TUI says German booking surge leads recovery
Holiday company TUI Group (TUIGn.DE) said on Thursday a surge in bookings from Germany had driven a recovery from the pandemic slump and an easing of travel restrictions in ...
Torrential rain lashes Japan, three feared dead after landslide
Torrential rain lashed much of Japan on Sunday, submerging roads and buildings in the western part of the country, while three people were feared dead after a landslide in central ...
Lebanese central bank decries chaos; hospital lacks power, puts 15 children at risk of death
‘Nobody’s running the country’ said Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh complained on Saturday decrying the chaos and violence that are spreading right across the nation.
At the ...
UN’s stark climate report: time is running out
The Mediterranean will be particularly affected with higher summer temperatures, drought and fires says IPCC report
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a landmark report on ...
Dire labour shortages felt across many sectors
Exodus of EU workers leave hotels, retail and restaurants struggling
Acute labour shortages that ended when Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 have reappeared because of the pandemic and the uncertainty ...
Our View: We need firefighting aircraft not military helicopters
Defence has always been something of sacred cow. Everyone has the patriotic duty to support our military and applaud government expenditure on defence equipment, whatever it is and regardless of ...
Roads should be named for the worthy
There’s something wrong when the street names of great philhellenes are replaced with those of lesser mortals
When it comes to naming streets, we would expect them given in ...
Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool off to flying starts
Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool all served notice of their title intentions with crushing wins as the Premier League enjoyed a return to its familiar format on Saturday.
With full-capacity ...
Coronavirus: One death, 401 new cases
One death from coronavirus and 401 new positives cases were announced on Saturday, out of 54,496 PCR and rapid tests. The positivity rate is 0.74 per cent.
The death was of a woman, ...
Haitians scramble to rescue survivors from ruins of major quake (Update 2)
Haitians labored overnight to pick through shattered buildings in search of friends and relatives trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean country on Saturday, killing more ...
Financial literacy should be compulsory for high-school students, academic says
Financial literacy classes should be compulsory for all secondary school pupils to give future adults the necessary life skills, an academic advising the government on the issue told the Cyprus ...
Fire warning plea from forestry department
A red alert for fires was issued by the forest department during the August 15 holiday weekend, urging extreme caution from the public in their outdoor activities.
The department highlighted that ...
Sail it while it’s hot: Jeff Bezos’ $500m custom-built ‘giga yacht’
Ever in the news, most recently for having left earth briefly in his Blue Origin company’s New Shepard rocket, former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is also making headlines as ...
What’s Eaten Where: Kangaroo Island
Australia is the original island nation. Not merely because the country is, itself, the largest island in the world. But also because it boasts 8,222 isles of its own – for the ...
Paphos tavern without a licence closed
A tavern in Paphos was closed on Friday night after it was found operating without the relevant licences.
Officers who carried out the check discovered that the business was operating ...
A minute with Dr George Moleskis Counselling Psychologist (a therapist of sorts)
Where do you live?
I live with my two parrots, in a two-bedroom flat near the city centre of Nicosia.
What did you have for breakfast?
I usually have oats ...
Messi departure painful but Barca can’t live in past, says coach
Lionel Messi is now in Barcelona’s past and the club must live in the present, coach Ronald Koeman said on Saturday, as his side prepare for a new LaLiga ...
Coronavirus: New remand for GP linked to fake vaccination cards
A 53-year-old Larnaca-based doctor was remanded for another five days on Saturday on suspicion of issuing fake Covid vaccination certificates to his patients.
Larnaca district court remanded the doctor for ...
Death toll rises in Turkey flood as search for missing continues (Updated)
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Bulent Usta
Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll ...
Sixteenth anniversary of Helios air disaster
Saturday marks 16 years since Cyprus’ Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed on a hillside near Athens on August 14, 2005, killing all 115 passengers and six crew on board, making it the worst air tragedy ...
Larnaca: the town where inspiration begins
Larnaka: the Anthology provides a view of a multi-cultural town on the rise
Let’s generalise a little, shall we? If you were a first-time visitor to Cyprus, you’d ...
Thousands in cash stolen from Paphos flat
Paphos police on Saturday were investigating after a man reported that more than €8,000 in cash and other items were stolen from his apartment.
The man told police he left his ...
Bayern Munich battle back for draw in Bundesliga opener against Gladbach
Champions Bayern Munich had to fight back from behind to grab a 1-1 draw at Borussia Monchengladbach in the opening game of the new Bundesliga season.
Having scored an all-time ...
Anastasiades: unity is key to stopping Turkish provocations (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday said that unity is key to preventing Turkey’s provocations in Cyprus so that the island can become a modern European country without an occupation ...