A woman Chief Justice is a big deal
The appointment of Sue Carr last week as the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is another first for the Conservative party. Chief Justice Carr was appointed by ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Audit office is now the custodian of diplomatic ethics
THE POOR guy had been in his new post just four days before he became the target of a character assassination attempt by the media.
Stavros Avgoustides took over as ...
EU to study mobile ecosystems to counter any Apple, Google antitrust pushback
European Union antitrust regulators have commissioned a study into mobile ecosystems to help them counter any pushback from Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google in complying with ...
Israeli forces clash with Hamas gunmen after hundreds killed
Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which nearly 500 people were killed in the ...
Our View: Fat pensions for unproductive civil servants threatens social insurance fund
The inevitable public outcry followed the revelation that President Nikos Christodoulides, apart from his salary, was being paid a monthly state pension of €1300. It was ethically unacceptable and provocative that ...
US ad revenue at Musk’s X declined each month since takeover -data
Monthly US ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55 per cent year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in ...
Meta starts rolling out generative AI tools for all advertisers
Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday that it has started rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations ...
Watt the heck is going on?
Cyprus receives more energy from the sun per square metre than anywhere else in Europe and yet there is no end in sight to our energy woes
“Between May and ...
Verstappen seals third F1 title in Qatar
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won his third Formula One world championship while still racing after team mate and sole title rival Sergio Perez crashed out of a Qatar Grand ...
Galatariotis leads 50th Cyprus Rally after first day
Simos Galatariotis / Antonis Ioannou (Volkswagen Polo GTi R5) lead the 50th Cyprus Rally after the first day of the event.
Second overall are Nasser Al-Attiyah (Qatar) / Mathieu Baumel (Andorra) driving ...
McTominay late late show as Man United sink Brentford
Substitute Scott McTominay struck twice deep into stoppage time to snatch a 2-1 win for Manchester United over Brentford in a thrilling end to their Premier League clash at Old ...
Limassol wine festival celebrates 62nd year
Limassol’s wine festival was slated to begin on Saturday night, with plenty of music, food, and of course wine, to last for the week-long cultural event.
This year marks ...
Mourinho: I will definitely work in Saudi Arabia
Roma coach Jose Mourinho said he fully expects to work in Saudi Arabia one day after his compatriot, Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, led the way by joining Al-Nasr, with a ...
Turkey’s Erdogan tells supporters he does not ‘recognise’ LGBT
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not “recognise LGBT” and vowed to combat “perverse” trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of family in ...
Wales see off fierce Georgia to seal top spot
Winger Louis Rees-Zammit scored a hat-trick of tries as Wales beat Georgia 43-19 to secure first place in World Cup Pool C on Saturday and a quarter-final against Argentina or ...
From Nerds to Ninjas: Cyprus Comic Con returns
Three years after it closed its doors, CCC is finally back. Alix Norman was amongst the thousands of visitors who revelled in today’s excitements
In 2019, a mere five years ...
How the Hamas attack on Israel unfolded
A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish ...
Ten-man Tottenham go top of table after 1-0 win at Luton
Tottenham Hotspur went top of the Premier League table with a 1-0 win at Luton Town on Saturday, despite playing the whole of the second half with 10 men.
Dutch defender ...
Markram smashes fastest World Cup ton as S Africa amass record total
Aiden Markram smashed a 49-ball hundred, the fastest in the history of 50-overs World Cup cricket, as South Africa racked up a tournament record total of 428-5 against a listless ...
Russian defence minister inspects nuclear missiles entering service soon
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the manufacture of Sarmat, Russia’s new silo-based intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile system, due to enter service shortly, his ministry said on Saturday.
Shoigu ...
At least 15 dead in Afghanistan earthquakes
At least 15 people were killed and 40 injured after multiple earthquakes struck western Afghanistan on Saturday, a disaster management official told Reuters.
The quake registered a magnitude of 6.3, the U.S. ...
206 traffic violations in 24 hours
There were 206 bookings for traffic violations in a 24-hour span, police said on Saturday.
Between 6am on Friday until the same time on Saturday, officers booked 49 individuals for speeding and 10 ...
From condemnation to support: world reaction to Hamas strikes on Israel
The United States
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that the United States would work to ensure that Israel “has what it needs to defend itself”.
“Over the ...
Flights to Israel running normally, but some diversions to Cyprus
The attacks by Hamas had not affected flights from Cyprus to Israel by Saturday afternoon, though authorities were on alert over the developments that led Israel’s Prime Minister to ...