City boss Guardiola wary of PSG attack before blockbuster
Pep Guardiola admits Manchester City will have their work cut out to keep Paris St Germain’s big guns quiet in their Champions League semi-final.
The Premier League leaders travel ...
One pre-teen’s difficult year of Covid-driven e-schooling
With Covid-19 having disrupted just about every aspect of life during 2020, including school, here’s how one Canadian 12-year-old has weathered a year of e-learning.
“It’s been a tough ...
5G quantum phones debut in China
With a super SIM card and app, some Chinese smartphone users will soon be able to make phone calls protected by quantum encryption.
Unlike traditional encryption methods that rely solely ...
Kindergarten pop-pop: Arnold is a hands-on granddad
The Terminator can take on just about anything, but can he handle a newborn? Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter isn’t so sure.
Katherine Schwarzenegger welcomed her daughter, Lyla, with her ...
CDC unveils new mask guidance for fully vaccinated Americans
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled new guidelines for fully vaccinated Americans on Tuesday, including activities they can safely resume without wearing masks.
Fully vaccinated ...
Eurostat: Cyprus has high rate of fatal work accidents
Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou on Wednesday, together with trade unions, paid tribute to people who have been killed in workplace accidents as Eurostar revealed that Cyprus has one of the ...
Self-driving cars to appear on UK motorways before year end
The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways, with the first such cars possibly ...
Lundin sells its first ‘carbon neutral’ oil as climate activism grows
Sweden’s Lundin Energy has sold to Italian refiner Saras what it said is the world’s first oil cargo certified as carbon neutral at the point of production, the ...
Ethereum jumps to record high on report of EIB digital bond
Ethereum , the world’s second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation, touched a new peak on Wednesday, with participants citing media reports about the European Investment Bank’s plans ...
Coronavirus: shop owner fined €8,000, 141 other persons booked
Police booked one shop owner and 141 other individuals for violating coronavirus protocols in 24 hours from Tuesday until Wednesday.
The Nicosia shop owner was fined €8,000 because the shop was selling all ...
India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000 after record case surge
India’s COVID-19 death toll surged past 200,000 on Wednesday as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new cases of the virus.
India’s ...
Ryanair rules out move to Heathrow, scorns UK ‘staycations’
Ryanair chief executive Eddie Wilson on Tuesday ruled out any move to Heathrow, and poured cold water on the idea that ‘staycations’ would boom in the UK, FlightGlobal reported.
“It ...
Limassol plans ‘Wall Street’ by the sea, starts on technology park
Limassol is planning to develop a financial district, ‘Wall Street’ by the sea; the long-awaited technology park is to begin development by yearend.
“We are moving ahead with big improvements ...
Libya: 11,000 Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries remain, threatening commerce
Over 11,000 Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries remain in Libya despite a ceasefire agreement that calls for the withdrawal of all foreign fighters, the Libya Review reported on Saturday.
At the same time, ...
Ensuring transparency amid virtual currency tsunami
New anti-money laundering law strengthens ways of monitoring crypto-assets
By Christiana Nestoros
During the last few years we have witnessed the growing popularity of ‘virtual’ or ‘crypto’ currencies. Today, we ...
Coronavirus: tourists ‘living it up’ sparks ire of locked-down residents
What is it like being a tourist in Cyprus, just as a strict two-week lockdown was announced, and why are some locals angry?
Pictures of sun-kissed tourists at beaches and ...
Our View: Popular path cannot safely accommodate both pedestrians and cyclists
The Pedieos linear path is one of the greatest achievements of local government in the Nicosia district – a nature sanctuary that stretches for miles through the urban concrete. Its traffic ...
Saving the world’s rarest marine mammal in Cyprus
Joint projects in place to save the Monk Seal are showing results
By Marios Papageorgiou
Did you know that the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) is currently the most endangered ...
Cyprus’ energy transition slow and erratic
Cyprus has come in 51st out of 115 countries on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Energy Transition Index (ETI) 2021, showing slow and erratic movement since 2012.
The island sits at 60 points ...
Leaders lay out their positions to Guterres in Geneva
By Evie Andreou in Geneva
The two leaders had the opportunity to each explain to UN Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres their visions for the future of the island during the ...
Benzema stunner for Real frustrates impressive Chelsea
Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema scored an acrobatic goal to cancel out an earlier strike from Chelsea‘s Christian Pulisic as Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg ended 1-1 ...
Vital medical supplies reach India as Covid deaths near 200,000
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Rupam Jain and Sanjeev Miglani
Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and ...
Napa municipality probe into mishandling of stray dog
The Ayia Napa municipality said Tuesday it would investigate an incident in which one of its staff abused a dog while trying to catch the animal and take it to ...
Coronavirus: personal doctors have some concerns about logistics of administering jab
Doctors on Tuesday expressed mixed views on the health ministry’s decision to let personal doctors administer the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 30 and over, with some welcoming the move ...