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Police on Monday arrested a 20-year-old man who is being brought before court in connection with the discovery of over 16 kilos of cannabis in the house of a 41-year-old held ...

The Golden State Warriors look to add another title to their era-defining dynasty, the Boston Celtics aim to bounce back from a disappointing finals performance and LeBron James is eyeing ...

Real Madrid’s France forward Karim Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d’Or award for the best men’s player in the world on Monday, while Barcelona’s Spain midfielder Alexia ...

French trade unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, asking for higher salaries amid decades-high inflation and posing President Emmanuel Macron one of his stiffest challenges since his reelection in ...

In today’s episode, torrential rains and storms battered the island yesterday, with rainfall expected to continue through to Thursday. Larnaca experienced heavy flooding while parts of Nicosia were similarly ...

Apart from small landslides, no serious damage was caused in Paphos rural areas by the recent severe weather, reported Paphos Prefect, Mary Lambrou. Lambrou said that in places where small ...

The Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus organise another edition of the Weeks of the German Language this autumn. Aiming at promoting multilingualism in Cyprus and contributing ...

By Toby Walsh You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of ...

Police are investigating a mugging that took place around 9:30pm on Monday outside a bank branch in Nicosia. According to police statement, the 48-year-old woman who reported the crime said ...

Stroumbi police station received a complaint of jewellery theft from a residence on Monday night. The crime was reported at 8pm by the owner who claimed gold and various other ...

Police in Paphos are investigating a case of illegal possession and use of a class A controlled drug and illegal transport of weapons. According to police statement, at around 9pm ...

On Tuesday the weather will be partly cloudy with local rains and isolated storms expected, mainly in the west, northwest and south of the island. Isolated phenomena are also expected ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss apologised for “mistakes” in her programme that caused investor confidence to evaporate and her poll ratings to plunge before nearly all of it was ...

A yellow warning for thunderstorms is still in effect since Monday evening until 11am Tuesday. According to the meteorological service isolated thunderstorms are expected mainly in the west and the ...

Russia attacked Ukraine with drones late on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after a day of strikes on cities in which at least four people were killed and a ...

Cyprus’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was revised to €24.01 billion at current prices for 2021 and to €21.89 billion for 2020, according to a report released on Monday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). ...

Britain’s government bonds, currency and shares rallied on Monday as new finance minister Jeremy Hunt reversed swathes of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic growth plan, the latest twist ...

Tourist arrivals in September 2022 increased by 21.9 per cent compared to last year’s corresponding period, with the majority of tourists being from the United Kingdom, according to a report released ...

Mexico’s biggest non-bank lenders may need to become licensed banks, analysts said, as they maneuver through growing market turmoil to avoid the fate of three big peers who defaulted ...

The difficulties faced by the elderly, and the need to make it easier for them to access the services they need to live an independent life were discussed by lawmakers ...

In two of the television debates of presidential candidates, Disy candidate, Averof Neophytou said the US lifted the arms embargo on Cyprus only after the candidate of the so-called centre ...

Moscow and Kyiv on Monday carried out one of the biggest prisoner swaps of the war so far, exchanging a total of 218 detainees, including 108 Ukrainian women, officials from both sides ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides expressed the hope that Turkey will proceed with the demarcation of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with Cyprus, in a similar way in which the maritime ...

The government will continue to support the work carried out by Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre in 2023 by earmarking some €1.2million as it did in its 2021 Budget, President Nicos ...