now we settle for half, and I like it better.” The above phrase, as the whole of the closing passage in Arthur Miller’...

A 20-year-old student from Greece died in Nicosia on Sunday, after a car crash with another six people, police said. The 20-year-old girl, Eirini Kontogiorgou, had been a passenger along ...

Police protection is seen as one of the ways of dealing with the increasing levels of threats against journalists. Speaking at the last conference of the Journalists Matter campaign in ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will brief his EU counterparts on the latest attempts of Turkey to upgrade the illegal breakaway regime at the Organization of Turkic States. According to an ...

I have read with interest the latest book by Chrysostomos Pericleous called “Leaders Inferior to Circumstances”. The book covers the last 20 years of Cyprus’ political history. The author openly criticises ...

Three people died on the Dherynia-Frenaros Road on Sunday night, police said in the morning.  According to police, the crash occurred a little after midnight when a 44-year-old crashed into ...

African elephants are Earth’s largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study ...

Intense weather conditions are expected to continue on Sunday into Monday, the fire service said, after storms overnight caused the met office to issue a yellow weather warning.  The warning ...

Tens of Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli strike on a multi-storey residential building in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya on Sunday, medics told Reuters. There was no ...

Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years, with more than 400 deaths as rising temperatures and a longer monsoon season drive a surge in infections, leaving hospitals struggling ...

Russia unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, firing 120 missiles and 90 drones in a sweeping attack that killed at least seven people and ...

By Ioannis Sidiropoulos The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, marked a monumental turning point in world history. It symbolized the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe and ...

There are rights recognised as enforceable human rights and there are rights that are informal and unenforceable. The right to die which is no longer a crime in many countries ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting November 11: Two in three Cypriots place a high priority on adapting to climate change, according to the European ...

YOU DO not have to be a Kyproulla-weary cynic to have a laugh whenever you hear our wise leaders talking about their grandiose energy plans which all have one thing ...

Blasts shook Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other cities while neighbouring Poland scrambled its air force early on Sunday after the two countries said a Russian missile attack was under ...

Odysseas Michaelides may have been removed from his post, but some of his work still haunts President Nikos Christodoulides. Last week, the report Michaelides had released at the end of 2023 ...

Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit this week said it will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom artificial intelligence chips, aiming to ...

British grocery sales growth slowed over the last month as shoppers held back spending in anticipation of upcoming Christmas festivities and Black Friday promotions, industry data showed this week. Market ...

Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive “less personalized ads,” the tech giant has announced, in an effort to allay ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , Japan’s top lender by assets, this week raised its annual net profit forecast to a record 1.75 trillion yen ($11.23 billion) after second-quarter profit surged on higher ...

A child is sexually abused in Cyprus nearly every day and, although the number of cases is rising, it is a good sign, because it indicates that more and more ...