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President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday said the government will in the following months announce a new incentive scheme for attracting high-tech companies that will facilitate the establishment and hiring of ...

A rare natural light show flashed across the night sky during a powerful earthquake that shook Mexico City and beach resort Acapulco late on Tuesday, adding to a sense of ...

Justice Minister Stefi Drakou on Wednesday pledged to hold meetings will all stakeholders so that progress is made on the discussion in parliament of 45 pending bills, including the ones on ...

Paediatrics chief at Makarios children’s hospital Avraam Elia said on Wednesday that despite receiving death threats he has not been deterred from doing his duty. Elia told the Cyprus ...

British teenager Emma Raducanu produced yet another exquisite performance to become the first qualifier to reach the U.S. Open semi-finals on Wednesday, defeating Olympic champion Belinda Bencic 6-3 6-4 ...

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled Kabul as Taliban forces reached the outskirts of the city last month, apologized on Wednesday for the abrupt fall of his government but ...

A British man has been sentenced to pay compensation and observe a curfew at weekends after pleading guilty to posting racist abuse about England players on the night of the ...

The health ministry announced five deaths and 182 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. The deceased are an 81-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man who passed away at Nicosia and Limassol ...

Kypria International Festival is back this September and October with a full programme of performances all over the island, and coming up next is a theatre production in Greek that ...

Premier League clubs could face sanctions from FIFA if they play South American players, who were not released for international duty, in this weekend’s games. Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea ...

The main suspect in a jihadist rampage that killed 130 people across Paris described himself defiantly as “an Islamic State soldier” on Wednesday, upsetting some survivors who took it as a ...

A 12-year-old pupil from Limassol who was not allowed to board a bus because she did not have the money for the fare was granted a bus pass for the ...

If you are willing to enter into the cryptocurrency trading world and want to become a billionaire, first of all, you have to accept the fact that every person who ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he would decide on any unofficial meetings with the Greek Cypriot side on the Cyprus problem after a possible meeting in New York with ...

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the United Arab Emirates’ biggest sovereign wealth fund, sees technology and climate change as key investment areas for its post-COVID-19 strategy, it said in its 2020 ...

Drake is becoming the hip-hop king of epic real estate. His $100-million, custom-built Toronto mega-mansion is breathtakingly lavish, but then, so is his massive California property – the subject of this ...

A statue of Confederate commander Robert E. Lee was removed from its base in Richmond, Virginia’s capital, early on Wednesday after a yearlong legal battle over a monument that ...

Facebook (FB.O) has made a case for not selling Giphy in a strongly worded letter to a British regulator and questioned the watchdog’s recent call to divest the ...

Britain is on course to lose its status as one of Germany’s top ten trading partners this year for the first time since 1950, as Brexit-related trade barriers drive firms ...

Manchester City continue to boast of the costliest squad among all clubs in Europe’s top five leagues, followed by Manchester United, according to a latest study by Switzerland-based independent ...

New head of Paphos police Nicos Tsappis took full charge on Wednesday, taking over from Nikos Pentaras, who had been in the post since 2017. “My aim is to produce tangible ...

Despite the ongoing Covid pandemic, the Cypriot banking sector has achieved remarkable progress and was steadily headed towards viability, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday addressing the bank association ...

What starts out as your boring, run of the mill teen soap opera, whose only gimmick seems to be its unique setting that occasionally touches upon the massive wealth inequalities ...

A number of students and their parents gathered outside the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) on Wednesday to protest the ban on the physical presence of unvaccinated students on campus ...