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Larnaca police said on Saturday they arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of attacking three men with a knife in the Makenzie area. Two men, 33 and 38, were walking back to ...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday approved a proposal to finance fuel imports at the rate of 3,900 Lebanese pounds to the dollar, instead of the previous 1,500 pound rate, amidst ...

By Steve Gorman A US government report on UFOs issued on Friday said defence and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by ...

Chia, a newcomer into the cryptocurrency market, has tried to differentiate itself from Bitcoin by flaunting its green credentials. But what exactly is Chia and what are the ramifications of ...

The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation ...

Having released his highly-anticipated new single ‘Bad Habits’ and its accompanying music video this week, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran wowed fans with a new on-camera persona. In the video, the 30-year-old ...

Prospects for recovering survivors from a Florida high-rise diminished with each passing hour on Saturday, two full days after the 12-story condominium mysteriously collapsed while many residents slept. Even so, ...

Cyprus funds grew 14 per cent in terms of assets under management in the first quarter of 2021, to €9.8 billion. We asked Andreas Yiasemides, president of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association, to ...

The Board of Hellenic Bank on Wednesday at its Annual General Meeting elected two new members, and re-elected all of its other 11 members. The two new members are both newly ...

Government advisers and experts are proposing various means of increasing vaccine uptake – with some saying that transparent discussions are the way forward while others have called for harsher restrictions on ...

President Anastasiades was satisfied with the statement on Turkey that was unanimously approved by the 27 member-states of the European Council, said government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos in a written announcement. The ...

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, video of which ...

By Steve Scherer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church’s role running residential schools ...

By Francisco Alvarado Families and friends of the 159 people missing after the collapse of a condo building in a Miami suburb were clinging to hope on Friday as rescue workers ...

Britain could face gaps on supermarket shelves this summer because of a shortage of more than 100,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers, caused by a combination of fallout from the COVID-19 ...

The health ministry on Friday announced no new deaths from Covid-19 but said another 169 people had tested positive from 42,660 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.40 per cent, slightly ...

By Kate Chappell and Ina Sotirova At a Rastafari farming community high up in the hills above Jamaica’s capital, dreadlocked locals gather at the temple to worship and celebrate ...

Α tribute to the jazz legend Charlie Parker will be staged by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with the help of another well-known, local musical ensemble. The concerts on June 30, July 1 and 2 ...

By Thomas Escritt The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ...

Tourist industry stakeholders paint a grim picture of upcoming July following the UK’s announcement that Cyprus would remain in the amber category, effectively delaying the arrival of British holidaymakers ...

A two-state solution in Cyprus is a non-starter, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, according to President Nicos Anastasiades, who met with the UN chief on Friday in Brussels. Anastasiades met ...

Tempers flared at a vaccination centre in Larnaca on Friday over delays caused by the large number of people there. Police were called to the vaccination centre at the port ...

Aiming for cooperation in the Middle East and Europe, the first high level bilateral meeting took place between Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and the Jordanian deputy prime minister, Ayman ...

A local charity has designed an out of the box F*ck Covid T-shirt which became available for sale in their online store this month. The design has a Covid ...