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By Tim Cocks In South Africa, a country where ‘braai’ all-day barbecuing is a national pastime, plant-based substitutes are making surprising inroads despite a deep cultural love of meat and ...

The second weekend of November has a couple of different events on offer – take your pick between hot and spicy chili fest, a garden performance and a three-day Christmas shopping ...

Efforts to establish Cyprus as a regional educational, research and excellence centre are bearing fruit, President Nicos Anastasiades said on the 10th anniversary of the International multithematic bio-medical congress. Renowned ...

The fashion industry currently contributes 10 per cent of all carbon emissions By Panayiotis Kleanthous As I was strolling around the streets of London on a Sunday afternoon, I came across ...

Once a year Cyprus police roll out their ‘human face’ during Police Week and talk about modernising the force and becoming ‘closer to the public’ with various social schemes. Polls ...

The division of the island makes it easier for human traffickers to trick their victims into coming to Cyprus and harder for the authorities to arrest them, a new report ...

Israel and Jordan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to move ahead with a water-for-energy deal after an initial examination of the project found it to be feasible. ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) on Tuesday condemned a work stoppage at the Larnaca port, saying the strike is taking place in violation of the industrial relations code. It ...

A 49-year-old woman who fell from a height of six metres while cleaning the windows of a house in Tersefanou died from a head injury, the autopsy showed on Tuesday. ...

Drake and 21 Savage have been sued by Conde Nast, the publisher of Vogue magazine, for using the Vogue name without permission to promote their new album “Her Loss.” Conde Nast ...

A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 42-year-old woman who was wanted for the past four years in connection to a case based on alleged theft by deceit. The suspect allegedly misappropriated ...

Days after Twitter Inc fired half its staff and new owner Elon Musk tweeted a recommendation to vote for Republican candidates, election experts are anxiously bracing for a surge in ...

Three former PwC Cyprus partners have branched off and formed their own firm which takes on Russia-linked clients, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine up-ended the sector in Cyprus. The ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara conveyed its expectation to see concrete steps from Sweden to fulfil anti-terrorism obligations under a deal clearing bids by the Nordic ...

Former Kiti Bishop Chrysostomos said he is “praying every night” that God forgives the woman who, he said, falsely accused him of assaulting her back in 1981 when she was a ...

Although about 60 senior clerics are eligible to contest the throne of the archbishop, vacated after the passing of Chrysostomos II, in practice the race will come down to six or ...

Two generations of furniture makers come together under one roof as a furniture exhibition opening at the Strovolos Cultural Centre pays homage to the legacy of Costas Hemonides, founder of ...

Information about the two species of mosquitoes “dangerous to humans” which have been recently detected in Limassol and Larnaca, will be sent out as part of measures to eliminate the ...

The Limassol Tourism Board (LTB) continues its efforts to further upgrade the tourist product of the region, utilising state-of-the-art European programmes and national funds to ensure the island’s coastal ...

A thousand sounds, a thousand rights! This is what Sistema Cyprus says as it prepares for a new concert later this month. On the occasion of the anniversary of the ...

Officials revealed on Tuesday they plan to slash the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) charge, giving consumers some relief, although the change is not expected to impact electricity bills for several ...

Leaders from poor countries criticized wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using their speeches on Tuesday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to demand that they ...

A 37-year-old man was been jailed for three and a half years on Tuesday for assisting the illegal entry of irregular migrants into the republic. He was arrested on July 30 ...