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Yum Brands (YUM.N) topped market estimates for quarterly results last week, as cheaper meals and promotional offers at its KFC restaurants boosted demand and overshadowed lackluster traffic at Taco ...

The state will be creating a temporary centre for migrants choosing to voluntarily leave Cyprus in the coming months, while the construction of the new reception centre in Limnes is ...

Wix.com (WIX.O), which helps small businesses build and operate websites, swung to a net profit in the second quarter that was more than double forecasts and raised estimates ...

Arsenal beat Manchester City 4-1 in a penalty shootout to win the Community Shield on Sunday and strike the first blow in this season’s rivalry between the two clubs. ...

Build ‘em fast, build ‘em cheap, build ‘em high seems to be a once-sleepy village’s new mantra Anyone who has been near Trikomo in recent years will have noticed ...

Some Black worshippers feel under-represented in the Catholic Church and that it needs to do more to overcome its legacy of racism, they said, after Pope Francis spent recent days ...

Hunter trial has brought to the forefront what will be a heated debate in the House As parliament in Cyprus is set to reconvene again this autumn, a group of ...

Drivers are employing devious methods to avoid being fined for traffic violations Drivers are banding together to avoid the long lens of the law: social media groups are sharing the ...

Even though the final results of the successful appraisal drilling of the Aphrodite gasfield earlier this year have not yet been formally announced, development of Aphrodite appears to be getting ...

I wonder if you have heard of ‘Borrowing the landscape’! It’s a Japanese idea practised for centuries there and called ‘Shakkei’, where features such as far off mountains and ...

The occupancy of hotels in July was between 80 per cent and 85 per cent and better results are expected for August, when occupancy rates could reach 85 per cent to 90 per cent ...

Local and international artists present an exhibition in the Solea Valley finds ELENI PHILIPPOU It is not often that Galata village in the Solea Valley is the host of an ...

The cause of a fire in the Alassa dam area of Limassol remains unknown still, authorities said on Sunday about the fire that was extinguished a day ago. Limassol police ...

All efforts by President Nikos Christodoulides focus on lifting the prolonged deadlock on the island and on creating the conditions that will allow the resumption of peace talks under the ...

Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyers could not reach him on Sunday after he spent the night in a jail near the capital following his arrest the previous ...

Finance minister has described Gesy as a ‘black hole’ of funds. He’s right By Brian Lait Gesy, the long awaited and much discussed Cyprus health scheme officially kicked off ...

A Turkish drone strike on Sunday killed a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant and wounded another in Iraq’s northern province of Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdish security sources said. The strike ...

Workers installed Ukraine’s national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking ...

Authorities in northeastern China raised their emergency response level on Sunday as tributaries of the Songhua, a major river, rose to dangerous levels after days of heavy rain caused by ...

Twenty-one people were injured and 126 buildings collapsed after an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The earthquake, 10 km (6 miles) deep, ...

“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...

A necessary prerequisite for a solution to the Cyprus issue is having a coherent internal front, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, addressing an anti-occupation rally, organised by Famagusta Municipality ...

The Philippines on Sunday accused China’s coast guard of blocking and water-cannoning a Philippine military supply boat in the South China Sea, condemning the “excessive and offensive actions” against ...

Russia launched a multi-wave overnight attack on Ukraine with 70 air-assault weapons including cruise and hypersonic missiles as well as Iranian-made drones, Kyiv’s Air Force said on Sunday, and at ...