In search of the perfect Instagram shot
By Paul Lambis
As the sun continued to beam on her face, reflecting against her golden-tanned body, I observed a tourist from across the hotel swimming pool raising her phone, ...
At CIA headquarters, Biden lauds US intelligence for Putin warnings
US President Joe Biden thanked staff at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency for warning the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine, and hailed ...
Second balcony collapse in Paphos, interior ministry asks municipality to account for itself (Update 2)
Another balcony collapsed at noon on Saturday in a building on the central Posidon Avenue in Kato Paphos, near the municipal baths, CNA reported.
The debris fell on the pergola ...
Police out checking for Covid violations again, none found on first day of mask return
No coronavirus protocol violations were noted among 873 checks carried out by police between Friday and 7am Saturday morning.
Police checked 139 people in Nicosia, 373 in Limassol, 41 in Larnaca, 150 in Paphos, 138 in ...
Klopp reveals family were caught up in Champions League final chaos
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed some of his family were caught up in the chaos prior to the Champions League final in Paris.
The showpiece match between Liverpool and ...
Verstappen on pole for Austria Sprint as Mercedes crash
Formula One leader Max Verstappen handed his Red Bull team a home pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix after Mercedes rivals Lewis Hamilton and ...
Another year, another new champion as Jabeur and Rybakina face off
When Ons Jabeur and Elena Rybakina meet in Saturday’s Wimbledon final it will be the fifth edition running that a first-time women’s champion will go through the wood-panelled ...
17th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival opens next Sunday
Summertime on the island usually means music festivals, open-air screenings and all sorts of performances and events held outdoors. Rialto Theatre is taking its stage outside to the parking place ...
‘Baking is much easier than we all think’
By Imy Brighty-Potts
Despite placing fourth on the Great British Bake Off in 2014, Chetna Makan says she had never made bread before entering the tent.
Of course, she knows her ...
Woman, 29, arrested, another sought, on suspicion of stealing almost €3,000 from shopper’s purse
A woman aged 29 has been arrested and a second woman is being sought on suspicion of pick-pocketing at a Limassol shop on Friday.
According to police, a 39-year-old shopper filed ...
Japanese mourn ex-PM Shinzo Abe a day after his assassination
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political ...
Blinken meets China’s Wang after leading pressure efforts on Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bali on Saturday after a G20 ministerial meeting on the Indonesian island where the ...
Virtual reality market to become more competitive
All eyes will be on Apple as it launches first headset next year
The virtual reality (VR) market is set to become more competitive in the coming years, with Apple ...
Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla TSLA.O and the world’s richest person, said he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter TWTR.N because the ...
Cyprus Business Now
The Research and Innovation Foundation (Idek) on Friday announced the launch of a new call for proposals for the programme titled ‘Proof of Concept for Technology and Knowhow Applications’.
The ...
Is MiCA the end of the crypto wild west?
By Maria Demertzis
France’s finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, has compared crypto markets to the wild west. At the end of last week, in the last moments of France’...
Tesla sells record high China-made vehicles in June
Tesla (TSLA.O) in June achieved its highest monthly sales of China-made vehicles since opening its Shanghai plant in 2019, data showed on Friday, as the US carmaker ramped up output ...
Cyprus is on track despite past mistakes, says president
The newly-appointed transparency commissioner and members of the independent anti-corruption authority were on Friday urged by President Nicos Anastasiades to work with determination and demonstrate zero tolerance in the fight ...
Our View: Radical mobility plans should be put in place as soon as possible
The government has very ambitious and radical plans for managing the traffic on the roads of the capital. Two studies are currently underway for the plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility, ...
Former UK finance minister Sunak bids to replace PM Johnson
British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime ...
Tatar argues for greater EU funding for Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar argued on Friday that the north should receive up to 30 per cent of the €1bn in EU funds being made available to Cyprus.
He further ...
Djokovic hits back to beat Norrie and set up Kyrgios final
Top seed Novak Djokovic set up a blockbuster Wimbledon final against Nick Kyrgios after recovering from a torrid start to overwhelm Britain’s Cameron Norrie 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 on ...
Russia’s Lavrov walks out of G20 as West denounces Ukraine war
G20 foreign ministers called for an end to the war and grain blockade in Ukraine on Friday, as Russia’s top diplomat walked out of a meeting and denounced the ...
Phedonos slams ‘greedy and criminal landlords’ after three injured in balcony collapse (Update 3)
By Nick Theodoulou and Christodoulos Mavroudis
The near fatal injuries sustained by three Nepalese workers as their third-floor balcony collapsed has caused outrage, with Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos slamming “greedy ...