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Standard Chartered said on Friday it now expects Turkey’s central bank to cut interest rates by another 300 basis points by year-end to 15 per cent and upped its 2021 inflation and ...

Cypriot Patricia Phaedonos was announced as the 197th Commonwealth Point of Light by British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie in recognition of her exceptional voluntary work. The award recognises outstanding volunteers ...

Switzerland is offering gift certificates to people who persuade others to be jabbed against COVID-19, the government said on Friday, part of efforts to increase the country’s low vaccination ...

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman said he was in the dark about his future and had not spoken to the club’s president as the under-pressure Dutchman took a swipe at ...

Bitcoin was up 5.23 per cent at $43,716.97 as of 22:08 GMT on Thursday, adding $2,174.07 to its previous close. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency has gained 57.6 per cent from the year’...

The halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) is a “protective shield,” Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday as the cheese entered the European Commission’s register for PDO and ...

J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L) fell deeper into the red for its fiscal 2021 and said it had like many other businesses found it hard to attract workers in some areas ...

Lava flowed from a newly opened crack in the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma on Friday, carving a different path down the mountainside from previous flows, and ...

By Alexia Saleem The kids started school this month and I joined a wave of other parents feeling very emotional waving them goodbye on their first day as they kissed ...

Calling all creative, entrepreneurial women of the island, the Creative Women Platform Cyprus aims to bring powerful, passionate women together and create a community. As such, they are organising an ...

Venezuela on Friday will launch its second monetary overhaul in three years by cutting six zeros from the bolivar currency in response to hyperinflation, simplifying accounting but doing little to ...

Pitsilia is a wine region where vines and pines grow together on the mountainside. Already three of the most well-known wineries source their fruit from around the mountain peaks of ...

President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday is set to urge a judge to block a near-total ban on abortion imposed by Texas – the strictest such law in the nation – ...

Researchers from the Cyprus Institute have completed a full digitisation of the former Nicosia International Airport, which has been inactive since 1974 as it is located in the UN buffer zone. ...

Edek has sunk deeper into turmoil after party president Marinos Sizopoulos said Nicosia district’s branch elections would go ahead as scheduled on Sunday, despite three party members having obtained ...

The health ministry on Friday said there was improvement in all epidemiological indicators, with the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate dropping by 30 per cent compared with the previous period. The data ...

Israel’s Health Ministry has identified fewer than 10 cases of heart inflammation following a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine among millions administered, according to recently released data. Israel ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will participate in a 10km fundraising run in support of people with cancer next week. The race, which is organised at the minister’s initiative, will ...

A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both Limassol residents, were remanded in police custody on Friday for six days on suspicion of stealing a car. The two suspects were ...

The Apollonion private hospital has sought to address ‘fake news’ regarding the death of the six-year-old Syrian boy who died this week following surgery on Tuesday. It was said that ...

Nine people died on Friday when a fire broke out in an intensive care unit at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country’s third deadly hospital ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old man, the fourth suspect wanted by police following an attack last Sunday against Ael fans in Limassol by 20 hooded men, allegedly Apollon supporters. This ...

Efforts are underway to inaugurate a unit dedicated to combating deadly diseases as there are fears that the healthcare system is not yet prepared for to handle the outbreak of ...

Just a week after getting the better of Champions League-winning manager Thomas Tuchel, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will aim to do the same to his Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp. ...