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How has pop star Britney Spears been controlled by a conservatorship for nearly 13 years? This is the question being addressed in a new documentary, titled ‘Framing Britney Spears’. The 39-year-old ...

During the pandemic, when access to loans is even more difficult, promising businesses have a better chance at a stock exchange where investors take decisions based on a company’s ...

More than two kilos of cannabis were seized by police in Nicosia on Thursday and two men were arrested in connection with the case. Members of the drug squad who ...

The founder of a New York money manager and two associates were criminally charged on Thursday with running a $1.8 billion Ponzi-like fraud where thousands of victims were falsely promised steady ...

The United Nations Security Council called for the release of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military as diplomatic and financial pressure grew on the ...

A 62-year-old cyclist is in serious condition in Paphos hospital after he was hit by a car on Thursday afternoon. He was injured at 3.45pm when a car hit him ...

Police carried out more than 14,500 checks for violations of coronavirus protocols in 24 hours from Thursday until 6am on Friday, issuing fines to 138 individuals and two businesses. The record number of 14,596 ...

Sales of electric and plug-in hybrid cars in the European Union almost trebled to over 1 million vehicles last year, accounting for more than 10 per cent of overall sales, data showed ...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due back in court on Friday for a slander trial despite Western calls for his release and on the same day as the European ...

Kids, what do you get when you gather up some cardboard, a pair of scissors, wrapping paper, glue, a ruler, felt-tips and a pencil? Answer: you get this video of ...

A lack of flights out of Cyprus due to the pandemic is having a huge impact on the ability of Paws dog shelter in Paphos to re-home dogs abroad, something ...

Did deputies, or anyone else for that matter, need Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides to inform them that public hospitals will not become viable by 2024, when the state financial support is scheduled ...

Turkey’s interior minister accused the United States on Thursday of being behind a 2016 failed coup that Ankara has blamed on a U.S.-based Muslim preacher, the Hurriyet daily ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday conveyed to the British government that his side will be going into the five-way summit on Cyprus with a two-state mindset, an arrangement ...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that she and financial market regulators needed to ‘understand deeply’ what happened in the recent trading frenzy involving GameStop Corp and other ...

Civil aviation officials on Thursday confirmed that a flight under presidential designation to the Seychelles did take place in August 2015 but couldn’t say whether President Nicos Anastasiades himself was ...

U.S. House of Representatives impeachment managers asked former President Donald Trump on Thursday to provide testimony under oath about his conduct before the violent breach of the Capitol in ...

Europe’s drugs regulator said on Thursday it was reviewing data on COVID-19 antibody therapies developed by U.S. drugmakers Eli Lilly and Regeneron for use in some patients. Two ...

The health ministry announced five deaths and 116 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday. The deaths concerned four men aged 81,73, 86 and 71, and one woman aged 84. All had underlying conditions. All died ...

A former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army was convicted on Thursday of dozens of crimes, including widespread rape, sexual enslavement, child ...

The words ‘risk’ and ‘crisis’ sound all too familiar now, even to non-business or finance people. An upcoming online event by Hellenic Bank in association with Global Training and the ...

Social media companies must take responsibility to help stop the online abuse of players as their mental health can be affected if they are targeted, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said ...

The education minister announced on Thursday a series of events to commemorate 200 years since the 1821 Greek War of Independence. The Greek War of Independence is considered a monumental event in ...

By Michelle Hennessy Since being unveiled in 2016, Sophia – a humanoid robot – has gone viral. Now the company behind her has a new vision: to mass-produce robots by the end of ...