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Covid-19 has hit Thailand’s tourism industry hard, but for nature… it’s been a welcome respite. Endangered sea turtles like the leatherbacks have come back to nest after disappearing ...

In this NMF-sponsored video, we take a look at some alternative and eco-friendly building materials that can replace concrete and steel. These sustainable materials come from sources you may never ...

Cheesemakers said Tuesday they have called off a protest over the registration of halloumi as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO). The decision followed a meeting Monday with the agriculture ...

Greek and Cypriot female and female-identifying artists are coming together on April 16 at Korai space in Nicosia to present their work in an exhibition called Sisterhood: Streaming voices unifying energies. ...

The rapid development and expansion of the road network on the one hand is considered necessary to achieve the economic, social and residential development of an area, but on the ...

Republican former President Donald Trump has launched an official website , a platform for his supporters to stay in touch and to showcase his time in office. The 45office.com website’...

Police are investigating the circumstances under which a 74-year-old man was seriously injured in a road accident on Monday. The accident happened around noon on the road from Orkontas to ...

Global banks may lose more than $6 billion from the downfall of Archegos Capital, sources familiar with trades involving the US investment firm said on Monday, and regulators and investors fear ...

Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organisation on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the ...

Police booked 169 individuals for breaching coronavirus measures in 24 hours from Monday until 6am on Tuesday, most of them for leaving their homes without having sent the required SMS. 11,202 checks were ...

Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin betrayed his badge by “grinding” his knee into George Floyd’s neck during a deadly arrest last May, a prosecutor said on Monday at a ...

“Recalculating,” as the GPS often tells us when we are driving, may be our best career strategy after a year of uncertainty. Roadblocks or jams may lie ahead, but the ...

Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc with BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc reduced risk of infection by 80 per cent two weeks or more after the first of two shots, according ...

Talks on the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform held on March 26 broke down over questions like “what does a farmer do” and payment for performance. The CAP accounts for ...

Business for bars and cafes in the city centres is booming with some even arguing that their opening has led to a reduction in coronavirus cases. Saturday night in Nicosia’...

“We’re waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we’ve got some fork lift trucks, some Amazon goods on there, all sorts,” ...

The auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides appears to have decided that the government should abandon its policy to attract film production companies to Cyprus. It is another case of the auditor-general behaving ...

A 24-year-old man was sentenced on Monday by the Larnaca district court to 30 days in prison with a three-year suspension after caught driving 207 kilometres per hour last January. The court ...

Greece “can do more” to investigate reports it has pushed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a senior European Union official said on Monday, as Greek authorities pledged a new migrant reception ...

By David Ljunggren and Allison Martell Canada will modify its approval of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to require a new analysis of its benefits and risks based on age, the ...

By Jason Hovet and Jan Lopatka Petr Kellner, the Czech Republic’s richest man and founder of investment group PPF, was killed in a helicopter crash on a skiing trip ...

By Yusri Mohamed, Nadine Awadalla and Aidan Lewis Egypt’s Suez Canal will reopen for shipping traffic in both directions on Monday evening after a giant container ship which had ...

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that the virus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and that a lab leak was “extremely ...

Two deaths from coronavirus and 360 new cases were announced on Monday. The deaths were two women, 75 and 85, both with underlying health conditions. Neither of them had been vaccinated. The health ...