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A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if he needs to take some pill ...

A group of investors are looking to create a basketball league that will span Asia and Europe to one day rival the NBA, with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose gaunt appearance shocked Israelis, while Israel began freeing dozens of Palestinians in the latest stage of a ceasefire ...

The police on Saturday said they are investigating what they believe to be an attempted murder carried out in the Limassol district village of Souni the previous day. The incident ...

Donald Trump on Sunday will become the first sitting US president to attend a Super Bowl – but the former reality television star has a long and complicated history with the ...

Manchester United clawed back from a goal down to beat Leicester City in a 2-1 fourth-round FA Cup victory on Friday at Old Trafford, thanks to a last-gasp controversial header ...

Two alpine ski athletes are in Bakuriani in Georgia to compete for Cyprus in the 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOF), between February 9 and 16. The main events of the 17th ...

Fish Soup with Egg and Lemon Broth I just love this comforting soup, which is one of the first things I learned to cook when I was about 12 or 13 years ...

Argentina’s award-winning mare Polo Pureza will have her genes, or at least most of them, live on in five genetically edited horses designed to outrun the polo legend herself. ...

“Musical composition in Cyprus is thriving,” says the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in anticipation of an upcoming concert, “thanks to a bursting array of Cypriot composers bringing a fresh, imaginative perspective ...

Maha Nassar President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” is ...

The chance of a major earthquake hitting in the Aegean sea at present is “remote”, professor Emmanuel Scordilis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said on Saturday. Speaking to the ...

By Michelle Spear When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin – and even the whites of ...

Cyprus’ mountain roads were reopened to all traffic on Saturday afternoon. The police said the roads are open to all vehicles, “but slippery”, and that as such, “drivers are urged ...

The police believe there was “malicious intent” behind a fire which broke out in a high school in Limassol shortly after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a ...

Cyprus’ spate of chilly weather is set to continue on Saturday, with temperatures set to rise to a maximum of 14 degrees Celsius inland, 16 degrees Celsius on the coast, and just ...

Two hundred years ago, one job in Cyprus outnumbered all others – by miles! According to the Ottoman Property Survey of 1832, 50 people were registered as merchants, 36 were cobblers, and 26 gave their ...

Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) president Marinos Christodoulides, has called for greater state support for the exchange, saying that it has a critical role as a tool for economic and corporate ...

Following the publication by the EU of ‘Justice-focused approach key to effective energy poverty solutions’, energy poverty in Europe was again in the news last week. This is based on ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) shares fell 9 per cent in premarket trading on February 5, after the company’s AI chip revenue failed to meet lofty expectations of investors betting billions ...

All eyes are on the French capital next week to see if US President Donald Trump’s administration can find common ground with China and nearly 100 other nations on the ...

Saudi Arabia’s non-oil business sector expanded at its strongest pace in just over a decade in January, driven by a surge in new orders and robust business activity, a ...

French software group Dassault Systemes (DAST.PA) has announced a long-term partnership with Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) to accelerate the German automaker’s transition towards software defined vehicles. Dassault’s ...