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Popes have received heads of state, royalty and pilgrims by the busload in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall. On Saturday, Pope Leo received his old college basketball team ...

By Manjeet Ridon Making the longlist this week for the US National Book Award for translated literature, Intan Paramaditha’s Night of a Thousand Hells is a subversive, shape-shifting novel ...

Recent culls and suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have caused further delays in compensation payments to livestock farmers who lost their animals to the disease, president of the ‘voice ...

Flying fullback Achraf Hakimi grabbed a hat-trick as Paris St Germain went on the rampage to thrash bottom-placed Le Havre 5-1 and extend their Ligue 1 lead on Friday. The European ...

Speaking from his home in Limassol, Captain Adamos Marneros recalls a life shaped by determination, chance encounters and a flight that still haunts him: his return to Nicosia in the ...

Larry David ended Curb Your Enthusiasm on April 7, 2024, closing a comedy that spent 24 years turning minor social offences into elaborate disasters. David played a semi-fictional version of himself in Los ...

Former Liverpool defender and television pundit Jamie Carragher apologised to Aston Villa and their supporters on Saturday after the Premier League club threatened legal action over comments he made on ...

Liverpool coach Andoni Iraola refused to let a five-match winning run go to his team’s head on Friday, saying it was too early to discuss a Premier League title ...

Courgette and Lemon Pasta with Ricotta If you are looking for a recipe, that reminds you of summer, this is the one! Courgette and Lemon Pasta with Ricotta and mint! ...

Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, citing a Hormozgan province official, said on Saturday that the US had attacked two fishing boats near Qeshm Island. There was no immediate US confirmation of ...

Swedish Meatballs Meatballs – known in Sweden as köttbullar – are among the most recognisable expressions of Swedish cuisine, yet their history reflects a wider story of European culinary exchange and ...

When Sarah finally trusted herself she had spent so long questioning her feelings she had forgotten what it felt like. Sarah was sitting beside her partner in a crowded restaurant. ...

People can readily share images and sounds digitally, as evidenced by the billions of smartphones in use globally that often overload the human senses of sight and hearing. But smell ...

Forty people illegally residing in the territory of the Republic were deported from Cyprus on Friday. The repatriation took place as a joint effort between the deputy ministry of migration ...

An infant diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease remains in critical condition at the neonatal intensive care unit of Makarios hospital, Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Saturday. Charilaou said there had ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday said that the candidacy of Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu constituted a “political oxymoron and a deep institutional contradiction”. “It is, indeed, an oxymoron for ...

The Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evel) has called on the government to provide clear answers and a binding timetable for the development of the Pentakomo Science and Technology ...

Cyprus recorded higher government revenues and expenditure during the first nine months of 2026, while the implementation of development spending accelerated compared with previous years, according to a report published on ...

For founders in Cyprus, turning an idea into a business involves more than developing a product. It means testing demand, protecting intellectual property and finding customers and funding. The island’...

Working at height remains the most frequent cause of workplace accidents in Cyprus, the Labour Inspection Department has warned, following a serious incident at a factory in Larnaca that left ...

A 22-year-old delivery driver was attacked in Limassol on Friday evening. According to the police, the incident occurred at around 7.30pm as the man was riding his motorcycle on a ...

Two men, aged 18 and 19, have been arrested in connection with an alleged assault on a 19-year-old in Paralimni on October 15, police said on Saturday. The arrests came a day after ...

In an old Irish song, a wealthy America asks an Irishman, ‘How can I buy Killarney?’ an Irish beauty spot. The answer, ‘How can you buy all the stars in ...

Sebastian Barry’s latest novel tries to do something that seems paradoxical: to insist upon the miraculous nature of the everyday in a book telling the story of a man ...