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A member of Japan’s gold medal-winning softball team will have her medal replaced with a fresh one after the mayor of her hometown chomped down on the original, Tokyo 2020 ...

Mobile rapid test units will once again make the rounds when secondary schools reopen in September, the health ministry has assured teachers’ unions, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. ...

When you meet Lefteris Mohaniakis he may remind you of an enfant terrible like Didier Dagueneau was in Pouilly Fumé years ago. However, although he is a bit radical, like ...

BirdLife Cyprus is asking for assurances from the Game Service that an EU-mandated programme to limit hunting of the threatened turtle dove this autumn will be effectively monitored. It fears ...

Firearm permits should have an expiration date and their criteria should be reviewed, Law Commissioner Louiza Zannetou said Thursday, a day after a 58-year-old man shot and killed his neighbour ...

The Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) announced it would extend its campaign for the collection of essential items for the people affected by the wildfires in Greece due to increased demand. ...

Former South Korean K-pop star known as Seungri was sentenced to three years in prison and fined nearly $1 million on Thursday after a court convicted him of crimes including procuring ...

Italy and Argentina have risen to fifth and sixth respectively in the FIFA World Ranking following their triumphs at Euro 2020 and the Copa America, while Belgium remain in top spot. ...

The August holidays are coming up and the island seems to slow down during this time of the year. It’s either that everything is shutting down for a summer ...

Larnaca’s modernisation has led to a raft of trendy new places opening over the last few years. One of the many is the Qbic hotel on Ermou. The hotel’...

Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada’s Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth – sea sponges that inhabited primordial reefs ...

Arsenal are trying to adapt to the demands of the “most difficult transfer market” as the north London club aim to strengthen the squad ahead of the new Premier League ...

British online fashion retailer Boohoo said on Thursday it would invest 500 million pounds ($693 million) in the United Kingdom over the next five years, creating 5,000 jobs and increasing its ability to ...

Thousands of small and medium Kuwaiti businesses could go to the wall after being walloped by the pandemic, potentially torpedoing a private sector central to the country’s efforts to ...

People care what their avatars are wearing. When the virtual world Decentraland said in June users could make and sell their own clothing for avatars to wear on the site, ...

Soccer star Lionel Messi’s signing on fee at Paris St Germain includes some of the French club’s cryptocurrency fan tokens, in the latest big name endorsement for new ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a warning (see full text below) that a website hosted in India is set up as an impostor or counterfeit of ...

A crowd of Turks attacked shops and homes belonging to Syrians in the Turkish capital Ankara overnight in the wake of a street fight that led to a Turkish youth ...

Cyprus is close to the EU average as concerns the age at which young people leave the parental household, a Eurostat survey published on Thursday revealed. The survey marks “International ...

The island’s west coast is full of charming spots with activities for all. Sunset chasing, local dining, buggy rides and the list of potential Paphos experiences goes on. There ...

A 57-year-old accountant was remanded in custody for eight days by Limassol district court on Thursday on suspicion of embezzling some €315,000 from the construction company she worked for. The woman ...

All 17 people aboard a vessel that sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Milos have been rescued, the coast guard said on Thursday. All aboard were Greek citizens. The ...

Conservationists on Thursday called for a comprehensive policy for the safe movement of visitors within the Akamas national forest, accusing authorities of stalling while lives are lost. The Friends of ...

By Georgia Humphreys Free Guy is set inside a thrilling dangerously video game – but that doesn’t mean it’s a film just for gamers, as Georgia Humphreys finds out. ...