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A 75-year-old man was arrested after police found more than two kilos of cannabis in his possession on arrival at Larnaca airport in the early hours of Friday morning. The ...

A firefighter was slightly injured while battling flames at a factory in Yeri overnight where efforts to extinguish the blaze are continuing on Friday, with the civil defence advising locals ...

Most older Brits grew up with ‘going down the pub’ as a fixed ritual in everyday life. But all of this changed in the past decade, and pubs have been ...

Recently, the Covid-19 pandemic has resurged globally despite the launch of massive vaccination programmes worldwide. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, over 200 million infections and 4.3 million deaths have been recorded. ...

Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a facemask using silver and copper nanolayers that neutralises SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, the university’s official ...

U.S. forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday following Thursday’s blast outside Kabul airport. At least 72 civilians and 13 US ...

The new revised Master Plan for the unified development of the Port and Marina of Larnaca was presented on Wednesday, in a project that will create more than 4,000 jobs. The ...

British Airways is planning to set up a budget airline subsidiary based at Gatwick airport, the airline told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Creating a new unit could provide ...

A recent EU report on Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises commends Cyprus support for SMEs during the pandemic, but sees some measures as lacking. The recently released Annual Report on European ...

Costlier fuel internationally after the historic lows of 2020 is pushing up electricity prices, with consumers facing a 38 per cent increase in their August bills compared to the same month last ...

The horse-trading on the reform of local government has resumed, after a brief respite. Interior minister Nicos Nouris started a round of contacts with the political parties in the hope ...

Cyprus will remain for another three weeks on the UK’s amber list for the coronavirus, under the latest travel review decided by the British government on Thursday. The changes ...

The back-and-forth between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spilled over into the domestic political arena on Thursday, with the administration and the main opposition party trading ...

Four US Marines were killed and three wounded in Thursday’s explosions at Kabul airport, US sources told Reuters, in what the Pentagon said was a “complex attack” during its ...

Lionel Messi’s new club Paris St Germain will play Manchester City, managed by the Argentine’s former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, after being drawn together in Champion’s League ...

Closer ties between Cyprus and Japan, reflected in the opening by the two countries of embassies in each other’s capitals, played a catalytic part in the first ever repatriation ...

China on Wednesday criticised the US “politicisation” of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding without any evidence that American labs be investigated, ahead of the release of ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced five deaths attributed to Covid-19, as the number of patients continued declining while testing yielded 254 new positives. The five decedents were four men – aged 71, 65, 47 and 84 – ...

Authorities stayed on standby on Thursday evening to contain a fire that broke out earlier in the day at the site of a factory in the industrial area of Yeri, ...

The upcoming concert on Friday at the Knight’s Courtyard at the Cyprus Wine Museum is set to be a unique event. Surrounded by trees and the stone-built museum as ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Thursday named Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) chair George Danos as one of 11 new honorary members selected for their contributions to astronomical research in ...

In this video, Grand Luxury Hotels co-founders and brothers, Ivan and Rouslan Lartisien, head to the refined environs of Le Meurice, there to meet with the team who ensure the ...

Temperatures will hit 40C inland again on Friday, the met office said on Thursday as it issued a yet another extreme high temperature warning. The latest yellow alert will be ...

A decision to charge everyone for PCR and rapid tests in the north has prompted protests, the Turkish Cypriot media reported on Thursday, saying authorities are under fire for backtracking ...