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Andrew Rosenbaum, who worked as business editor of the Cyprus Mail for two years, has died at the age of 66. Andrew was a finance and technology specialist and helped develop ...

The prisons and its operations are to be investigated by a top team appointed by the attorney general’s office amid a whirlwind of allegations that drugs and mobile phones ...

Activity in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has been very positive lately, with works worth $200 million completed since the start of the pandemic, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Wednesday. ...

Cyprus will continue to sizzle, with the met office issuing another extreme high temperature warning for Thursday. The new yellow alert will be in force from midday to 5pm. Temperatures ...

Lisandro Martinez has completed his transfer from Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam to Manchester United with the Argentine defender signing a five-year contract, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Ajax ...

Dimitris Mamalikopoulos was sentenced to another 40 years in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty of a further 24 charges – on top of previous murder related convictions. The Famagusta-Larnaca criminal ...

Saying it aspired to facilitate communication, collaboration, and knowledge transfer, Cyprus on Wednesday became the first EU member state to join the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO). Headquartered in Saudi Arabia, ...

Cyprus telecommunications authority (Cyta) is participating in the multi-million undersea East Med Corridor (EMC) venture, a data cable that will link Europe with Asia. In an announcement, Cyta said the ...

Russia delivered less gas to Europe on Wednesday in a further escalation of an energy stand-off between Moscow and the European Union that will make it harder, and costlier, for ...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Wednesday unveiled a centre in Istanbul to oversee the export of Ukrainian grains after a landmark U.N. deal last week, with the first ...

Cyprus ranked amongst the top for rates of car use in the EU with 645 passenger cars per 1,000 people, far outstripping neighbouring Turkey and Greece but at a similar rate of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar paid a visit to the Abdulhamid Han drillship at Tasucu port in Mersin for a briefing and a photo-opportunity. Photographed in front of the drill ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Cyprus on Thursday. He will attend the Meeting of the Heads of the Diplomatic Missions of Cyprus, who are currently in Cyprus, and ...

German champions Bayern Munich internally discussed the possibility of signing Cristiano Ronaldo but decided not to pursue the idea, club CEO Oliver Kahn said on Wednesday. The 37-year-old forward’s ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou During the 80s one of the most popular programmes on CyBC radio was Request Time with John Vickers in English and Vicky ...

Better-than-expected earnings from a raft of US and European companies helped steady global stock markets on Wednesday, cutting through gloom caused by rising interest rates and the threat of an ...

McDonald’s will increase the price of its cheeseburger by 20% in Britain, in the first price hike for the popular item in 14 years as it responds to soaring inflation. The ...

Rishi Sunak, trailing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, pledged on Wednesday to temporarily scrap taxes on energy bills paid by households as part of a “...

Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will ...

The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that Egypt needed to make “decisive progress” on fiscal and structural reform as Cairo seeks a new round of support from the fund. ...

Lebanon’s parliament on Tuesday passed long-awaited amendments to a banking secrecy law, according to a Reuters witness, in the first step towards reforms required by the International Monetary Fund (...

State-controlled media outlet Russia Today on Wednesday lost its court fight against a European Union ban imposed in March due to its systematic disinformation over Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. ...

Police booked 34 people – including for illegal employment — after carrying out checks at 38 premises early on Wednesday as part of coordinated operations in the tourist resorts of Protaras and Ayia Napa ...

Authorities in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Kherson have closed the city’s only bridge across the Dnipro river after it came under fire from U.S.-supplied high mobility ...