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Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was on Thursday fitted with a permanent pacemaker. Northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Adil Ozyilkan explained that the operation ...

The audit office assured on Thursday it was continuing its work, after its chief was fired a day earlier. Deputy Auditor-General Kyriacos Kyriacou said audits were still continuing in the ...

Financial literacy and robust regulation are essential to strengthening household financial behaviour, according to a number of experts at a conference organised by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) and ...

The number of arrests made in connection with the violent episodes which broke out at Sunday’s abandoned Limassol derby between Ael and Apollon rose to ten on Thursday, with ...

City of Dreams Mediterranean on Wednesday evening celebrated the official opening of the Marcos Baghdatis Tennis Academy. The resort described the event as the mark of “the beginning of a ...

Ask a thousand Cypriots what’s their favourite tavern on the island and you’ll get almost a thousand different answers. The purists will favour the food above all, for ...

Eurobank Cyprus on Thursday announced the appointment of Andreas Petsas as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following a decision by the bank’s board of directors. According to the ...

A fire in the Limassol district village of Alektora burned a total of a hectare of a half of land on Wednesday night. The land burnt was mostly forest scrub ...

A urologist was fined after the health insurers’ organisation (HIO) found various irregularities in his expenses claims for the month of August, including that he had claimed expenses for scanning ...

Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides took part in the Learning Innovation Summit 2024 at the University of Nicosia, where he underlined the crucial role of the EU AI Act. Commenting on this ...

A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday, forcing people to leave their homes and the ...

When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before. A few miles west, however, ...

A 43-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having allegedly killed a man by dousing him in petrol and setting him and his ...

Akel on Thursday said it was organising a protest against the dismissal of now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides outside the presidential palace. The protest will take place on Sunday at 4...

A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a mobile phone and of living illegally in Cyprus, police in the Famagusta district announced on Thursday. Famagusta district police ...

A Cypriot expedition led by seasoned mountaineer Alexander Larin has successfully scaled Surya Peak in Nepal as part of their exploration of the sacred region of Kailas Manasorovar in Tibet. ...

The minimum wage in the north was set at a figure higher than that of the Republic of Cyprus at a meeting of the north’s minimum wage determination commission ...

Injuries at Barcelona are showing no signs of easing after midfielder Fermin Lopez suffered a new muscular problem in his right thigh while training on Tuesday. The 21-year-old, who was ...

Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard will be out “for a while” after suffering a significant ankle injury while playing for Norway last week, manager Mikel Arteta said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old ...

Talks over the interconnector were taking place in Athens on Thursday, as President Nikos Christodoulides was meeting Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The tete-a-tete slated for 11am was focusing ...

Larnaca is getting crafty as it welcomes local artists and art lovers at a pop-up event this Saturday. The Larnaca Agora will host another exciting initiative as it organises the ...

Israel bombed southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it had thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios that came on the heels of blasts in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will take decisions to appoint a new auditor-general in the next few days, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. Odysseas Michaelides, who held the post for 10 ...

There is lots to do and stay busy with this weekend all around the island. From traditional festivals to pop-up markets to large music festivals with an international flair and ...