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Short-term patchwork government measures to deal with cost-of-living crisis and persistent inequalities are not enough By Les Manison A report by the OECD on “taxing wages” reveals that the increase ...

A 34-year-old man was remanded for two days by the Paphos district court, under suspicion of drug possession and for drink driving, police said on Sunday. According to Paphos police, ...

Typhoon Koinu, which lashed Taiwan with rain and wind last week, on Sunday turned south over the sea off the coast of China’s Guangdong province towards the resort island ...

An avalanche struck the Tibetan peak of Shishapangma on Saturday, killing an American and Nepalese climber, while two others remained missing, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. Shishapangma, ...

Azerbaijan’s president scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a ...

Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country. ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting October 2: The Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) Constantinos Herodotou on Friday used his keynote address ...

The appointment of Sue Carr last week as the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is another first for the Conservative party. Chief Justice Carr was appointed by ...

THE POOR guy had been in his new post just four days before he became the target of a character assassination attempt by the media. Stavros Avgoustides took over as ...

European Union antitrust regulators have commissioned a study into mobile ecosystems to help them counter any pushback from Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google in complying with ...

Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which nearly 500 people were killed in the ...

The inevitable public outcry followed the revelation that President Nikos Christodoulides, apart from his salary, was being paid a monthly state pension of €1300. It was ethically unacceptable and provocative that ...

Monthly US ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55 per cent year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in ...

Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday that it has started rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations ...

Cyprus receives more energy from the sun per square metre than anywhere else in Europe and yet there is no end in sight to our energy woes “Between May and ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his third Formula One world championship while still racing after team mate and sole title rival Sergio Perez crashed out of a Qatar Grand ...

Simos Galatariotis / Antonis Ioannou (Volkswagen Polo GTi R5) lead the 50th Cyprus Rally after the first day of the event. Second overall are Nasser Al-Attiyah (Qatar) / Mathieu Baumel (Andorra) driving ...

Substitute Scott McTominay struck twice deep into stoppage time to snatch a 2-1 win for Manchester United over Brentford in a thrilling end to their Premier League clash at Old ...

Limassol’s wine festival was slated to begin on Saturday night, with plenty of music, food, and of course wine, to last for the week-long cultural event. This year marks ...

Roma coach Jose Mourinho said he fully expects to work in Saudi Arabia one day after his compatriot, Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, led the way by joining Al-Nasr, with a ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family in ...

Winger Louis Rees-Zammit scored a hat-trick of tries as Wales beat Georgia 43-19 to secure first place in World Cup Pool C on Saturday and a quarter-final against Argentina or ...

Three years after it closed its doors, CCC is finally back. Alix Norman was amongst the thousands of visitors who revelled in today’s excitements In 2019, a mere five years ...

A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish ...