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With Christmas just around the corner, telco provider Epic is bringing the holiday spirit to all State Health Services Organisation (SHSO) hospitals, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. ...

Property sales across three major Limassol municipalities exceeded €6.3 billion in value over the past five years, a report from independent real estate asset management and advisory firm WiRE has shown. ...

New York City expanded its array of COVID-19 mandates on Monday, setting vaccine requirements for children as young as 5 years old and for workers at all private-sector companies as the ...

As details of a new COVID-19 variant emerge, investors are bracing for a potential hit to US corporate earnings, particularly among retailers, restaurants and travel companies. News of the Omicron ...

The Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) has issued a reminder that the state-backed business loan scheme has come into effect. The scheme stipulates that state guarantees will cover 70 ...

European regulators have issued a preliminary warning that patches of lightning protection may have been wrongly fitted on over a dozen Airbus (AIR.PA) A350 jets, while Delta Air Lines (...

Staff shortages threaten the quality of services and the hotels’ ability to serve more customers than 2021, the association of tourism businesses (Stek) said on Monday. In a written statement, Stek ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed issues of gender equality and noted the under-representation of women in the leadership pyramid of political, business and social life. Did we ...

Manchester United entertain Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round, while holders Leicester City welcome Watford and West Ham United are at home to Leeds United following Monday’s ...

The government has commissioned a €518,000 study – centred on Nicosia – which will help it plan and assess how to best spend large chunks of the €174 million at its disposal to overhaul ...

Up to 350,000 people could be transferred to live in and around the area of the town of Famagusta, a Turkish Cypriot public functionary has stated. Turkish Cypriot daily Yeniduzen quoted ...

The United States said on Monday it will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics due to China’s human rights “atrocities,” after Beijing pledged unspecified “countermeasures” against any ...

A shocking and deadly mob attack on a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of blasphemy in eastern Pakistan last week prompted days of soul searching as the man’s remains ...

The health ministry on Monday announced one Covid-19 death and 706 new infections, following 100,991 tests – a positivity rate of 0.7 per cent. The death was that of an 88-year-old man who passed ...

Lawmakers on Monday decried the ‘glass ceiling’ in Cyprus and the under-representation of women in public life, particularly in senior or leadership positions. Following a discussion at the House human ...

A court in military-ruled Myanmar found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions on Monday, drawing international condemnation of what critics described ...

What do lesbians, quiches and atomic bombs have in common? Seemingly nothing at all yet in Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder’s play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, they somehow come ...

A woman who says Ghislaine Maxwell groomed her for abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was a teenager testified on Monday that she initially looked up to the ...

The Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry Natasa Pilides, is in Houston to attend the World Petroleum Congress where she had meetings scheduled with foreign counterparts, US state officials and ...

Future pandemics could be even more lethal than Covid-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak must not be squandered and the world should ensure it is prepared for the ...

Hellenic Bank’s contribution to volunteerism was recently recognised by the Pancyprian Volunteerism Coordinative Council (PVCC). The PVCC awarded Hellenic Bank for its #HBVolunteersChallenge initiative, which was part of the ...

In another twist, parties decided Monday to postpone to the new year a vote in the plenum on the local government reform bills, while at the same time avowing their ...

Workers at several Tesco (TSCO.L) distribution centres across Britain are set to strike in the run-up to Christmas, potentially hitting product availability, the Unite union said on Monday. It ...

A report released on Monday by the health ministry showed that Covid-19 infections on a weekly basis doubled from early November to early December, with six to 11-year-olds accounting for ...