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Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s super-G at the Beijing Olympics on Friday with a time of 1:13.51 to end her run of agonising near misses in the event ...

It may not be the season where you find pop-up bazaars and pop-up shops at every corner, yet two of them are happening in Limassol this Saturday. And perhaps the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades briefed on Thursday the European Council President Charles Michel on efforts to resume the Cyprus peace talks and asked for the EU’s contribution for confidence building ...

Two men are under arrest in connection with two separate drug cases, one in Nicosia and the second in Larnaca. In Nicosia, police arrested a 28-year-old man who was carrying ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

A 43-year-old woman was caught driving while five times over the maximum alcohol limit, Famagusta district police said on Friday. Officers stopped the car of the woman for a check ...

Seven businesses and 16 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols after 1,711 checks in the government-controlled areas, police said on Friday. Five businesses and four people were fined in Nicosia after 468 ...

Teen figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva won a gold medal having earlier failed a drug test and Olympic officials will fight Russia’s decision to let her compete at the ...

The European Commission predicts a 4.1 per cent increase for the real GDP of Cyprus in 2022 and a 3.5 per cent increase in 2023, in its Winter 2022 Economic Forecast which was published on ...

Russia and Ukraine said they had failed to reach any breakthrough in a day of talks with French and German officials aimed at ending an eight-year separatist conflict in eastern ...

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance will make a $200 million investment in Forbes, the media company said on Thursday, as it prepares to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). ...

Environmental NGO, Terra Cypria, has repeated its calls for the passage of a bill that will allow those who own land in Akamas to build elsewhere, saying this will protect ...

Cyprus’ foreign trade showed signs of recovery in the final two months of 2021, with exports hitting €702.7 million in value during that time, while total exports surpassed €3 billion for the entire ...

Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) President and ICS Vice-Chairman Themis Papadopoulos and CSC Director General Thomas Kazakos, represented the Cyprus shipping industry at the Board of Directors meeting of the International ...

The new sports stadium in Limassol will cost taxpayers almost triple what it was initially priced at, MPs heard on Thursday. At the House watchdog committee, Marios Petrides of the ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

Gesy’s expenditure in 2021 was €1.21 billion, with all indications that this would be covered by revenue, a senior health insurance organisation (HIO) official told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. ...

Police on Thursday took one more person in custody in connection with the gangland-related murder of 53-year-old Andreas Evangelou last December. The latest person to be arrested was a 25-year-old ...

Parliament on Thursday handed independent MP Andreas Themistocleous a verbal reprimand over his inappropriate behaviour last September toward an official with the Green Party. The decision on Themistocleous’ penalty – essentially ...

A total of 35 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced. In addition to documents exempting people from vaccination, like ...

Parliament on Thursday postponed voting on two items of legislation – the first creating an anti-corruption authority, the second regulating lobbying – but will go ahead with the vote next week. Nicos ...

London police chief Cressida Dick resigned on Thursday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said, after he told her he was not satisfied she could root out the racism, sexism and ...

Traffic violations have dropped by half ever since the cameras went ‘live’ compared to the period during which they were used on a pilot basis, MPs heard on Thursday. During ...

A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Thursday more than 200 alleged victims had already been in touch to share their stories since its launch ...