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Kuwait plans to establish logistic cities to support local economy and attract foreign investment, Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) announced on Sunday. Sheikh Yousef Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, KPA Director-General, said that these ...

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus dethroned five-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky of the United States to win a thrilling women’s 400m freestyle final at the Tokyo Games on Monday. ...

Sales at Giorgio Armani jumped 34 per cent in the first half of 2021 as business in China and the United States helped the Italian fashion group bounce back, despite worries about ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff said on Sunday he fears the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany could soar to 100,000 a day in about two months unless ...

Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA’s first mission focusing on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and whether it may ...

Cryptocurrencies popped to the top of recent ranges on Monday as short sellers bailed out in the wake of a strong week and while traders hoped a handful of positive ...

Bitcoin has enabled individuals and businesses to freely transfer money across borders much faster and at lower costs than fiat currencies. It serves as a value storage and exchange medium, ...

In June 2021, the El Salvador parliament approved a new law allowing people to use cryptocurrency as legal tender for all kinds of goods and services, alongside its national currency, the ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday and that 727 more people had tested positive from 73,053 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1 per cent. The deaths ...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the justice ministry on Sunday to protest Covid restrictions and for the release of those arrested during the week in connection with an attack on ...

UNESCO added Madrid’s historic Paseo del Prado boulevard and Retiro Park to its list of world heritage sites on Sunday. The tree-lined Paseo del Prado, in the centre of ...

Ambassador Olympia Neocleous has become the first woman to be accredited as Permanent Representative of Cyprus since the establishment of the Permanent Mission of the Republic in Geneva in the 1970...

Ethiopia’s Amhara state on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against Tigrayan fighters who are battling the federal government military and forces from all of ...

Pavlos Kontides finished in fourth place in the first and only race in the men’s sailing laser competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The race was won by ...

The Tokyo Olympics delivered a day of high drama on Sunday with a stunning surprise in the pool, one of the great David v Goliath cycling victories and double sibling ...

Cypriot shooters got underway at the Tokyo Olympics with some positive displays on Sunday. In men’s skeet qualifying, Dimitris Constantinou and Giorgos Achilleos are in 12th and 14th positions ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday a total of 57 rapid test sites for Monday. The testing is largely necessary for access to locations which require a SafePass, for people over ...

The events of this past week call for the most radical of actions: the president should resign Last Tuesday, Turkey announced the long-anticipated, much-discussed opening of part of fenced-off Varosha. ...

With an expected boost in bookings not seen, industry professionals are now hoping to just break even With July coming to a close hotel bookings in Cyprus from the British ...

A total of 202,781 adult persons remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, the ministry of health said in a press release. According to data released by the ministry, 71.7% of the adult population has ...

There aren’t any fans to watch the Olympic weightlifting in Tokyo this year, so that job effectively falls to the bored volunteers with little else to do after spectators ...

Police on Sunday said they arrested a 19-year-old male for drink driving in Nicosia. He was caught on Saturday afternoon and a test showed his alcohol levels were 69μg instead ...

A 60-year-old woman drowned at Protaras beach on Friday, Cyprus’ committee of professional lifeguards said on Sunday. In a statement, it called on authorities to re-evaluate working hours of lifeguards, ...

The pragmatic v the quixotic – there are lots of ways to divide people over Covid vaccines but Theo Panayides asks what is driving people to make a decision over getting ...