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.Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says there is “no common sense” in his team being forced to play the earliest fixture of the weekend after being involved in Wednesday’...

Mali was the home of Mansa Musa, the richest man ever to walk the earth. The king of the Mali Empire from 1280 to 1337, his fortune would – in 2021 terms – be worth ...

The outcome of a $10 billion six-month battle to buy British supermarket chain Morrisons (MRW.L) will be decided in a one-day auction on Saturday overseen by the Takeover Panel. The ...

The Paphos branch of the association of hospitality venues (Pasika) on Friday called on the town’s mayor Phedon Phedonos to intervene after 90 per cent of the hospitality venues in ...

The European Union’s drug regulator on Friday identified a possible link between rare cases of blood clotting in deep veins with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and recommended ...

OPEC+ is considering going beyond its existing deal to boost production by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) when it meets next week, sources said, at a time when oil pricesare near ...

Merck & Co Inc’s experimental oral drug for COVID-19, molnupiravir, reduced by around 50% the chance of hospitalization or death for patients at risk of severe disease, according to interim ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites for Saturday, 52 in total. To get tested people need to present an ID, or passport or a driver’s licence for identification purposes. ...

Standard Chartered said on Friday it now expects Turkey’s central bank to cut interest rates by another 300 basis points by year-end to 15 per cent and upped its 2021 inflation and ...

Cypriot Patricia Phaedonos was announced as the 197th Commonwealth Point of Light by British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie in recognition of her exceptional voluntary work. The award recognises outstanding volunteers ...

Switzerland is offering gift certificates to people who persuade others to be jabbed against COVID-19, the government said on Friday, part of efforts to increase the country’s low vaccination ...

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman said he was in the dark about his future and had not spoken to the club’s president as the under-pressure Dutchman took a swipe at ...

Bitcoin was up 5.23 per cent at $43,716.97 as of 22:08 GMT on Thursday, adding $2,174.07 to its previous close. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency has gained 57.6 per cent from the year’...

The halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) is a “protective shield,” Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday as the cheese entered the European Commission’s register for PDO and ...

J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L) fell deeper into the red for its fiscal 2021 and said it had like many other businesses found it hard to attract workers in some areas ...

Lava flowed from a newly opened crack in the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma on Friday, carving a different path down the mountainside from previous flows, and ...

By Alexia Saleem The kids started school this month and I joined a wave of other parents feeling very emotional waving them goodbye on their first day as they kissed ...

Calling all creative, entrepreneurial women of the island, the Creative Women Platform Cyprus aims to bring powerful, passionate women together and create a community. As such, they are organising an ...

Venezuela on Friday will launch its second monetary overhaul in three years by cutting six zeros from the bolivar currency in response to hyperinflation, simplifying accounting but doing little to ...

Pitsilia is a wine region where vines and pines grow together on the mountainside. Already three of the most well-known wineries source their fruit from around the mountain peaks of ...

President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday is set to urge a judge to block a near-total ban on abortion imposed by Texas – the strictest such law in the nation – ...

Researchers from the Cyprus Institute have completed a full digitisation of the former Nicosia International Airport, which has been inactive since 1974 as it is located in the UN buffer zone. ...

Edek has sunk deeper into turmoil after party president Marinos Sizopoulos said Nicosia district’s branch elections would go ahead as scheduled on Sunday, despite three party members having obtained ...

The health ministry on Friday said there was improvement in all epidemiological indicators, with the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate dropping by 30 per cent compared with the previous period. The data ...