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Israel will gradually end jobless benefits as the economy begins recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, starting with people younger than 28 and without children, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. The ...

Coinbase Global Inc launched a tie-up with Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday that will allow users to add cards from their accounts to the payment apps run ...

Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co, has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts to speed thousands of self-driving cars to US roads, saying ...

“I really feel that I would not have had the nice things that happened to me, if it wasn’t for running.” In this video, master sommelier and restauranteur, Bobby ...

Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia. Defeats in the courtroom and ...

By Cassandra Garrison Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers “feeling like a visitor at an amazing party” on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy ...

By Yesim Dikmen and Mehmet Emin Caliskan A thick, slimy layer of so-called “sea snot” is spreading in Turkey’s Sea of Marmara to the south of Istanbul, posing a ...

By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of ...

A lazy day at the beach for sun-seekers in Ayia Napa just got easier: sunbeds and umbrellas can be paid for by credit card, the mayor said on Tuesday. The ...

Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military ...

In this video, we analyse the artistic achievement represented by ‘Las Meninas’ – translated to ‘The Ladies-in-waiting’) – a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, housed in Madrid’s Museo del Prado. Velá...

An Istanbul prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday it launched an investigation into the murder of a Turkish Cypriot journalist 25 years ago, after a mob leader said last month the ...

Harry Kane’s possible departure from Tottenham promises to be one of the biggest transfer sagas of the summer. Clubs across Europe will be eager to bolster their ranks in ...

Hookahs, which had been prohibited under health protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus, are now allowed outdoors but only for individual use under new rules published on Tuesday to ...

Nearly 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik tried to kill her on the Norwegian island of Utoeya, Astrid Hoem is back there to explain to a group of teenagers how she ...

The health ministry announced a total of 70 rapid Covid test sites will operate around the island on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides called on parties on Tuesday to leave the elections behind and concentrate on pushing through reforms needed by the country. Petrides said what the government sought, ...

By Katie Wright This season’s biggest beauty trend didn’t start on the catwalks or the red carpet – it was a product of the pandemic. “Dewy skin became popular ...

An exhibition exploring the iconic Ledra Palace hotel in the capital’s buffer zone opened on Tuesday at the Leventis museum. Ledra Palace: Dancing on the Line has been co-organised ...

Germany and the United States are holding talks in Washington to try to resolve a row over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday. “...

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Police said Tuesday a bomb had been found under a car in Xylophagou, which apparently failed to explode. The device was found by the 55-year-old owner of the vehicle at ...

Germany’s public health agency lowered the coronavirus risk level to “high” from “very high” on Tuesday for the first time in 2021, reflecting a fall in the number of new ...

Humour, financial advice, women in key roles and history are all addressed in a growing number of podcasts created in Cyprus. ELENI PHILIPPOU takes a listen to what is out ...