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Cyprus has a lower share of overweight people than the EU average which suggests more than half adult Europeans were considered overweight in 2019, a recent report by Eurostat showed. A ...

Police on Friday said they are looking for two persons suspected of stealing more than €3,000 worth of furniture from a Paphos-based maisonette they had rented. The theft was reported to ...

Eurobank on Friday announced the acquisition of a 9.9 per cent holding (40,800,000 shares) in Hellenic Bank, according to a statement released on Friday. It also announced entering into a share purchase ...

Members of the Directorate-General of the Migration and Home Affairs Unit of the European Commission visited the shelter for unaccompanied children of “Hope For Children” CRC Policy Center in Nicosia, ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) will be listed as a very rare side effect of Covid-19 vaccine Janssen and a warning will be included in the product information to raise awareness among ...

A 29-year-old woman, wanted on an international arrest warrant for money laundering and fraud, was detained after arriving at Paphos’ airport, police said on Friday. The woman arrived in Cyprus ...

This summer, The Paradisos Hills Hotel in Lysos Village in Paphos will host a two-night music event that promises performances from some of the best bands and artists that Cyprus ...

Australia’s New South Wales state on Friday reported its biggest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases this year, prompting a tighter lockdown in Sydney in what state officials called ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by ...

An Israeli space group is on course to make its second attempt at an unmanned lunar landing in 2024 after securing $70 million in private funding for the mission. The SpaceIL organisation ...

Police arrested a 35-year-old man on Thursday after he was spotted allegedly stealing copper pipes from a school in Paphos. The man was detained after he was seen by a ...

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Dias media group and the protest outside the presidential palace on July 18, police said on Friday. This brings ...

A new draft UN Security Council Presidential Statement about the Turkish announcements regarding the fenced off city of Famagusta (Varosha) has been presented by the UK. The draft statement, which ...

Battered by scandal on the eve of the opening ceremony, Tokyo 2020 organisers have the chance to patch up the Games’ image when they reveal who will carry the Olympic flame ...

Many people have applauded bitcoin as the future currency that would effectively address the frequent shortcomings of dealing with fiat currencies and traditional banking institutions. Since Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said that the plan for the implementation of sustainable mobility solutions in Nicosia is progressing, according to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). Speaking during an event ...

The European Central Bank pledged on Thursday to keep interest rates at record lows for even longer to boost sluggish inflation and warned that the rapidly spreading Delta variant of ...

Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has on Wednesday upgraded Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited’s (Bank of Cyprus) and Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd’s (Hellenic Bank) long-term ...

The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 has dropped to 39 percent in Israel, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The Pfizer vaccine is also only 41 per ...

By George Kassianos Nestled in the pastoral hills of Pareklisia, just 20 minutes north of Limassol, the Hadjiantonas winery is a hidden gem. The Hadjiantonas winery team has been making wine ...

The fight to stop a lone pine in Konia from being chopped down has become a symbol for the Paphos Greens in their struggle to save trees. “This pine tree ...

The unacceptable shoddiness with which court security is approached by the authorities was displayed again in Limassol when in the early hours of Wednesday a room in which evidence for ...

Belgian authorities raised the death toll on Thursday from last week’s burst rivers and flash floods to 37, with a further six people missing. Belgium‘s crisis centre, which is ...

Several airlines, banks and technology websites were coming back online on Thursday afternoon after a brief outage, the third such widespread incident noted in just a span of two months, ...