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The official carnival parade may still be a few days away with Limassol taking the reins for the February 26 extravaganza yet this Sunday will also celebrate the carnival fever. Parades ...

In today’s episode, President-elect Nikos Christodoulides met with Disy leader Averof Neophytou at the former’s political office on Wednesday, with both saying it was time to turn the ...

A 22-year-old man was remanded on Thursday in connection with a murder that took place on February 5. The man appeared before Nicosia criminal court where he was remanded for eight ...

A 22-year-old man from Limassol will appear in front of the Nicosia district court on Thursday, after he was arrested during the derby between Omonia and Apoel at GSP Stadium ...

The Famagusta branch of the hotels’ association Pasyxe on Wednesday expressed concern ahead of the upcoming summer tourist season, noting that labour shortages remain an ongoing issue, despite the positive ...

One person was killed and three were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at an El Paso, Texas, shopping mall, police said. A police spokesman, Robert Gomez, told reporters one ...

Partners in EY are expected to give approval for spinning off the company’s consulting arm and listing it on the stock market by the end of the year, a ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week said that the new government should engage in dialogue with Cypriot banks in order to resolve the issue of non-performing ...

Barclays (BARC.L) reported a 14 per cent fall in full-year pretax profit on Wednesday as earnings were poleaxed by surging costs, a collapse in deal fees and multi-million dollar fines ...

Cyprus has received a warning letter from the EU over its failure to correctly transpose rules on the safety to the environment of offshore oil and gas operations. It’s ...

If anyone wanted to see how stakeholders’ participation could turn into a joke, they would need look no further than our public education system in which this concept had been ...

Borussia Dortmund snatched a 1-0 victory over Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 first leg on Wednesday courtesy of Karim Adeyemi’s superb goal to extend their winning run ...

Manchester City knocked Arsenal off their Premier League perch as second-half goals by Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland earned the champions a 3-1 victory in a feisty top-of-the-table clash at ...

Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealized version of sensuality ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides has “locked” a lot of names for ministerial posts in his mind, he said on Wednesday evening amid speculation on who would make up his Cabinet. Speaking ...

Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and ...

Four people were arrested in Turkey on Wednesday in connection with the collapse of the Isias hotel, during the devastating earthquake that killed 35 Turkish Cypriots staying there for a school ...

Former transport minister and presidential candidate Marios Eliades has called on president-elect Nikos Christodoulides to “be daring” and appoint Andreas Mavroyiannis as his foreign minister. Mavroyiannis, who lost the presidential ...

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s offer to provide a DNA sample as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll, a writer ...

Tiger Woods was pretty direct when discussing his goal for the upcoming Genesis Invitational. “If I’m playing, I’m playing to win,” Woods said Tuesday during a news conference ...

The House education committee was held under a tense atmosphere on Wednesday, after the auditor general accused the University of Cyprus of trying to mislead parliament over its budget. This ...

Every new year is a new beginning. A reason to take stock, to focus on what touched us and the feelings it created in us, to dream and to set ...

An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of bribing witnesses in an underage prostitution case that has dogged the former prime minister for more than a decade. ...

Mid-February has a wide choice of events for the island’s music enthusiasts. Jazz bands, piano masters and Latin music connoisseurs are preparing performances in Nicosia and Limassol to satisfy ...