Sydney in two-week hard Covid-19 lockdown
Sydney and some surrounding areas will enter a hard two-week COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday as authorities struggle to control a fast-spreading outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant that has ...
Verratti or Locatelli? Italy boss Mancini faces major midfield dilemma
Italy cruised through the group phase of Euro 2020 with three victories but head coach Roberto Mancini will press reset for the knockout stage.
Mancini’s side scored seven times and ...
Invest Cyprus: Bringing in developers for the Cyprus tech hub
“If Cyprus is to be competitive in attracting international ICT companies, there must be a coordinated effort not only by the competent ministries’ departments and regulators, but also by the ...
Tracking Cyprus’ progress as a development hub
Over the years, Cyprus companies have developed a strategy and an offer to bring developers to the island, Katerina Andreou tells the story
Post 2012 and the bank collapse, we lost ...
I learned to make Vietnamese at home, now I’m hooked
By Ella Walker
The first pancake is always a dud. It doesn’t matter how smooth your batter, how hot and Teflonned your pan; the debut is always a crumpled ...
Antetokounmpo leads the Milwaukee Bucks to series-levelling victory
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a crushing 125-91 victory over the Atlanta Hawks and level their Eastern Conference finals series at 1-1 on Friday night.
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Working at Wargaming
“We need more skilled people, and that means we need to promote Cyprus more to developers abroad. They have to understand that, if they come to Cyprus, they will not ...
Aglantzia to fill with jazz once again this July
Smooth jazzy melodies, improv, intricate piano compositions and rhythmic vocals will return to Aglantzia this July as the 2021 edition of the popular AglanJazz festival returns on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 at ...
Second arrest in drugs case
Limassol police on Saturday said they had arrested a second man over the illegal possession of one kilo of cannabis for which a 32-year-old man was detained earlier this week.
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Just victims of circumstance?
Retelling the tale of the Medusa has been a labour of love for one Cyprus-based author. Alix Norman has a read
What if the Greek heroes are villains? What if ...
Three injured in knife attack (Updated)
Larnaca police said on Saturday they arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of attacking three men with a knife in the Makenzie area.
Two men, 33 and 38, were walking back to ...
Lebanon approves financing fuel imports at weaker exchange rate
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday approved a proposal to finance fuel imports at the rate of 3,900 Lebanese pounds to the dollar, instead of the previous 1,500 pound rate, amidst ...
Watershed US UFO report does not rule out extraterrestrial origin
By Steve Gorman
A US government report on UFOs issued on Friday said defence and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by ...
Why Chia isn’t as green a coin it claims to be
Chia, a newcomer into the cryptocurrency market, has tried to differentiate itself from Bitcoin by flaunting its green credentials. But what exactly is Chia and what are the ramifications of ...
Coronavirus: US adds warning about rare heart inflammation to Pfizer, Moderna vaccines
The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation ...
Ed Sheeran dons vampire fangs for new single’s video
Having released his highly-anticipated new single ‘Bad Habits’ and its accompanying music video this week, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran wowed fans with a new on-camera persona.
In the video, the 30-year-old ...
Rescuers search around the clock for survivors of Florida building collapse
Prospects for recovering survivors from a Florida high-rise diminished with each passing hour on Saturday, two full days after the 12-story condominium mysteriously collapsed while many residents slept.
Even so, ...
‘Cyprus funds grow along with our reputation’ – CIFA President
Cyprus funds grew 14 per cent in terms of assets under management in the first quarter of 2021, to €9.8 billion.
We asked Andreas Yiasemides, president of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association, to ...
Hellenic Bank: New CEO and new CFO join board
The Board of Hellenic Bank on Wednesday at its Annual General Meeting elected two new members, and re-elected all of its other 11 members.
The two new members are both newly ...
Experts weigh in on unjabbed situation
Government advisers and experts are proposing various means of increasing vaccine uptake – with some saying that transparent discussions are the way forward while others have called for harsher restrictions on ...
Our View: EU Council statement keeps everyone satisfied
President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...
Chauvin, George Floyd’s murderer, sentenced to over 22 years
A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, video of which ...
Trudeau says Pope should apologise on Canadian soil for church’s role in residential schools
By Steve Scherer
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church’s role running residential schools ...
Search intensifies in Florida condo collapse as families pray for ‘miracle’ (Update 2)
By Francisco Alvarado
Families and friends of the 159 people missing after the collapse of a condo building in a Miami suburb were clinging to hope on Friday as rescue workers ...