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US consumer prices increased by the most in seven months in November, but that is unlikely to discourage the Federal Reserve from delivering a third consecutive interest rate cut next ...

Large British life insurers would need to report their liquidity positions daily during market crises under new rules proposed by the Prudential Regulation Authority, after it identified information gaps during ...

Disy and Akel on Wednesday were predictably on the opposite sides of the argument over the contentious ‘bank tax’ bill set to go to plenum on Thursday. Submitted by Akel, ...

If the political parties approve the government bill to raise the betting tax from 3 per cent to 4.5 per cent to assist football clubs that owe millions of euros in taxes ...

Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie scored to lead Juventus to a 2-0 Champions League win over Manchester City on Wednesday, a major blow to the English champions’ hopes of clinching ...

US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Nasa administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said on Wednesday that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon Musk’s SpaceX “may ...

The Pentagon said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that drones that had been spotted over New Jersey were from a foreign entity or adversary and dismissed a claim ...

A new amendment to the US defence budget includes Cyprus for the first time in the list of countries eligible to participate in military training programmes in eastern Europe. With ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo a new medical procedure scheduled for Thursday in order to prevent further bleeding in his brain, newspaper Folha de S. ...

Firefighters made some progress in containing a wildfire in the beach community of Malibu, California, on Wednesday, but it continued to threaten several structures, force residents to flee and close ...

An agreement for defence cooperation between Cyprus and Jordan was signed on Wednesday in Amman. The agreement was signed by Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas and Chief of the Jordanian armed ...

Beset by weeks of protests by students over a deadly train station disaster last month, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic acted on Wednesday to defuse the unrest by pledging to meet ...

A total of 266 Cypriot antiquities were handed over to Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou in Claremont, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, including a rare copper talent, the third such artefact to ...

FBI Director Chris Wray will step down from his post early next year, the bureau said on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump signalled his intent to fire the veteran ...

Promoting children’s rights, combating gender-based violence and advancing gender equality, as well as the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights, are Cyprus’ core priorities as a member of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday for discussing Ukraine in a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Orban, who has had closer ties ...

A mosque in Kalavasos village in the Larnaca district has been fully restored and handed over and more such projects in the south and north will be delivered over the ...

Austria’s lower house voted on Wednesday in favour of lifting the parliamentary immunity of the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Herbert Kickl, to let prosecutors investigate an ...

Dozens of brand fragrances have been withdrawn from the EU market for containing forbidden substance butylphenyl methylpropional (BMHCA), according to a notification sent by Rapex to EU member states. Cyprus’ ...

Syrians lined up at the Turkish border on Wednesday to head home after rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad, speaking of their expectations for a better life following what was for ...

Aryna Sabalenka has been voted the WTA Player of the Year for the first time after the Belarusian won two Grand Slam titles and secured the year-end world number one ...

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said ...

Every corner, nook, street and village on the island is celebrating Christmas in its own way this December. Apart from the celebrations in towns and the Christmas Villages, more locations ...

Andreas Mavroyiannis and Ozdil Nami, former negotiators of the two sides for a Cyprus settlement, will be joining MEP Fidias Panayiotou in his first live podcast on Friday, to discuss ...