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By Marine Strauss Brussels’ public transport operator marked International Women’s Day on Monday by renaming 10 metro stations after famous women for one day, and pledging to permanently rename 17 bus ...

An opposition party said Monday it will table a bill that would make decisions taken by the financial ombudsman legally binding on banks. Angelos Votsis, of the Democratic Forces Cooperation, ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his admiration for the Queen and the unifying role she plays in Britain and beyond on Monday, trying to steer clear of accusations of racism ...

The Cyprus Virtual Forum is an intercultural dialogue forum organised by the tourism organisation Top Kinisis Travel within the framework of the Trames project. The project is co-funded by the ...

Currently part of the Cyprus Academy of Arts Residency Programme, artist Helen Kirwan presents her second online performance this Friday. Its theme? Grief and mourning. Grief-Work is a new development ...

The health ministry announced that 59 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Tuesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory weekly testing of employees. ...

Fear of losing their job is holding back women in private businesses from reporting sexual harassment, which is why most complaints concern the public sector, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on ...

Greece and Cyprus face similar challenges in managing the migration issue, ministers from both countries said on Monday after a meeting in Athens. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris met with Greek ...

Archie, Meghan’s son, had been denied the title of prince because there were concerns within the royal family about “about how dark his skin might be when he’s ...

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd was delayed until at least Tuesday morning as the judge contended with a last-minute order ...

In this video, we follow French director Loïc Prigent as he heads to Louis Vuitton’s shoemaking workshop in Fiesso d’Artico, outside Venice, to learn the intricate craftsmanship ...

In this video, we pay a pre-Covid visit to Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. One of Europe’s oldest continuously-inhabited cities, Belgrade – which translates to ‘White City’ – is located at the ...

A 60-year-old recovering from breast cancer, Paris resident Nadine Roger is at high-risk from COVID-19 and wants to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Yet when she was offered the ...

Privately owned meat slaughtering plant Cypra appeared to know in advance about the state’s rescue plans for Kophinou abattoir and would file objections to the European Commission, Kophinou’s ...

Drone footage from photographer and video maker Constantinos Vassiliades reveals the progress of the Limassol Arena stadium. The Limassol Arena, currently in construction, will eventually become the home for Limassol’...

Elias Neocleous and Co LLC was named ‘Law Firm of the Year: Malta & Cyprus’ at the 2021 Citywealth International Financial Centre (IFC) Awards ceremony. This is the first time the ...

By Prudence Wade Trends come and go in fashion, but one thing that’s always remained a constant? The trench coat. Functional, chic and timeless, you just can’t go ...

Police fined a woman €600 after she refused to wear a face mask and insulted officers at a Nicosia shopping mall early on Monday. According to the police, the woman started ...

In spite of these tumultuous times, Gen Z teenagers are doing incredible things, and, as this video demonstrates, their efforts give us all hope for a better tomorrow. We meet ...

Most secondary school pupils have responded positively to the new decree requiring them to get weekly rapid tests, head teachers, the ministry of education and the children’s rights commissioner ...

Joining hundreds of women in Istanbul to protest at China’s treatment of Uighurs, Nursiman Abdurasit tearfully thinks of her jailed mother in Xinjiang and fears that Uighurs like her ...

Around 30 per cent of Cyprus’ Olympic athletes are women, the Cyprus Olympians Association (Kesoa) revealed on Monday on the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated worldwide on March 8. Out ...

Roger Federer never contemplated retirement as he spent 13 months on the sidelines due to double knee surgery last year and the 39-year-old says he is now pain-free and ready to ...

In this video, Museum of Modern Art member specialist Elba Rodriguez turns the spotlight on a work by British-Mexican artist, Leonora Carrington: ‘And Then We Saw the Daughter of the ...