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Find some humour in the place you spend most of your waking hours suggests CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES With the number of sitcoms exploding in the 90s and 00s, it was only ...

Toshiba said on Monday it now aims to split into two companies instead of three, while boosting planned shareholder returns to appease angry investors. The once-storied conglomerate has been battered ...

Two human traffickers from Turkey received prison sentences of 42 months and 56 months after they pleaded guilty to smuggling people for money, the legal service announced on Monday. Later on Monday ...

Ports giant DP World on Monday reported a 9.4 per cent rise in 2021 container volumes, though growth rates moderated in the fourth quarter which the Dubai state company said was expected ...

Primary school and kindergarten teachers held a one-hour work stoppage on Monday morning, with union Poed giving authorities 15 days to work out satisfactory solutions to problems faced due to ongoing ...

Drivers can expect continued price rises at the pump, the Cyprus Consumers Association (CCA) said on Monday saying that inflation has surge. The group said that petrol 95 has notched a 0.308 ...

NATO is looking to increase its military presence in the Baltic states and Poland in case Russia keeps its troops in Belarus after a planned military exercise, the head of ...

England assistant coach Paul Collingwood has been named interim head coach for next month’s three-test tour of the West Indies, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Monday. ...

A 40-year-old man was found dead after a fire early on Monday morning, the fire service said. Spokesman Andreas Kettis told Cybc that at around 5.45 am, two fire trucks responded ...

British house prices in January rose at their slowest monthly pace since June last year as a post-lockdown boom in the housing market started to fade and a growing cost-of-living ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC), as part of its strategy to comprehensively protect and respect personal data, and responding to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of ...

Re-elected Greens leader Charalambos Theopemptou said on Monday that the party needs another two weeks to decide its course for the upcoming presidential elections. Theopemptou was on Sunday re-elected but ...

Police confirmed on Monday that the US university from which the former volunteerism commissioner claims to have graduated says it has no knowledge of his existence. Former commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki ...

A police officer on duty has identified as his own the watch worn by a suspect under arrest for cannabis possession. The watch had been taken from his home last ...

A 21-year-old man has been arrested to facilitate the investigation of two cases of burglary, at a shop and a jeweller’s last October and November in Famagusta. He is ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis is in Strasbourg to attend the informal meeting of his EU counterparts which will on Monday and Tuesday focus on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. ...

Hospitals are not understaffed, operator Okypy said on Monday after nurses unions backed their colleagues at Nicosia general hospital’s ICU for making an urgent call for more nurses to ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested following a bust which connected him to a water tank found to contain 3.3kg of cannabis, 2.7kg of cocaine, pistols and bullets. The drug ...

Eda Elal has prepared corpses for burial in accordance with Islamic rituals nearly half her life, but says her job as a “ghassal” in Turkey has never been harder than ...

By George Coucounis Very often, builders are employed to carry out repairs, construction or extensions in houses or other buildings, even to build them. The builder or the contractor, before ...

Sadio Mane showed bravery and mental strength in putting behind him an early squandered penalty to power Senegal to their first African title and bring to an exciting close a ...

Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos could this week become only the second Cypriot ever to be nominated for an Oscar. THEO PANAYIDES talks to his old friend about loving what you do ...

More than two years after the contract signed to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the port of Vasilikos, the project is stuck at 4 per cent at most, ...

Two escaped detainees alleged to have committed over 40 crimes may have had help from the inside, while the police acknowledged that mistakes were made. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, ...