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The House legal affairs committee on Wednesday announced talks will begin early next month in an effort to push through important family law reforms before the presidential elections in February 2023. ...

Queen Elizabeth will break with tradition and appoint Britain’s new prime minister at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London, due to mobility ...

A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday. Fist-sized hailstones up to 10 centimetres (4 ...

The summer’s busy fiesta-filled agenda may be coming to an end yet September has plenty of exciting events going on. One of them is another unique evening by the ...

Widely praised in the West as a towering statesman who helped end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered in the Baltic states on Wednesday as a repressive autocrat who ...

Police have arrested a 64-year-old man in connection with the death of a woman who was found in a Nicosia house on Tuesday afternoon. According to the police report, the ...

France midfielder Paul Pogba was the target of extortion by childhood friends since March and paid 100,000 euros to that group in the spring, a source close to the investigation told ...

EU foreign ministers decided on Wednesday to make it more expensive and lengthier for Russians to obtain visas to travel to the bloc, but stopped short of agreeing to the ...

The Kremlin on Wednesday hailed late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as an extraordinary global statesman who helped end the Cold War, but said he had been badly wrong about the ...

Ryan Giggs is facing a possible retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts in his domestic violence trial. The former Manchester United winger had been on trial for four ...

Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google criticised Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) cloud computing changes on Tuesday, saying they limit competition and discourage customers from switching to rival ...

The full implementation of e-justice system is on track for January 1, 2023, with the final pilot phase beginning on September 12 to iron out any final kinks. The positive review of the ...

Mourners marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in Paris on Wednesday, laying flowers and leaving messages on the bridge above the underpass where she was killed in ...

This year’s OPAP Cyprus 3×3 2022 tournament will culminate with showdowns at the D’Avila Moat in Old Nicosia over September 2-4. OPAP Nicosia 3×3 2022 organisers are 3on3 Cyprus LTD, in collaboration ...

State aid to Turkish Cypriots increased by €1.4 million in 2021 to reach €40.4m for that year, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides informed cabinet on Wednesday. Noting that total aid to Turkish Cypriots ...

Wesley Fofana has completed his £70million move from Leicester to Chelsea. The defender has signed a seven-year contract at Stamford Bridge, the Blues confirmed on Wednesday. Fofana joins Kalidou Koulibaly ...

The north is bolstering its efforts to reduce queues at the checkpoints as it renewed its calls for more crossings to open, according to reports from the Turkish Cypriot press. ...

Every year, thousands of couples travel to Cyprus to tie the knot. The allure of combining a wedding and honeymoon with something different, including good weather, are key drivers in ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a 15 per cent increase in the incentives paid to HIV-positive individuals who comply with their treatment regimen. The scheme, with an initial budget of €1,980,000, started on ...

The Bank of Cyprus on Wednesday released its financial results for the first half of 2022, posting a profit after tax of €50 million, marking a significant improvement over the €1 million loss ...

More housing is to become available for children under state care with the purchase of three buildings using €2.4 million of EU funds, the deputy ministry of social welfare announced on ...

In a film shot shortly after the explosion in Beirut’s port, one director reflects on the Hellenic community in the island’s neighbouring country. PAUL LAMBIS meets him It ...

Grain silos in Ukraine’s second biggest port, Mykolaiv, were hit by Russian shelling of the city on Tuesday, causing a fire that was still burning on Wednesday, Ukraine’s ...

Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid on Tuesday for what it described ...