Coronavirus: Walk-in jab event in Limassol on Sunday
People of all ages who wish to be vaccinated against Covid or receive their booster shot, will be able to do so on Sunday at a large walk-in centre operating ...
Bases police in joint exercise with CyPol
British bases police and their Cypriot counterparts (CyPol) have just completed an annual week-long joint exercise.
The annual drill saw the SBA police’s negotiator team involved for a third ...
Britain’s NatWest pleads guilty to money laundering failings
NatWest pleaded guilty on Thursday to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($544 million) and faces a heavy fine after becoming the first bank in Britain to admit ...
Acquired tastes: adorning Kirsten Dunst’s Hollywood home
In this Architectural Digest video, we tour actress and model Kirsten Dunst’s Hollywood home – an unabashed sanctuary of things loved and old.
Along the way, we learn how Dunst’...
Twitter to sell mobile ad unit MoPub for $1 billion
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp (APP.O) for $1.05 billion in cash, as the microblogging platform looks ...
Coronavirus: People over 70 eligible for booster shots
The health ministry announced that people over 70 would be eligible for a Covid vaccine booster shot starting Friday.
A ministry statement said that people over 70 who have received their second ...
Merkel and Pope discuss climate change in farewell visit
Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the response to climate change would require a radical change in how people live as she met Pope Francis during a farewell ...
Stablecoins to face same safeguards as traditional payments
Stablecoins would have to comply with the same safeguards as their more traditional competitors in payments under proposals from regulators on Wednesday as authorities get to grips with a rapidly ...
Tanzania’s Gurnah, novelist of colonialism and refuge, wins 2021 Nobel
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee,” the award-giving body ...
Budget to drastically reduce deficit says minister
The 2022 state budget will feature a significant fiscal correction, after two years of high deficits, said finance minister Constantinos Petrides, while handing it to the President of the House of ...
Moderna plans African vaccine plant as drugmakers urged to help poorest
Moderna plans to invest up to $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each year, including its COVID-19 shot, as pressure ...
Ypsonas mayor suggests fires set deliberately
The mayor of Ypsonas, in Limassol, suggested Thursday that a morning fire at an industrial area had been set deliberately.
Pandelis Georgiou said 20 incidents had been recorded in Ayios Sylas ...
Biden, Xi plan U.S.-China virtual summit before year’s end, U.S. says
The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, ...
EU finalising N.Ireland package but insist no protocol renegotiation
The European Commission will finalise measures next week it believes can lead to a resolution of post-Brexit trading issues in Northern Ireland by the end of the year or early ...
Restaurant review: The Old Village Tavern, Ayia Napa
Ayia Napa is usually associated with rowdy tourists, clubs, alcohol and partying. However, there is more to the town than that. In addition to arguably some of the beaches on ...
Coronavirus: Cabinet expected to ease some restrictions (Updated)
The cabinet is expected to approve an ease of Covid restrictions on Friday, including allowing unvaccinated people into sporting events, cinemas, and theatres but no changes in protective mask mandates, ...
Engage in a free photography workshop and tour in Nicosia
How about a free photography workshop, tour and wine tasting this weekend if you are in Nicosia? It is exactly what the Nicosia Tourism Board has planned for Saturday as ...
Okypy offers deal for state doctors to work afternoons
The health services organisation (Okypy)’s proposal to allocate 20 per cent of revenues stemming from potential state hospital’s afternoon operations to state doctors is now being evaluated by doctors’ ...
England’s Isle of Wight was Isle of Fright, with two big dinosaur predators
Fossils found on a rocky beach show there was double trouble on England’s Isle of Wight about 127 million years ago, with a pair of large previously unknown dinosaur predators ...
Shock over Norwegian court’s acquittal of father for abducting daughter from Cyprus (Updated)
Lawyers in Cyprus expressed bewilderment on Thursday over a Norwegian court’s acquittal of a man who had abducted his four-year-old daughter in 2017 outside her kindergarten in Nicosia on the ...
Britain’s National Grid says it can meet winter gas demand, but power prices set to surge
Britain has enough gas supply capacity to meet demand this winter, grid operator National Grid said in its winter gas outlook on Thursday, while the electricity system operator warned of ...
Tsitsipas anticipates fewer bathroom breaks in Indian Wells
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who came under scrutiny at the U.S. Open for the timing and length of his mid-match bathroom breaks, on Wednesday said the dry conditions in Indian Wells ...
Investigators appointed to probe 2005 death of soldier (updated)
Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has appointed three independent investigators to reopen the case of the death of a 26-year-old soldier in 2005, which appears to have been the result of foul play.
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Cyprus and Poland sign MoUs to boost ties (Updated)
Nicosia and Warsaw on Thursday signed a number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in various fields, during the first day of an official visit here of Polish President ...