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Police issued fines to 25 individuals and three businesses for failing to observe measures against the spread of the coronavirus. The force said it had carried out 3,721 checks in the past 24 ...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) lost its crown as the world’s most valuable public company to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Friday, as the iPhone maker’s shares fell about 2 ...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer received yet another vote of confidence this week as speculation swirled about his position but the spotlight remains fixed on the Norwegian ahead of ...

With the onset of November expect moustaches to show their annual increase in number. Alix Norman looks at what is happening in Cyprus to mark Movember For the past year, ...

Paphos police have arrested two men in connection with two related fights on Friday that saw five people injured. Two of the injured were admitted to hospital with knife wounds ...

by Maria Demertzis “There’s a fundamental truth of the twenty-first century within each of our own countries and as a global community,” President Joe Biden told the United Nations ...

The Cypriot economy is expected to grow more than previously expected according to a report by the University of Cyprus Economic Research Centre. According to the report, Cyprus’ real GDP ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Sunday, 45 in total, in all districts. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while unvaccinated employees, including those ...

By Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland The European Union is in a difficult position today. We are still struggling with successive waves of pandemic infections. We have just started ...

The Beau Rivage Hotel in Larnaca has begun to be demolished, a process estimated to take somewhere between two and three months to be completed. As confirmed by NCH Managing ...

Cyprus’ relatively high vaccination coverage and adherence to personal protection measures should help contain any uptick in coronavirus cases this winter, a member of the government’s team of advisors ...

The story this week of the two children from Liopetri who had been denied citizenship because their paternal grandfather was a Turkish national who settled in Cyprus illegally after the 1974 ...

The U.S. health regulator on Friday authorized the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years, making it the first COVID-19 shot for young children ...

Cypriot authorities have dismissed as illegal gunnery exercises planned for next week by the Turkish navy in waters in the north of the island. Under a Navtex – or marine advisory – ...

In a new twist, a court ruling on Friday paved the way for socialists Edek to finally hold an electoral congress that will decide the party’s new leadership. The ...

New York City officials on Friday were preparing for shortages of firefighters, police officers and other first responders as a showdown looms between the city and its unvaccinated uniformed workforce, ...

Saudi Arabia has summoned its ambassador to Lebanon for consultation and asked the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave within 48 hours, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on ...

Prestigious travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has included Nicosia in the 2022 edition of its annual ‘Best in Travel’ book, which ranks the planet’s must-visit countries, cities and regions. Described ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Friday brushed aside criticism that his office has done nothing in the wake of the Pandora Papers reveals, noting that criminal cases need to be based ...

The live music scene in Paphos is buzzing! And since the summer, local bands, musicians, tribute acts, classical music concerts and all that jazz have been keeping Paphos residents and ...

Authorities on Friday reported no new fatalities from Covid-19, as testing detected 160 positives from 57,738 samples. The death toll since the start of the pandemic remains at 571. Meantime in hospitals 60 people ...

Citing Cyprus’ slide in World Bank metrics on the public’s perception on control of corruption, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides told MPs on Friday that watchdog bodies such as his should ...

Around €70,000 in cash was stolen on Friday afternoon from an apartment in Kato Paphos. According to the police, the robbery occurred at around 3pm when three hooded men barged into ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that the world was rushing headlong towards climate disaster, and said leaders of the Group of 20 wealthy nations must do more ...