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Eleni Philippou looks at the events coming up at the weekend The second weekend of September arrives with plenty of festivals to choose from and as we go deeper into ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas The first day of school for thousands of secondary school students began on Thursday, as children returned to their desks and gymnasiums and lyceums. ...

Paphos District Court on Wednesday imposed a 15-month prison sentence to a 74-year-old woman for causing the death of a 10-year-old schoolgirl. According to police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou, the 74-year-old ...

The American University of Beirut’s Mediterranean campus (AUB Mediterraneo) was officially inaugurated at the Paphos Innovation Centre on Wednesday. The event was attended by the ministers of education of ...

Russian drone strikes have damaged port infrastructure, a grain silo and administrative buildings in the Izmail district of Ukraine’s Odesa region, its governor, Oleh Kiper, said on Thursday. Russia ...

World number one Carlos Alcaraz vanquished Alexander Zverev 6-3 6-2 6-4 on Wednesday to complete an all-star U.S. Open men’s semi-final lineup that features three Flushing Meadows champions ...

Speeding up the transition to a greener economy would be cheaper than delaying it for euro zone companies, households and the banks that serve them, a European Central Bank study ...

Freedom Finance Europe, in collaboration with the Celebrity Gala artistic project, is set to host an extraordinary ballet event in Cyprus. This cultural spectacle will take place at the historic ...

Corrective measures will be taken on the new park and ride in Nicosia, after being reevaluated at the end of the month, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday, on the ...

Thursday will be mostly clear with temperatures rising to 37C in the interior, 33C on the south and east coasts, 31C on the remaining coasts and 27C in the higher ...

The issue of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) cannot be resolved solely by protective measures for vulnerable individuals, since these measures are too narrow in scope, the Cyprus Borrowers Association (Syprodat) said ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global (COIN.O) is launching a digital asset lending platform aimed at large institutional investors, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. Coinbase has raised $57 million for ...

Britain’s largest homebuilder Barratt Developments (BDEV.L) flagged difficult trading conditions over the coming months after it posted a fall in annual profit on Wednesday, as high mortgage rates ...

The family of Thanasis Nicolaou, the 26-year-old national guardsman who was found dead under the Alassa bridge in 2005, on Wednesday requested for the presiding judge at the Limassol court to ...

In an article published in this paper at the weekend, Marios Eliades, former minister and a candidate in the last presidential elections, questioned the value of the pursuing a more ...

Regulated financial exchanges are talking about how to capitalise on interest in crypto, an industry group said on Tuesday, but a third of respondents to its latest survey said they ...

The recently disclosed Chinese hack of senior officials at the U.S. State and Commerce Departments stemmed from the compromise of a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, Microsoft Corp MSFT....

The rapid spread of a citrus disease in Brazil has pushed orange juice prices to near record highs as it threatens years of output from orchards in the world’s ...

A New York state judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay a scheduled Oct. 2 trial in state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud lawsuit accusing him, family ...

Spain is analysing Saudi Arabian group STC’s 7010.SEpurchase of a 9.9% stake in Telefonica TEF.MC, signalling a potential hurdle to the move, in order to ensure that its strategic ...

Moderna and rival Pfizer on Wednesday said their updated COVID-19 vaccines generated strong responses in testing against the highly mutated BA.2.86 subvariant of the coronavirus that has raised fears of ...

The Pentagon on Wednesday announced a new security assistance package worth up to $175 million for Ukraine, including depleted uranium ammunition for Abrams tanks, the first time the U.S. is ...

President Dina Boluarte of Peru reshuffled six posts in her cabinet on Wednesday, the second partial reshuffle in her eight-month-old administration, though she retained ministers overseeing the key economy and ...

At least 32 civilians were killed and dozens injured in artillery strikes by the Sudanese army on Tuesday, one of the highest tolls from a single day of fighting since conflict ...