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Cyprus ranks 20th among 27 EU member states in the 2022 edition of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), faring particularly well as regards connectivity where it came in 12th according ...

By Benjamin Kaveladze, Jonathan Schooler and Oliver Sng In this age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions rooted in wishful thinking. But love remains a profound exception ...

Turkey’s lira weakened further on Wednesday to near 18.0 against the dollar and the record lows it hit late last year as worries about the government’s foreign exchange policy ...

Four times world champion Sebastian Vettel announced his retirement from Formula One at the end of the season, saying on Thursday his goals had changed and he wanted to focus ...

Egypt has cancelled contracts for a total of 240,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat that were booked by its state grains buyer for February and March delivery but never loaded due to ...

Oil rose more than $1 a barrel on Thursday, extending gains from the previous session, buoyed by improved risk appetite among investors as lower crude inventories and a rebound in gasoline ...

Cyprus said on Thursday the state would absorb a sizeable chunk of cost increases in energy to buffer anticipated rises of up to 25 per cent in bills for households and ...

Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard was clearly moved as he was celebrated by thousands of jubilant Danes on Wednesday in Copenhagen where the world’s biggest cycling race kicked ...

The cabinet on Thursday announced they were terminating the appointment of Dr Petros Agathangelou, president of the Cyprus Medical Association (PIS), as a board member of the Health Insurance Organisation. ...

The Central Bank of Qatar said on Wednesday it raised its main deposit rate by 75 basis points (bps) to 3 per cent, moving in tandem with the US Federal Reserve’s ...

Central prisons director Anna Aristotelous and the unit’s senior officer Athina Demetriou have asked to be transferred from their positions – a day after the deputy attorney general announced an ...

Efforts are underway to protect the critically endangered Ipomoea sagittata or morning glory thanks to a three-year project funded by Darwin Plus UK aiming to restore and enhance key wildlife ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men aged 27 and 23 to four and a half years in jail after finding them guilty of illegal possession of drugs, illegal possession and ...

A 21-year-old was jailed for three years and a 23-year for four year and a half after being found guilty by the Larnaca Criminal Court on Thursday for 14 cases of ...

Cabinet on Thursday extended the deadline for tax returns by a month to facilitate taxpayers. The decision, which applies to individuals and the self-employed who are not required to submit ...

Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek said on Thursday that he has raised Ankara’s refusal to deny entry to a Turkish Cypriot journalist with the European Commission. He said the journalist ...

By Paul Lambis Meeting a legend is not something that happens every day, so when the opportunity arises, you seize it. For over three decades, world-renowned chef Nobuyuki ‘Nobu’ Matsuhisa ...

Police are investigating an alleged racist attack in Limassol after the arrest of a 30-year-old man for striking a 27-year-old over the head with a pipe. The 27-year-old was taken ...

Germany is set to enact a planned levy on all gas consumers on Oct. 1 as it looks to help suppliers grappling with soaring gas import prices and will allow importers ...

Whales on the Binance Chain network are said to be less aggressive than whales on Ethereum. But Binance Token (BNB) whales are looking to bridge any gaps. The first step ...

Members of the fire services on Thursday morning had to cut a man free after a car crash in Nicosia. Police and the Fire Service had been called at 06.20 am ...

In her book, The Architecture of Luxury the author Annette Condello states that luxury has become more accessible over time and that it is no longer exclusive to the American ...

More than a billion people are expected to watch the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on Thursday, organisers say, and over 1.25 million tickets have been sold for the July 28-Aug. 8 multi-sport ...

Cyprus aspires to eradicate hepatitis by 2030, the health ministry said on Thursday on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day which is marked on July 28 each year at the initiative of ...