Antonelli stays cool to win chaotic Monaco Grand Prix
Formula One championship leader Kimi Antonelli stayed ice-cool to win a chaotic Monaco Grand Prix and extend his run of victories this season to five on Sunday.
The 19-year-old Italian ...
Ukraine says Russian drone struck nuclear-fuel storage facility near Chernobyl
A Russian drone struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
In separate statements, Kyiv’s General Staff and ...
State lab confirms chicken à la crème was behind wedding mass food poisoning
The state laboratory on Sunday confirmed that an incident which saw more than 70 people develop symptoms of food poisoning and 21 people hospitalised was caused by salmonella bacteria found in a ...
Edek refuses to accept leader’s resignation
Edek on Sunday refused to accept party leader Nikos Anastasiou’s resignation after he had attempted to leave the post in light of the party losing all its seats at ...
An abundance of flowers greets the summer
When we came to live in Cyprus 26 years ago now, water was rationed to two days a week on our road. However, the house we later bought had a well ...
Four terror suspects have remands renewed
Four men who stand accused of terror-related offences were all handed renewed remands by the Larnaca district court during behind-closed-doors hearings on Sunday.
Two of the four, aged 38 years old ...
Beyond rhetoric: the remaking of the Eastern Mediterranean
The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme.
It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...
film
A week of Chinese films coming to Cyprus
Chinese films will be screened in Nicosia and Limassol this June as the Embassy of China in Cyprus, the China Film Administration, and the deputy ministry of culture jointly present ...
Concerted push to save Nicosia’s modernist architecture
A new exhibition entitled Modern Nicosia to celebrate the city’s often unappreciated modernist architecture is on display at Mayor Lellos Demetriadou Square (former Municipal Market agora) in the centre ...
Here’s how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms
Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull – 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force – but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this mismatched ...
Christodoulides offers ‘no comment’ over prospect of cabinet reshuffle
President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday refused to be drawn into discussions over whether he will perform a cabinet reshuffle in the aftermath of last month’s parliamentary elections, which saw ...
Two comedians, Cyprus and the journey back to our humanity
Lawrence Durrell begins his book Bitter Lemons with one of the most memorable reflections on travel ever written: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” The best journeys, he ...
Guterres has ‘very specific plan’ for Cyprus problem, Christodoulides says
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has a “very specific plan” for the next steps to be taken in efforts to resume talks geared towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, ...
Ancient bird’s long tail feathers were perfect for a mating dance
New Guinea’s tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom’s most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their plumage, ...
Armenians vote with peace efforts and Russia in focus
Armenians head to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the government’s efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat ...
France expected to sign deal to station troops in Cyprus on Monday
The French government is on Monday expected to sign a status of forces agreement on Monday, allowing it to station troops in Cyprus, according to reports published on Sunday.
The ...
Kombos pledges to ‘expand’ relations with Uzbekistan
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to deepen relations between Cyprus and Uzbekistan, as he met his Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov in the country’s capital, Tashkent, marking the third leg ...
Today’s weather: Sunny and warm
Sunday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather in parts during the afternoon.
Those clouds may produce rain and even ...
ICT
Global data centre investment set to reach $1.6 trillion by 2030
Global investment in data centres is expected to approach $1.6 trillion by 2030, while leading technology companies are forecast to spend more than $600 billion on AI infrastructure capital expenditure in 2026 alone, according ...
Only the murderer is to blame for the way Henry Nowak died
The arrest and handcuffing of murder victim Henry Nowak by police officers in Southampton in the UK last December and the political fallout after the conviction of the young British ...
Cyprus Business Now: weekly wrap-up
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting June 1:
FuelEU compliance has moved beyond regulation to become a commercial optimisation challenge for the shipping industry, according ...
At least 12 injured in exchange of gunfire near Ohio festival, police say
At least a dozen people were wounded on Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, as two shooters traded gunfire, police said.
Two of the wounded are in critical condition, police said at ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Annita more Machiavelli than Barbie
CONGRATS to Disy boss, Annita Demetriou for securing a second stint as House Prezita and showing all the men, who privately dismissed her as ‘Barbie’ and another ‘clueless blonde’, that ...
Our View: A total lack of interest now reigns over the Cyprus problem
The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is back in Cyprus after a four-month absence and is scheduled to have separate meetings with the two leaders on Monday. ...