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By Alexis Karkotis Don’t Look Up, the new environmental-disaster political satire staring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence has been breaking records ever since its release on Netflix on ...

Three people, aged 23, 30 and 32, were fined €15,500 late on Tuesday in Nicosia after officers found 43 kilos of duty-free tobacco products in their possession. According to police, officers stopped the car of ...

Nine businesses and 14 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols after 1,820 checks in the last 24 hours, police said early on Wednesday. Most fines came after 385 checks in Nicosia, where seven ...

The establishment of a new hospitality school in Platres is aiming to tackle both labour shortages in the hospitality industry, as well as the issue of rural flight, people flocking ...

If you’re throwing a party soon and looking for a way to spice up your appetizer game and tantalize the taste buds of your buddies, look no further. Here ...

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militants targets, including training camps, shelters and ammunition storage areas in Iraq and northern Syria, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. All the planes taking ...

Bitcoin is beginning to reassert its dominance over challengers to its cryptocurrency crown. The original digital coin was assailed by thousands of new “altcoin” competitors in 2021 – from Solana and Polkadot ...

Limassol port management company DP World Limassol welcomed the world’s biggest cruise ship on Monday, Royal Caribbean International’s Wonder of the Seas. “It is with great pleasure that ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will further bolster its supervisory framework in a bid to go along with technological developments in the market, CySEC chairman George Theocharides said ...

The code for the management and protection of wetlands in the island will be ready before the end of 2022, providing for the restoration of degraded areas and promoting research, Agriculture ...

The bills reforming local government and reducing the number of municipalities will be finalised by the House interior committee next week and sent for approval to the plenum before the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday met Akel leader Stephanos Stephanou to discuss a series of proposals the main opposition party believes will help tackle rising electricity costs. The meeting was ...

Guinea-Bissau‘s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup on Tuesday but said many members of the security forces had been killed repelling an attack on democracy that may ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine. In his ...

Bilateral ties between Cyprus and the US are stronger than ever before, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Washington DC on Tuesday evening as he met Foreign Minister ...

Pfizer Inc has begun submitting data to federal regulators as part of the process to win U.S. emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5, ...

The Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) sought to correct the record on the new Limassol football stadium on Tuesday following a report that “miscalculations” could reduce its capacity by thousands of ...

The government on Tuesday vowed to find a dignified way of compensating refugees for their inability to use their properties in the north, but opposition parties have claimed there is ...

Norway will scrap most of its remaining COVID-19 lockdown measures with immediate effect as an ongoing spike in coronavirus cases is unlikely to jeopardise health services, the prime minister said ...

The collapse on Tuesday of a traditional two-story mud-brick house in Aradippou in which six people lived prompted the municipality to announce a raft of measures. The fire services said ...

Lidl Cyprus recorded its own substantial contribution to the protection of the environment by participating in the Pancyprian Cleaning Campaign “Let’s do it!”, of which it was a major ...

The health ministry announced one death attributed to Covid-19 and 3,038 new infections on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 2.67 per cent. The death was that of a 77-year-old woman, raising ...

Thousands of people are in financial difficulties over delays in welfare payments and pensions, MPs heard on Tuesday. The issue was discussed at the House Labour Committee for the umpteenth ...

Playing board games at café-bars isn’t that common unless of course we’re talking about backgammon. It is rare to find organised game nights on the island so ...