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Police’s underwater demolition team swam 1.5 kilometres on Saturday as part of an event to support children with cancer. Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou kicked off the event. Participants swam in ...

Croatia and Morocco made several changes to their starting lineups for their World Cup third-place playoff at Khalifa International Stadium on Saturday, with both coaches giving opportunities to players benched ...

One of Mexico’s most notorious prisons begins a new chapter this weekend as a Pacific Ocean getaway after a makeover aimed at bringing in tourists to the former penal ...

A walking tour at the Natura 2000 protected area of Larnaca salt lake was held on Saturday by Pandoteira project and Larnaca municipality. People who participated in the tour had the ...

The animal party is mobilising with other groups to form a human chain around Limassol zoo on Sunday to protest against its continued existence following a series of scandals related ...

Homeless people were sleeping at the Larnaca brick house that was damaged by a fire early on Saturday, the fire service said in its statement. Three fire engines from Larnaca ...

Here in Aland, there’s an island for nearly every resident. No mean feat, considering that there are 28,000 people. Granted, you might have to settle for a small rocky outcrop (...

Party allies, and even some rivals, of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday condemned opponents who disrupted his opening speech with chants and shouting at a conference of the ...

The Limassol concept store Guadaloupe, which sells a curated selection of products by local artists and designers, is hosting an art exhibition this December by Maria Michael Happilou. Titled Instagram, ...

As French soccer star Kylian Mbappe gears up for the World Cup final on Sunday in Qatar, the striker’s presence is also felt strongly in Bondy, the unassuming satellite ...

A second suspect has been remanded for seven days in connection with the abduction of a 23-year-old man earlier this week in Paphos. Police had arrested the 29-year-old man as ...

Limassol-based rating agency Capital Intelligence this week announced that it has upgraded the Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) to ‘BB’, from ‘BB-‘. In ...

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...

President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine should proceed during a visit to the operation’s ...

Larnaca is continuing to spray against the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as weather conditions are enabling their growth, the municipality announced on Friday. The health ministry and municipality are also working ...

How is Alexander the Great related to chocolate chip cookies asks ANDRY VOSKARIDOU In the unlikely case you don’t know what cookies are, they are a magical tiny indulgence ...

John Patrick Shanley’s renowned play Doubt, written in 2004, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, and became widely known through its film adaptation in 2008. Starring Meryl Streep ...

As Croatia and Morocco pick up the pieces after their World Cup semi-finals defeats, the two teams will welcome the prospect of potentially leaving Qatar on a high when they ...

The Pentagon’s new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders ...

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century. ...

Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane. The reinstatements came ...

The Bank of Cyprus was named Bank of the Year in Cyprus for 2022 by the international magazine ‘The Banker’. According to an announcement from the Bank of Cyprus, Panicos Nicolaou, ...

Innovative company Irerobot is aiming to establish a significant presence in the EU research and development ecosystem, focusing on projects that have a positive human, social and environmental impact. The ...

By Maria Demertzis Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have become a reality in ten countries: a number of countries in the Caribbean plus Nigeria. As a digital equivalent of a ...