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Nine businesses were fined €17,750 in total in the past 24 hours after some of their customers were found without a SafePass, among other things, police said on Sunday. Police also arrested ...

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith this week recalled the wake-up call that she had to overcome her substance abuse. Discussing her past experiences with drugs and alcohol during the latest episode ...

By Steve Gorman British billionaire Richard Branson climbed into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane on Sunday to ride more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert in the ...

Malta will ban all visitors from entering the country as from Wednesday unless they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Friday. “We will be the ...

The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 per cent of adults in the bloc, European Commission ...

Where lives are at risk the state has a legal obligation to take measures to protect the public By Alper Ali Riza The legal obligation to wear a mask in ...

Finance ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies (G20) on Saturday agreed to go ahead with the plan to design a global tax system that would impose a minimum levy ...

With new measures coming out to push Cypriots towards getting vaccinated, we visited a vaccination centre in Nicosia.

As a great many of us here in Cyprus either are already fully vaccinated, or are close to getting both jabs, the possibility of European travel, armed with our EU ...

England will bid for Euro 2020 glory against Italy on Sunday at Wembley. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at what the statistics tell us. Defence wins championships The ...

Argentina won their first major title in 28 years on Saturday and Lionel Messi finally won his first medal in a blue-and-white shirt when an Angel Di Maria goal gave them ...

Novak Djokovic said he expects a “great battle” against Italian powerhouse Matteo Berrettini in Sunday’s Wimbledon final when victory will earn the Serb a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title. ...

By Jonathan Shkurko Is football coming home or coming to Rome? This has been the crucial question since Wednesday, straight after England beat Denmark in the semi-final, joining Italy in ...

Tree planting programmes and reforestation after a fire require a delicate balancing act By Antigoni Pitta State forest has not escaped unscathed from the fires that swept through Cyprus in ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has given the nod to Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan (RRP), saying it was well balanced and addressed key structural challenges, and was ...

By Christos P Panayiotides Mr President, I am one of the many Greek Cypriots, who are unreservedly against any form of ethnic or religious discrimination at the expense of any ...

A European Union plan to extend carbon pricing to the fuel used in cars and to heat homes is facing a wall of early resistance from countries and lawmakers fearing ...

The health ministry on Saturday announced 960 people tested positive from 69,310 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.39 per cent. No deaths were announced. There are 125 patients with COVID-19 in ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will on Sunday attend the 10th anniversary memorial service for the 13 sailors and firemen who died in the explosion of July 11, 2011, at the Evangelos Florakis naval base ...

A Syrian national who was detained in Cyprus for almost two years after being accused by a compatriot of participating in a terrorist organisation, has been released after it emerged ...

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after white supremacist protests over plans to remove it led to ...

Two years after they lost to Brazil in the semi-final of the Copa America, Argentina are preparing to meet their arch rivals again in the 2021 final, but coach Lionel Scaloni ...

A new yellow weather warning has been issued for high temperatures from midnight tonight. The warning covers the period from midnight to 4pm Sunday. According to the met office the ...

World number one Ash Barty became the first Australian woman to win the Wimbledon singles title for 41 years on Saturday when she defeated Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-7(4) 6-3 in ...