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Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA, said he had been unable to protect soccer from political and business interference in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit. Blatter, who ...

Even if low expectations have been programmed in since childhood, it is possible to adopt a brighter outlook and succeed says DESPINA NICOLA Children are like recorders, downloading material that ...

A construction company was fined €8,000 on Wednesday by the Nicosia district court after it found that a worker was seriously injured due to poor health and safety standards. The labour ...

The police on Wednesday warned that heightened road safety checks will be carried out from December 23 through to January 6, as they also issued safety advice for the holidays. The bolstered ...

It is 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein is having its annual quiche breakfast. When the Communists threaten their picture-perfect town, five women are ...

By Marguerite Johnson The 2022 word of the year from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary is “goblin mode”. Voted by the public and coming in at 93 per cent, “goblin ...

A proposal to bar federal employees from using Chinese app TikTok on government devices appeared set to become law, threatening to deal a blow to the company’s reputation and ...

It can be difficult to stay on top of the trends and decide which tokens to invest your money in for the long run. To make it a bit easier, ...

The British government’s post-Brexit settlement scheme for EU citizens is unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Wednesday. The Independent Monitoring Authority, a body funded by the government to ...

In collaboration with Junior Achievement Cyprus, Lidl Cyprus ran the free environmental and educational Mind Reset programme for public and private schools across Cyprus, a second year running. A fun, ...

A new information and training centre opened in Nicosia aims to offer networking and employment opportunities, particularly for vulnerable groups, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. Speaking from the opening ...

Cash is losing its top spot as the euro zone’s dominant means of payment, a European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday, in a historic shift for a part ...

Chelsea on Wednesday appointed Christopher Vivell as the London club’s technical director under the new ownership led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. Vivell earlier worked with RB Leipzig, ...

The rouble plunged to its weakest level since early May past 70 against the dollar on Wednesday, taking its monthly losses to almost 14% as fears over sanctions on Russian oil and ...

To borrow from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 2022 is not a year on which the cryptocurrency world shall look back with undiluted pleasure. Crashes, contagion, collapses came in such quick succession ...

The creation of a new mental health centre, based on modern psychiatric care principles will improve the lives of patients as well as health workers, President Nicos Anastasiades said laying ...

Between two and three trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas has been uncovered in exploratory drilling in block six of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the energy ministry ...

Three objections have been filed over the archbishop elections, it emerged on Wednesday, after Paralimni mayor Theodoros Pyrillis strongly hinted that certain bishops may have muddied the waters. Pyrillis did ...

The 4-year-old girl intubated at Makarios hospital for strep A is to be transferred to Israel on Wednesday evening in “one of the health ministry’s biggest ever operations”. Christina ...

Experts on Wednesday expressed concern as hospitals remain at high occupancy rates with many patients being admitted for respiratory illnesses. Admissions are rising in the pulmonology, pathology, and paediatric wards – ...

Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women was ...

In the only luthier on the island, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who loves to talk who labours over custom-made instruments but will listen to ‘anything beautiful’ himself The sign ...

By Alexandros Clerides In any case where the death of a person results from an act of another person, there is a question as to how much this act will ...

By George Christou Hellenic Bank CEO, Oliver Gatzke, after a two-month absence from his post, returned to the helm 10 days ago determined to deal with all pending issues facing and ...