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Private pharmacies on Monday said they will hire additional staff as people formed queues outside pharmacies and labs to get tested for the coronavirus after the health ministry scrapped its ...

HSBC Holdings beat forecasts on Monday with first-half pretax profit that more than doubled from last year when it set aside $7 billion to cover pandemic-related bad loans. Encouraged by an ...

Square Inc, the payments firm of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) co-founder Jack Dorsey, will purchase buy now, pay later (BNPL) pioneer Afterpay Ltd (APT.AX) for $29 billion, creating a global ...

By Constantinos Psillides Caution: Spoilers for the Masters of the Universe: Revelations series The backlash to Masters of the Universe: Revelations was anticipated. In fact, Netflix’s PR team was ...

Drawn by sun, sea and speedy Wi-Fi, remote workers are converging on Europe’s southernmost islands to try “workcationing” before employers order them back to the office, giving battered tourism ...

Unilateral actions that violate UN Security Council Resolutions on Varosha are unacceptable, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told President Nicos Anastasiades, the Cyprus presidency said on Monday. It said that ...

The Labour ministry on Monday criticised an impromptu work stoppage by employees at the DP World Limassol, which manages the general cargo and cruise terminals at Limassol port, saying workers ...

Pinguicula crystallina, the only carnivorous plant endemic to Cyprus, is the agriculture ministry’s plant of the month for August. Each month, the ministry highlights an endemic plant as part ...

Police in the Famagusta district are investigating a case of assault after a complaint was filed by two men aged 28 and 25 in the early hours of Sunday. The 28-year-old told ...

It regulates the private right to real estate and does not promote public purpose The decision of the director of the land registry on a property owner’s application for ...

By Stavros Nikolaou Occupancy rates are expected to remain low at around 50 per cent of capacity in August, the president of the Paphos Hotels Association Thanos Michaelides told the Cyprus ...

Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the men’s long jump in the most dramatic fashion on Monday as he leapt 8.41 metres in his final attempt to snatch the gold medal ...

By Stavros Nikolaou Famagusta general hospital, which operates as a Reference Hospital for patients with coronavirus, is 100 per cent full, with all 75 beds taken, the Cyprus News Agency reported on ...

Pfizer raised the price of its Covid-19 vaccine by more than a quarter and Moderna by more than a tenth in the latest EU supply contracts, the Financial Times reported ...

Formula One team Aston Martin intends to appeal the disqualification of four-times champion Sebastian Vettel from the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, with the exclusion costing the German a second-place ...

A woman who left her dog on the balcony without food or water during the heatwave was charged in writing and has temporarily lost custody of her pet, police said ...

A data centre is storage for bits and bytes, but it is also a store of value In the General Theory, John Maynard Keynes defined that concept: “Why should anyone ...

A Belarusian athlete who refused to board a flight after she said she was taken to the airport by her team against her wishes was “safe and secure” in Tokyo, ...

As the vaccination portal opened for children aged 12 to 15 on Monday with 830 slots booked by noon, the Cyprus Paediatric Society has filed a complaint with police after members of the ...

“Many data centres in Europe have taken advantage of the stability and clarity of GDPR to make compliance with it a selling point,” writes a researcher. “This may involve helping ...

The courtyard of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation has re-opened its gates this summer for another edition of the Phaneromeni arts festival. Live music, dance and theatre performances as ...

With the heat wave continuing to grip Cyprus, the labour ministry on Monday called on employers and the self-employed to suspend all work under direct sunlight exposure. An extreme high ...

“The culture for business in Cyprus is gradually changing becoming more accepting to Private clouds and collocation options, and gradually to public clouds as well. This mentality has been changing ...

Hellenic Bank, RCB Bank and the Bank of Cyprus emerged with good performance on the European Central Bank’s 2021 stress tests, according to the statistics released by the central bank ...