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Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by an annual 30.5 per cent in September, as China surpassed its record numbers recorded in August and Europe resumed growth, ...

Crypto firm Ripple launched a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar last week, looking to disrupt a market in which the top two incumbents account for nearly 90 per cent of ...

Curtis Jones struck Liverpool’s winner in a 2-1 victory over Chelsea at Anfield to keep Arne Slot’s side top of the Premier League table on Sunday. Mohamed’s ...

Nasser Al-Attiyah achieved on Sunday his ninth career victory at the Cyprus Rally organised by the Cyprus Automobile Association, with Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini driving a Skoda Fabia R5. The ...

Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction ...

The outcome after the hyped dinner in New York between President Nikos Christodoulides, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and UN Secretary General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres did not conclude with any ...

At present, global interest appears to be focused on geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East and the evolution of interest rates in the US and eurozone, as well ...

Israel said it had struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, while officials in Gaza said they were still trying to recover bodies from the ...

Cyprus’ government portal was the victim of a cyberattack Sunday but the authorities coped with the incident successfully the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said in a ...

Elon Musk’s ‘Starship’ project did something spectacular this week. The 160-tonne booster landed safely in the arms (or rather, the ‘chopsticks’) of a rocket-catching device that will soon allow ...

Asian and African international students are falling prey to the ‘north Cyprus trap’, encountering several abuses the Financial Times reported on Sunday. According to FT, in recent years there has ...

Mention migrants, and you’re likely to be met with hostility. Everyone’s tired of the subject. Still, the asylum seekers who’ve been stuck in the UN buffer zone ...

Music from far, far away is coming to the capital city this month as part of the Nicosia International Festival. The acclaimed 13-piece band Maykel Blanco Y Su Salsa Mayor ...

Police arrested a man on Sunday for blackmailing another man and possessing an illegal weapon. According to police, the man, 37, threatened another man, 51, for an entire year from November 2023 until ...

Israel said its air force attacked Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut on Sunday as well as an underground workshop for the production of weapons. In a statement, the Israeli ...

Today, GwikiLeaks issued transcripts of hundreds of pages of extraordinary secret conversations between Sonic Christofoolides and Resin Tartar, leaders of the two Cypress communities. These reveal a surprising level of ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will be travelling to Apia, Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting taking place between 21 and 26 October, an announcement said on Sunday. The minister will ...

Police said on Sunday a vehicle was severely damaged in a fire that was set in the early hours by an unknown assailant. According to police, at around 2.30 am a 74...

Firefighters rescued three people stuck in their car at the Larnaca Salt Lake, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. In a post on platform X, Kettis said that ...

By Matt Spetalnick and Jonathan Landay Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the ...

Semi-governmental telecommunications authority (Cyta) and petrol company EKO were the targets of cyberattacks, a source told CNA on Sunday. The attacks on both companies occurred on Saturday, following a spate ...

The weather on Sunday will be mostly clear, with a chance of partial cloudiness later in the day, the met office said. Temperatures will rise to 25 degrees Celsius inland, 26 on ...

Iraqi Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, following repeated delays. The vote is to elect 100 lawmakers who will then pick ...

By Loukis Skaliotis A lot has been written about the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the recent anniversary of October 7, 2023 in mind. I have found two articles in the Guardian, one ...