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In the moments before Nasa’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defence test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of this small celestial object and ...

The Nicosia district court has issued a four-day remand order against the fifth person arrested for the car bombing of July 4 in Nicosia. The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested ...

Controlled pharmaceutical and drug products were confiscated on Tuesday during a police and heath ministry operation in Limassol. Two shops were searched after information that illegal substances were being traded. ...

An Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Tuesday in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack ...

The natural beauty of Paphos is the inspiration behind an exhibition opening at Minthis resort. Running from Friday to August 31, Minthis Hills will host the Nature Trails exhibition featuring works ...

Microsoft investors will have one big question after the tech giant reports earnings on Tuesday: has growth in its Azure cloud-computing business picked up enough to justify the billions of ...

Cyprus was the EU member state with the second highest percentage of workers who couldn’t afford to go on holiday in 2022, Eurostat data for the European Trade Union Confederation (...

Thousands of people are stranded on the streets of the eastern Sudanese city of Kassala as a deluge of rain compounds the suffering of more than a million Sudanese who ...

The government on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to promote a new set of rules for the storage of hazardous substances, with Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou visiting the Vasiliko cement ...

A 28-year-old was on Tuesday sentenced to six years in prison for possession of drugs with the purpose of selling them, as well as a concurrent four-year sentence for importing ...

The International Press Institute had by Tuesday joined the chorus of voices against the contentious fake news bill currently being discussed in Cyprus’ parliament, which has been slammed as a ...

The euro zone’s economy grew slightly more than expected in the three months to June, data showed on Tuesday, but a mixed underlying picture and a string of pessimistic ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it is “under pressure” to consent to Cypriot consumers paying a fee from now for the Great Sea Interconnector, the mooted subsea electricity ...

The presidential palace coughed up almost €60,000 on catering and restaurants in 2023, according to a report published on Tuesday. Details of the state expenditure were reported in Philenews though it did ...

Spain overcame a tricky test to beat Greece 84-77 and Canada stunned Australia 93-83 in the second round of men’s basketball Group A action at the Pierre Mauroy stadium ...

A 27-year-old Serbian – Alexandar Gligorijevic – has been reported missing in Ayia Napa. The police are calling for anyone who could help locate him to come forward. Gligorijevic has been missing ...

The government will invite two tenders in a bid to complete the LNG project, one for remaining construction work on the jetty at the land-based facilities at Vasiliko, the other ...

Britain’s financial watchdog this week launched two reviews of retail conduct and insurance rules to cut costs and improve competitiveness, now that a strict new duty to put consumers ...

Thousands of Palestinians returned to their homes in the ruins of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis on Tuesday, after Israeli forces ended a week-long incursion there which they ...

A plan called Nafkratis has been updated for migratory flows in case Cyprus needs to become a safe junction for evacuees due to an explosive situation in Lebanon and the ...

Abandoned and unwanted items were removed from the beach on Tuesday near Larnaca nautical club by the municipality and the town’s district administration. The municipality provided an excavator and ...

Nicosia can count on Belgrade’s full support when it comes to Cyprus’ national issues, Serbia’s top diplomat assured his Cypriot counterpart on Tuesday. Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Duric ...

By Sachin Ravikumar and Toby Melville Behind the lush greenery, roses in bloom and birdsong at London’s famous Kew Gardens lies the darker reality of climate change, which threatens ...

By Xinghui Kok At Singapore’s House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has bugs crawling out of it and the ...