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Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday that they would initiating housing plans in the old town of Nicosia and extending existing plans for the rural and disadvantaged areas on ...

The Church of England will look into the use of gender neutral terms to refer to God in prayers, but the centuries-old institution said on Wednesday there were no plans ...

Presidential candidates Andreas Mavroyiannis and Nikos Christodoulides will hold a debate on Omega TV Channel on Friday night, reports said on Wednesday. According to reports in Politis, there will only ...

Tottenham Hotspur could be without their goalkeeper and captain Hugo Lloris for up to eight weeks after he was injured in Sunday’s Premier League win over Manchester City. According ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy embarked on a European tour on Wednesday to drum up aid, winning a British pledge to train Ukrainian pilots on advanced NATO fighter jets, a big ...

Greece has rescued seven more migrants who were missing following Tuesday’s shipwreck off the island of Lesbos in which three people drowned, bringing the number of survivors to 39, the ...

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States had questions to answer over its role in explosions on the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. Commenting on ...

AGGA-GAGA is an adventurous music-making electric guitar duo formed in March 2022 by performer-composers Alkis Nicolaides and Georgios Bizios that is performing at Cornaro Art Institute this February. Their performances explore ...

Paphos is set for a major investment boost after the council of ministers approved the upgrading of the Paphos marina, with the door now open for luxury cruise ships. Along ...

Cyprus-based production company Fetisoff Illusion – Europe is co-producing a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer prize-winning play Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, ...

International prosecutors said on Wednesday they had found “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the use in Ukraine of a Russian missile system that shot down Malaysia Airlines ...

A 42-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after he was caught with almost 28kg of cannabis as he arrived at Paphos airport. The incident occurred last July ...

Cabinet on Wednesday rubberstamped the ‘mortgage to rent’ scheme, and some €240,000 as compensation for damages incurred during last month’s flooding. The funds will go to Larnaca and Famagusta which ...

Salman Rushdie’s new novel “Victory City” will be published on Tuesday, nearly six months after a man repeatedly stabbed the writer onstage during a lecture in New York state ...

David Pannick, of Blackstone Chambers, will again defend Manchester City after the Premier League brought more than 100 charges against the football club for breaches of financial rules on Monday. City, ...

The new king and queen of this year’s Famagusta carnival were presented on Wednesday at a press conference held at the Frenaros Community Council. This year’s queen is ...

Porn star Ron Jeremy was committed to a state mental health hospital after being found incompetent to stand trial on rape and other charges, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles ...

PAUL LAMBIS meets a rising star of the female game, a South African of Greek Cypriot heritage Tatiana Correia may not be a well-known name yet, but at the rate ...

The CyCLOPS training centre gives Cyprus the opportunity to become a regional centre for the management of natural disasters in the wider region, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday. ...

Following are reactions from analysts and investors to US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, in which he challenged Republicans to lift the debt ceiling ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE My two islands have much in common. A reputation for hospitality and friendliness, a history of British occupation, civil strife, emigration, a brain and labour drain ...

Family members of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, have instructed their lawyers to initiate criminal proceedings against the state, ...

A day out in nature is what Forest and Love has planned for this Sunday with a nature-themed event of the same name. Artist and facilitator Eleni Phyla runs the ...

Cyprus to send rescue team after Turkey accepts By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko Two of the teachers with the dozens of Turkish Cypriot children were found dead on Wednesday ...