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A Russian regional official said on Wednesday that frontier guards in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine had come under fire, while schools in nearby Belgorod were evacuated after a bomb ...

IN A SMALL corner of south-east England, vast glasshouses stand empty, the soaring cost of energy preventing their owner from using heat to grow cucumbers for the British market. Elsewhere ...

Police on Wednesday said they have arrested two people for theft, including a teenage girl who is suspected of stealing €1,200 from two different residences in Limassol. According to police, the 17...

Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the ...

THEO PANAYIDES discovers that few people understand the circle of life better than Florentina Mela, the 28-year-old funeral director Last Sunday, April 3, was Florentina Mela’s birthday; she turned 28. She’...

By Nick Carey and Barbara Lewis An electric car is a clean car, right? If only it were so simple. From motor magnets with toxic histories to batteries made using ...

Authorities in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk hope to evacuate civilians through five “humanitarian corridors” on Wednesday and urged residents to get out “while it is safe.” Ukraine has ...

By Sarah Coyne Now that the weather is warming up, it is the perfect time to travel further afield and enjoy some of the island’s best restaurants. Several people ...

Sunny playdates, crafty activities and village road trips are what spring brings with it and a series of creative workshops seek to entertain children and families. Throughout April, artists, boutiques ...

High concentrations of dust continue to be present in the air on Wednesday, the labour inspection department said, warning people to avoid circulating in outdoor spaces. “The small size of ...

Cybercriminals have been developing and boosting their attacks at an alarming pace By Chrysanthos Christophorou The rapid expansion and use of the internet, the digitalisation of almost every available piece ...

Police on Wednesday said they helped rescue a pensioner who got lost and slightly injured in Paphos forest during his drive in the area. According to Paphos assistant police director ...

In today’s episode, traffic cameras appear to be stuck in the ‘pilot’ phase with 50,000 violations recorded since the start of the year but only 2,000 fines handed out. In other ...

Greek workers began a day-long nationwide strike on Wednesday over what they call a “deepening crisis” of rising prices and squeezed incomes, disrupting transport, ferries, schools and public hospitals. The ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris departed for Bulgaria and Slovenia on Wednesday morning, where he will pay an official visit at the invitation of his counterparts to discuss the migration issue. ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested late on Tuesday after a woman complained he used a piece of wood to hit her dog in the yard of her house in Paphos, ...

Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai, with 26 million under lockdown, scrambled to secure food on Wednesday, with supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide Covid-19 testing ...

Did Elon Musk break securities laws again? Former securities officials and professors said Musk may have missed a key disclosure deadline when he bought 9 per cent of Twitter. And Securities ...

The NFT bubble isn’t popping, but it may have sprung a leak. A year on from when a single non-fungible token sold for $69.3 million in crypto at Christie’s ...

PwC Cyprus Director of Technology Advisory Services Minos Georgakis on Tuesday said the pandemic accelerated companies’ digital acceleration, forcing organisations to adapt to the new normal. Georgakis differentiated between the ...

European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) president Philippos Philis on Tuesday said that the shipping industry cannot choose to ignore global decarbonisation efforts, despite the complex nature of the undertaking. Philis, ...

The traffic camera saga continues: They’re up, they’re working, but they appear to be stuck in the ‘pilot’ phase – with 50,000 violations recorded since the start of the year ...

Reports that the Cyprus government had been asked to give its Russian-made weapon systems to Ukraine has put the government in a quandary. Although Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides ruled this ...

Liverpool took a firm grip of their Champions League tie with Benfica as goals from Ibrahima Konate, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz earned them a 3-1 victory in Lisbon in ...