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Parliament plans to pass a pay as you throw bill for rubbish management before the May 30 elections so that it can be put to force six months later by the ...

In the last 24 hours, police booked 111 individuals and seven business owners for violating Covid restrictions. Between 6am Wednesday and 6am Thursday, 11,175 checks were carried out. In Nicosia there were 29 people ...

Name: Sage of the Seers (Salvia divinorum) Otherwise known as: Maria Pastora, Magic Sage Habitat: A perennial member of the family Labiateae growing to about 1m in forest ravines in ...

Greece’s Aegean Airlines on Thursday launched a flight to trace the number ‘200’ in the sky above the Peloponnese to mark the 200th anniversary of the revolution, it said. The ...

Hey kids, as we promised a few posts ago, here is part 2 in a series of ideas that can help get you involved in your local community, lending a hand, ...

This video dives into the sharing economy and clothing rental and hire, weighing up the sustainability of this ever-more-popular fashion practice. The sub-topics discussed include: how a garment rental system ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the the appointment of Major General Ingrid Gjerde of Norway as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp). Major ...

Without student parades, muted celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Greek independence began in Cyprus on Thursday with church services in all districts. Bells rang out early it the ...

With the cultural scene slowly coming alive, a varied programme of events is building up, with an upcoming festival set to bring classical melodies to Larnaca. Concerts as part of ...

The grasslands on the lower slopes of the Drakensberg escarpment are key to South Africa’s water resources. Yet overgrazing is degrading the land. In this video, we meet the ...

The wedding industry in Paphos is hanging in the balance this year, with professionals hoping that regular flights from the UK, the biggest market, will get underway in the coming ...

The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24. “...

Police have announced that the roads from Troodos to Platres-Karvouna and Troodos-Prodromou are only open to 4X4s and vehicles with snow chains due to heavy frost. Also slippery are ...

Fidelity applied on Wednesday to launch an exchange traded fund to track the performance of bitcoin, the latest move on Wall Street to embrace the digital currency. Fidelity’s Wise ...

Only a few weeks ago, many European countries were hoping their more affluent citizens would by now have started spending nest eggs built up during the pandemic to trigger a ...

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea near Japan on Thursday, Japan’s prime minister said, fuelling tension ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and ramping up pressure on ...

As protests flare in the streets of Beirut every day, and the cost of living rises to levels that nearly half the population of the country cannot afford, experts and ...

Reviving memories of its battle for independence from Ottoman Turkish rule 200 years ago, Greece is preparing to defy the coronavirus with bicentennial celebrations on Thursday that it hopes will mark ...

“We have the possibility to forbid planned exports. That is the message to AstraZeneca,” warned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in a speech made on Sunday. The European ...

By June, over 60 per cents of the adults in Cyprus who have expressed their wish to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will receive at least the first jab, the health ministry ...

The revelation that 50 per cent of nursing staff at state hospitals had not been vaccinated for Covid-19 came as a big surprise. This posed a risk to patients entering a ...

Holders France got their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a disappointing start with a 1-1 draw at home to Ukraine on Wednesday while Turkey pulled off an impressive 4-2 ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested on Wednesday that some pubs might require customers to produce vaccine certificates, an idea that he had previously deemed unlikely. Almost 29 million people have ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a meeting Wednesday in Athens during which Cyprus issue and bilateral relations were discussed. Anastasiades referred to the importance of ...