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Netflix upended the global entertainment industry about a dozen years ago with a streaming video service that rendered network television programming schedules and movie screening times all but irrelevant. Now, ...

Germany’s government plans to introduce a cap on electricity prices for households and industry to ease the impact of soaring energy costs, a ministry document seen by Reuters on ...

British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s insistence that she would not quit after sparking a financial crisis was met with howls of laughter, incredulity and shouts of “resign, resign” as ...

Any claims that the status of Taksim football pitch within the UN buffer zone will change is wrong and misleading, Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday following reports in ...

On Wednesday, October 19, INTERAMERICAN’s online insurer Anytime organised an important workshop at Nicosia’s A. G. Leventis Gallery on the importance of road safety and preventing traffic accidents. The ...

Oil prices climbed on Wednesday, paring losses from the previous session, as investors jumped into riskier assets such as commodities amid gains in broader equity markets and on signs of ...

Voter registration can be done online as of today, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Deputy Minister of Research Kyriacos Kokkinos announced on Wednesday. Registration for the 2023 presidential elections will begin ...

A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison for human trafficking, police said on Wednesday. Appearing before the Larnaca Criminal Court, the man was found guilty of ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that Covid-19 remains a global emergency, nearly three years after it was first declared as one. The WHO’s emergency committee first made ...

The labour ministry on Wednesday announced the launch of free digital skills courses for people aged 55 and over. The courses are being offered in all districts as part of the ...

The public service commission has suspended director of Veterinary Services Christodoulos Pipis for three months. The reason is the instances of Brucellosis found in cattle in a Larnaca livestock farm, ...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were one of the cryptocurrency’s hottest sectors in the last bull market. The sales data for digital collectibles slumped this year with the crypto bear market ...

In a historical novelist, PAUL LAMBIS finds a woman keen to present stories from a female perspective, especially those from patriarchal societies In gripping tales of feminine courage, strength and ...

Uganda’s coffee exports declined last month due to the impact of a drought affecting many growing areas across the country, the state-run sector regulator said. The east African country ...

Vandals have spray painted a stationary traffic camera in the capital amidst works to increase the traffic camera network. Photos of the vandalised traffic camera are circulating which show its ...

The education ministry did not fully comply with the provisions of laws on the granting and management of funds to school boards, according to the audit office’s latest report ...

Let’s Go Tours by Amathus, preferred sales agent of MSC Cruises, announces the launch of MSC Musica cruises from Limassol for summer 2023. Sailing for seven-night cruises from Limassol every ...

Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III will be arriving on Wednesday to visit Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who has been fighting intestinal cancer. According to reports, the archbishop’s health has been ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he had agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to form a natural gas hub in Turkey. Speaking to members of his ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE The ancient Greek demokratia/polis system was an exclusive gents’-entitlement club, participatory and self-governing. Demokratia joins demos (people) and kratos (power). At the same time, ...

An alternative cycling tour will take place in Nicosia this Saturday, weather permitting, and it seeks to lead participants around the capital, exploring ways to make Nicosia more sustainable. Organised ...

The supreme court has ordered the early release of a 29-year-old man convicted to four and a half years in jail for sexually abusing a minor, it emerged on Wednesday. ...

Europe’s energy crisis has cooled efforts to lower the carbon intensity of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, as buyers worried about a winter supply crunch prioritize securing shipments of ...

Around 30,000 children from mixed marriages in the north are trying to get Cypriot IDs and passports, opposition CTP ‘MP’ Urun Solyali said on Wednesday. Solyali has said that the state-controlled ...