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A minimum wage will be introduced “in the coming months”, the government said on Tuesday, after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and relevant stakeholders ended in disagreement. Despite the ...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue hit a record high of $7 billion in the financial year to June 30, up 20.7 per cent from the previous year, Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabea said ...

Two men, aged 19 and 26, have been jailed for two months and a third, aged 32, for three months with a three-year suspension after violent attack during a U19 Apoel-Pafos FC match ...

The attorney general on Tuesday said he will appeal a 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier this ...

Police on Tuesday called on people to be alert after receiving complaints from people that they are being asked to hand over social media passwords, especially on Instagram. According to ...

Keeping a long-term perspective is the best strategy for surviving a bad market. When the market is weak, even the most valuable equities are likely to depreciate. However, losing value ...

For the hundreds of attendees who attended, on June 28, Nicosia’s Epic Street Fest – the largest open-air party that has become an annual staple of the season – it was a ...

Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday a reported proposal from Japan to cap the price of Russian oil at around half its current level would lead to ...

British manufacturing firm Corbetts the Galvanizers used to rely on a stream of workers from Poland and Romania to fill its shop floor, where steel is dipped into a long ...

NATO’s 30 allies signed an accession protocol for Finland and Sweden on Tuesday to allow them to join the nuclear-armed alliance once allied parliaments ratify the decision, the most significant ...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that he will press French President Emmanuel Macron on the Iranian nuclear negotiations and urge a tougher Lebanese stance against Tehran-backed Hezbollah. ...

Turkey’s annual inflation rate jumped to a 24-year high of 78.62 per cent in June, data showed on Monday, just above forecast, driven by the impact of the Ukraine war, ...

The number of pubs operating in England and Wales is the lowest on record, research showed on Monday, as surging energy costs combine with a shortage of workers to threaten ...

A 27-year-old man, who has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession in Limassol, was expected to be remanded on Tuesday, police have said. The illegal drugs were found during ...

The first ever recorded sighting of the African desert warbler in Cyprus has been confirmed as the unexpected visitor from the Sahara made its way to the Akrotiri Peninsula. “This ...

A fire that broke out near the industrial area in Ypsonas early on Tuesday was brought under control two hours later, destroying about 20,000 square metres of dry grass and wild ...

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency notes that, “The production and trafficking of counterfeit goods poses a significant health and safety threat to consumers”. Additionally, they point out the ...

A drunken tourist was arrested at a Kato Paphos hotel after management called the police following a raucous disturbance, in a case which saw the 51-year-old resisting arrest. Paphos police ...

Video games have never ceased entertaining fans since they first came into arcades in the 1970s. Since then, gaming consoles like the Atari console, the Game Boy, Nintendo, Play Station, ...

Since John Waters’ work is routinely called transgressive and perverse, perhaps it should not be surprising that the book Liarmouth most reminds me of is Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate ...

More British football clubs are to adopt “safe standing” areas within their stadiums from next season, the UK government confirmed on Monday. Brentford, Queens Park Rangers and Wolverhampton Wanderers will ...

Cameron Norrie, the last Briton standing at Wimbledon, has urged the home fans to get behind him when he plays his maiden Grand Slam quarter-final, against Belgian David Goffin, on ...

Larnaca police were investigating a case of attempted murder on Tuesday after an explosion occurred in a vehicle being driven in Oroklini. According to a police statement to the Cyprus ...

The latest edition of the Faneromeni arts festival is in full swing and in between theatre and music performances comes a series of film screenings at the open-air amphitheatre of ...