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Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates will only allow vaccinated people in some public spaces, including schools, universities and nurseries, from August 20, the emirate’s media office said in ...

Spain held off a remarkable Croatian fightback to win 5-3 in a pulsating Euro 2020 last 16 knockout match on Monday thanks to goals from Alvaro Morata and Mikel Oyarzabal in extra ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said a return to strict measures is not currently on the cards but gave an unambiguous message to get vaccinated. The president said any incentives for the ...

American Sloane Stephens won the battle of former Grand Slam winners against twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova on Monday, ousting the Czech 10th seed from the All England Club with ...

New positive cases of the coronavirus spiralled to 314 on Monday, reflecting a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. No deaths were announced, but 53 people were in hospital with the virus, of ...

Britain will lift most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on July 19 in what has been dubbed “Freedom Day”, the government said on Monday despite fears that an increase in coronavirus ...

Hoteliers on Monday said they were thinking of hiring only vaccinated staff citing reluctance by some of their employees to take the jab. Head of hoteliers’ association Pasyxe, Haris Loizides, ...

French Open runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas crashed out of Wimbledon after a shock first-round loss to Frances Tiafoe. The third seeded Greek was blown away by the world number 57, who won 6...

No reason why a game about acquiring prime real estate can’t have its own Midas moment. In this video, we learn of the world’s most extravagant Monopoly set, ...

Education minister Prodromos Prodromou on Monday said that the Pancyprian examination results were not as bad as had been expected, with results for core subjects for the 7,155 candidates just grazing ...

Jack Draper had Centre Court on its feet by taking a set off Novak Djokovic before the defending champion hit back to reach round two. Nineteen-year-old Draper has long been ...

The new House finance committee held its first session on Monday after May’s parliamentary elections, where among others it discussed setting a deadline for passing yet another extension to ...

France’s highest administrative appeals court ruled on Monday that the hunting practice of trapping songbirds with glue was illegal, saying French law that had permitted it was in breach ...

Two witnesses for the defence team of former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos who has been accused of rape argued on Monday that he is suffering from dementia and is unfit to ...

The health ministry’s decision to expand vaccinations to minors aged 16 to 17 on Monday was described as a ‘positive development’ by experts but met with hugely varying reactions from parents. ...

Given that every CULTURESCOPE episode comes packed with goodies, each standalone segment merits closer revisiting. In this video, taken from Season 1, Episode 10 of CULTURESCOPE, founder and host of the popular ...

One of the largest educational robots in the world, Astro 1, is on display in Nicosia until July 5, Strovolos municipality announced on Monday. Visitors can find it at the Stavrou street ...

By Katie Wright ‘Do you think I can get away with wearing trackie bottoms to the office?’ – a question many of us have asked ourselves recently. While only you (or ...

The family of a teenage girl of African origin said on Monday they would file a written complaint to the education ministry over what they have said was discrimination, after ...

The health ministry announced a total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Britain is on course to be able to lift most remaining COVID-19 restrictions on July 19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, in his most confident statement yet that what ...

British warship HMS Queen Elizabeth will dock at Limassol port on June 30, when a range of activities is planned “to showcase and develop the strong and dynamic UK-Cyprus defence partnership”, ...

Taha Riz has worked just three days in more than a month at his Tripoli bakery, in Lebanon’s neglected north where economic meltdown has hit hardest and plunged thousands ...

The European Central Bank should retain the exceptional flexibility of its emergency bond buys after the current crisis, ECB board member Fabio Panetta said on Monday, setting the stage for ...