News Feed

Four back-to-back theatrical performances this May as part of the Nicosia International Festival, celebrate the playwright Costas Mannouris. Plays on May 28, 29 and 30 will take place at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre ...

Things are heating up on the bitcoin blockchain. Daily transactions have rocketed to an all-time high of 682,000 this month, according to data from Glassnode, almost 40 per cent higher than the ...

The government was on Tuesday forced to rethink its proposal for a ‘basket of goods’ after businesses and MPs gave it the thumbs-down by arguing it may in fact boomerang ...

Early school leavers in Cyprus dropped by three percentage points in the past decade, falling from 11 per cent in 2012 to eight per cent in 2022, Eurostat figures revealed on Tuesday. This ...

Moscow said on Tuesday it had routed and killed scores of “Ukrainian nationalists” who crossed into Russia from Ukraine after two days of combat, in what appeared to be one ...

A 41-year-old Cypriot born boss of an investment company was found guilty of fraud by a London court jury earlier this week. Anthony Constantinou is estimated to have defrauded clients ...

Early childhood education professor Eleni Loizou has published a book on infant pedagogy with practical suggestions for babies from birth to three-year-old toddlers. Infants, from a very early age, have ...

Richer countries should be asked to better pull their weight in helping the world cope with pandemics, according to a new draft of a treaty being negotiated at the World ...

Hiring almost 2,000 employees to the civil service would be a step backward, opposition Disy MP and former finance minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday, a day after the House finance ...

Microsoft Corp MSFT.O on Tuesday started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as to cloud services – an ...

Twenty complexes in refugee housing estates have critical stability issues and will need to be evacuated immediately, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a press ...

During his upcoming visit to Berlin, President Nikos Christodoulides will explain in detail to the German Chancellor his proposal about the appointment of an EU envoy on Cyprus, the government ...

SpaceX’s Starlink is ‘coming soon’ to Cyprus with works starting in Q3 of 2023, meaning the public will have even greater market choice in how it accesses the internet. Cyprus ...

More English-language study programmes will soon be offered by the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak). The move is within the framework of the European University Alliance EUt+, in which it ...

Greece’s two main opposition parties on Tuesday turned down mandates offered to them to form a coalition government, setting the stage for a second election in June after an ...

A 33-year-old woman was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday after she was found guilty of importing almost 13kg of cannabis resin, as a second woman aged 42, was jailed ...

Mistakes were made in the handling of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, the interior minister conceded on Tuesday as he pledged transparency and accountability going forward. “It is generally ...

Gender is determined by the body’s physiology, the Holy Synod said on Tuesday, calling on MPs to vote against a bill aiming to put an end to conversion therapies ...

Italy approved an emergency relief package worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) to help flood-hit areas in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday. Almost ...

Italy-based Russian artist Andrei Arkhipov, whose paintings are part of significant Russian collections, is holding an ongoing exhibition at the Aphrodite-Amathusia Cultural Centre in Limassol, hosted by the newly-established Insight ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar again stated that the north is ready for a solution as he attended a ceremony celebrating the release of his book titled Vision for Two ...

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged to gradually restore shift allowances and overtime pay for civil servants by 2025 on Tuesday. Addressing the annual conference of civil servants union Pasydy, he said efforts ...

MAGDALENA WAJRAK on why scents smell different The word ‘perfume’ is derived from the Latin per fumus, meaning “through smoke”. The very first account of using perfumes dates back to 1200 ...

The United Nations on Tuesday said it needed $375 million in funding to get food, medicine and other relief supplies to millions of people affected by a cyclone that devastated parts ...