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By Achilleas Demetriades Public opinion is watching, day in day out, developments linked to the Pandora papers, and some months before that, the Al Jazeera revelations. The Pandora papers issue ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after police discovered 190g of cannabis. Following a court warrant, officers searched his home at around 7pm on Sunday. During the search four plastic ...

A supermarket was fined €4,000 because customers were not being kept further enough apart and a restaurant was fined €650 as for the second time it was found not checking that customers ...

A 32-year-old has been arrested following a knife attack and causing bodily harm in Paphos. According to the police a member of the community board of a village in Paphos ...

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 250 million on Monday as some countries in eastern Europe experience record outbreaks, even as the Delta variant surge eases and many countries resume trade and tourism. ...

US technology company Microsoft has acquired content moderation platform and profanity filter Two Hat. Two Hat’s content moderation platform utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to classify, filter and escalate human ...

Dubai plans to merge the departments of economy and tourism and hopes to attract 25 million tourists in 2025, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s Crown Prince, said ...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has hired a former engineer from Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) to boost its car-development efforts, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the ...

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will travel to Malaysia on Sunday as part of a week-long visit to southeast Asia aimed at deepening economic and security ties in the region, ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen celebrated a dominant win in the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday to surge 19 points clear of Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One championship with ...

West Ham claimed an impressive 3-2 victory over Liverpool to end the Reds’ unbeaten start to the season. The Hammers moved above their opponents into third and denied Jurgen Klopp’...

But it all comes down to air connectivity and airlines keeping winter flights in place October was this year’s best month by far for tourism as hotels experienced their ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 133 positives were recorded from 39,447 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent. There ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou During the pandemic lockdowns, I got involved with a group of artists trying to secure some money for all the artists that they were prevented from working ...

COP26 is providing the opportunity to redefine how we get to net zero without drama At a meeting last week at the European Commission’s (EC) EAAS I was asked ...

The United States is expecting a flood of international visitors crossing its borders by air and by land on Monday after lifting travel restrictions for much of the world’s ...

Nicosia’s former main shopping street to be finished in time for Christmas The long-long-awaited revamp of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue is set to be completed on December 7, but a ...

The following are the free testing sites for Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol (5 points) University Square (behind TEPAK Rector’s Office) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cultural Events Hall, ...

Opposition Akel on Sunday called for a meeting of the National Council to discuss a six-page document for a decentralised federation that was drawn up by the Greek Cypriot side ...

China has a “long way to go” on environmental protection, its State Council acknowledged on Sunday, as it announced an “in-depth” fight against pollution with new targets for cleaner air ...

The island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the year, it was reported on Sunday. The ...

The government hopes the fast-track mechanism it has introduced to simplify processes for foreign businesses wanting to set up operations in Cyprus will finally end the long bureaucratic delays that ...

“I saw in some of the newspapers they used the term ‘Sputnik moment’,” said general Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. “I don’t know if ...