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Organisers scrambled to reorganise the Alpine mixed team parallel race for the final day of the Beijing Olympics after high winds on Saturday forced the competition to be postponed. Team ...

By Polina Nikolskaya and Tom Balmforth President Vladimir Putin launched exercises by Russia’s strategic nuclear missile forces on Saturday and Washington said Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s border ...

Twenty individuals and eight business owners or managers were fined by police across Cyprus in the 24 hours until Saturday morning after 2,149 checks for violation of Covid-19 measures. In Nicosia in 644 ...

A fourth suspect has been remanded for eight days in relation to the smuggling of 27.5 kilos of cannabis at Larnaca airport last July, police said on Saturday. According to the ...

Six funeral homes were booked for operating without a licence, police said on Saturday. On Friday, local police carried out checks at three suspect funeral homes in Nicosia and one ...

By Lauren Taylor It might be pretty normal in your household to throw away potato peelings, cauliflower leaves and apple cores, but there’s a new movement encouraging us to ...

By Lefteris Papadimas and Angelo Amante Twelve people are still missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday, Greek authorities said on ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will meet with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday in Brussels, an EU source said during a briefing ahead of the upcoming Foreign Affairs ...

If you have curly hair, you either love it or hate it. From finding the right products and a hairdresser who knows how to work with the different types of ...

The European Commission has approved a €6.13 million Cypriot incentive scheme geared to support airlines affected by the coronavirus pandemic, having found it to be in line with the State aid ...

Canadian police on Saturday worked to restore normality to the capital after trucks and demonstrators occupied the downtown core of Ottawa for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi Over three decades ago, Ukraine decided to embark on the path of freedom and democracy, a course it has maintained to this day. With the collapse of ...

Cyprus’ representation at the Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS) in Cairo, which concluded on Wednesday, was a success, national promotion agency Invest Cyprus said on Friday. The agency said that Cyprus’ ...

The Cypriot government and the country’s public service are accelerating the reform of public resource management, the first phase of which is expected to take effect in 2023, Finance Minister ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

Revenues from tourism amounted to €1.46 billion in the period between January and November of 2021, a report by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) released on Friday revealed. The revenue reported reflects ...

Limassol community leaders visited a Nicosia district village on Friday to learn about the biological control of rodents with the placement of artificial nest boxes for barn owls, which will ...

There was a great amount of unwarranted – some might say – fanfare on Friday because parliament had finally passed the law establishing an anti-corruption authority. It only came more than 60 years ...

Nine passengers were missing after a blaze engulfed a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday and firefighters battled to rescue people trapped on the ship, authorities said. ...

“The elimination of violence against women is an issue of high priority for the Republic of Cyprus,” said the President of the House of Representatives Annita Demetriou during an event ...

An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least nine people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday praised Cyprus’ facilities for long Covid patients as she reiterated calls to the public to get vaccinated and remain vigilant. Kyriakides and Health ...

Police began towing trucks from central Ottawa on Friday and stepped up arrests of protesters in a bid to end a trucker-led movement that has blockaded Canada’s capital for ...

The health ministry on Friday announced five deaths attributed to Covid-19 and 2,304 infections, while 170 people were hospitalised with the virus. The five deaths were: three women aged 51, 79 and 87 and two ...